Influx of Lemmy brothers and sisters incoming. Already 3K and growing deep, we may as well rebuild together. Let’s do this! 🤝
Edit : Yes there are workarounds using Revanced. Check the comments for some awesome help on how to do this if you wish! Just know, in the future it will most likely end up being patched annoyingly and I therefore recommend looking forward to the future with us here.
Rif refugee reporting in
Tried the “official” app for the first time in years, uninstalled after 10 min… RIP Rif
I’ve been trying it for concurrent to Rif and Sync. The differences are individually small, but taken as a whole the official app is just horrible. If it weren’t for Rif and Sync, I don’t think I would have become a Reddit user. I’m desperately hoping Lemmy reaches the critical mass and Sync for Lemmy becomes a thing.
Good news! Sync for Lemmy is already being worked on! Really excited to see how that turns out. I’ll follow that dev anywhere. Sync was amazing to use. Easiest purchase of my life.
You can sign up for Sync for Lemmy here:syncapps.io, you may have to use a Chromium-based browser and disable uBlock to register tho
Boost for Lemmy is also coming soon. (For those who preferred that to Sync. Both are awesome.) Nice to see former Reddit talent helping out in the Fediverse.
The official app os total junk and utterly unusable.
RIP RIF.
Looking forward to building something new here.
Same here brother.
It’s time to teach them we can actually build a free, open source and popular alternative to their dystopian monopoly!
Switched yesterday and so far, really liking it. Might even say, it’s better than Reddit at the moment already.
No heavy echo-chamber/ toxicity (yet). Just waiting that it becomes more active with more communities.
Apollo refugee here. Wefwef and Lemmy are very nice :)
there’s something comforting seeing other Apollo friends here. Good to have you here!
Reporting in!
Wow, wefwef really does make me feel at home as an Apollo refugee. They weren’t lying!
Hi my brother in Apollo, welcome!
And that just makes it that much more clearer how much we need Apollo for Lemmy!
Indeed. If Wefwef can reach feature parity with Apollo (and I suppose lemmy with reddit lol) it would be an awesome alternative since it is cross platform
I really liked Wefwef, it led me to finding Connect, which I like even more. Excited for Sync too, it’ll just get easier and easier to help build this community
Another Apollo refugee here. Wefwef and Memmy (haven’t settled on one yet) both have me feeling a bit at home. I hope Christian does an Apollo for Lemmy, but if not, these are great options.
Same here. I tried Lemmy and while ago and wanted to switch, but was held back by lack of a good app like Apollo and just the lack of users. Hopefully this will be the start of a change. Either way, not going back to Reddit.
As a former Apollo user, using wefwef for lemmy has made adoption so easy. 10/10, it’s basically an Apollo clone in-browser and has been working great. https://wefwef.app/
Yeah, but I do think a lot of clueless folks won’t leave. Honestly, I wonder if reddit is undergoing a massive brain-drain right now. I rather hope so, because it would mean Lemmy is getting some high-grade folks.
This is pretty much why I’m here… It feels like the folks who left are going to be good company.
Mods are leaving first, their tools have been neutered, and they’d rather move to lenmy, kbin or anything else where they don’t have to fight the mods. Users will follow
Hey, don’t discount morons like myself who also lucked into bumbling my way out of reddit lol
Hi, fellow imbecile. I’m glad we made it out
Moron is my middle name!
The way I see it, the people that don’t want to leave reddit can keep whatever is left of it. The people willing to leave and find something better are the reason I originally signed up. I spent twelve years over there and think it’s time for something better.
Time for a change. The “improvements” made to reddit over the 12 years were honestly laughable and I think lemmy will be a vast improvement to reddit. We’ll look back on Reddit like we did to digg
Same here 👍
Seconded.
I dont want everyone to leave reddit and come over to lemmy. One of the joys of lemmy is not being overwhelmed with meh.
Sync refugee here, RIP Sync. I can’t wait for Sync for Lemmy.
I’m really liking wefwef.app as a former sync user.
i just checked it out, looks great. good call out
Just figured out how to get on wefwef too! Was a weird signup process and could be streamlined to attract even more redditfugees.
So say we all.
I was hoping for Relay, but the dev is sticking with Reddit and switching to a subscription model.
Yeah Relay was my preferred app and I’m super bummed it’s staying with Reddit. I’m using Liftoff which has some issues but works well. I’m looking forward to the first 1.0 releases of various apps still.
It’s been a very chill and peaceful switch, once I get used to the change I plan on helping any way I can to help the community grow. We can rebuild together 🖖
Digg refuge reporting in.
Think you may have gotten lost in a time warp for a bit there.
He just skipped a step. Didn’t miss much in the end. Most likely lived a life worth loving in the meantime, and now had enough of that.
Something about broken arms and a cumbox. Best we forget.
Forget what? 😉
Even Lemmy isn’t safe from the duplicate comment issue lol
He just skipped a step. Didn’t miss much in the end. Most likely lived a life worth loving in the meantime, and now had enough of that.
Likewise… I was hoping Reddit would never get DiggV4-ized, but I can’t say I didn’t expect it.
It started when they removed being able to see how many upvotes and downvotes people had. They started inflating and fuzzing numbers to promote corporate stuff. Then the influx of mobile users…
I’m using WefWef.app for Lemmy and it’s awesome.
It’s a straight-up Apollo clone as a web app.
I am floored.
Left reddit and won’t look back. I like it here more already. Great community. Everyone here just wants it to work so bad and is being very patient through growing pains. Love you guys and fuck reddit!
Fuckspez
Careful man, he may edit your com….
Wait a second. We’re free!
Just an FYI - some apps are still working as of this moment… But yeah, most of us know it’s only a matter of time.
Honestly, the content seems higher quality here. Perhaps the cesspools of Reddit were hard to spot for those of us who lurked there for over a decade.
Quality over quantity. Cheers to a new horizon, everyone.
I didn’t know who Huffman, spez or the fact there was a bid to IPO until Apollo’s announcement of closure occurred. Why? Because I didn’t subscribe the Reddit’s main subreddits, I was very niche.
Once I learned about all that, I vowed if they didn’t reverse their standing and treatment of Christian, I was leaving.
Once the last week of June came and Spez triple-downed on his terrible business decision, I began using tools to destroy all of my content including topics I made that were all ranking #1 in Google, that causes plenty of PMs years after creation.
I’ve since deleted all but one account that I’ll probably hold onto just in case they decide to block my access to information I need.
I’ve deleted Apollo, Reddit’s official app and logged out on all browsers across all platforms I use. I’m done and liking WefWef as a replacement.
You should reinstall Apollo and listen to the tribute song in it. It was beautiful.
Watched it today on his YouTube channel. Pretty epic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOFChFxsJ3I
Rest in Power RiF. Time to figure out Lemmy
