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.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      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

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      1 year ago

      Tried the “official” app for the first time in years, uninstalled after 10 min… RIP Rif

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          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.

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          1 year ago

          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.

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    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.

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        1 year ago

        My last day on Reddit I shared an excited post about a fun thing in a hobby sub of mine and I got such awful negative responses and people telling me I was attention seeking. It was really ugly. So that was pretty much when I decided to uninstall my Boost app and switch to Lemmy full time

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      1 year ago

      What app are you using? So far I’ve tried Liftoff, but I’m looking for something closer to Relay

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        I’m using Jerboa and have been testing Thunder since yesterday, not bad, but still a bit limited, we need to be patient and give the developers some time, there are already like 10 apps and a couple of forks of third party Reddit apps in active development.

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      The echo chambers are here, they’re just not quite as obvious. And, there are competing echo chambers so sometimes the whiplash between posts is a bit intense lol.

      It’s probably because of the instances that some of the subs I’m subscribed to are in lol.

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    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.

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        1 year ago

        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

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          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

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      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.

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      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.

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    Y’all are missing the real tragedy of this situation. This api fiasco means the end of RTV, reddit terminal viewer, the world’s finest TTY compatible reddit client. The days of reading reddit on an electronic typewriter are over.

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    I was on Reddit for 13 years. I’ve been using sync for as long as I knew there was a mobile app. Lemmy seems really relaxed and I’m looking forward to it!

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      Hi, I’m a reddit refugee. Just set up an account and am using Connect app. It took me a while to stop unlocking my phone and slecting the rif icon, muscle memory is pretty weird thing.

      Very new to this as I’m sure many others are. Finding my feet, and am looking forward to creating new muscle memory for this!

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    Infinity for reddit user here, as much as I love the app, and the work the developer has done on it, and even though the app will continue on a subscription based model, I have had it with reddit, full fediverse citizen from now on

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      Same sentiment here. Even if reddit made apps come back, at this point they have completely eroded my goodwill and shown that when they are publicly traded they will cave to investor pressure almost instantly.

      I for one think it’s a good thing that the main Lemmy devs are so called “tankies” because that makes them that much more unlikely to sell out (not that that would break Lemmy, it still would suck). The software itself is not opinionated so while I think genocide denial is reprehensible, imo the comments about it are generally FUD.

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      Yeah, I still have it working with the workaround of compiling it with my own API key, but decided not to update this any more. When it stops working like that I am out, not that I actually use it that much anymore.