You can quite clearly tell when the Reddit apps stopped working on this graph of lemm.ee traffic 📈
👋 to all the newcomers, let me know if you need any help getting settled in!
👋 to all the newcomers, let me know if you need any help getting settled in!
Guess I’ll piggy-back; This is my first post/comment here as well. I came from Apollo (long time subscriber & beta tester). I think the grass will be greener… bring on the refugees and Boost for Lemmy (Maybe one day Apollo? One can dream)!
If you came from Apollo, than you can jump back on Apollo. Sorta.
Thank you; It’s currently down, but I like its UI. I’ve been beta testing Memmy for Lemmy on iOS, and so far I really enjoy it! I have Apollo up and running actually, but I haven’t used it as much since I found Memmy.
Edit: Spelling
I came over when the blackout started and it already feels more like home than Reddit has in years. Reddit slowly got more and more toxic/up its own ass as time went on….. like do you remember the episode of South Park where Kyle’s family moves to San Francisco? It was the Prius episode…. All the folks in San Fran sat around all day getting high and sniffing their own farts. That’s how Reddit has felt recently.
This change has been a long time coming I think, fuckin spez just threw some gas on a fire to try and make a quick buck.
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Welcome! Check out this guide if you need any help understanding Lemmy and the fediverse 😊
Yup. Little pang of sadness seeing it finally gone. I got years of procrastination out of that app.
Rif has been reddit for me for the past 10 ish years now, opened the app today to see error 429.
Good to be here :)
Definitely like Jerboa so far. Just spent the past hour searching and joining tons of channels.
Jerboa stopped working for me today for whatever reason so I switched to Connect and actually think I like it better so far.
Could be due to the version of the instance you're on. Beehaw is on an older version and Jerboa crashes when you open it as Jerboa is on the latest version.
Yeah they really gotta make the app robust against old versions of Lemmy. No way all the instances are going to update as soon as the latest version is pushed.
Jerboa stopped working for me too, I switched to summit, it's a really nice lemmy app too.
It's my fave too but unfortunately has the opposite problem to Jerboa and currently servers that have upgraded to 0.18.1 don't work! Hope they can get it sorted soon.
Edit: This is now fixed, hurrah!
Jerboa stopped working for me too, I switched to summit, it's a really nice lemmy app too.
Jeroba needs Lemmy version 0.18.0, some instances are still on 0.17.4. You can sign up with another instance that's up to date and Jeroba should work.
Using wefwef for now, thanks for the recommendation will give it a gander.
I love how quickly the community is coming up with replacements for apps and the service as a whole that people are used to.
Is wefwef an android or iOS app? I'm using jerboa, but heard about the virtues of wefwef and wanted to try it.
It's a PWA(Progressive Web App) that functions through the browser and can be installed as an application that is just a wrapper around the browser.
All that to say it works on both Android and iOs, using it on Android myself.
Hope you've found the install button, it becomes more like a normal app once you can launch it directly from the app drawer instead of through the browser
Try wefwef (name sucks). It's a progressive web app so version shouldnt matter.
Couldn't get that one to work. Using Liftoff. Its solid. Pretty basic easy layout like rif. A little clunkier and slower. Smooth transition.
Very sad to say goodby to RIF after 9 years. Lets get this party started and I got some learning to do in this new environment.
You're all the technology-savvy intelligent ones who figured out Lemmy right away, months ago. I was trying to get into Lemmy even before July 1st but finally figured it out today November 10th! I finally got into Lemmy today. It was nearly as difficult as applying & repeatedly being rejected for competitive employment somewhere. sheesh.
Was browsing Apollo, it ceased, I opened the Reddit app once, closed it, signed up for Lemmy.
Playstore says i first downloaded rif in 2014. I had rif setup to launch on a downward swipe on the homescreen via nova launcher for just as long. Im not going to uninstall rif but the downward swipe gesture is going to be filled with which ever lemmy app ends up suiting me best
Twins in the 13 year club. The last couple years on Reddit saw a pretty major quality decrease, so I’m actually kind of thankful to have an excuse to cut myself free and find a new digital social outlet
I came from RiF. I was shocked that reddit even went through with the block. Oh well, onto bigger and better things. Reddit can be a footnote in history.
I just moved Memmy into Apollo’s old place on the home screen. I’m not touching the official reddit app.
💖 to everybody who's making this possible. There's hoping that all the traffic can be managed
Speaking of traffic, if I were interested in running my own federate, what can I expect in terms of loading and where is the content actually stored, my single instance or distributed? I see the reqs. on RAM and CPU utilization but I'm actually more curious about usage data.
It depends on many parameters. Data from your users is stored locally. But then you have federation: every time one of your users subscribes to a community of another instance, your instance will cache it locally. You can manage how much cache it uses, but the cache is there of a reason.
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/administration.html
Lemmy uses roughly 150 MB of RAM in the default Docker installation. CPU usage is negligible.
I was in denial about Apollo going dark and naturally when I woke up at 2am I had to spend 2 hours finding & getting lemmy & wefwef setup.
Bye bye reddit!
Hah, me right now when I should've been asleep long ago. I tried to open RIF as usual, realized it really happened, and then spent the last hour or two trying to understand this site and make an account and whatnot. I was only partially successful on the former, but at least I made it here!
RIF will me missed. I just downloaded "connect for lemmy" seems good if youre used to RIF. But i just got the app for 10min so we'll see
I used Relay for Reddit for over 10 years. I just opened it to find it still working. Apparently the Dev is working out a pricing model with Reddit and it is continuing to work. I wish him the best of luck but sadly I'm not goning to be paying.
Was on Apollo when it went dark, thought it was going to be a few more hours and apparently so did Christian but they killed access before he could revoke the key. Fuck reddit/u/spez
Oh for sure! I looked up how to nuke my Reddit account using Power Delete Suite and then created a bookmark on my iOS homepage for wefwef.app . Was even able to integrate my subreddits.
Second ever comment here. I watched Apollo shut down live, went to sleep and then immediately tried opening it up again after waking up, out of habit - girlfriends still asleep and I got so used to browsing Reddit for a bit before we get up on weekends, it has become muscle memory.
Using Wefwef currently and it’s nice, awesome work especially for a web app.
It's 2am here and I just did exactly the same thing with rif. Gonna take some getting used to...
Crazy that looking right past that beautiful blue icon to tap on a Lemmy browser instead. Reddit was amazing for quite a while, time to pass the torch.
I joined a few weeks ago but after RIF died just over an hour ago it looks like I've found my new home.
From the detritus of the old generation, the new generation shall emerge.
Fuckin waste of time that reddit.
I joined 2 weeks ago, I technically am a migrant lol but I feel like a veteran already .
WELCOME REDDITORS!
Haha, guilty. I went to mindlessly pull up RIF at about 7 pm CT and it wasn't loading comments, then I went oh, right, UTC it's midnight. And now two hours later here I am on lemmy
I think the Sync devs are making a Lemmy app, so maybe your experience here won't be too different...
Same here, I just got back from spending a day at the museum with my nephew, and after getting home I tried loading up RIF. Got the "429" and just sighed before looking up a mobile lemmy app.
I just joined after Apollo stopped working. I’ve been over at squabbles since the black out. No idea how this place works. Excited to dig in and figure it out though!
If you aren’t sold on the interface then check out wefwef.app. No affiliation - just spreading the gospel. It feels like Reddit on Apollo, but here instead.
Same—finally had to do the thing, and my god, finding communities to follow has GOT to get a lot easier if this is gonna work out
Which bit are you struggling with? Would be useful to know how it's looking from a newbie perspective so we can make our explanations more effective. Also, welcome! 😄
Yup, Sync refugee here too. Adding my name to the "active users" stat with my first Lemmy comment.
Curious.. since Lemmy is still starting up, do we have the subredditd or the subcommunities setup here or is that still in progress?
Same here. I had been using Sync since it came out on my Pixel and used Apollo on my iPad.
This whole fediverse thing is a bit strange after 10 years of rif. But Reddit was going downhill for quite a while. Hope this takes off!