👋 to all the newcomers, let me know if you need any help getting settled in!
Another refugee here. Coming from Sync.
I can’t wait for syncforlemmy!
Ooh yeah. This is my future!
Curious… since Lemmy is still starting up, do we have the subredditd or the subcommunities setup here or is that still in progress?
Hi everybody!
Hi there! What are some good subs for anyone trying to stay away from nsfw?
Joining the party as RIF kicks the bed :')
Sync for android here
The Dev from Sync announced a new Lemmy app it’s actually a WIP. Just wait a few weeks.
And it’s out now :) It works brilliantly, as you’d expect.
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.
Gonna miss RIF.
Me too.
Yup. Little pang of sadness seeing it finally gone. I got years of procrastination out of that app.
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.
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 :)
Ngl Jerboa is quite similar to RiF, so I’m definitely settling in well.
Jerboa stopped working for me today for whatever reason so I switched to Connect and actually think I like it better so far.
Definitely like Jerboa so far. Just spent the past hour searching and joining tons of channels.
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.
Testing reply from wefwef. What a strange way to run an App!
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
I just wish there was a decent iOS app for lemmy that worked on iOS 15.
Try wefwef (name sucks). It’s a progressive web app so version shouldnt matter.
Fuck u/spez
What app is most like Bacon Reader? I’m on Connect but feeling a little lukewarm so far
That’s your best bet at the moment. Liftoff was another decent option but latest update doesn’t see the lemm.ee instance for some reason. Things will get better on the app front in a month or 2 when Boost and Sync go live.
I’m on the Thunder train. Most like Sync.
I’m on Connect, I hope the UI gets better, Lemmy has a lot of potential but it needs work
Hey, you should try Liftoff (it’s an actual app) or Wefwef (a webapp that feels like a native app).
Both of those are much better than Connect.
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Thank you! I just downloaded Liftoff. It does look much cleaner than Connect, but it’s having trouble loading stuff, hopefully that gets worked out
Just tried installing Wefwef, and the first thing that hits me, is the lack of dark mode under appearance settings. Am I blind, or is that not a thing in Wefwef?
EDIT: Liftoff feels rather nice, the menus need a little getting used to (and that big obnoxious ‘+’ in the middle of everything), but overall it seems like a nice experience.
Not sure if any of these are better than Connect, but I’ll keep them all installed and keep using them in shifts, to see which one feels better.
EDIT: 2 weeks later I’ve switched full-time to Liftoff.
I think when I tried it wefwef was dark. It probably defaults to your system theme
That’s unfortunate, as I like having my phone in light mode for regular daytime use, and keep my “chill apps” dark for when sitting in the evening and scrolling.
But it does make sense, thanks for the reply. :)
Connect looks nice and is fast, but it’s really buggy too. But early days. In a month or two we should have a few more good options. Really looking forward to some great Reddit apps coming to Lemmy.
Connect dev here. I’m getting those bugs ironed out! I’m also a Reddit migrant and the app has only been live for about 9 days now.
Thank you for your work! Connect is the only Android app for lemmy that works on my EMUI/Nougat phone, so I’m really grateful I stumbled upon it. Thunder, liftoff and the likes can’t connect, probably because of the old WebView version I’m using - the newer ones sadly fuck with Midori Lite :(
I’ve just installed Connect earlier today and immensely enjoy it so far! I’m looking forward to maybe some additional Themes; and don’t worry 'bout the bugs too much, I’m sure you’ve got the few main ones in your sights and will figure stuff out soon enough! :) – Keep up the good deeds!
You’re doing a great job so far, commenting from Connect right now.
Sorry, didn’t want to diss you there. This is crazy impressive for the short time frame.
All the apps are in early and rapid development and I am looking forward to what is going to happen in the months to come.
My point was only the (obviously unfair) comparison to Reddit apps that have years under their belts. But Lemmy apps will get there too.
We’ll have a ton of high quality options soon. Lots of the Reddit app devs are working on Lemmy apps. I wouldn’t be surprised if almost all the ui code can be reused
Yeah, I really wish at least one of the major third party Reddit apps was able to launch their Lemmy version today, bit of course I understand it takes time
Try wefwef (the name sucks, idk why they picked it)
It’s a web app that’s really clean looking and smooth. Wish they would add a top (day/week/month) sort though for postings
Hi, there is. You can find it at the top right
Yeah it exists for comments but not for posts in communities for whatever reason. Liftoff has a sort by top (day, week, month) available to sort by in communities
And they added it last night to posts! I’m set now
I was interested to see what the rush was going to be like when Reddit mobile apps shut down. Looks like it might be pretty significant. Is this bigger than the blackout rush?
We’ll soon find out based on how many times we have to copy paste an explanation of how community search works to confused new Lemmings 😄
god damn haha.
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!
After 3 weeks of use, it still confounds me.
I think I’ve figured everything out, except how to link to posts across servers. That still drives me mad. Some of the apps (like Connect for Lemmy) are doing URL rewriting, but I can’t assume that’s happening for everyone.
It’s pretty strange coming from Reddit. Each instance has its own communities but you can access all of them from the instance you signed up in? Like the equivalent of subreddits within subreddits. Or maybe I’m just unused to it.
I’m thinking of it like pre-Reddit phpBB forums on multiple sites except I only have to create one login and everything funnels into one convenient place.
I’ve been trying to think of a good metaphor, but I haven’t landed on one yet. The best thing I’ve thought of is the old saying:
Whereever you are, you’re here.
Federation (for lemmy) is the concept of the different instances sharing sublemmys, posts, and comments with each other. So you can be on any instance and interact or subscribe with things from another.
The strong caveat is: some instances turn off federation with others. For example, Beehaw has stronger moderation, and they had problems with users and spam from a specific other instance (lemmy.world was one, I think). So in that case, Beehaw turned off federation with lemmy.world. That means that if you were logged in to Beehaw, you would not see any new content from lemmy.world until they turned federation back on.
edit: I thought of one more thing. For communities that are run by their developers, like Minecraft, Lemmy is a great solution. They could host their own Lemmy instance (lemmy.minecraft) and lock down so that only their sublemmy - /c/Minecraft - is created. But when they federate, they get all the other content from other Lemmy instances.
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As a user, you could sign up with lemmy.minecraft or lemm.ee, etc., and still see everything you want and sub to the /c/Minecraft.
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As mods/admins, they only need to focus on their Minecraft thing. And they have complete control over that, because they can literally shut down the entire instance.
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It’s just different sites (instances) running the Lemmy software, that all work together and share their data to create “Lemmy” the overall platform.
The concept is simple enough but the implementation can be a bit weird and especially right now when everyone’s trying out different mobile apps that are in different stages of development and have support for different features. Some of them make it a bit awkward to do things new users need to do like search and sub to communities, etc.
If there’s anything in particular you’re stuck on, feel free to ask!
I’m just confused about communities. Like if I wanted to follow a community about movies, is there a way to tell which community is the “main” one? Is there even such a thing as a “main” community on Lemmy? If not then how do people know where to be?? I love the federated concept but it also feels non user friendly, which I’m sure at least in part is because I’m confused.
So the idealistic idea is that there shouldn’t be a “main” community, there should be multiple that are all slightly different in terms of their approach to the topic and you can choose which one(s) best align with what you want.
In reality, at least until the userbase is significantly larger, it actually does make sense to huddle a bit for now and split up topics as needed later. So in this case what I’d do is head to Lemmy Explorer and search for your topic ie https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=movies
This is quite a broad topic obviously so with a vague keyword search you’re gonna turn up some irrelevant things but there should be some that fit what you need. Then you can change the sort order to whatever you care about most, subscribers, active users, posts etc to decide which is the one you’re most interested in.
Personally I’ve just been subbing to all related communities on a topic, and crossposting my posts to see which one gets the most traction. The little “two squares” icon below the post info is crosspost, works pretty well. Ymmv with that tactic 🙂
And reddit still has a long way down. Look at Facebook, it never died, it just lost most young users and it grew stale with conspiracy theories, blind hatred and fake news.
It’s the walmart-ification of social media. They’re self sustaining because of their size, but that’s not enough to make them an enjoyable experience. Just corporate, sterile, and lots of bored people.
walmart-ification
I prefer “Enshitification”.
It’s like buying from a supermarket and getting pretty much everything in one stop (most of it being mediocre) VS getting local, yummy, Bio, more expensive products from 5 local small shops.
Welcome
We are still going on infinity.
It was weird using Reddit Is Fun like I always do then it just suddenly stopped.
I can’t create a community. I click the button and nothing happens. Any idea why? I’m trying to recreate a community from Reddit that really helped me when I was in a dark place.
Hey, I would like to debug this community creation issue, but I haven’t been able to reproduce this. Can you walk me through the exact steps that you’re taking? What text are you inputting into the creation form?
I could probably do a screen share at some point if that would help.
I log in, go to “Create Community”
Name and display name are both “exJW”
No icon or banner
Description is a one sentence thing that I change every time I try to create it
Moderator checkbox is unchecked
Languages are English and Undetermined
I’m using FireFox for Android
Hey, sorry for the slow response, I’ve been getting a lot of messages and working through them steadily.
Name and display name are both “exJW”
I suspect this is your issue - the actual name of a community must be lowercase. In my browser, it does tell me that the name is in a wrong format when I enter “exJW”, but it’s not super clear what the correct format is. I believe this error error message will need to be improved.
Anyway, I have created the community myself: https://lemm.ee/c/exjw. Please make a post in here and tag my name, I can then pass ownership of the community to you. At that point, you’ll be able to set it up however you like!
I created the post but I can’t figure out how to tag you.
Thank you so much!
Try on FF for Windows or Linux, on some instances I have had big problems with FF for android not accepting credentials
Other people have mentioned that using other browsers on android has worked for them, but I personally prefer to stick with what I trust
I did try Chrome on Android. I’ll try my desktop later.
I’m really not ready. My Connect for Lemmy app is renamed to Lemmy is fun and is using the rif icon, it’s hard to let go.
Whatever gets you through these trying times!
9 years and 33k Karma. Unfortunately it ends today.
Hello Lemmy. Guess this is where I’ll go from now on.
Same here with years but less than 1k in Karma.
Had 200k+ karma on my main account and 30k+ on several other accounts (adult account, etc.). I don’t think Huffman or Reddit know what they’re doing. Anyway, hello Lemmy!!!
