👋 to all the newcomers, let me know if you need any help getting settled in!
Just uninstalled RIF this morning when I opened it up like I always do when I wake up.
It was a good run but dang. Now I’m trying to figure all of this fediverse stuff. The app Jerboa on Android seems to be working pretty well.
Wefwef on iOS is amazing. This graph is really uplifting (pun intended). Let’s go fediverse! Fuck Reddit and the greedy CEOs.
Nice to have a new place to hang my virtual coat and peer into the endless void of the internet.
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!
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! 😄
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.
welcome!
edit: just realized this isn’t even my instance but w/e, welcome to the fediverse!
2 things that really helped me: https://browse.feddit.de/ to find communities then search in the communities tab with name like [email protected]
if it doesn’t pop up try typing [email protected] then [email protected] again to see if it comes up
basically new communities wont show on your community search tab until someone else on your server has searched and subscribed or interacted
lemmyverse.net too!
It’s worth it. If you’re on iOS try Memmy.
Hey all, giving lemmy a try since RIF is gone
Welcome! Former RiF user here too. Found any communities you like?
Still trying to figure things out, I was a mod on a Warhammer subreddit so I might just remake it here
Slide refugee that has been here for a few weeks. I like it here!
Wow, I wasn’t the only Slide user! What client have you settled on?
Jerboa, for now. Signed up for Boost for lemmy and waiting to hear more news on Slide (which is coming to lemmy, since it was FOSS.) :)
Fwiw, I was a long time slide user before at some point I switched to Boost, as it was similar but a little sleeker in my opinion. And the Boost developer has announced a Lemmy-Version is coming, so I’m waiting for that now!
So long RIF. So long Reddit.
Rest in peace, RIF. Rest in piss, spez.
You betta not piece on the table!
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’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 🙂
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.
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.
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.
walmart-ification
I prefer “Enshitification”.
I joined a few weeks ago but after RIF died just over an hour ago it looks like I’ve found my new home.
Same for me. Woke up, launched Sync and got the message that it’s not working anymore now and will work with Lemmy later. Immediately created an account here 👍
Fellow Sync refugee here. So sad to see it go. I feel for all the devs that just got shafted. The only good takeaway is that we’re here now and hopefully reddit will suffer for it.
They’re making a Lemmy version so don’t feel too bad
Sync has been great for me. Wonder why is wasn’t more popular.
Sync refugee here too. Just joined this instance and patiently awaiting Syncs new Lemmy app!
Well it’s coming to Lemmy which I’m excited about
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 😄
That’s what brought me here! I’ll miss RIF, but I think it’s time to get used to something new. I appreciate how welcoming everyone seems!
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 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!
Welcome to the family, son
Thanks, dad.
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.
Same, I uninstalled Relay today expecting their app to shutdown soon.
Plus you can’t see nsfw content which a lot of non-porn content still gets marked as
Goodbye Reddit is Fun, hello Lemmy
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
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