👋 to all the newcomers, let me know if you need any help getting settled in!

    • jackoneill@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

      Welcome!

  • noogie@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    5·
    2 years ago

    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!

    • Rannoch@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 years ago

      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!

    • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • zidanerick@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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

  • Shambles404@aussie.zone
    4·
    2 years ago

    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!

      • Troy@lemmy.ca
        1·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • Shambles404@aussie.zone
          2·
          2 years ago

          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.

          • MikeHfuhruhurr@lemm.ee
            1·
            2 years ago

            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.

            • 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.

            • 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.

    • schnitzelbub@lemm.ee
      21·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • Data's Cat Spot@startrek.website
        2·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • schnitzelbub@lemm.ee
          0·
          2 years ago

          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.

  • Fais@lemm.ee
    4·
    2 years ago

    I joined 2 weeks ago, I technically am a migrant lol but I feel like a veteran already .

    WELCOME REDDITORS!

      • Fais@lemm.ee
        4·
        2 years ago

        We used to struggle without our beloved pre built subreddits!

        We had to pray to our instance develop lords with praise for giving us space!

        Fr fr tho this experience is historical and I’m learning just as much as you! I learn if there’s a community missing that you used to frequent, make it yourself!

        I ended up making !onepiece@lemm.ee to fill my GOAT manga needs

  • manuel@feddit.de
    3·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Earthwick@lemm.ee
    3·
    2 years ago

    Nice to have a new place to hang my virtual coat and peer into the endless void of the internet.

    • LemmyInRedditSux @lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Bigocciput@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • theMechanic@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    2 years ago

    Are this active users? (Commenting/posting) or just traffic?

    I ask as I spent time in different servers looking for one I liked before making an account, so it took a while before I became an ‘active user’

    • Troy@lemmy.ca
      2·
      2 years ago

      Lemmy only counts activity as commenting or posting. Unlike Reddit which counted any eyeball on a post as active. However, this is a traffic graph from the server, not from Lemmy itself.

  • Katie@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    2 years ago

    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!

      • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I unironically like the default web UI. It’s like a modernized old reddit. Also installed the PWA. I’d try wefwef, but its’ instance selector doesn’t even have the instance whose meta community we’re currently discussing it in :(

        • Zana@startrek.websiteEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          It didn’t have my instance either but it let me type it in and it worked, so I would try again :)