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.
As a former Apollo user, using wefwef for lemmy has made adoption so easy. 10/10, it’s basically an Apollo clone in-browser and has been working great. https://wefwef.app/
I found wefwef and it was the only thing making me less sad when I deleted Apollo. Basically feels like Reddit in 2010-2011 but with a modern third party Reddit interface. Better experience and I don’t have to support /u/spez? Sign me up.
As a former Apollo user, wefwef is a god send. Absolutely love it.
I’m using wefwef too, but it doesn’t keep me logged in for some reason.
Since it’s browser-based, do you have a setting that auto refreshes your cookies, or are you using a privacy mode browser?
I’m really liking wefwef, much like Apollo it’s made the experience of the platform much better by smoothing out the interaction. Web apps really are coming quite a ways from what I remember them being.
I’m using WefWef.app for Lemmy and it’s awesome.
It’s a straight-up Apollo clone as a web app.
I am floored.
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Wefwef is amazing. Only thing that I’ve noticed I’m missing so far is the endless moving back and forward by swiping to right/left.
That’s been my favorite part! Best accidental find
It’s crazy to me that this is a web app. I usually prefer native apps, but this thing? Wow.
Just tried it and am liking it more than the Jerboa app. Any other webapp solutions?
Thanks, I am switching from Jerboa now.
I’m impressed how good is wefwef.
I’ve installed jerboa but I’m now considering switching again.
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.
I just switch a couple of days ago and I feel more willing to post and comment
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
I’m the same way!
What app are you using? So far I’ve tried Liftoff, but I’m looking for something closer to Relay
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.
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.
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.
Can’t show them ads so they probably don’t care.
This is my first time joining an online community from the beginning. I’m so hype for this.
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Oh my… I remember IRC or was it IRQ? I can’t remember either way I’m old because I found out about it talking to someone on MSN.
Edit: It was ICQ and I’m a square for getting them confused.
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IRC was basically pre-everything. Before ICQ and MSN and WhatsApp and surely before telegram.
Probably only Usenet was older, if we’re talking about social networking software.
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Usenet was a hierarchical structure for what became the forums. You had a main tree and then separated branches for every argument, for example alt.sports then alt.sports.martialarts then alt.sports.martialarts.karate
Usenet was text only, very fast with old modems compared to web pages.
All the files (and piracy stuff) were relegated to alt.binaries
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… another thing I missed lol. Well no more, I am at the beginnings this time. (Insert victorious laughter.)
Can’t wait for more Reddit refugees
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!
Same for me except I was previously using Reddit Sync Pro.
Have you signed up for the Sync for Lemmy beta?
I was a Reddit sync user. Are you telling me there’s going to be the same app for Lemmy!? And I thought I would spend less time scrolling my phone! 🤣
Yes I have…and I have high hopes :)
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.
You should reinstall Apollo and listen to the tribute song in it. It was beautiful.
Watched it today on his YouTube channel. Pretty epic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOFChFxsJ3I
RIP boost.
For some reason my Boost for Reddit is still working
Well shit, I haven’t actually tried since it was supposed to shut down…might have to give it a shot. UPDATE: Still working for me! Let’s see how long it lasts.
Boost for Lemmy is coming.
Is this real life? I found boost just shortly before everything went down cuz I had reached my breaking point with promoted shit. Having it for lemmy would be awesome!
Hold my ReVanced.
Revaned is truly a great application. So many useful uses never thought I would use it for reddit.
Rif refugee reporting in
Tried the “official” app for the first time in years, uninstalled after 10 min… RIP Rif
The official app os total junk and utterly unusable.
RIP RIF.
Looking forward to building something new here.
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.
It’s time to teach them we can actually build a free, open source and popular alternative to their dystopian monopoly!
The sad part is reddit actually used to be open-source. They’ve become what they wanted to destroy. Sad times.
Much like Google’s motto used to read; don’t be evil.
Take it as a reminder that we should always be faithful and coherent to our ideals!
I feel like Aaron Swartz exiting and later dying played a role. There was no longer his voice to check bad business behavior.
Much like Google’s motto used to read; don’t be evil.
Apollo refugee here. Wefwef and Lemmy are very nice :)
there’s something comforting seeing other Apollo friends here. Good to have you here!
Reporting in!
Wow, wefwef really does make me feel at home as an Apollo refugee. They weren’t lying!
Hi my brother in Apollo, welcome!
hopefully many more will still join lemmy in favor of reddit. For now many subs are still very sparsely populated compared to reddit.
Sadly, it takes time to build a community, whenever a big site goes down… supposedly (I wasn’t around for it) with Digg there was at least warning, compared to what Reddit did
I would like to use this but how the hell do I get join others? Or get different content? It’s the same ten posts over and over.
Have a look through the community list and subscribe to stuff!
Sometimes it takes a minute.
Try different sorts. Top of day is good for getting different posts, as is new comments.
I think I read that an upgrade of Lemmy off going to change the sort algorithm, so help may be coming.
Any lemmy client suggestion ? For Android
I just got started today, but Connect has been working pretty well for me on Android. I had some issues with Jerboa, but I’ve heard others say it works well for them. For now, I’m waiting on Sync for Lemmy to release, but I’m also thinking of spending some time writing my own UI as a fun side project!
I’m with you I’m waiting for the sync app. Loved that one for years!
Don’t hesitate to try https://wefwef.app
Jerboa has been the least buggy with the most features for me.
You can also set up up so that it looks very similar to rif. The devs have been pretty active with updates as well. It’s been my go to since leaving reddit.
Can you clarify how you’d make it look like RiF?
Under look and feel. You can set the post view to list. You may have to fiddle with some of the other settings there but it gets it close.
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Liftoff is the best one I’ve tried so far
++ for liftoff and I’ve tried probably 5 apps. I love sync and will switch to that when lj delivers it
Also recommend Liftoff
Have thunder and jerboa installed, too since neither of the 3 apps is feature complete right now but at the moment Liftoff comes closest to what I want from an app
Boost for lemmy is in the works.
Also, at the time for writing, boost for reddit still works
If you can wait a bit you can get sync for lemmy.
Connect for Lemmy https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect
Liftoff and Connect are my favorites for the time being.
