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

    • jackoneill@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year 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!

    • FooSolo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Baby Steps to Lemmy, Baby steps to the comments, baby Steps to the post. -Dr. Leo Marvin

  • noogie@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year 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·
      1 year 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!

    • zidanerick@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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

    • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk
      1·
      1 year 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.

  • Fais@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

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

    WELCOME REDDITORS!

      • Fais@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        1 year 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

  • Shambles404@aussie.zoneEnglish
    4·
    1 year 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.caEnglish
        1·
        1 year 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.zoneEnglish
          2·
          1 year 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·
            1 year 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.

          • steltek@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            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.

    • schnitzelbub@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      1 year 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.websiteEnglish
        3·
        1 year 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·
          1 year 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.

  • manuel@feddit.deEnglish
    3·
    1 year 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.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

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

    • slipuke@vlemmy.netEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      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 :)

        • slipuke@vlemmy.netEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • Merriwinter@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            Is wefwef an android or iOS app? I’m using jerboa, but heard about the virtues of wefwef and wanted to try it.

            • slipuke@vlemmy.netEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              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.

                • slipuke@vlemmy.netEnglish
                  0·
                  1 year ago

                  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

        • Benghandhi@beehaw.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          Jerboa stopped working for me today for whatever reason so I switched to Connect and actually think I like it better so far.

    • 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·
      1 year 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.

  • 14th_cylon@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    that is cool. there is no such thing as too many graphs, so don’t be shy in the future 😆

  • SleyK@lemm.ee
    2·
    1 year ago

    I straight up don’t know how to use Lemmy. I feel like I need to relearn how to ride a bike.

    • Hedup@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      Set feed to All. Scroll. See interesting topic you want to see more, subscribe to community. Interested in specific topic? Search for community in communities page. Once you gather enough subscriptions, set feed to subscribed. Scroll.

    • Kitten@startrek.website
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been here for a bit more than a week now and my biggest advice and is to take it as it is. Take a deep breath, accept that this is Lemmy and not something else, and that you’re feeling it out. This is not relearning a bike, this is getting in a peddle boat for the first time. Similar, yes, but also it’s own thing.

    • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah it’s different, you’ll burn in pretty quick though, just have to get used stuff being spread across a bunch of instances. It feels pretty natural after using it a while. The designers try to make it easy. It’s kind of like email where each community has two parts to its name.

  • theMechanic@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year 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·
      1 year 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.

  • BLT2002@lemmy.ca
    2·
    1 year ago

    I joined a few weeks ago but after RIF died just over an hour ago it looks like I’ve found my new home.

  • Katie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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!