& I’m doing pretty good! The wefwef app has done a great job of recreating the Apollo experience and has made it a lot easier to not want to go and download the Reddit app. The more active it gets here, the easier it’ll be. How are you guys doing so far? Have you found an App for Lemmy that you prefer the most yet?
Still trying to find my footings. The thing I miss most is active engagement. The comment sections sometimes feel so empty. But I will give it time. All in all, I find the experience better than I anticipated. Using wefwef on my phone and the instance-site on my desktop and laptop. I am sure a decent app will be developed in time.
I felt that at first but I’ve found the engagement to be more meaningful here when it does happen, even though it’s sometimes sparse or not at all. I came in the previous influx after spez started forcing subs open. I don’t really miss it that much now.
I was pretty much a strict lurker on Reddit, so the smaller community here is certainly a bit of a change for me. Only thing for me to do is to change my habits with it, and start actually joining in and adding to the conversations.
Howdy!
In recognition of your contribution to the community, I present you with the coveted Lemmy Lemon award.
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Please let’s make the Lemmy Lemon award an unofficially official thing. After reading that I want people to use it more
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Let’s make it a wheel of cheese. Gotta keep the french happy or they riot 😅
Glad you are here!
You have summed up my feelings exactly.
Greetings, fellow lurker! The torch has been passed. It is our turns to carry it until the communities grow larger and we can recede back to the shadows
I also didn’t even bother engaging on Reddit at all, but doing so on Lemmy feels way more worth it for some reason
I honestly feel like there is more engagement here. Most Reddit threads were like telling into the wind. By the time you got there it was almost always too late to contribute
Remember to be commenting on stuff that don’t have comments to drive engagement! It’s important for all of us to do our part
Oooh, first time seeing images/gifs in posts. This looks really nice on PC. Is that just a direct imgur link or something?
It looks like it was uploaded directly to this instance. You get a nonstandard markdown link that embeds the media in the post/comment body. You can even paste image data from your clipboard and it’ll be uploaded and embedded.
Oh it’s not externally hosted? Interesting.
edit: oh shit, you’re right. Damn that’s new then?! Amazing.
Hmmm link doesn’t work for me. Do I have to do anything on my end to view?
Edit: never mind. Saw the response post below. All good
I will. I mentioned somewhere else I was a lurker on Reddit, but try to be more active here in the hopes it will help.
I’ve found myself actually reading articles since I can’t go in and just read someone else’s synopsis of the content, which frankly is a good thing. I can get my own information and form my own opinions, Reddit just let me be lazy but it’s a nice change.
As for engagement, just be the change your wish to see, and engagement will follow. I think there is still some fine tuning to be done in terms of the sorting algorithms as well, which would ideally get day old content out and active but fresh content in. A lot of dust left to settle with the great migration underway.
As for engagement, just be the change your wish to see
I try. I want to make this work so I try to comment more and perhaps even create some posts (things I didn’t do on Reddit). But I have no illusion that anything I post will be “quality”.
I think your posts here are quality
You’re sweet in saying so <3
But I have no illusion that anything I post will be “quality”.
Saying this already shows us as a community that your comments are more valuable than any found on Reddit! Any contribution with an inch of sincerity/effort goes a mile. But don’t feel too much pressure to contribute. I’m a lurker myself and new to all this constant activity/mod stuff. Contribute as you wish and we’ll be happy to respond back!
The bigger communities are reaching a kind of critical mass but getting there for the niche ones, particularly for those with no overarching direction to move to Lemmy, will be slow.
I feel like over time Lemmy as a platform will manage to make it easier to link decentralized communities together (fingers crossed). Until then it’s slow and steady.
I sort by new mostly and if I find something interesting I write a comment trying to startup some conversations. The more people do this, the faster the community will grow.
The problem is there are duplicates communities in different instances.
If I find duplicate communities, I just subscribe to all of them. Maybe recheck after some time and look through the activity and unsub then.
I was a somewhat massive lurker on reddit, I didn’t bother engaging much because I knew 60% of the time the reply would be snippy, even if my post wouldn’t be remotely combative. So over the years I just stopped bothering mostly.
My inbox has kicked off more here in the last week than probably the last 365 days on reddit. It’s really wholesome, for lack of a better term.
All it takes if you commenting, to fire off more comments just like now. It’s good shit!
I like that Lemmy users tend to be nicer even when disagreeing. “That’s an interesting take, friend. I believe the opposite, because…” type replies are nice to see.
Mlem and Memmy are quite tolerable
I tried both but decided to go with memmy, but each are great choices.
Same. Both have their quirks but Memmy seems more polished overall.
Yeah I’m loving Memmy. The new update has been great.
It’s crazy how quickly it’s being updated
Haha. Yeah. Daily updates tend tk Improve things quickly (if there is community support/communication, which it has)
Liftoff app is my favorite at the moment. Very responsive and handle well multiple account.
I also vouch for Liftoff. It is, so far, the closest to RIF I’ve been able to find for Android and has the most options for customizing how content is presented.
Tried several, liftoff is the one for me until Sync comes along. Personally the deciding factor was that gestures worked to close posts so I could scroll one handed.
I’m on Liftoff and it seems okay. But is there not a way to list communities, or am I just overlooking it? I can see the feed with all communities, which I guess is r/all-like and isn’t so bad because I did browse r/all and r/popular more than individual subreddits anyway. But still, I’d like to be able to see what communities effect exist.
Been trying a few. Lemming is the one I’m using currently but I will try Liftoff! While I wait for Sync for Lemmy 🤙🤙
I’ve already tried a couple of them and so far liftoff as been the most comfortable one
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Keep at it! I suspect these first few days will be the hardest. I uninstalled BaconReader last night and put “Connect for Lemmy” in its place on my home screen. So far it’s been a pretty easy transition!
Can confirm it gets easier. It definitely helps to have an app replacement so you can follow your normal reading, commenting, and posting routines. I jumped a while back and had to resist the urge to go back out of habit, but now I don’t even miss it.
Is it bad I feel the above feels like some 12 step program testinonial?
BaconReader will never be able to be replaced. I’m bouncing between Jerboa and wefwef for now, until I find a suitable BR replacement
Is Lemmy.World a bit laggy for everyone else?
I wonder is it on my end or is it because of the new traffic it’s getting?
Yeah its getting the hug of death right now.
Ive got a second account on another verse just so I can browse .world lol
I feel like lemm.ee is a bit faster rhan lemme.world. They’re doing some things I like for scalability (albeit at a cost that’ll need to he supported by donations).
Yeah it’s pretty slow at the moment. Think it’s getting overloaded by the influx of new users, which is a good thing in retrospect. Hopefully the system admins can scale the servers to meet the demand.
A lot of lag, but with the influx of users, I don’t blame them.
I’m enjoying Connect for Lemmy, however I need pointers on how to get more content for my lemmy front page.
If you find an insightful comment by someone, and you follow the link to their profile, you can see what other communities they’re posting in. I find this to be one of the best ways of discovery.
I just got Connect for Lemmy and what I’ve done is set every text size to small and removed “Cards”. This makes it feel a lot more like RiF. Hope this helps!
Also using these settings, working great. Only bug right now seems to be that I can’t access all communities, unlike on Liftoff
With wefwef I got access to All which is all I was missing leaving reddit sync behind
I don’t know if you’re in the loop but Sync dev is in the process of creating Sync for Lemmy.
I just got Connect for Lemmy and what I’ve done is set every text size to small and removed “Cards”. This makes it feel a lot more like RiF. Hope this helps!
Btw your comment is posted 4 times. Probably because Lemmy.world is lagging right now
For some reason, wefwef was very buggy for me and kept throwing errors at me.
I use Memmy and I’ll probably stick with it!
It just had an update that fixed it, something to do with lemmy.world’s recent update.
Will have to try it again then! Though I really like Memmy and I’m getting used to it.
Yea man, I thought wefwef was the one, but I dislike not having a default sort option, nor tapping the top of the screen to return from the bottom of a comment chain [for example]. I’m sure it’ll get there. IDK anything about these web apps, and if they’re limited in their functionality but it LOOKS really really fucking good for an early app.
Memmy is solid and it’s my most used so far, it’s fun to hop between all though now that the instance is a bit more settled tonight.
I’ve said this a million times it feels like already on the fed, but any app that gets ‘auto mark read’ for scrolling posts, will be my winner. Apollo spoiled me on that for brainless scrolling.
Yeah I felt the same, it looks just like Apollo which is awesome. It’s already amazing for a web app and I’m sure it’ll get better over time.
I prefer Memmy’s sorting and overall appearance, however. It’s missing comments editing though, hopefully it can get that soon. Cheers!
Maybe I need to try memmy then. It’s a learning curve with this open source stuff.
Give it a whirl man, it’s pretty close to Apollo as well. It’s just a little more solid right now than wef. Good luck!
Hello fell Reddit Refugees! Yeah I’ve been a near daily reddit user on Sync for Reddit (Sync Pro) since 2014 or so. Now leading up to the API shutdown I was using reddit about once a week and you already know I had to use Sync one last time on the final day, but
I’ve mostly been using Lemmy for about two weeks now. I’ve tried a lot of apps (Jeroba, Thunder, Liftoff), but ultimately I also ended up on wefwef. It’s seems to be the one of snappier ones so far. It’s super strange because since it is themed after Apollo, it looks like I have an iPhone app on my Android! I know that when Sync for Lemmy comes out (about six weeks I think) I’ll jump ship immediately, but for now I’m really liking wefwef.
I’ve made it my mission to lurk less on Lemmy then I did on Reddit so I can try and help the platform succeed with some small amounts of content that I can contribute. Recently I’ve been very interested in AI image generation, so I made a community centered around that. I also made a community centered around video game giveaways to hopefully share more wholesome content on the platform. Overall, I’m hoping that since Lemmy is so new that all of us can take some control in steering it in an overall better direction than Reddit. I’m personally on team No Karma, since I think it makes Lemmy a lot less toxic and a lot less about having something to brag about and more about being something to be proud of.
Good luck to everyone who’s a recovering Reddit addict with their quests to become Fediverse addicts!
Edit: Wefwef accidentally posted my comment 3 times saying it failed to post. So I guess there’s still some kinks to work out!
I’ve been here since the blackout and I haven’t touched Reddit for at least a week. It feels closer to what the web used to be when it was cool.
I’m using the web along with Jerboa.
I’m using WefWef. It much slower than RiF but the growing pains must be absolutely massive.
Nice OP!
Same here, if anything this whole thing has done me a favour. Many times the past year i’ve considered giving up reddit. I tend to scroll reddit when I play with the dog after walkies, and the amount of time my brain says ‘why you do this shit?’ as I scroll past nothing, looking at comment chains of constant bickering. Why am I scrolling pasts hundreds of pointless comments, meandering bad takes, puns, the time wasted…for what gain? It was kinda an addiction I guess.
The first day has been great tbh, Memmy feels good despite the instance’ slowness. The Hot filter is pretty good for catching newISH posts, or light comment posts which i’ve been tagging onto.
It really feels like old school forum days, and it’s been really awesome to have my inbox popping off with replies. What’s the point of lots of comments like a big reddit thread when no one replies or even sees your comment? Really looking back, it was just pissing in the wind.
Or if you did get a reply over on pigboycity, it would be some massive drangus trying to start a fight. Just ugh. I deleted my posts and account yesterday, now reddits just gonna be my suffix for google searches when I need something (until the fed starts getting indexed over the coming months/years).
I also really like the look here. old.reddit to me always looked shit from a UI standpoint (Despite being massively better than New, of course). lemmy.world just looks concise without being overwhelming. I’m excited to see growth and engage with real people again just like the old days.
using connect rn, it’s pretty good looking but a bit buggy, i guess i’m waiting for updates!
Yeah same, but I was having the login issues on the site on mobile, just could not log in. Using Connect on Android and I can finally interact with you fine folks! ~~ Good Vibes ~~
How do you create communities on wefwef?
The apps are all in alpha and not all features are added yet. You may have to do that via the website for now.
fr, I have not used reddit in 2 days. My life is way better
I am also using wefef and was an Apollo user. I have an overall positive experience with Lemmy+wefwef.
It feels buggy when scrolling and switching between panes (post,search, etc) but I can live with that since I know it’s a work in progress.
Like one of the top posts today (the meme with Patrick and his rock). “It’s ok Lemmy. You can go when you want.”
Yeah wefwef is a near perfect recreation (atleast for all the things I used to do personally), with only occasional freezes when scrolling.
It could probably use a name change to be more marketable though too.
