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I don't know if you've noticed this, but threads or comments about Lemmy or the Fediverse get downvoted a lot on Reddit and trolls who claim that it's "dogshit" and "not going anywhere" get systematically upvoted.

Some of those trolls get then exposed when you ask them what Lemmy instance they tried and one of them with whom I had a surreal exchange answered with something like "yeah ofc I used Lemmy, this is the instance: join-lemmy.org" πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

It's frustrating that these trolls keep contributing to the big lie that "Lemmy is not ready yet" and that there's "no viable alternative to Reddit".

This and the overwhelming number of comments being "against the mod protests" just prompts me to question whether there isn't some brigading being organized straight from the Reddit HQ.

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[–] Extra_Cucumber_2979 79 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Once - unfortunately - Apollo app will be down, in less than 2 weeks, I’m pretty sure Lemmy will surge and they will come complaining here πŸ˜…

[–] airportline 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Maybe. It's not like there's a Lemmy app (for iOS) that's as good as Apollo.

[–] FrullaPapaya 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Have you tried Jerboa for Lemmy? It is not Apollo but it is comfortable and ads free

[–] airportline 15 points 1 year ago

Jerboa is for Android. Apollo is for iOS.

[–] josephboyer 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Memmy is in TestFlight if you fancied being a tester.

[–] FlaxPicker 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same with mlem. It’s a little ahead of memmy in development right now.

[–] avapa 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mlem has become really good since they updated the app two days ago.

[–] ImDonaldDunn 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They really need to fix some of their accessibility issues. Comment text cannot be resized which makes it impossible for me to use the app. Memmy respects the dynamic text sizing in iOS, so I’m using it for now. It’s not up to feature parity with Mlem but the developer is doing a great job with adding features.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Memmy also works natively on iPad. Mlem has just a zoomed iPhone version.

[–] FlaxPicker 1 points 1 year ago

YES. It feels so good on ipad with memmy. I saw someone made a pull request to mlem adding ipad compatibility already though. It seems the mlem team is wanting to wait a bit on it for reasons im unaware of, but hopefully it gets added soon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I hope they soon implement that proper dark mode, image zoom and search tool but yes since mlem the only reason i still open Apollo is to laugh seeing reddit burn :3

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Beta full unfortunately at the moment it seems

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh that sounds fun

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

What I am using for android and its not RIF but it is not bad and allows me to join this community on mobile which is how I use social media.

I do constructive things on PC.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Legit surprised how good Jerboa is tbh

[–] handhookcardoor 4 points 1 year ago

There’s Mlem and Lemmy, both are fine, just early in development. Both take heavy inspiration from Apollo, and work great.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I'm already seeing an increase in trolling and spam across the Lemmy and Kbin instances. Hopefully the mods can handle the influx.

[–] josephboyer 6 points 1 year ago

I miss Apollo everyday. I haven’t used it since the blackout in solidarity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, they will definitely come complaining here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What if Apollo just adapted to lenny instead of