We’re about to enter another Reddit mass migration phase starting tonight. We’ve already attracted the users most actively engaged with the protests and Reddit’s changes—users who are driven enough to put in the effort to grow the Fediverse.
Now we need to make it feel like home to casual users and lurkers. Not just attract them for a few visits, but keep it interesting enough that they stay here in the coming weeks/months.
Major kudos to all the developers working day and night to bring us familiar-feeling apps and interfaces on insanely short timelines. But what can the rest of us do to make Kbin and Lemmy feel like home to all the new Reddit refugees? Populate Lemmy and Kbin with as much quality content as you can find!
Over the next few weeks, fill your magazines/communities with as much good the content as you can. Post comments and subscribe to things. Click that upvote button on content or comments you like.
Not sure where to find good content? Ironically, check out your favorite subreddits for ideas. Make sure we have the best of the content you can find on Reddit. See a good article or link? Post it here! Don’t be shy about posting to interactive communities like Ask Lemmy- we’re after volume.
For OC Reddit posts, see if there’s a non-Reddit page to post here. I don’t know whether it’s acceptable to copy text posts, but if you do, make sure you at least give credit/copy a link to the original post.
Basically, do everything you can to engage over the next few weeks and avoid lurking. Show off the Fediverse and welcome the next group of Reddit refugees to their new home.
Edit: I completely forgot to call out all the people hosting and upgrading instances to help with the massive influx of users and keep the sites stable. Thank you, hosts!
Okay, so I've been here for a few days and I'm getting increasingly confused. I used reddit exclusively on mobile and was hoping to do the same thing for lemmy. But it seems like every app has major features missing. I've already tried 4 different apps and every one is missing a feature I'd consider critical. Keeping two accounts separate, adjusting settings for two different accounts, commenting, replying, posting, subscribing, and searching for specific instances are all pretty important, but every app is missing one or more of these features.
Is there a quickstart guide anywhere to get more familiar with this? Does anyone know of an app that can do all of this? I've already tried jerboa, summit, connect, and liftoff
Try WefWef.App, it's pretty great, quite reminiscent of Apollo: https://wefwef.app
Does WefWef have a way to block users? This is the critical feature for me. Way too many hateful people spewing disinformation out there, not interested in seeing it.
Unfortunately this feature seem to be missing for now. The dev has an GitHub issue open on it though so it is on the roadmap.
Is this coming to the Play Store?
Don't know, it's actually a Progressive Web App (PWA) so you just visit in your browser, and can save it to your Home Screen, and from then on the web-app-via-browser works just like an app, seems just like a "regular" app. I'm on iOS but assume it can work similarly on Android.
Same for Android, running it as a Chrome App.
Yeah works the same on Android
Ah I gotcha
It's website that acts like an app. Very mobile friendly while not requiring an install.
Unfortunately none of these apps are made by large teams, most actually being largely done by one person so yeah there's features missing because they've never really had cause to sink a ton of time into their development (and a bunch of them are also just new). Only real solution is you just have to wait until they catch up. Also there's the existing Reddit apps migrating over, but those are probably still weeks away. But I can tell you there's a lot of active development going on, it's just that, with the exception of Jerboa which is maintained by the full time Lemmy Devs (who also have to maintain Lemmy itself) and the Reddit 3PAs maybe, we're not really doing this full time and have regular jobs to go to.
Thanks for the info. Hopefully Lemmy will survive these first weeks where the apps aren't up to standard, and start to thrive like Reddit used to
I hope that my comment didn't read as me complaining. I fully understand that this is different from reddit and I'm grateful to every developer working on lemmy in any capacity.
I just wanted to be sure I tried all of the popular options to find what works best before fully committing to one. Out of the four, liftoff seems to be the best. The main issue it got with it is that both accounts share the same settings. If I change a setting for one account, it changes the settings for the other as well.
After searching for suggestions by other users I tried Liftoff and it's really decent.
I'm in the same boat. I'm using Lemmy on Jerboa, Wefwef, connect and Lemmy.nz itself. Still haven't found a favourite and run into small issues with all.
But there are updates almost every day, sync is coming as well, so I just stick around. It's much better than Reddit in all regards.
Try out liftoff, so far I've found it to be much more reliable and logical than Jerboa, I believe it's based on boost for Reddit, but I have no idea; I came from Reddit if Fun
Speaking of Boost, it's also moving to Lemmy
And sync!
So excited for this one. It was the one I used for the last year on reddit.
It's based on Lemmur, an old Lemmy app that doesn't work anymore.
I'm using it, it's great. It's definitely a lot nicer to use than Jerboa.
Thanks, have seen it mentioned elsewhere, will try!
Honestly there is almost no reason to not just use your web browser instead of an app.
I'm using mobile web but I'm having this issue (maybe intended) that I can never get just a stable list of things to look at, comments or posts, sorted in some sort of static way. When I say I want the hot posts on "all", after a few seconds a post that was posted less than a minute ago will pop up on the top, pushing the content around. This comment section is sorted by hot and the first comment has -1 points so I doubt it's working as intended. Plus comments get pushed in the top too, so my page is always scrolling and I cant keep my place.
Is this my instance? The site? Just how it works?
That's a quirk of Lemmy 0.17.4, which lemmy.world is running. It's fixed in 0.18, but that version removes the captcha which lemmy.world needs to filter out bots. 0.18.1 restores the captcha, and the admins are going to try to upgrade later today.
oh this is great info! glad I asked. thanks!
I had the same issue when I set up the Lemmy web app on my Android. I'm not sure there's a way around it. I'm using Connect for Lemmy now though and it's a good enough substitute.
Unfortunately, until the devs of Boost or Sync finish their apps for Lemmy, we may have to settle with incomplete apps with features that are missing. I suppose pre-registering for those apps might speed things along though as devs see more and more people wanting their app, so you might do that to bide your time.
Try liftoff, as far as I can tell the accounts are kept separate, with the option of having a combined feed (which tells you which instances the post your viewing is being served from) or a separate feed for each instance you're on
https://imgur.com/a/Rofvlwa
A few of the developers of Reddit apps like Sync are now working on Lemmy versions. So I guess give it some time and hopefully your preferred app for Reddit will make it's way over or have a clone with all the features you're looking for.
I don't mean to sound like a dick, but this isn't reddit, it's basically brand new. It hasn't been around for nearly 20 years, and it has had mobile apps for weeks/months, not for over a decade. You gotta be patient, more features,more stability, more ease of use, all of that will come. Reddit didn't even have subreddits for like the first two years or so.
If it helps, the Sync for Reddit dev, a fairly major player in the 3rd party app scene, is making Sync for Lemmy. They're hoping to get something usable out in 6-8 weeks, and long term goal is to bring it up to and hopefully beyond S for R's standards.
Cool well... give it a minute, you know? Some of the reddit apps have been in development for YEARS. So you're not going to get to switch and immediately have every single thing you're asking for in an app because the user base was non existent until basically the last two weeks.
Jerboa wouldn't connect to any instance for me, said server version (0.17.4) below min app version
Same here. I grabbed connect from play store and it's been alright. I'm awaiting the launch of sync for lemmy. There are a ton of reddit apps moving to this so we should see some improvement over time.
The apps are all still very new. The pace of development has been, however, absolutely astonishing. There are almost as many apps for Lemmy as there are for reddit. I am left speechless at the speed of development, truly.
Having said that, some things are not a priority, as you are probably aware.. Support for 2 accounts is one of them. may I ask why you need 2 accounts? I remind you that you don't have to have accounts in every server in order to cross-interact. An account on lemm.ee can give you access to pretty much every lemmy instance. That is the power of federation.
Having two or more accounts is nice when servers still aren't very stable and sometimes being hampered by bots or upgrade issues.
There are many reasons why you might want or need 2 accounts. Maybe you started on beehaw and want access to Lemmy.world content, or vice versa. Maybe you started on an instance and realised they don't do image hosting but you've already built up some activity on that account and don't want to completely give it up, so you create another one. Or maybe, just simply, you create an account on an instance only to find another you prefer the URL of but don't want to give up previous activity. Many reasons!