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Tomorrow, reddit will be shutting off 3rd party app access. If the twitter migration is anything to go by, that means that the wave of new users coming in the next few weeks will be much bigger than the wave we saw earlier this month.

Our lead techy admin @[email protected] is also recovering from broken bones and surgery, so she will be slower to respond to issues :)

All of that being said, we're as prepared as we can be. We're currently running our instance on hardware with excess capacity to spare, but who knows if it will be enough.

So, good luck to all of us, and see you on the other side :)

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 2 years ago (13 children)

I'm excited to welcome all the reddit refugees!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

reddit refugees

Reddifugees?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Eep! Wishing you a speedy recovery, @[email protected]! Take care of yourself first, we’ll understand if things here go wonky for a bit. 💜

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Commenting to help bump this comment up. We're grateful for the work you provide your community. Take care of yourself and do your best! We'll all see each other on the other side.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 years ago (10 children)

RedditIsFun is down, so I am out. Used it for the 10 years I was there, and don't like the "New Reddit" they've been creating for monetization-sake.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't remember hiring a ghost writer for my autobiography, but you got all the details right!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

10 years here as well. Was sad opening it up and seeing nothing, even though I knew it was coming.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Sync just stopped for me sooooo here I am.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

RIF just stopped too. RIP.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep. The bridge is burned. Theres no going back now. Fuck Steve Huffman

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

RIP Sync, you were the best

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

I rode the Apollo train right to the end, about ten minutes ago. So long, Shitty CEO, please let the door hit you twenty times on the way out.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

BaconReader went down too and I finally decided to make an account here. Interested to see how this goes but I know I won't be using the official reddit app

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, rif is gone, so now reddit is too. I hope this place and others on lemmy grow to have vibrant and flourishing communities

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

I hope so too. There is less content but we all have to aim to grow it.

[–] nostalgicgamerz 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now Twitter shitting itself in the name of forcing subscriptions is causing a mass migration to Mastedon. The Fediverse is going to get incredibly popular....fast.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

I could deal with not having reddit sync, but opening twitter today and seeing that I have a tweet ration made me immediately sign up for lemmy. I imagine a lot of people are similar

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sync has stopped working for me now. Looking forward to the future on Lemmy!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

The reddit app I used stopped working yesterday (yes I know why but it's funnier to pretend I don't) so here I am! Trying to figure out how lemmy works in the context of the larger fediverse.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (6 children)

On that note, jeroba throws an error every time i open it about how this instance is older than the lowest supported version, but it seems like i can still use most of the sites functinality? Just thought i'd mention that

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago

Yep, that's a screw up by the Jerboa devs. If we upgraded to 0.18 we would lose captcha, and version 0.18.1 with captcha hasn't been released yet. So there is no way for us to safely upgrade to the version Jerboa wants just yet.

[–] SpaceNoodle 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Lucky, Jerboa just crashes on launch for me now.

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[–] jetsetdorito 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I switched from Jerboa to Thunder today. It's so much nicer, but still missing some features. The web app Wefwef is pretty nice too.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I was gonna keep lurking Reddit until Sync shut down, now I'm on Lemmy. Took me a little bit to figure the platform out tbh, having third party apps for it now seems to be great.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Give Thunder a shot, at least until Sync for Lemmy releases (and stabilizes)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Was waiting for Narwhal to break and it never happened. Turns out the dev got a deal to not pay anything until he can release a ‘Narwhal 2’ that’s subscription only. Wasn’t an Apollo user but the dev got shafted and reddit didn’t offer anything close to what the Narwhal dev did. Still deleted my account as planned and deleted their app off my phone.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah I saw that too, spez is a piece of shit, did you also see all the lies he made up about the Apollo dev? It was so childish lol

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Good luck to the admins, and welcome to all the reddit refugees.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's a good time to encourage those who can afford it to donate a couple of bucks to your home instance operator for server costs, etc. :)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Good luck and godspeed admins, and get well soon @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Honestly, it's really hard to say what will happen. I do think there's gonna be an exodus from reddit, however it's hard to say where people will go after that. kbin has been coming up in discussions about reddit alternatives, but same with some of the other federated setups. I've been searching for the past week for something that looks/feels like reddit and this is the closest thing so far. I will say, hopefully since it's going down on a Friday, there might be a lull until Monday before people really start coming in.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Apollo is gone, rip. hellloooo lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I invade! I'm sad about the small communities that are dying but I hope I can be a part of new ones here!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I stepped away from that website years ago, saw voat come and go, and am giving this a shot. So far, it checks all the right boxes! Welcome one and all.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Exciting times! And get well soon Kaity!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I kept my reddit account until today, coping that Reddit will go back on their word and allow Apollo to continue working. Granted, it didn't. So I looped shreddit with a PowerShell script and sealed the deal today and just put the final nail in the coffin and deleted my account. Guess it's Lemmy from now on.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Heres hopping we get more users

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Goodbye Baconreader, hello blåhaj

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

get well soon @[email protected] !

and good luck to the server and admins!

hopefully things go smoothly enough :)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Get well! Hopefully it won't be TOO bananas since I like the quietness without all the riff raff and bigotry of the other sites :P

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Get well soon supakaity!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Thanks for being as on top of things as possible. I'm still mourning Apollo but hoping to bring some folks from reddit over here soon.

[–] Fer24 11 points 2 years ago

Good luck for the admins, the coming days migth be chaotic

[–] asmodee59 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just came today so I can have at least one normal day.

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