Thank you for enabling us to be here. Keep up the good work!
I'm quite curious as to how many will actually turn up here. I guess we'll see.
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Starting tomorrow we're going to be seeing a new wave of “window shopping”. It'll be interesting to see how many (and which ones) of those do end up staying after, let's say, Jul 7th.
3rd party app users will stay on lemmy/kbin if we comment and post about wefwef.app and Sync for Lemmy enough
both here and on relevant reddit threads
Yeah I didn't know about wefwef.app at all but I had heard of Sync, gotta hype the apps up more.
Thx for the quick approval. Trying to find all my old reddit communities :)
Same haha
I like this instance; it has a cool name and logo, is federated properly with other instances, and is updated to 0.18
Only issue I'm having though is that the 'hot' view often shows very old and irrelevant posts right now, which would no doubt confuse newcomers that'll come from tomorrow
This doesn't seem to occur in other instances like lemmy.world or lemm.ee afaict.
That might be related to me running a 0.18.1 RC as I wanted the captcha to help with the bots, will try to get it resolved asap
Thank you for all the work you're doing 🙏🙏
Yeah, I love this instance. It doesn’t seem to be blocked by any other instances either.
I'll leave a couple of hot tips here.
This tampermonkey script helps make lemmy's post listing look more like old reddit.
This extension helps you subscribe to communities on other instances, just set it up so it knows your account is on vlemmy.net (or wherever it is):
- Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lemmy-link/glhbnnmcnindhfaebnckcfdblggpjlog/related
- Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/lemmy-link/
- Github: https://github.com/FackJox/lemmy-link
Here's a list of communities (subs): https://sub.rehab/
and a list of instances with their permissions: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
I hope tweaks like these are combined into a single extension later, like RES
And lemmyverse.net's functionality definitely needs to be integrated in Lemmy itself. Not seeing the true member count (and thus activity) is a major blow to discoverability. And makes comms seem way smaller than they are to new users
Having looked around Lemmy a fair bit and understanding the platform structure a bit, I understand small well-run instance = gold, but new users without that onboarding would easily be turned away by small user counts.
Maybe it's a problem of recent internet culture, but it seems like users have a hard time taking the effort to understand a new interface. Whatever the reason, simplicity that pushes users to understand where they are could be quite helpful.
Agreed. Onboarding and discoverability should be the top priority.
Apps should go as far as to assign new users to a random general instances (lemm.ee, lemmy.one, vlemmy.net etc) if it means users not having to know about instances.
Just joined and am a little confused. I went to the link with all the subs and I favorited a bunch of them, but none of them are showing up in my communities.
If your in Lemmy go to communities link, make sure you select all, then search/browse. You'll need to select one, and from there should see a subscribe button/link. Not sure if your "saving" them or what. Not sure I know what favorite means in your context.
I went to the sub.rehab link and clicked the star to favorite but I guess that didn’t actually subscribe/follow any of those communities.
Also, I’m using wefwef and there doesn’t appear to be a communities tab anywhere.
Apollo appears to have just shut down about 10 minutes ago. I’m going to miss that app.
Same with RIF, it's throwing error 429 now. Well, Reddit Was Fun while it lasted
Have you tried wefwef yet? It makes me feel like Apollo almost never left
Yep. I’m currently on Memmy, Mlem, and wefwef.
Wefwef is the best currently until sync comes out
I’m not the guy you replied to but I just wanted to say thanks for mentioning wefwef. I hadn’t heard of it before but I just looked it up and gave it a try. This app (well, mobile web app) looks amazing! The UI is very similar to Apollo and I think it will help me through this painful transition from Reddit to Lemmy. Thanks again :)
Checking in from Memmy, a beta mobile app that already has some familiar features from Apollo.
I’m going to miss it too amigo, but there’s hope for a bright and federated future for all!
Thank you for having us @pyarra. After years on Reddit (almost all of which using Apollo), I look forward to being here. I've even made a community reminiscent of one of my old favorites and I look forward to finding others!
Another reddit refugee. Used Sync for about a decade so Lemmy was the obvious choice when I heard there would be a sync for Lemmy. I have high hopes
Been chilling out on Mastodon (donphan.social is awesome). Deleted my Reddit account last week-ish and haven’t looked back. Why would I when I have a whole new world to explore? Learning about the fediverse is a lot of fun!
Haha I feel the same! It really does feel like a completely new and unexplored world. Kind of crazy to think that the idea of federation has been around since e-mail, yet only now people are applying it to social media!
Hi! Thank you for approving me!
Currently mixed emotions as I watch Power Delete Suite meticulously destroy my 12 years of reddit history.
201 pages and counting...
Thanks. Not thrilled about this move, but glad to have an alternative
Count me as 1 from Reddit. 11+ years with BaconReader.
I'm in the same boat, I hope u/onelouderchick ports baconreader to Lemmy.
Thanks for having a place for us to come to. 11 year account with Reddit died today.
Thanks for prepping and creating this, you rock!!
Just testing my new account with a comment here.
Thanks for taking the effort, mate!
New user from Reddit here. Someone can explain what instances are?
Think of it like email. You have an account on gmail, i habe an account on yahoo, we can still email each other but we belong to different instances/servers/providers. Thats the most basic way to understand it.
This gives a good explanation.
Thank you, that image explained it perfectly
Thank you, that helped!
Hi, I just wanted to ask if there is any banning going on here if you sub to beehaw? I rad somewhere that noobs, like me, are getting banned for subbing to instances without knowing what's going on.
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