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& 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?

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[-] depressed_submissive@lemmy.fmhy.ml 254 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] pezmaker@sh.itjust.works 122 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] ArcheryCole@lemmy.world 106 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] KuchiKopi@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago

Howdy!

In recognition of your contribution to the community, I present you with the coveted Lemmy Lemon award.

🍋

[-] adamantris@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

Please let's make the Lemmy Lemon award an unofficially official thing. After reading that I want people to use it more

[-] AlternActive@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Let's make it a wheel of cheese. Gotta keep the french happy or they riot 😅

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[-] Bushwhack@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago
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[-] kfj55@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

As a former reddit lurker, I like the more low-key engagement here. It feels more welcoming.

[-] WorldlyIntrospection@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

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[-] adamantris@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

I also didn't even bother engaging on Reddit at all, but doing so on Lemmy feels way more worth it for some reason

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[-] SpaceToast@mander.xyz 17 points 2 years ago

One thing I certainly don’t miss from Reddit is the top voted comment is always some lame pun or some tired phrase that has been repeated a thousand times before.

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[-] sudo@lemmy.fmhy.ml 42 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] awderon@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] simo@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

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!

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[-] Tanel@lemmy.world 90 points 2 years ago

Mlem and Memmy are quite tolerable

[-] HolyDiver@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago

I tried both but decided to go with memmy, but each are great choices.

[-] CoffeePooPoo@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

Yeah I’m loving Memmy. The new update has been great.

[-] simplecyphers@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Haha. Yeah. Daily updates tend tk Improve things quickly (if there is community support/communication, which it has)

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[-] hamsalamibacon@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

Same. Both have their quirks but Memmy seems more polished overall.

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[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Liftoff app is my favorite at the moment. Very responsive and handle well multiple account.

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[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Yeah so far it’s Memmy for me as well. I don’t mind wefwef or Mlem but Memmy is just doing a little more for me. There are some features in the others that I wished they would implement

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[-] heliumlake@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago

I'm very happy this space is flourishing. Lots of organic conversation and increased engagement. My only hope is that this revolt against corporate social media will be sustained. I would love to see this turn in to an existential threat to the companies selling our data and privacy to the highest-bidding advertiser.

[-] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

The fediverse faces structural issues of its own, but they're different issues than corporate social media, which gives me a lot of hope that they can outlive them. I really want Lemmy and Mastodon to become the norm, they would be much healthier online spaces for everyone.

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[-] Hyrulian@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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!

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[-] Doherz@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

I knew I had an issue with the amount of time I spent on Reddit.

But good lord the repeated opening of Reddit Sync to no avail over the past days really driven home just how much I just defaulted to Reddit in any dead time.

[-] Fezz@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

I had to delete RIF because of how many times I just get auto opening it.

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[-] Mojeezy@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

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.”

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[-] Stefh@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

I'm loving the fediverse. I have to thank Reddit to make me discovering it!

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[-] LeHappStick@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

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?

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[-] WorldlyIntrospection@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

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!

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[-] MrShelbySan@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

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!

[-] simo@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

It just had an update that fixed it, something to do with lemmy.world’s recent update.

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[-] itadakimasu@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

95% of posts that contain active discussion and more than 3 comments are about Lemmy and/or Reddit implosion. I would love to see a pivot to more engagement in other subjects. I do enjoy reading about lemmy and participating in the discussion, but would be good to see the users disperse a little bit :)

[-] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 years ago

Start to find your niche communities and contribute. Everyone complains that c/all has so many posts about reddit migration, but my subscribed feed has hundreds of posts all relating to content and communities I want to engage with.

Like reddit, it takes a while to curate your Lemmy subscribed feed to have content you want to engage with. But the more we all create the communities we want to see and contribute to them the more the site develops a well rounded content stream.

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[-] drekly@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

As a new user, I'm finding it weird how everything seems so fragmented. Why join a [...subreddit] (what are they called here?) on one channel/server rather than another? Surely it just breaks up the user base and makes it harder to have everyone in one place.

Also, I find it weird how everything is on different servers from a user point of view - where do I make my account? I made mine on Lemmy.world, but what if I should be somewhere else?

The apps help slightly, but there's still confusion with local/all and seeing the server everything is hosted on.

I feel like it's a difficult sell to the more casual user and will make it much harder to have Lemmy as a true successor to Reddit.

There needs to be a way to obfuscate this information to a casual user and have an account in one place, with 'subreddits' in one place, so Lemmy is just Lemmy and you only learn more about the infrastructure if you want to.

[-] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Not trying to sound trite, but you’ll get used to it fast. I’ve been here since the day the protests started and haven’t been back to Reddit since. Watching this community grow by leaps and bounds over 3 weeks has been amazing and wonderful.

Don’t worry about which instance you’re on, it’s largely unimportant except in extreme cases (such as the nazi edge lord instance that just got defederated from the lemmy.world instance).

Spend a few minutes going through the communities list and subscribe to everything that interests you even a little bit. Bam, there’s your front page. Now sit back and enjoy higher quality discussions and content than that other place has had in a while. And it gets better every day.

[-] morelikepinniped@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

You're not wrong, but as someone who has mostly adapted to the fediverse in the last 2 weeks after 15 years on Reddit, I remember a time when reddit was considered too complicated for the "casual" user. Lemmy is in its infancy right now and I think if one is the kind of person who is an early adopter, it will be very appealing to be in the first stages of the journey. I found my early years on Reddit to be much more rewarding and filled with joy than my later years because it felt more niche and close-knit in a way.

Also, subreddits are called communities here and you should join as many as are of interest! Just like a user could create multiple competing subreddits (looking at you /r/meirl, /r/me_irl, /r/2meirl4meirl), the good ones will take off and others may die off, or might just add additional content to the pool, which is a good thing.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Its been one day without Reddit

It's been one week since you looked at me, cocked your head to the side and said, "I'm angry."

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[-] AssPennies@lemmy.one 15 points 2 years ago

Have you found an App for Lemmy that you prefer the most yet?

I'm using firefox on desktop and the UI looks awesome, no RES necessary.

One of the most impressive things to me: I've got ublock origin up and there are zero things being blocked! I'm so jaded of the years that I expect every website to have something blocked.

[-] ediculous@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Currently using Liftoff but can't wait for Sync to release.

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[-] smoll_pp_operator@vlemmy.net 15 points 2 years ago

I'm enjoying Connect for Lemmy, however I need pointers on how to get more content for my lemmy front page.

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[-] Amazed@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

I visited Reddit for 16 years. RIF on android then Slide on iOS. Slow to learn how Lemmy works.

Guess I shouldn’t be surprised the site’s burned. But it’s an adjustment - with how often I check my (now broken) app mindlessly, I actually think the scummy CEO did me a favor!

Wefwef as a web app is really really good. I’m also enjoying liftoff! App for iOS.

[-] simo@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

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[-] rDrDr@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Wefwef is incredible. I've never seen a web app that's even half as technically impressive, and it gets 2-3 major updates a day. Huge hats off to the devs.

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[-] Gorbachof@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

I like that I have yet to encounter the N-word unlike some other "reddit alternatives"

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