Its been one day without Reddit

& 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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Yeah Lemmy seems the way forward. It just sucks for all the subs that won't be making it here anytime soon. Niche subs I'm following for example, I'll still have to rely on Reddit.

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- There's definitely a period of transition. I didn't expect to completely jump ship since I replied so heavily on reddit for community information and general news. However Lemmy does look really promising.
  
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  It does actually. I'm creating a community for one of the subreddits I was a part of, hopefully more people will join and fully migrate from Reddit.
  
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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.

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- 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.
  
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  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.
  
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  I honestly feel like there is more engagement here. Most Reddit threads were like telling into the wind. By the time you got there it was almost always too late to contribute
  
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- 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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It is quite sad and yet at the same time also an exciting time. I was on Reddit for 9 years and it has kind of become the internet for me.

I myself was 99% only a passive user, so I have contributed nothing to the value of the site. But the site itself had a lot to offer for me.

But I also realized that Reddit, the platform itself, hardly provides anything relevant.

I probably would never have used Reddit much without a 3rd party app, I also use it exclusively on mobile.

For me, the value of the site comes exclusively from the content, i.e. the community. And fortunately, that's something Reddit has no direct control over.

I realize, of course, that not everyone will be here now in 6 months instead of on Reddit, but it doesnt matter.

I think the majority of users are like me rather passive, but more important are the active users of the community.

It is much more important to have these pillars of the community on board, as they will sooner or later ensure that something new is created that will then attract the larger number of passive users.

And I think it's this usergroup that has angered Reddit for the most part. These are power users who probably all use 3rd party apps.

Nevertheless, many will of course stay, if you have put a lot of work and heart and soul into building up your community/subreddit for years, letting go is of course much harder than for someone like me.

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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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I used Boost Android app for Reddit and now moved to WefWef. It's already really good and looking very promising for the future considering the speed at which it is evolving

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I'm happy that boost for Reddit is still working, but I know that once boost for lemmy is released I'll never look back at reddit. Fuck u/spez for how he treated his users

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I've only tried one Lemmy app so far, Jerboa. It's fine...

I'm still struggling with the muscle memory of opening baconreader pretty much all the time. I spent some time on Reddit too, on my PC, and it's kinda bland.... Since everyone seems to be here. But this place is still ramping up, so I'm interested to see what happens in the coming weeks.

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So far Jerboa has been the best one for me, I tried wefwef but wasn't a big fan (and couldn't work out how to uncensor NSFW content across the board, very annoying haha).

But Boost is coming out at some point! I'm really looking forward to it!! <3

So far I'm doing okay, just tough with how slow everything runs and all the network errors and stuff, but it's early days so I'm patient :-)

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- I'm on Jerboa as well and enjoy it. I'm just not sure whether I'm missing the larger picture or it's just not robust enough yet.
  
  Either way, I find I'm not missing much.
  
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  I started on Jerboa but I tried Liftoff and I actually like it much better.
  
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Honestly, I'm pretty excited about being a "pioneer" (sorry to those who have been here for longer). I never commented much on Reddit, but plan to contribute more here.

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I'm here on the fediverse via Jerboa. I agree it's definitely deterring me from using the official Reddit app!

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- I'd been using Baconreader for about 10 years, and I'm blown away at how easy the transition has been. Still don't fully understand the fediverse (made my account yesterday lol), but this post was really helpful for getting started!
  
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The only thing I really miss from Reddit is the cryptocurrency mainreddit and the subreddits. Lemmy is definitely going to be amazing once other like-minded individuals migrate to lemmy.

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- I never quite understood the appeal of the crypto subreddits. They all felt like dark pits filled entirely with grifters, and the analyses often reflected that. Finding a diamond in the rough insight was all I used it for. I’d love to learn whether I missed something.
  
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Wefwef made all the difference. While I know it’s not Reddit the similarities in experience have made the move much easier.

Also amazing to see the beginning of all of these new communities!

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- Wefwef is definitely worth
  
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Yep its jerboa for me

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I have been using Wefwef and Memmy, and I’m not sure what I prefer, as they’re quite similar, but I think Wefwef is edging it out for me. It feels a little better.

I’m still on Reddit at the moment because some of the niche communities I’m into just don’t have a lot going on here. For instance, I love wrestling, I’m part of three wrestling communities on here, and Reddit still has more going on.

That said, I’m looking to get off Reddit completely sooner than later. Still finding all my communities. I don’t expect this place to get as big as Reddit, but I do want to see a little more activity.

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Honestly, I really want to use Lemmy, but the performance of Lemmy.world is almost a deal-breaker. Comments and posts don't load half the time, sometimes typing can even be slow wefwef. I feel like I've made my bed with lemmy.world and don't really want to make accounts on different instances in the hope of getting usable performance.

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- Move to a different instances
  
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  Can you move an existing account and the community subscriptions between instances?
  
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I moved over here a while ago. Doing great so far, loving the community, though I'm doing a lot of lurking at the moment cause I have to keep reinstalling my app for testing.

Currently using thunder, working on contributing to the project cause I liked the early alpha so much. New updates come frequently, looks nice, functions great, cross platform.

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- Try WefWef (wefwef.app URL) and Liftoff. Awesome apps!
  
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  I have tried both, at this point I think I've tried every client on Android. I kept circling back to Thunder. I liked it so much I started contributing to it. Gets better every day.
  
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I’ve been using wefwef too (and I’m also an Apollo refugee). Liking it so far, even if I am very confused about how a lot of this works. I hope the Lemmy community continues to grow!

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- This isn't the best example, but helped me a lot in understanding it (mostly) It works kind of like E-mail. Each instance is like an email provider. Lemmy.world, beehaw, lemmy.ml, ect are kind of like gmail, yahoo mail, and outlook. So the instance you signed up for is your "lemmy provider" as if Google is your email provider. Now when you email people, you can email to any other provider (yahoo, outlook, etc) and vice versa. They are all similar services but different providers, but they all work together so any person can email any other person. They are federated - one big services, but each provider has its own autonomy in deciding rules, features, etc. So most instances can work with other instances to share information/posts. But not all. Some have deferdeated form others and don't share posts/information. As if yahoo said they we're no longer accepting emails from google. So gmail user's emails would not get sent to Yahoo mail users, but others, like outlook, would. You would say they defederated from google. Much like beehaw did from lemmy.world.
  
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  I think that’s a pretty good analogy. One of the things I’m still struggling with is how communities work across instances. If I follow casual conversations on one instance, will I see posts on that community from other instances? Or do I have to follow each individual instance of that community? As I’m trying to find new communities to follow, I often get confused if I’m already following a specific community or which instance I should choose to follow it on.
  
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Finally glad reddit is dying

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- the bigger they are...
  
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  the harder they fall.
  
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using connect rn, it's pretty good looking but a bit buggy, i guess i'm waiting for updates!

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- Yeah same, but I was having the login issues on the site on mobile, just could not log in. Using Connect on Android and I can finally interact with you fine folks! ~~ Good Vibes ~~
  
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15 year club on reddit. I've parted a few weeks ago and not coming back.

I hope lemmy gets good and better content.

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- 14 year club. Also not going back to mobile browsing Reddit. I was a baconreader user for more than a decade. RES and old.reddit seems unaffected so far but Connect for Lemmy is working well. Happy to see some traction here.
  
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  Wiped my 13 year account a few days ago and haven't gone back to Reddit since RIF died. I'm mostly just waiting for one of the apps (Sync or Boost for Lemmy) to come out to do a full replacement; for now I'm just mobile browsing here.
  
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Killing Bacon Reader was a deal breaker for me. Not looking back at all.

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- Former RIF user here. I rather not use reddit than use the official spyware app
  
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  I deleted my account once Sync stopped working. So glad Ljdawson is switching it over to lemmy
  
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It's tough, I'll be honest. I can't completely wrap my head around lemmy, I'm confused about seeing communities I never subrscibed to (and some I wish I didn't have to see), and can't fully understand how it works. It also just.. doesn't have the same things I used to follow, or at least I can't get them to show up. I'm struggling, and honestly don't know what to do with all that empty time. I guess it really was an addiction.

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- This was shared with me my first day & really helped a lot!
  
  Also, one of the first things I noticed when I created my account & searching for communities was that you can actually block a community. If you didn't want to see it, is all. I just thought that was pretty awesome considering how many times I wanted to on Reddit but couldn't.
  
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I like Summit best of the three apps I've tried (Lemmy and Thunder being the other two). It's a pretty bare bones layout and style of navigation, which I prefer.

As for missing reddit, well... it seems like most of the community spirit/attitude was slipping away following the API changes. I'm hoping to find it again here and I like what I see so far!

Edit: yeah no, wefwef blows the rest out of the water, fr

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- Check out wefwef, jerboa and Connect as well.
  
  Many more to come in the near future.
  
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  Yeah I’m using WEFWEF, I like the Apollo vibe. Somehow I don’t miss Reddit that much. There is only one subreddit I missed. It is r/Ukraine as I don’t to find that much up to date info on Fediverse. I will open a telegram account to feed the fedi-communities. Hopefully there are some Ukranian/Russian speakers in here to help with translation.
  
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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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- 2-3 major updates a day.
  
  as a QA Manager that makes me deeply nervous
  
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I never used any Reddit app other than the official one but I wanted to check out Lemmy as an alternative and I’ve gotta say, I’m liking it a lot so far! I’m on wefwef as well and it’s a pretty good experience. I’ll probably start contributing to some of the communities I’m interested in to help them grow and hopefully the growth continues across the platform!

I’m also looking into hosting my own instance, I might work on getting that set up in the next couple weeks.

Only issue I’ve seen is that it’s been a little slow here and there, but I understand that it’s in the growing pains stage so I’m not too worried.

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It feels so weird without my easy access to niche porn. Like I can get porn anywhere, but some of that niche stuff, it's hard to find that stuff again.

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- Have you browsed the lemmynsfw.com communities?
  
  Porn May do better on Lemmy than Reddit in the long run. Advertisers don’t like porn.
  
  Edit: you may need to logged in to that instance to see the communities? Lemmy explorer helps NSFW communities
  
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  Yeah, but they're really weirdly restrictive about fictional porn.
  
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I've actually been struggling. I used Rif for at least 12 years or so. I've noticed that my hand involuntarily moves to the spot the icon used to be when my mind wanders. I feel like this says more about me than anything, so I'm currently trying to find a healthier way to handle down time.

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- I put duolingo where the RiF app was earlier in preparation. Figured I should replace my reddit time with something productive.
  
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  Oh dang, I just noticed I don't get notifications when folks respond to my comments. Anyways, that's a really great idea! I'm currently learning rust and I wish there was something like that. Maybe I could create a hello world app that is just a meme reminding me to hit the books!
  
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