To all the new(er) Reddit refugees!

Thanks! When does it start?

First time posting after 9 solid years on Reddit. Thanks for the welcome

First time I've seen a comment so good that not only does it get upvotes, it has a negative number of downvotes,
Anyone know how that is even possible?
- Science and fuckery
- I downvoted you. No one else had any downvotes; please let me know if it registered. I don't want vote fuckery like they have on reddit.
- It's been very common in my 3 weeks on Lemmy, it's probably more common to see 100% upvotes.
- Now time to do the same thing here hahaha! Reddit 2:.the quest for more money. Seriously when is that movie coming out?
Locals only! Haole go home!
It feels great, doesn’t it? ☺️

I am here now. Just signed up. Mod of /r/bicycling, /r/sanfrancisco, and a few other smaller subs. The whole thing is a mess right now, so I wanted to see if there are greener pastures here. Any tips are welcome. I literally have no idea what I'm doing.

#fediverse is nicer then reddit. Dosen't have that superiority complex!

When will we get our own persistently-broken video player? That's super important for my quality use experience.

Bathroom's that way.

I wasn't thrilled at the idea of leaving Reddit after 14 years but some things cannot be avoided. My first post here on Lemmy. Thank you for the warm welcome!

@Axxi
Things seem to be better here anyways. Being able to interact with people across different platforms (I'm replying to your comment through Mastodon because it works and it's cool 😎) really does make it feel like "the world of tomorrow" to me

I've been here a week or two now. It's going better than Voat did for me when I last tried to leave Reddit. That was full of alt-right crazies basically, but so far here, people have been lovely.

This seems like the first thing with enough critical mass to get going, what with reddit and twitter sulimultaneously imploding faster than a poorly constructed submersible craft. It's not driven by political outrage so much as the old platforms making themselves unusable and forcing healthy users off their platforms.
We have communists on the other end of the spectrum here

Rest in peace RIF. I was honestly heartbroken. I know how sad that must sound, but goddamn, I used it daily for 6 years. It made my office hours and daily commute on the subway so much better.

Yeah man I used RIF as my only reddit access for 12 years. So when reddit was going hard with avatars, rewards and ads, I was immune to it. I think that's partially why 3rd parties were cut out. I did the revanced reddit app, but it still feels gross.
I've been full-time on a Lemmy for nearly a month already and haven't really missed the other place at all. But damn, seeing that goodbye message on RIF yesterday filled me with emotions that were weird and deeply confusing.

Wandering around, RiFless, looking for something to do on the internet.

Connect for Lemmy seems like a pretty good app so far, feels decently similar to RIF.

My goodness me. This place rocks. Like the way the internet used to be. Fuck corporate greed. Fuck ads. Fuck egocentric dictatorships. And hello to The Future.

Is there a currency equivalent to Reddit gold here? What’s the point of this if I can’t say “Thanks for the gold kind stranger” ???

So many people joined, which is amazing

We are all out here in the ether together brothers!

Really hope this takes off and remains open and non-commercial.

I already like the vibe of this place more, at least socially. The site is a bit cumbersome but I'm willing to stick with it to see how it can get better. Plus Sync for Lemmy will be coming and then my life will be fixed.

Thanks, so far Lemmy is looking like an interesting place with good vibes all round!

Honestly seeing all the corpos ruining the platforms that are what they are because millions of people contributed to them. Youtube, Reddit, Twitter, etc. give so much power to their owners yet they don't realize it past their next dollar. I think internet should have always been a fediverse instead of what it has become.

It's nice to be wanted.

Incoming user from reddit! My app got shut down. I was salty about it so I decided that I was going to find an alternative, rather than use the official app, and I found lemmy! I like the community vibe so far. I'm still figuring out how different communities and instances work together with federating. I was always more of a lurker on reddit, but I might try to become a more active commenter (for community engagement!)

First post here!

As a former Apollo user, I’m super impressed by wefwef. Does anyone know what’s in store for its development? I’d love to see a native iOS app.

The dev of WefWef is aiming for feature parity with Apollo and they're updating it super often.
Welcome!
Memmy !memmy@lemmy.ml is quite good, a native app. Mlem !mlemapp@lemmy.ml feels more like Apollo than Memmy but isn't quite as far along as Memmy.

Reddit was fun but the admins are insane, I reported an account that was posting CP and they banned me whilst claiming they took action against that account yet it is still up. Classy.

What's to stop a single Lemmy instance from going "this is taking too much time and money to run, I'm shutting this server down"? I guess that can apply to any service, but monetization sometimes prevents that from happening. But in this case it's all volunteer work and running a server takes resources.

What happens to all the users created under that Lemmy instance?

If it happened right now, we'd need to go make new accounts on a new instance to keep accessing content. Of course, content hosted on the disappeared instance would also be gone, which is another reason spreading everyone out onto smaller instances is a good idea to avoid one central server holding 90% of the good content.
What we have on Mastodon is an easy way to migrate account from one instance to another, so I'm hopeful a similar feature will be added here in due time once the devs have everything a bit more stable. The added complication with Lemmy of course is that we'd also need a way to migrate communities or at least the content thereof, but I've seen various discussions of how that could work so it is something that they're thinking about already.
Ultimately, don't get permanently attached to content you put out on the internet, because if this sounds terrifyingly precarious to you you probably weren't online in the early 2000s when that's just sort of how things worked. Somehow we thrived anyway!

Closed Reddit account and embarking on this new adventure with lemmy.

Hello everyone! Thank you to everyone working to keep servers running during this influx of signups and all the helpful posts I'm seeing around explaining instances and generally how to Lemmy.

First post! 🤸

Where is my can of beans?

Hello. Glad to be here. I'm not going back to reddit, they nuked Sync for Reddit and I refuse to use reddit app.

This atmosphere has good vibe. Goodbye RIF, hello Lemmy 👋

Hey, hello community this is my first comment on Lemmy, good to see you all.

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Wait... Where am I? I'm getting withdrawal symptoms. 11 years wandering the Reddit... I'm lost, a little confused, possibly afraid.

Woo

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- Reddit did us a favor by forcing us to find the fediverse and jump in

Well it was a good ride at Reddit. I was using Reddit since since 2006 as a lurker. Lemmy is now my home. Hi all!

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Thanks for the warm welcome! I used Apollo since 2018 and I was disappointed with how reddit treated Christian.

Heelo there

Ahoy future worlds of magic and mystery!

Cheers! Here's hoping for a bright future!

Redditor here. Feeling a little lost and confused. :)

Hang in there. Explore. It will become familiar...

Good news everyone! I’ve just smelled out an entirely new parallel dimension called the fediverse

I'm going to build my own Reddit, with blackjack and hookers!

Add in Whiskey and you’ll have the perfect trifecta of vice!
Welcome! Where do I sign up?

Hi there everyone!

12yr Reddit account being abandoned cause of all the fuckery. Happy to be a Lemming now

After a year I went back and tried using Reddit again, wow, what an absolute shit show. That site got noticeably worse.

I had an account there for 8 years with no issue, and this time around I was perma banned after a week cause the mods have really gone off the deep end.

Most threads are filled with Ai comments that all say basically the same thing, and if your comment differs you're banned. You can't have a discussion there anymore

Thank you for the warm welcome. Any tips and tricks for us Reddit refugees?

This all reminds me of the big Digg migration. Reddit likes to think that people chose it because it was special. For a good majority of us, especially the 10+ year accounts, it was Digg's terrible redesign and very poor product decisions. The nail in the coffin was not understanding its core content producing users willingness to move. History repeats itself.

I was a Digg! refugee.

Hi, all! This is my first comment on Lemmy. I’m exited to be here!

It’s sad watching Reddit go the way of the dodo, but I’m happy to see everyone come together to give the big ole fuck you to u/spez in solidarity and migrate over when they effectively broke Apollo and the other 3pd apps

Hiii im here from reddit but, when i tried to post the post has been being uploaded for the past 2 hours, also loading communities and upvoting has been EXTREMELY slow ;'D

btw this is a hella cool site

Yeah looks like lemmy.world is slow today. Not surprised due to the influx of users. Ruud and the team has been working on it diligently the last couple of weeks, expanding hardware, writing code, fixing bugs, etc. Please be patient as we grow!

I've only been here for two weeks and already have seen major improvements. Thankful to the admins for their hard work, and glad to see the wonderful people here contributing to this platform's awesome growth. Loving it here and wishing continued success to the fediverse :)

First comment on Lemmy. Is there a ELI5 for Lemmy to help get us started? I'm using the Connect Lemmy app!

Best I can say is that you have your local server, which is the server you originally signed up in. You then have all the rest of the connected (federated) servers that can see what you say.
Each server is its own mini-lemmy, so it is broken down into communities just like subreddits. Each has its own server administrators and each community has its own moderators.
Regarding content delivery, it seems to be about the same process: a link, image, video, or text from a certain community. The responses are similarly threaded with buttons for interaction.
The largest differences I have seen are that each server instance can have duplicate communities. Different servers have different tolerances for communities. In extreme cases, whole servers can be blocked (defederated) from your server. This is usually due to unwanted behavior from the users that is not curbed by the moderators or extreme communities that cause hardship for other users.
This is what I got after about a week of lurking. If I'm not correct, please let me know.

Apollo refugee here! Let’s hope this sticks because I lost all trust in Reddit.

Here we go.

Still trying to figure this Lemmy thing out. I have an account with Lemmy.World, but I can still post/view other instances if they are shared? Anyways now that RiF is gone, guess I'm done with Reddit. Glad to be here!

Yes, instances share data. It's called federation. Nice intro to how all this works: https://github.com/amirzaidi/lemmy
- That github link is totally fkn excellent. Thanks.

My first lemmy comment

Me too! I was on reddit for about 15 years, passed through some stories there. I hope we have a lot of cool safes to open here. At the end, We should´ve come before. This is the model of internet we should encourage, but reddit was too confortable for anything else. Now is the time! The funny thing is that I neve spent money on reddit, but I already signed up for donations here.

Good News everyone! I do feel welcomed into the future, this is my first post. I finally got signed up after I found wefwef and knew it was the missing link and now I could enjoy the fediverse.

I didn’t even try going to the official app. Oh my no.

Spiderman: Into The Fediverse

To all my Apollo refugees that are struggling with the interface. wefwef.app is basically a clone of Apollo for this site. The name is shity but it works great!

By "this site" you mean Lemmy, I take it? Kbin apps are all still in early testing stages, as far as I'm aware.
- Yeah, judging by the fact that I'm not seeing an @ on their profile, they're a lemmy.world user, like me.

Just signed up a few hours ago and trying to get a feel of the place. Looking good so far :)

Commenting to count. Also, hi ^^

My first comment on Lemmy!

Here from RiF! First post on Lemmy, here's to a bright future ^^

Cant see comments, fixed it! It was an adblocker

Rip Rif. Hello Lemmy.

NGL

it doesn't feel great, but change is never easy. but this thing is pretty damn cool

I think registration finally worked this time. Good news, everyone!

What's fediverse?

It's the collection of various softwares/sites/platforms that are all able to interact due to operating on the same underlying technology.
Lemmy is part of the Fediverse. Mastodon is also and users there can follow and post in Lemmy communities despite being a totally different thing. Kbin is another Reddit-like, it and Lemmy coexist pretty seamlessly.
And there are so so many more. Fediverse alternatives to FB, Insta, YT, Linktree, etc etc etc.
You'll also hear "Threadiverse" which is what people have taken to calling that part of the Fediverse that focuses on forum thread type discussions (ie Lemmy and Kbin mainly).
- Thanks for the explanation. How connected are the platforms? As a new Lemmy user, if I search for a particular community to join, am I seeing the same content that someone from Mastodon would? Or is it more that Lemmy is capable of reading Mastodon content but we're not sharing the same content by default?
  I'm finding it a little hard to find the words to even ask this question haha, I'm still a little confused. This all looks nice so far though!

RIF user here also, hope to stay here - testing lemmy apps now

I'm a RiF user as well, and I just downloaded Connect while I wait for the Boost app. I'm liking it so far. I needed to do a little testing with the settings, but I didn't really make many changes. (Just changed the theme and turned off the card style)

I sense a real opportunity for the Fediverse off the back of Reddit and third party apps porting across.

If the UX (user experience) is similar then it'll more than likely pull people across.

So far the communities have been extremely friendly and it is a breath of fresh air

i work in digital product and UX strategy/design, and it's my dream to put together a ragtag design and development team to build experiences that make migrating to the Fediverse intuitive and enjoyable for all. it's time to remind these social media companies how fragile their power is.

Finally made an account. Super excited. Reddit immediately started to just feel like it was in a decline, something about logging onto it felt off

Same here, plus them killing our apps? I just couldn't support them after that. I used boost and continuing to use the site after they killed it and basically gave all of us the middle finger felt like some sucker shit.

Testing Lemmy using my browser, what’s the best app?

boost for lemmy is coming soon on google play store (at least to G play store) Very similar to boost for reddit we had before. Will personally probably install it.
I am currently enjoying wefwef, jerboa, and thunder the best. Liftoff is good, but not connecting with all instances (lemm.ee, etc). I have tried connect, not my style. Personally am waiting for Sync, was my favorite on reddit.

I was told there would be an omelet bar for Reddit refugees.

What Apps are people using? Wefwef?

Connect for Lemmy is the closest thing I've found to RIF.
Running Connect for Lemmy here on Android. It seems nice and minimalist. I was a little dissuaded from trying Jerboa with some of the negative reviews.
- Fiddling with a few settings in Connect has given me a close enough experience to RIF which is great.

Thank you for the kind greeting. I really am a refugee in more ways than just leaving Reddit.

(Gives virtual hug and cookies)

Glory to forwardlooker!

Glory to forwardgoer!

Our path is from present

To stellar future.

Glory to forwardlooker(Слава вперёдсмотрящему)

Edit: fix translation

Happy to be here!

Continues to eat cheesy broccoli

I remember surfing chans back in the day. I've missed it, but life gets busy. I hated reddit for a long told, but it had so much good information on there and such good third party apps that I caved and it became my favorite thing to do while shitting. I just found out about Lemmy and it feels like I slipped on an old broken-in glove. Thanks for the welcome. After the toxicity of reddit, this is nice.