& 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?
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.
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.
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.
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 :-)
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.
I started on Jerboa but I tried Liftoff and I actually like it much better.
You are on iOS right? Because I can’t find Liftoff on any Android store.
You can get it here: Lifoff Github
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.”
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
Yep its jerboa for me
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
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.
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.
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.
Killing Bacon Reader was a deal breaker for me. Not looking back at all.
Former RIF user here. I rather not use reddit than use the official spyware app
I deleted my account once Sync stopped working. So glad Ljdawson is switching it over to lemmy
Can’t wait until sync for lemmy is a thing lol
Can’t wait until sync for lemmy is a thing lol
I have been trying Jerboa. No real complaints about the app, I just want to see the more niche spaces get more activity
I’ve been using Jerboa as well and I find it crashes quite a bit. When I hit back, or the back arrow it’ll just shut down. I’ll give it a fair shot, tho.
Same, i’m on Connect for Lemmy now. I’ve heard about wefwef but I’m not sure what exactly the deal is or how to set it up.
You just go to wefwef.app
Easiest set up of 'em all lol
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
Check out wefwef, jerboa and Connect as well.
Many more to come in the near future.
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.
You could still follow the headlines from lemmit.online
Thanks I didn’t know about that one. I’m still new with the Fediverse.
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.
2-3 major updates a day.
as a QA Manager that makes me deeply nervous
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.
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.
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
Yeah, but they’re really weirdly restrictive about fictional porn.
If you’re talking about loli, that was banned on Reddit too.
More like gore/dubcon stuff. Plenty of gore subs, and theres more dubcon than you can shake a stick at. And the niche stuff still isn’t there.
