Tomorrow, reddit will be shutting off 3rd party app access. If the twitter migration is anything to go by, that means that the wave of new users coming in the next few weeks will be much bigger than the wave we saw earlier this month.
Our lead techy admin @supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also recovering from broken bones and surgery, so she will be slower to respond to issues :)
All of that being said, we’re as prepared as we can be. We’re currently running our instance on hardware with excess capacity to spare, but who knows if it will be enough.
So, good luck to all of us, and see you on the other side :)
I’m excited to welcome all the reddit refugees!
Hi!
Hello there!
General Max Fury Toad,
Hola!
Welcome!!
reddit refugees
Reddifugees?
Fledditors
lemmigrants
This is the term I’ll be using from now on lol
this is the term I didn’t know I needed
Rexitors
Reddigees
nice to meet you
Eep! Wishing you a speedy recovery, @supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone! Take care of yourself first, we’ll understand if things here go wonky for a bit. 💜
Commenting to help bump this comment up. We’re grateful for the work you provide your community. Take care of yourself and do your best! We’ll all see each other on the other side.
Thanks!
I’m mostly on the mend now and able to tap keys again. Which is timely given the recent Reddit and Twitter happenings!
RedditIsFun is down, so I am out. Used it for the 10 years I was there, and don’t like the “New Reddit” they’ve been creating for monetization-sake.
10 years here as well. Was sad opening it up and seeing nothing, even though I knew it was coming.
Yeah. It’s bittersweet for sure. I used to thoroughly enjoy reddit 5 or so years ago… and at the risk sounding like a crotchety old man, “it’s not as good as it once was!” Things change, and I’m eager to see if lemmy is as good as it is in theory. Federated site sounds so futuristicly positive!
Yup, same. Been on it since 2011 or so. I’m transitioning out of that space. Trying to find the most user-friendly Lemmy experience, atm.
I’m using jerboa, and it’s been… okay, so far. Not a vast array of choices for mobile, but I’m optimistic.
The reddit app I used stopped working yesterday (yes I know why but it’s funnier to pretend I don’t) so here I am! Trying to figure out how lemmy works in the context of the larger fediverse.
Download Wifwif (pwa) and tell your friends. Let’s kill that IPO
Nothing comes up when I Google Wifwif pwa. What is it?
They likely meant wefwef :) It’s a mobile app for lemmy
Should have been clearer. PWA=Progressive Web App. Basically a web page that acts like an app (set a shortcut to your Home Screen)
Look here: https://github.com/aeharding/wefwef
But eacentially go to wefwef.app and save that shortcut to your Home Screen on your phone
I googled that and I didn’t find it, what is that?
Sync has stopped working for me now. Looking forward to the future on Lemmy!
I was gonna keep lurking Reddit until Sync shut down, now I’m on Lemmy. Took me a little bit to figure the platform out tbh, having third party apps for it now seems to be great.
What app do you use? Jerboa isn’t compatible with Blahaj Lemmy (older version).
I like liftoff and wefwef.app but try Jerboa again, either the instance or app must have updated because it’s working for me right now.
There it is!
Thanks.
Yes, blahaj is running 0.18.x now as you can see in the footer on the web version
It’s pretty easy once you figure out where to sign up, and download whichever app you like best. It’s actually pretty flexible imo
Well, rif is gone, so now reddit is too. I hope this place and others on lemmy grow to have vibrant and flourishing communities
I hope so too. There is less content but we all have to aim to grow it.
Yeah, I’ve been a slide user for years. It took me the better part of the day to realize what was going on, I’ll admit. It’s…odd. you can still ‘see’ posts, you just can’t see comments.
Was waiting for Narwhal to break and it never happened. Turns out the dev got a deal to not pay anything until he can release a ‘Narwhal 2’ that’s subscription only. Wasn’t an Apollo user but the dev got shafted and reddit didn’t offer anything close to what the Narwhal dev did. Still deleted my account as planned and deleted their app off my phone.
Yeah I saw that too, spez is a piece of shit, did you also see all the lies he made up about the Apollo dev? It was so childish lol
Yeah. I was following all his posts even though I preferred a different app. fuck spez and fuck the dev of narwhal for being a boot-licker.
Fuck spez, certainly, but I can easily understand why Narwhal’s developer took the deal. I’m sure they invested a huge amount of time and effort into their app and it’s hard to walk away from that when there’s a viable path forward. Apollo’s dev would have probably taken the same deal, had it been on the table. The problem was never that Reddit needed to start charging for API access, it’s that they priced it unreasonably high after assuring devs they wouldn’t and also gave very little notice before those prices took effect.
On that note, jeroba throws an error every time i open it about how this instance is older than the lowest supported version, but it seems like i can still use most of the sites functinality? Just thought i’d mention that
Yep, that’s a screw up by the Jerboa devs. If we upgraded to 0.18 we would lose captcha, and version 0.18.1 with captcha hasn’t been released yet. So there is no way for us to safely upgrade to the version Jerboa wants just yet.
I use Memmy and i have no issues. They’re going to be in the App Store very soon according to changelog
Here’s a link to beta if you’re on iOS
Hey! I just wanted to let you know for linking something, the [] are supposed for the text and the () are for the weblink address.
instead of being [https://testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD](link to beta)
it should be link to beta (I put in the address inside [] and the text inside () )
hope that helps!
Thank you, I tried both ways and memmy wasn’t displaying it so I guess their url feature is coded wrong in this build? Not sure lol.
Anyways thanks!
Jerboa kept crashing on me too. Im giving ‘Connect’ a try. It’s ok - thou Im not a fan of the keyboard or the fact I constantly accidentally collapse threads
Good luck and godspeed admins, and get well soon @supakitty@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Sync died :(
Give Thunder a shot, at least until Sync for Lemmy releases (and stabilizes)
Exciting times! And get well soon Kaity!
Honestly, it’s really hard to say what will happen. I do think there’s gonna be an exodus from reddit, however it’s hard to say where people will go after that. kbin has been coming up in discussions about reddit alternatives, but same with some of the other federated setups. I’ve been searching for the past week for something that looks/feels like reddit and this is the closest thing so far. I will say, hopefully since it’s going down on a Friday, there might be a lull until Monday before people really start coming in.
I included a link to kbin in my “removed” comments.
I really don’t think that many more people are going to switch at this point. Not even sure why so many people think they’d be fine with everything the last two weeks have held, but the actual date of the API change would be the breaking point.
Many simply don’t know about it. I was talking to a friend yesterday. I know he uses Reddit as we share memes and stuff. He said that he had no idea that that was happening. I helped him get onto Lemmy.
I mean, I knew it was probably hopeless that there would be any reversal but I stuck around until a day ago. I imagine that 3rd party app users, especially those who know they hate the official app, will be more likely to emigrate now that most apps cut off today. The only reason I used reddit as much as I did was because of Boost. I’m sure there are plenty of others who feel the same about other apps and stuck around until the end.
As for how many… I’m not sure. I saw a lot of people in 3rd party app subs posting about losing access but of those how many will go to Lemmy? We’ll see I suppose.
Good luck to the admins, and welcome to all the reddit refugees.
The best term I saw yesterday was “Lemmigrants” lmao
It’s a good time to encourage those who can afford it to donate a couple of bucks to your home instance operator for server costs, etc. :)