👋 to all the newcomers, let me know if you need any help getting settled in!
Joining the party as RIF kicks the bed :')
Rif has been reddit for me for the past 10 ish years now, opened the app today to see error 429.
Good to be here :)
Gonna miss RIF.
Yup. Little pang of sadness seeing it finally gone. I got years of procrastination out of that app.
Me too.
Very sad to say goodby to RIF after 9 years. Lets get this party started and I got some learning to do in this new environment.
Sync for android here
The Dev from Sync announced a new Lemmy app it’s actually a WIP. Just wait a few weeks.
And it’s out now :) It works brilliantly, as you’d expect.
I’m missing baconreader :(
Same. Would love to see them make a lemmy app
damnshame.gif
You’re all the technology-savvy intelligent ones who figured out Lemmy right away, months ago. I was trying to get into Lemmy even before July 1st but finally figured it out today November 10th! I finally got into Lemmy today. It was nearly as difficult as applying & repeatedly being rejected for competitive employment somewhere. sheesh.
My first post as a refugee! Glad this place is here to fill the void.
Welcome, Bill!
Baby Steps to Lemmy, Baby steps to the comments, baby Steps to the post. -Dr. Leo Marvin
Guess I’ll piggy-back; This is my first post/comment here as well. I came from Apollo (long time subscriber & beta tester). I think the grass will be greener… bring on the refugees and Boost for Lemmy (Maybe one day Apollo? One can dream)!
If you came from Apollo, than you can jump back on Apollo. Sorta.
Thank you; It’s currently down, but I like its UI. I’ve been beta testing Memmy for Lemmy on iOS, and so far I really enjoy it! I have Apollo up and running actually, but I haven’t used it as much since I found Memmy.
Edit: Spelling
I came over when the blackout started and it already feels more like home than Reddit has in years. Reddit slowly got more and more toxic/up its own ass as time went on…… like do you remember the episode of South Park where Kyle’s family moves to San Francisco? It was the Prius episode…. All the folks in San Fran sat around all day getting high and sniffing their own farts. That’s how Reddit has felt recently.
This change has been a long time coming I think, fuckin spez just threw some gas on a fire to try and make a quick buck.
Welcome!
You don’t have to live like that. Like a refugee.
💖 to everybody who’s making this possible. There’s hoping that all the traffic can be managed
Speaking of traffic, if I were interested in running my own federate, what can I expect in terms of loading and where is the content actually stored, my single instance or distributed? I see the reqs. on RAM and CPU utilization but I’m actually more curious about usage data.
It depends on many parameters. Data from your users is stored locally. But then you have federation: every time one of your users subscribes to a community of another instance, your instance will cache it locally. You can manage how much cache it uses, but the cache is there of a reason.
Where did you find the CPU and RAM utilization data?
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/administration.html
Lemmy uses roughly 150 MB of RAM in the default Docker installation. CPU usage is negligible.
I was in denial about Apollo going dark and naturally when I woke up at 2am I had to spend 2 hours finding & getting lemmy & wefwef setup.
Bye bye reddit!
Hah, me right now when I should’ve been asleep long ago. I tried to open RIF as usual, realized it really happened, and then spent the last hour or two trying to understand this site and make an account and whatnot. I was only partially successful on the former, but at least I made it here!
Welcome to the family, son
Thanks, dad.
Goodbye Reddit is Fun, hello Lemmy
I used Relay for Reddit for over 10 years. I just opened it to find it still working. Apparently the Dev is working out a pricing model with Reddit and it is continuing to work. I wish him the best of luck but sadly I’m not goning to be paying.
Plus you can’t see nsfw content which a lot of non-porn content still gets marked as
Same, I uninstalled Relay today expecting their app to shutdown soon.
Giving this a shot after RIF died on me. Fuck Spez. I hope this takes off.
From the detritus of the old generation, the new generation shall emerge.
Fuckin waste of time that reddit.
May we all bask in our new waste of time: Lemmy
ALL HAIL \o/
So long RIF. So long Reddit.
Rest in peace, RIF. Rest in piss, spez.
You betta not piece on the table!
I joined 2 weeks ago, I technically am a migrant lol but I feel like a veteran already .
WELCOME REDDITORS!
Tell us about the before-times, gramps!
We used to struggle without our beloved pre built subreddits!
We had to pray to our instance develop lords with praise for giving us space!
Fr fr tho this experience is historical and I’m learning just as much as you! I learn if there’s a community missing that you used to frequent, make it yourself!
I ended up making !onepiece@lemm.ee to fill my GOAT manga needs
Second ever comment here. I watched Apollo shut down live, went to sleep and then immediately tried opening it up again after waking up, out of habit - girlfriends still asleep and I got so used to browsing Reddit for a bit before we get up on weekends, it has become muscle memory.
Using Wefwef currently and it’s nice, awesome work especially for a web app.
Wow. Wefwef is really great. Thanks for making me aware of it.
Mlem also looks like Apollo
It’s 2am here and I just did exactly the same thing with rif. Gonna take some getting used to…
Give it an hour or so
that is cool. there is no such thing as too many graphs, so don’t be shy in the future 😆
Do we have a dataisbeautiful yet?
it seems there are some
https://lemm.ee/search?q=dataisbeautiful&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll
Check sub.rehab
Same for me. Woke up, launched Sync and got the message that it’s not working anymore now and will work with Lemmy later. Immediately created an account here 👍
Fellow Sync refugee here. So sad to see it go. I feel for all the devs that just got shafted. The only good takeaway is that we’re here now and hopefully reddit will suffer for it.
They’re making a Lemmy version so don’t feel too bad
I hope spez chokes on his narcissism.
Hoping everything goes down in flames. Although I bet that he wouldn’t think it was because if him.
I just joined after Apollo stopped working. I’ve been over at squabbles since the black out. No idea how this place works. Excited to dig in and figure it out though!
welcome!
edit: just realized this isn’t even my instance but w/e, welcome to the fediverse!
2 things that really helped me: https://browse.feddit.de/ to find communities then search in the communities tab with name like community@instance.name
if it doesn’t pop up try typing !community@instance.name then community@instance.name again to see if it comes up
basically new communities wont show on your community search tab until someone else on your server has searched and subscribed or interacted
lemmyverse.net too!
If you aren’t sold on the interface then check out wefwef.app. No affiliation - just spreading the gospel. It feels like Reddit on Apollo, but here instead.
It’s worth it. If you’re on iOS try Memmy.
I’d strongly recommend Mlem if you liked Apollo.
I want to but the issue is I can’t find an ipa to sideload it on his GitHub and the TestFlights a full. EDIT: I spoke to soon it’s working!
Same—finally had to do the thing, and my god, finding communities to follow has GOT to get a lot easier if this is gonna work out
Which bit are you struggling with? Would be useful to know how it’s looking from a newbie perspective so we can make our explanations more effective. Also, welcome! 😄
I’d strongly recommend Mlem if you were an Apollo user!
Haha, guilty. I went to mindlessly pull up RIF at about 7 pm CT and it wasn’t loading comments, then I went oh, right, UTC it’s midnight. And now two hours later here I am on lemmy
Same story here but with Sync on Android. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.
I think the Sync devs are making a Lemmy app, so maybe your experience here won’t be too different…
That’s what I hear! Looking forward to it! 😁
Sync is coming to Lemmy so it will be like you never left.
Yep here after sync death. Can’t wait for the new app
Same here, I just got back from spending a day at the museum with my nephew, and after getting home I tried loading up RIF. Got the “429” and just sighed before looking up a mobile lemmy app.
Welcome!
I joined a few weeks ago but after RIF died just over an hour ago it looks like I’ve found my new home.
I’m so sad about RIF, I also haven’t heard anything about the dev coming here either :(
He’s made some posts here, he linked to a Lemmy community called reddit was fun.
the RIF dev said he was coming to lemmy.world. I just saw the post on my RIF app before i got a 429 error. RIP RIF
