You can quite clearly tell when the Reddit apps stopped working on this graph of lemm.ee traffic 📈

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 :)
  
  Ngl Jerboa is quite similar to RiF, so I'm definitely settling in well.
- 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.
- I'm missing baconreader :(
  
  Same. Would love to see them make a lemmy app
- damnshame.gif

My first post as a refugee! Glad this place is here to fill the void.
- Welcome, Bill!
- 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.
  https://github.com/aeharding/wefwef
- Baby Steps to Lemmy, Baby steps to the comments, baby Steps to the post. -Dr. Leo Marvin
- 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.

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
- 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.
- Was on Apollo when it went dark, thought it was going to be a few more hours and apparently so did Christian but they killed access before he could revoke the key. Fuck reddit/u/spez

💖 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?

Was browsing Apollo, it ceased, I opened the Reddit app once, closed it, signed up for Lemmy.
- Same but from Reddit is fun
  
  Ditto, had been using it for 13 years.. end of an era.
- I came from RiF. I was shocked that reddit even went through with the block. Oh well, onto bigger and better things. Reddit can be a footnote in history.
- I just moved Memmy into Apollo’s old place on the home screen. I’m not touching the official reddit app.

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!

Giving this a shot after RIF died on me. Fuck Spez. I hope this takes off.

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

Coming from Apollo? Go here: wefwef.app
- Or just go therr anyway regardless of where you came from, it's such a great app.
  
  I unironically like the default web UI. It's like a modernized old reddit. Also installed the PWA. I'd try wefwef, but its' instance selector doesn't even have the instance whose meta community we're currently discussing it in :(

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

Fuck u/spez

This whole fediverse thing is a bit strange after 10 years of rif. But Reddit was going downhill for quite a while. Hope this takes off!
- After 3 weeks of use, it still confounds me.
  
  I think I've figured everything out, except how to link to posts across servers. That still drives me mad. Some of the apps (like Connect for Lemmy) are doing URL rewriting, but I can't assume that's happening for everyone.
- And reddit still has a long way down. Look at Facebook, it never died, it just lost most young users and it grew stale with conspiracy theories, blind hatred and fake news.
  
  It's the walmart-ification of social media. They're self sustaining because of their size, but that's not enough to make them an enjoyable experience. Just corporate, sterile, and lots of bored people.

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.

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

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...
  
  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!

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 👍
- Sync has been great for me. Wonder why is wasn't more popular.
  
  Well it's coming to Lemmy which I'm excited about
  
  Sync refugee here too. Just joined this instance and patiently awaiting Syncs new Lemmy app!
- 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 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.
- 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!

Another refugee here. Coming from Sync.
- I can't wait for syncforlemmy!
  
  Ooh yeah. This is my future!
- Curious.. since Lemmy is still starting up, do we have the subredditd or the subcommunities setup here or is that still in progress?

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

I straight up don't know how to use Lemmy. I feel like I need to relearn how to ride a bike.
- I've been here for a bit more than a week now and my biggest advice and is to take it as it is. Take a deep breath, accept that this is Lemmy and not something else, and that you're feeling it out. This is not relearning a bike, this is getting in a peddle boat for the first time. Similar, yes, but also it's own thing.
- Set feed to All. Scroll. See interesting topic you want to see more, subscribe to community. Interested in specific topic? Search for community in communities page. Once you gather enough subscriptions, set feed to subscribed. Scroll.
  
  Thanks
- Yeah it's different, you'll burn in pretty quick though, just have to get used stuff being spread across a bunch of instances. It feels pretty natural after using it a while. The designers try to make it easy. It's kind of like email where each community has two parts to its name.
- ok, so i have been here for like a whole hour now so i'm a pro! Jk I still don't get a lot of it but I did find this cool map that shows you large communities! https://lemmymap.feddit.de/
  
  Also check out lemmyverse.net
  
  Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
  
  Large communities are the backbone of any sort of social media. Let's hope it survives!
- Basically think of discord servers that host subreddits. Instead of r/, the new r/ includes the domain name, kinda like a discord server. The new r/ is !subredditName@ServerName
  So if you wanted to search for say, r/furry, you'd type !furry@pawb.social.
  Furry is the subreddit, pawb.social is where it is hosted. Over time lemmy will improve and servers will coalesce subreddits like planets around newly formed stars.
- Yeah, used reddit through Rif for ages. The lemmy connect app thing is just familiar enough for all the unfamiliar bits to stick out. Looking forward to learning though.
- This video really helped me
  https://youtu.be/K8fBSrhHrE8
  Also this search page which is mentioned in the above video
  https://browse.feddit.de/
- I am in the same boat. Took me about two days to find a group to sign up with. I guess things have been getting busy here with all of us refugees.

Hey all, giving lemmy a try since RIF is gone
- Welcome! Former RiF user here too. Found any communities you like?
  
  Still trying to figure things out, I was a mod on a Warhammer subreddit so I might just remake it here

I'm on Connect, I hope the UI gets better, Lemmy has a lot of potential but it needs work
- We'll have a ton of high quality options soon. Lots of the Reddit app devs are working on Lemmy apps. I wouldn't be surprised if almost all the ui code can be reused
  
  Yeah, I really wish at least one of the major third party Reddit apps was able to launch their Lemmy version today, bit of course I understand it takes time
- Connect looks nice and is fast, but it's really buggy too. But early days. In a month or two we should have a few more good options. Really looking forward to some great Reddit apps coming to Lemmy.
  
  Connect dev here. I'm getting those bugs ironed out! I'm also a Reddit migrant and the app has only been live for about 9 days now.
- Hey, you should try Liftoff (it's an actual app) or Wefwef (a webapp that feels like a native app).
  Both of those are much better than Connect.
  
  aa
  
  Just tried installing Wefwef, and the first thing that hits me, is the lack of dark mode under appearance settings. Am I blind, or is that not a thing in Wefwef?
  EDIT: Liftoff feels rather nice, the menus need a little getting used to (and that big obnoxious '+' in the middle of everything), but overall it seems like a nice experience.
  Not sure if any of these are better than Connect, but I'll keep them all installed and keep using them in shifts, to see which one feels better.
  EDIT: 2 weeks later I've switched full-time to Liftoff.
  
  Thank you! I just downloaded Liftoff. It does look much cleaner than Connect, but it's having trouble loading stuff, hopefully that gets worked out
- Try wefwef (the name sucks, idk why they picked it)
  https://wefwef.app/
  It's a web app that's really clean looking and smooth. Wish they would add a top (day/week/month) sort though for postings
  
  Hi, there is. You can find it at the top right

It was weird using Reddit Is Fun like I always do then it just suddenly stopped.
I can't create a community. I click the button and nothing happens. Any idea why? I'm trying to recreate a community from Reddit that really helped me when I was in a dark place.
- Hey, I would like to debug this community creation issue, but I haven't been able to reproduce this. Can you walk me through the exact steps that you're taking? What text are you inputting into the creation form?
  
  I could probably do a screen share at some point if that would help.
  I log in, go to "Create Community"
  Name and display name are both "exJW"
  No icon or banner
  Description is a one sentence thing that I change every time I try to create it
  Moderator checkbox is unchecked
  Languages are English and Undetermined
  I'm using FireFox for Android

Nice to have a new place to hang my virtual coat and peer into the endless void of the internet.

It has become muscle memory for me to open the app. My phone seems so empty now.
- Same. Hopefully a good Lemmy app can take the old place Reddit is Fun had
  
  I'm using connect. Is there something better? Doesn't seem terrible so far.
- Just gotta put a new app in its place!
  
  actually yes, put the wefwef app there
  
  Sync is coming

I'd love to see day by day numbers on a chart of how many joined
- well there is this - https://the-federation.info/node/details/50540
  
  also this: https://lemmymap.feddit.de/
  Bigger circle = bigger community.
  
  That's some pretty cool information

I didn’t know they stopped today I though it was yesterday. Awe fuck r.i.p. Apollo. I hope the dev makes an app for lemmy. Fuck Reddit now.
- I never used Apollo so can only go on anecdotal evidence but I've heard from a few people that WefWef is the most "Apollo-like" way to browse Lemmy atm.
- The Apollo dev has made it pretty clear he won't be doing a Fediverse app. But there's several alternatives for Lemmy and more coming.

Glad to see Boost for Lemmy will be coming

9 years and 33k Karma. Unfortunately it ends today.
Hello Lemmy. Guess this is where I'll go from now on.
- Had 200k+ karma on my main account and 30k+ on several other accounts (adult account, etc.). I don't think Huffman or Reddit know what they're doing. Anyway, hello Lemmy!!!
- Same here with years but less than 1k in Karma.

You have my axe! Ex digg/reddit here so this just feels like dejavu. Just trying to find an iOS/Mac app I’m happy with, so far mlem does pretty good!

What is the scale of the y axis?
- Probably apes per metre squared in e+4.
  Man, graphs are so much more fun when you get to decide the axes yourself. <3
- It's amount of requests. The top of the scale is a 6-figure number.
- Parsecs?

That's what brought me here! I'll miss RIF, but I think it's time to get used to something new. I appreciate how welcoming everyone seems!

Slide refugee that has been here for a few weeks. I like it here!
- Wow, I wasn't the only Slide user! What client have you settled on?
  
  Jerboa, for now. Signed up for Boost for lemmy and waiting to hear more news on Slide (which is coming to lemmy, since it was FOSS.) :)
  
  Fwiw, I was a long time slide user before at some point I switched to Boost, as it was similar but a little sleeker in my opinion. And the Boost developer has announced a Lemmy-Version is coming, so I'm waiting for that now!

Oh I think I see myself on that!

oddly boost still works for me right now
- Boost is working until tomorrow, then it stops.
  Boost is working on an Android Lemmy version though.
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy
  
  That's great, i love Boost's minimalistic design.
  
  Yes!
- Relay seems to still be working for me. Also, my personal shreddit app is still working.
  I suspect reddit are leaving them operational so reddit can bill them at the end of the month.

Are this active users? (Commenting/posting) or just traffic?
I ask as I spent time in different servers looking for one I liked before making an account, so it took a while before I became an 'active user'
- Lemmy only counts activity as commenting or posting. Unlike Reddit which counted any eyeball on a post as active. However, this is a traffic graph from the server, not from Lemmy itself.

I'm really not ready. My Connect for Lemmy app is renamed to Lemmy is fun and is using the rif icon, it's hard to let go.
- Whatever gets you through these trying times!

Thank you for your warm welcome.
I never used a reddit ap, nor have I moderated, but I've watched the happenings and been incredulous at Huffman's (and subsequently Reddit's) behavior.

This is also my first post, feel like crying. Heard about Lenny 3 hours ago, came to this instance after consideration.
I'm glad this was made as an Alternative to the R#&dit
- Legit, it's better here despite the rough edges of an early stage of development. The very thing that makes there be a learning curve filters out the most annoying users, and the culture is fairly anti-asshole overall, so there's less toxicity overall. Not saying it's perfect, no human endeavor can be. But it's got the better aspects of reddit with a reduction in the worst parts.
  
  It's getting better fast, the 0.18.1 Lemmy update coming up is going to be a huge improvement for desktop browser (I'm on an instance running the release candidate and it's brilliant). That should trickle down to better mobile performance as well.

I'm just glad I found a server that allowed me to register. Been trying for weeks. Lemmy.ml is closed for registration. Lemmy.world just spins when you hit the register button. Another instance just said my registration was pending.

no more baconreader. trying out different Android apps for Lemmy. so far I'm liking "connect". curious though... can I add my mastodon account to my Lemmy feed? #stupidquestion ?
- You can search and find Mastodon accounts from here, bit it doesn't seem to actually pull in posts and there's no way to follow anything afaik. You can follow Lemmy communities (and post to them) from Mastodon, but the interface isn't great and it's kinda spammy.
  Technically everything talks to everything else, it's just a question of implementation of features and a decent UI for seeing content from other software that may be in different formats. Exciting to see where that aspect of the Fediverse ends up!
  
  Hopefully the apps improve their usability soon
- I've heard you can add mastodon tags to follow, not sure about accounts.
  
  I think it's possible, just gotta open up that user through your imstance. I know how to do it with KBin, but not Mastodon.
- Connect dev here. Glad you're liking things! Better support for Mastodon is on the roadmap!

Just here to say hello to all the refugees! ✋🏼

We are still going on infinity.

I just joined today and could use some assistance finding communities that I'd fit into. I'm into Cybersecurity and all matters of computing. If anyone has a suggestion please reply and thanks for having me :)
- https://lemmyverse.net/communities This is a good start in search for communities. You can enter your home instance(in your case lemmy.ca) by clicking on the house symbol at the top right and then search for communities like "security".
  When you click on one, it'll automatically lead you to the adress based on your home instance and you can immediately subscribe to them form there.
  https://lemmy.ca/c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works could be of interest for example
- I'm not subbed to any, but I see a TON of them as a scroll through All. You'll be in good company!
  Welcome!
- infosec.pub or tchncs should be interesting instances for you then
- infosec.pub or tchncs should be interesting instances for you then
- infosec.pub or discuss.tchncs.de could be instances of your interest

Came over a few days ago, and the infrastructure is so much better in concept than Reddit ever was.

Wefwef on iOS is amazing. This graph is really uplifting (pun intended). Let’s go fediverse! Fuck Reddit and the greedy CEOs.

I was interested to see what the rush was going to be like when Reddit mobile apps shut down. Looks like it might be pretty significant. Is this bigger than the blackout rush?
- We'll soon find out based on how many times we have to copy paste an explanation of how community search works to confused new Lemmings 😄

Lemmy is the Future! :D

Hello, my first comment here. How do I save images? (I’m using wefwef app for ios btw)
- I'm on wefwef on Android and I can just hold down on the image and the context menu has both download and copy. I don't have an iPhone to test if it's the same though
- i don't know about ios but some client allow you to copy image url, just copy image url and paste in browser long press on image and click save/download. If client not provide image url then copy post url and open it in browser then follow same steps from long press on image

- I believe certain apps that specialize in accessibility options are except in some way. No clue how that is determined though.

Welcome

Please help, everyone in this community won't stop hitting me and no one will tell me where the refreshments are! I just wanted to find some amusing anecdotes for casual conversations!
- https://lemmy.ca/search?q=jokes&type=Communities

god damn haha.

Yup. I already used connect for lemmy for a few days. Today was the day it took bacon reader's spot on my home screen. Still going to check out other apps, but this is pretty cool already.