The death of Sync for Reddit is what has made me join Lemmy
I barely use reddit anymore save for porn and niche subs but after that glorious app I had used for ages finally died a few days ago I felt devastated. it was like losing an old friend. I hope reddit dies an even slower and more painful death
Thanks to everyone who left reddit because they killed the useful mobile apps, lemmy is becoming a viable alternative.
I've been waiting for a viable alternative that isn't as toxic as reddit for some time now. I hope they kill off old.reddit soon.
I mostly left because I saw an abundance of bootlicking posts and comments, people dunking on mods for continuing the protest and saying that it doesn't concern them cause they don't use third-party apps. Granted, some of them might've been bots or payed, but a lot of frustration seemed genuine and fron real accounts, and it rubbed me the wrong way.
I haven’t been to Reddit since mid June, wondering what portion of the posts you saw complaining about protests and the blackouts were real and what portion were made by bots / ai / etc? 🤔
Welcome kit
I’m sure this “welcome kit” is meant as a helpful thing but I have to wonder if it is exactly the problem that prevents Lemmy from being adopted.
When someone joins Reddit, they don’t need to read a literal plethora of guides on how to use Reddit. It’s obvious.
What looks like a helpful thing to do is instead going to intimidate and confuse new people.
So ultimately the question is: why isn’t Lemmy obvious to use, and how do we make it so?
Reddit wasn't easy to understand either when I joined 13 years ago. I guess discovery is part of the fun.
Thing it though, you don't really need to read any of it.
The experience is pretty similar for the end user. However the guide is very useful if you want to get to the back end stuff.
Reddit wasn't easy to understand either when I joined 13 years ago. I guess discovery is part of the fun.
you don't read sidebars do you?
I think it's really the choice of federation. I imagine it's against the spirit of federation, but is the answer just to direct people to lemmy.world to first sign up? From there, do what you always did on reddit, but check note that you can sub to other communited not on lenny.world? I just migrated a few days ago, but it was that initial choice that was confusing to me and delayed my signing up.
When someone joins reddit it isnt obvious what to do. A lot of people come from more common linear communication systems like bbs and etc and the whole reddit comment chain can be confusing to follow. It also is extremely confusing about joining communities and what that does to your feed. The thing is reddit has been around for a lot of years and those of us who have used it have forgotten how confusing it was in the beginning.
I have the most extensive list of Lemmy apps, you can include it in your welcome kit: https://lemmy.world/post/465785
added, ty
Here is where I'm keeping the updated list. https://lemmy.intai.tech/post/30829
Too much, keep it simple, stupid!
https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2023/join-the-fediverse/
Could you open a pull request to categorize all this into the awesome list for lemmy?
I see you've added the Awesome Instances list, but dbeley's is more general, e.g:
alternative front-ends, mobile apps, libraries, tools, guides, etc. Thank you!
i updated the main list ty
will need to start organizing this a bit more.
you can find the maintained copy here: https://lemmy.intai.tech/post/30829
I think Sync for Lemmy is being fast tracked.
Six weeks out, last I heard. Can't wait!
And that was like a week ago so now its 5-ish! Also: https://syncapps.io/
I'm using Connect for Lemmy. It's no Sync but it'll do in the meantime.
I'm using Jerboa. It does the job but looking forward to Sync!
Connect, Thunder and Liftoff are all great alternatives so far.
Connect is barebones now but it is the closest in rendition to Sync.
Reddit on mobile no longer exists for me now that Sync for Reddit's gone.
Can't wait to try Sync for Lemmy and see it grow.
Well. Judging by my world feed, the porn is coming.
We really should have the ability to block entire instances as users.
Agreed, but they are working to get the federation scaling issues resolved, first.
We'll have to make do with blocking communities.
There's also lemmynsfw for that kind of thing.
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Welcome! For me, it was Apollo (try WefWef). I love it here except for the server issues. All in due time.
Edit: I just tried all kinds of gestures for closing image preview, and apparently swiping up now works! The update today said something about this, so wefwef all the way for me. It also just added top day (and top hour!) the best app on all fronts so far.
Wefwef is the best in many respects - but the inability to press images to close them is almost a deal breaker for me. The back button takes me out of the feed and into the side bar, with the image still opened on top.
I'm not gonna press the x in the top right corner every single time, it's bad UX, my phone's too tall.
Connect for lemmy has this functionality right, it's just ugly looking in my phone (the images in the play store look so nice, I suspect it's a bug with my specific phone)
Looking forward to Sync - it showed me UI with UX I hadn't even considered requesting. Sync just got everything right for me.
I’m using wef wef now. I saw some bugs but I feel that eventually it would get better
Be sure to use different servers! Experiencing server issues (with your server or choice) is a pretty sure sign to spread out and try somewhere else.
It would be nice if users were federated as well, something to make moving to another server easier. I specifically avoided creating my user on one of the wefwaf default servers
I’m using wef wef now. I saw some bugs but I feel that eventually it would get better
Same, I heard about Lemmy from Sync. I'm just waiting for them to roll out Sync Pro for Lemmy
Reddit's bad decisions brought me to Kbin and Lemmy.
Same here. I don't want to use reddit's official app given how spez spelled out he will do everything he can to squeeze every penny out of that place. I want to browse interesting communities, not endless ads.
Welcome to the party, pal.
Come out to the Fediverse, let's get together, we'll share a few menes
Same here but for RIF is fun. I've had that app for a decade and when it finally closed I moved straight to lemmy.
One of the best apps I ever used, reddit related or not. RIP RIF.
Same for me. Sync for Reddit was my app of choice as well and with the announcement of Sync for Lemmy I've joined here as well. Make sure to check out the community for the app as well: !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
Same here. Such a fantastic app. Sync for Lemmy is in development, and I can't wait!
I feel the same but I've also had reddit mods who do not like anyone having a different opinion. So yeah I was done with reddit quite a while ago.
I once was banned from all of reddit for saying I suspected a love Island contestant acted like he was gay. I didn't even do it maliciously it was just an honest opinion and I stated as much.
I'm using Connect for Lemmy, and its okay. Very impressive for how fast its come out, but its no sync. It's like diet sync, which is good enough.
Can't wait to see what ljdawson comes out with.
Flip flopping between Lemmy and Reddit ever since they killed Apollo. The main app is just a pain to use so it definitely killed my enjoyment of browsing reddit
I still haven't dared to use the official app lol. Boost hasn't died yet so I'll still look at it here and there until it's gone, but I'm really hoping Lemmy succeeds (although I'm unfortunately not expecting much, since it's not the easiest for the average user to get into).
Have you tried wefwef.app or liftoff?
I'm using Memmy for now. It works pretty well, aside from the issues with Lemmy servers.
Same
You're in luck: !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
You're among friends... Everybody here, with a very very very small exception, is in the exact same scenario as you.
Cool
Try out Thunder while you wait for Sync, it has similar qualities.
Thunder or liftoff have been the most similar ones from the ones I have tested as well.
I joined kbin because of the upcoming "death" of Infinity for Reddit. Infinity still works for now, (for free, I mean. But after a while it will be subscription-based) but I joined kbin before the "death" of Infinity because WHY NOT :D
Same here bro, same here, how did the notice of Sync for Lemmy impacted you?
Dude really just admitted to using reddit for porn lmao.
Like half of reddit was porn, what do you expect?
Please post a better alternative?
same brother
I used Redact to rewrite all of my accounts' comments, since Spez will restore deleted comments, so you must overwrite them.
I have a had a few very negative experiences here with political extremists that already occupy some of the busier or perhaps more rabid instances. Not only that, but I hope that free speech instances will become populated enough to ensure vibrant content and users. The fewer rules that clone Reddit the better it is for all users in the end.
I used powerdeletesuite before the api access ended and deleted almost 11 years of comments. Just checked my account and only one comment seems to have survived. Seems like results may vary.