Influx of Lemmy brothers and sisters incoming. Already 3K and growing deep, we may as well rebuild together. Let’s do this! 🤝

Edit : Yes there are workarounds using Revanced. Check the comments for some awesome help on how to do this if you wish! Just know, in the future it will most likely end up being patched annoyingly and I therefore recommend looking forward to the future with us here.

  • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Switched yesterday and so far, really liking it. Might even say, it’s better than Reddit at the moment already.

    No heavy echo-chamber/ toxicity (yet). Just waiting that it becomes more active with more communities.

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      Tried the “official” app for the first time in years, uninstalled after 10 min… RIP Rif

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        I’ve been trying it for concurrent to Rif and Sync. The differences are individually small, but taken as a whole the official app is just horrible. If it weren’t for Rif and Sync, I don’t think I would have become a Reddit user. I’m desperately hoping Lemmy reaches the critical mass and Sync for Lemmy becomes a thing.

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          Good news! Sync for Lemmy is already being worked on! Really excited to see how that turns out. I’ll follow that dev anywhere. Sync was amazing to use. Easiest purchase of my life.

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          Boost for Lemmy is also coming soon. (For those who preferred that to Sync. Both are awesome.) Nice to see former Reddit talent helping out in the Fediverse.

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    It’s time to teach them we can actually build a free, open source and popular alternative to their dystopian monopoly!

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        Indeed. If Wefwef can reach feature parity with Apollo (and I suppose lemmy with reddit lol) it would be an awesome alternative since it is cross platform

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          I really liked Wefwef, it led me to finding Connect, which I like even more. Excited for Sync too, it’ll just get easier and easier to help build this community

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      1 year ago

      Another Apollo refugee here. Wefwef and Memmy (haven’t settled on one yet) both have me feeling a bit at home. I hope Christian does an Apollo for Lemmy, but if not, these are great options.

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      Same here. I tried Lemmy and while ago and wanted to switch, but was held back by lack of a good app like Apollo and just the lack of users. Hopefully this will be the start of a change. Either way, not going back to Reddit.

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      I found wefwef and it was the only thing making me less sad when I deleted Apollo. Basically feels like Reddit in 2010-2011 but with a modern third party Reddit interface. Better experience and I don’t have to support /u/spez? Sign me up.

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        Since it’s browser-based, do you have a setting that auto refreshes your cookies, or are you using a privacy mode browser?

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      I’m really liking wefwef, much like Apollo it’s made the experience of the platform much better by smoothing out the interaction. Web apps really are coming quite a ways from what I remember them being.

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    Yeah, but I do think a lot of clueless folks won’t leave. Honestly, I wonder if reddit is undergoing a massive brain-drain right now. I rather hope so, because it would mean Lemmy is getting some high-grade folks.

    This is pretty much why I’m here… It feels like the folks who left are going to be good company.

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      Mods are leaving first, their tools have been neutered, and they’d rather move to lenmy, kbin or anything else where they don’t have to fight the admins. Users will follow

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      The way I see it, the people that don’t want to leave reddit can keep whatever is left of it. The people willing to leave and find something better are the reason I originally signed up. I spent twelve years over there and think it’s time for something better.

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        Time for a change. The “improvements” made to reddit over the 12 years were honestly laughable and I think lemmy will be a vast improvement to reddit. We’ll look back on Reddit like we did to digg

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      I dont want everyone to leave reddit and come over to lemmy. One of the joys of lemmy is not being overwhelmed with meh.

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    Hopefully we can help create new communities on Lemmy. Nothing will truly replace Reddit but new groups will be created and over time they will become great.

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    It’s been a very chill and peaceful switch, once I get used to the change I plan on helping any way I can to help the community grow. We can rebuild together 🖖

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    I’m using WefWef.app for Lemmy and it’s awesome.

    It’s a straight-up Apollo clone as a web app.

    I am floored.

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    Can see clearly, this server is much slower than yesterday, like if thousands of users are switching here