Still trying to find my footings. The thing I miss most is active engagement. The comment sections sometimes feel so empty. But I will give it time. All in all, I find the experience better than I anticipated. Using wefwef on my phone and the instance-site on my desktop and laptop. I am sure a decent app will be developed in time.

Mlem and Memmy are quite tolerable

Liftoff app is my favorite at the moment. Very responsive and handle well multiple account.

I'm very happy this space is flourishing. Lots of organic conversation and increased engagement. My only hope is that this revolt against corporate social media will be sustained. I would love to see this turn in to an existential threat to the companies selling our data and privacy to the highest-bidding advertiser.

Hello fell Reddit Refugees! Yeah I've been a near daily reddit user on Sync for Reddit (Sync Pro) since 2014 or so. Now leading up to the API shutdown I was using reddit about once a week and you already know I had to use Sync one last time on the final day, but

I've mostly been using Lemmy for about two weeks now. I've tried a lot of apps (Jeroba, Thunder, Liftoff), but ultimately I also ended up on wefwef. It's seems to be the one of snappier ones so far. It's super strange because since it is themed after Apollo, it looks like I have an iPhone app on my Android! I know that when Sync for Lemmy comes out (about six weeks I think) I'll jump ship immediately, but for now I'm really liking wefwef.

I've made it my mission to lurk less on Lemmy then I did on Reddit so I can try and help the platform succeed with some small amounts of content that I can contribute. Recently I've been very interested in AI image generation, so I made a community centered around that. I also made a community centered around video game giveaways to hopefully share more wholesome content on the platform. Overall, I'm hoping that since Lemmy is so new that all of us can take some control in steering it in an overall better direction than Reddit. I'm personally on team No Karma, since I think it makes Lemmy a lot less toxic and a lot less about having something to brag about and more about being something to be proud of.

Good luck to everyone who's a recovering Reddit addict with their quests to become Fediverse addicts!

Edit: Wefwef accidentally posted my comment 3 times saying it failed to post. So I guess there's still some kinks to work out!

I knew I had an issue with the amount of time I spent on Reddit.

But good lord the repeated opening of Reddit Sync to no avail over the past days really driven home just how much I just defaulted to Reddit in any dead time.

It is quite sad and yet at the same time also an exciting time. I was on Reddit for 9 years and it has kind of become the internet for me.

I myself was 99% only a passive user, so I have contributed nothing to the value of the site. But the site itself had a lot to offer for me.

But I also realized that Reddit, the platform itself, hardly provides anything relevant.

I probably would never have used Reddit much without a 3rd party app, I also use it exclusively on mobile.

For me, the value of the site comes exclusively from the content, i.e. the community. And fortunately, that's something Reddit has no direct control over.

I realize, of course, that not everyone will be here now in 6 months instead of on Reddit, but it doesnt matter.

I think the majority of users are like me rather passive, but more important are the active users of the community.

It is much more important to have these pillars of the community on board, as they will sooner or later ensure that something new is created that will then attract the larger number of passive users.

And I think it's this usergroup that has angered Reddit for the most part. These are power users who probably all use 3rd party apps.

Nevertheless, many will of course stay, if you have put a lot of work and heart and soul into building up your community/subreddit for years, letting go is of course much harder than for someone like me.

I am also using wefef and was an Apollo user. I have an overall positive experience with Lemmy+wefwef.

It feels buggy when scrolling and switching between panes (post,search, etc) but I can live with that since I know it’s a work in progress.

Like one of the top posts today (the meme with Patrick and his rock). “It’s ok Lemmy. You can go when you want.”

I'm loving the fediverse. I have to thank Reddit to make me discovering it!

It'll be nice if more and more migrate over.

There's something amusing about opening up what's almost a Reddit clone a day after and seeing content and subs that would have been exactly like it was on Reddit here instead.

As long as momentum continues, we may see more and more leaving Reddit for what's nearly the same thing with a lot less BS.

I just hope Lemmy servers and infrastructure can handle the growing popularity, especially once there's popular native clients that switch from Reddit to it.

Would be very happy if spez ends up having killed his own platform in future retrospection though.

Is Lemmy.World a bit laggy for everyone else?

I wonder is it on my end or is it because of the new traffic it's getting?

Yeah Lemmy seems the way forward. It just sucks for all the subs that won't be making it here anytime soon. Niche subs I'm following for example, I'll still have to rely on Reddit.

I desperately miss RIF, and I have a community I care about on Reddit that I mod.

But I'm going to see if I can rebuild it here. I think Reddit has basically committed suicide.

Keep at it! I suspect these first few days will be the hardest. I uninstalled BaconReader last night and put "Connect for Lemmy" in its place on my home screen. So far it's been a pretty easy transition!

95% of posts that contain active discussion and more than 3 comments are about Lemmy and/or Reddit implosion. I would love to see a pivot to more engagement in other subjects. I do enjoy reading about lemmy and participating in the discussion, but would be good to see the users disperse a little bit :)

For some reason, wefwef was very buggy for me and kept throwing errors at me.

I use Memmy and I’ll probably stick with it!

15 year club on reddit. I've parted a few weeks ago and not coming back.

I hope lemmy gets good and better content.

Honestly, I'm pretty excited about being a "pioneer" (sorry to those who have been here for longer). I never commented much on Reddit, but plan to contribute more here.

So far Jerboa has been the best one for me, I tried wefwef but wasn't a big fan (and couldn't work out how to uncensor NSFW content across the board, very annoying haha).

But Boost is coming out at some point! I'm really looking forward to it!! <3

So far I'm doing okay, just tough with how slow everything runs and all the network errors and stuff, but it's early days so I'm patient :-)

Its been one day without Reddit

It's been one week since you looked at me, cocked your head to the side and said, "I'm angry."

Using Connect for Lemmy and loving it. I'm not that much of a social media addict, but I would check reddit using Baconreader once daily for news and politics and cat pictures. Speaking of which, the number of cat communities on here is way too low, but I also think a lot of the cat subs on Reddit were like 75% repost bots. I still enjoyed them.

Have you found an App for Lemmy that you prefer the most yet?

I'm using firefox on desktop and the UI looks awesome, no RES necessary.

One of the most impressive things to me: I've got ublock origin up and there are zero things being blocked! I'm so jaded of the years that I expect every website to have something blocked.

As a new user, I'm finding it weird how everything seems so fragmented. Why join a [...subreddit] (what are they called here?) on one channel/server rather than another? Surely it just breaks up the user base and makes it harder to have everyone in one place.

Also, I find it weird how everything is on different servers from a user point of view - where do I make my account? I made mine on Lemmy.world, but what if I should be somewhere else?

The apps help slightly, but there's still confusion with local/all and seeing the server everything is hosted on.

I feel like it's a difficult sell to the more casual user and will make it much harder to have Lemmy as a true successor to Reddit.

There needs to be a way to obfuscate this information to a casual user and have an account in one place, with 'subreddits' in one place, so Lemmy is just Lemmy and you only learn more about the infrastructure if you want to.

The internet seems fresh for a fleeting moment

I visited Reddit for 16 years. RIF on android then Slide on iOS. Slow to learn how Lemmy works.

Guess I shouldn’t be surprised the site’s burned. But it’s an adjustment - with how often I check my (now broken) app mindlessly, I actually think the scummy CEO did me a favor!

Wefwef as a web app is really really good. I’m also enjoying liftoff! App for iOS.

So from the user experience side, I'm actually liking Lemmy even just with the mobile site, which I'm guessing varies instance to instance. There's a couple quality of life tweaks I'd make but it's a lot smoother than expected.

A problem I am having though, which I hope clears itself, is that I'd say upwards of 90% of the posts I'm seeing are either "Reddit is dead to us" or "Wow Lemmy is great!" Both of which are fair viewpoints that they around certainly be allowed to share, but when that is the vast majority of the content, it does not entice me to regularly return.

The two things I regularly used Reddit for (Keeping up with a couple hobbies and educational materials) have communities but are largely inactive at the moment. I am aware that I can help the situation by engaging with them--and I will!--but so far the pervasiveness of the Reddit posts has definitely taken the enthusiasm out.

This post isn't quite what I am talking about, though, as you are at least promoting discussion, which is good!

Wefwef made all the difference. While I know it’s not Reddit the similarities in experience have made the move much easier.

Also amazing to see the beginning of all of these new communities!

I'm here on the fediverse via Jerboa. I agree it's definitely deterring me from using the official Reddit app!

Nice OP!

Same here, if anything this whole thing has done me a favour. Many times the past year i've considered giving up reddit. I tend to scroll reddit when I play with the dog after walkies, and the amount of time my brain says 'why you do this shit?' as I scroll past nothing, looking at comment chains of constant bickering. Why am I scrolling pasts hundreds of pointless comments, meandering bad takes, puns, the time wasted...for what gain? It was kinda an addiction I guess.

The first day has been great tbh, Memmy feels good despite the instance' slowness. The Hot filter is pretty good for catching newISH posts, or light comment posts which i've been tagging onto.

It really feels like old school forum days, and it's been really awesome to have my inbox popping off with replies. What's the point of lots of comments like a big reddit thread when no one replies or even sees your comment? Really looking back, it was just pissing in the wind.

Or if you did get a reply over on pigboycity, it would be some massive drangus trying to start a fight. Just ugh. I deleted my posts and account yesterday, now reddits just gonna be my suffix for google searches when I need something (until the fed starts getting indexed over the coming months/years).

I also really like the look here. old.reddit to me always looked shit from a UI standpoint (Despite being massively better than New, of course). lemmy.world just looks concise without being overwhelming. I'm excited to see growth and engage with real people again just like the old days.

Currently using Liftoff but can't wait for Sync to release.

It's been one day without Reddit and I've realized that I don't really need it, despite being on the site since 2009 and by far my most used social network. At the end of the day, the community is more important than the site, and I think most of the communities have far since declined on Reddit, then moved on to Discord/ Lemmy/ whatever.

Liftoff seems like a good one. I honestly had so many issues with the way Reddit operates, and the experience was so horrible on many subredddits. I love the idea of a decentralized service where there can be entirely independent instance operators. It's been liberating to start over with these small forums here. Once more people join in it'll be so much better than Reddit ever could have been.

I had been using reddit daily for about 10 years for a multitude of reasons. It was a great place to waste time, an amazing tool to get help on niche subjects and a wonderful way to learn… but recently it suffered from it’s own success and generally felt more and more of a cesspool…

I am grateful of the events that transpired, because it has forced me to find an alternative, and evolve my knowledge on different options. I had no idea what Lemmy was yesterday, nor federation or anything… I was thrust into the option of stick with something that was getting bad, or figure out how to do something new that has the potential to be even better! I’m glad I went into uncharted territory.

It’s a little bittersweet that while lemmy does not have the scope that reddit had, resulting in less of a pool to get help from… the prospect of what might become with Lemmy is more than enough to keep me away from reddit.

I'm enjoying Connect for Lemmy, however I need pointers on how to get more content for my lemmy front page.

I like that I have yet to encounter the N-word unlike some other "reddit alternatives"

After a few days without Reddit, I don't miss it that much for daily browsing. But it'll probably still be useful to find people with the same PC issues as me and find a solution 😎

I'm using WefWef. It much slower than RiF but the growing pains must be absolutely massive.

Wefwef is incredible. I've never seen a web app that's even half as technically impressive, and it gets 2-3 major updates a day. Huge hats off to the devs.

I'm using Liftoff until Boost is released

I have been trying Jerboa. No real complaints about the app, I just want to see the more niche spaces get more activity

Boost + my NSFW account were my Fap App. I almost didn't know what to do with myself.

I moved over here a while ago. Doing great so far, loving the community, though I'm doing a lot of lurking at the moment cause I have to keep reinstalling my app for testing.

Currently using thunder, working on contributing to the project cause I liked the early alpha so much. New updates come frequently, looks nice, functions great, cross platform.

I feel no desire whatsoever to go look at reddit. I don't know, reddit just feels lame now

I'm surprised at how easy it was to make the switch. Now that servers are stabilizing here this is pretty much a very similar experience.

I could easily see this being a more seamless switch than we feared. So far I am hopeful!

Honestly, my excitement for this Fediverse movement completely overshadows everything else, I can tell that once everything gets going proper it’s gonna be really cool. So, yeah I’m not gonna miss Reddit at all.

This truthfully reminds me of the oldschool forums quite a bit right now. A smaller user base and being able to participate without being buried immediately by thousands of other posts and get some engagement is nice. Its also nice not to see the same thing on my main page in 12 different subs being reposted to karma whore.

The recent stuff was the extra little kick I needed to go somewhere else and stop scrolling infinitely.

Finally glad reddit is dying

I'm waiting for boost for Lemmy.

I've been here since the blackout and I haven't touched Reddit for at least a week. It feels closer to what the web used to be when it was cool.

I'm using the web along with Jerboa.

I’m still on a browser. I tried to get into the Memmy beta today, but its full. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Christian moves Apollo to Lemmy’s API. I’d gladly pay for the one time thing again.

I refuse to download the app from Reddit. If they would have done some good faith negotiation and somehow still didn't work out for Apollo, I would have gone with it. But now, fuck them, fuck spez and fuck the power hungry mods that supported him.

I am happy to call Lemmy and specially lemmy.world my new home. We are in this together and we will push this project further.

Im still waiting for sync for lemmy. It's the main reason I'm making the switch. I can't use reddit without the sync app and I'm looking forward to using lemmy with it.

I’ve been here for 7 days now. I’m not new to the fediverse but am new to Lemmy. So far I’m loving it, it’s great to finally see a viable Reddit alternative gain some traction.

Mastodon is also seeing another big surge of new accounts. Kinda feels like a (social media) revolution is afoot.

Please remember to be kind to your server admins also, they’ve a lot to cope with amidst all this excitement! Oh and donate if you can to help with growing running costs.

I've only tried one Lemmy app so far, Jerboa. It's fine...

I'm still struggling with the muscle memory of opening baconreader pretty much all the time. I spent some time on Reddit too, on my PC, and it's kinda bland.... Since everyone seems to be here. But this place is still ramping up, so I'm interested to see what happens in the coming weeks.

Lemmy is keeping me busy, and is like how Reddit should have been

Killing Bacon Reader was a deal breaker for me. Not looking back at all.

I'm happy that boost for Reddit is still working, but I know that once boost for lemmy is released I'll never look back at reddit. Fuck u/spez for how he treated his users

I have been using Wefwef and Memmy, and I’m not sure what I prefer, as they’re quite similar, but I think Wefwef is edging it out for me. It feels a little better.

I’m still on Reddit at the moment because some of the niche communities I’m into just don’t have a lot going on here. For instance, I love wrestling, I’m part of three wrestling communities on here, and Reddit still has more going on.

That said, I’m looking to get off Reddit completely sooner than later. Still finding all my communities. I don’t expect this place to get as big as Reddit, but I do want to see a little more activity.

I never used any Reddit app other than the official one but I wanted to check out Lemmy as an alternative and I’ve gotta say, I’m liking it a lot so far! I’m on wefwef as well and it’s a pretty good experience. I’ll probably start contributing to some of the communities I’m interested in to help them grow and hopefully the growth continues across the platform!

I’m also looking into hosting my own instance, I might work on getting that set up in the next couple weeks.

Only issue I’ve seen is that it’s been a little slow here and there, but I understand that it’s in the growing pains stage so I’m not too worried.

Enjoy the fediverse !

Checking in at 2 weeks without Reddit, and I'm so happy that this forcing function got me to discover Lemmy and the fediverse. I enjoy it so much more, I'm browsing multiple instances and it feels like the days I discovered Reddit.

As for apps, just FYI Lemmy and KBin are progressive web apps so you can click "add to home screen" and get an app for free, I've been using it that way exclusively so far and it works well enough for me.

I uninstalled sync when Reddit committed suicide. Using connect now and it's pretty good. Slowly building things back up and communities are coming to life. I don't think Reddit will ever recover.

I've mostly lurked so far, but I was compelled to create an account after seeing how much responses on assorted lemmy communities remind me of the old phpbb days. Significantly more cordial and well thought out than the average reddit/twitter/what have ye replies. I'm pretty optimistic about the fediverse now that I've experienced it despite initially not thinking much of it; it seems to combine the best elements of web 1.0 and 2.0.

I’ve been using wefwef too (and I’m also an Apollo refugee). Liking it so far, even if I am very confused about how a lot of this works. I hope the Lemmy community continues to grow!

It's funny all the people posting about a shared withdrawal. Reddit was a habit. I feel it. But, I'm here to fill the void with a healthier substitute. Cheers everyone, we're going to make this awesome!

I think I need to redirect reddit.com in my DNS to lemmy.world, because my muscle memory always brings me back to reddit

Not bad, feels a little bit like going on a reddit detox, the slower speed of the different communities is kind of nice.

Wefwef is pretty nice so far and haven’t been on Reddit since Apollo stopped working

Lookin forward to seein wefwef grow

I miss infinity on my side. Jerboa has been great for me.

Wefwef feels fantastic. As a RIF user I see why the Apollo folk loved the user experience - glad it continues on in a way!

Ngl find it all a bit confusing still, however it definitely seems like the beginnings of something special

I don’t quite yet understand all the different instances but I like it

I actually installed the reddit app (Android) but it really was shitty so I uninstalled it.

I'm using connect for lemmy and it's going good so far. I started reading more about a month ago to try to cut the addiction of reddit.

I've been reading Dracula and Frankenstein and both have been great. I'm reading dracula through Dracula daily, but doing my best to read most of it on soft cover. Frekensiten has been fantastic and I'm almost done. Couldn't recommended it more. There's no modern adaptation that does it justice.

Long story short, it sucks reddit is gone and my addiction to it is real, but lemmy and books specifically has been a good substitute

Are there any apps for Lemmy that have a "hide read" feature? I had recently started using Sync for Reddit for that feature, because I like to be able to refresh and see all new posts instead of weeding through stuff I've already seen. Any tips would be appreciated!

long time lurker < 10 posts reporting in

Connect for Lemmy (Android app) is pretty good so far. Lots of options. I'm glad I was able to turn off the swipe actions, as I don't like those at all. Jerboa was not great.

What I'm excitedly waiting for is Sync for Lemmy. It was the best reddit app I had ever used, and the dev is now making a Lemmy version.

syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

So glad I had the push to get off reddit, so nice here, and its always nice to start over with a fresh slate, hopefully I will be here for another 7 years

A bit nerve racking the first days trying out the first post in Lemmy and missing a good app for mobile (being used to Apollo set the bar quite high) and then I discovered wefwef.app and now I feel like home again (don’t be afraid of the fact that it’s a web app, it’s really well done and fast and smooth, and looks like Apollo).

fr, I have not used reddit in 2 days. My life is way better

Using wefwef right now.

Thing I find interesting so far is that usernames are subtly different, like they aren’t trying to fill or replace characters because the username they actually wanted was taken.

I've been trying Jerboa, but the constant hug of death traffic has been hard on it. It keeps logging me out, and I go back to the login menu and have to manually re-enter my info each time. Plus, the UI isn't familiar so I'm struggling to find what I'm looking for.

I switched to Liftoff, and it's much more similar to RiF. Plus I seem to get auto-re-logged in when I'm dropped. It's still apparent that we're overloading every Lemmy instance, but I find that I can navigate better despite that.

I'm slowly adding back communities, and I see that they're slowly coming over, as well.

Welcome! I’m on Memmy for iOS myself and it’s pretty solid so far! Really need to checkout wefwef. I adore Apollo and was really sad about it, but seeing so many redditors flooding to here has softened the blow.

Lemmy has been great hasn't it? It's not as big but the content feels more meaningful.

Boost was my go-to and I'm waiting for the new one for Lemmy. But jerboa has been doing the job for me so far. Especially the newer versionsB

using connect rn, it's pretty good looking but a bit buggy, i guess i'm waiting for updates!

This is working! I never expected I’ll ever use an app like apollo in the near future but here we are. And the community here is great too! Rooting for you Lemmy!

Learned about wefwef 30min ago and love it already. Now Lemmy is an actual alternative to Reddit for me.

I’ve been using Memmy the most so far, just waiting for more content to be generated here

I am using Connect and wefwef. So far doing great.

My community has not moved to Lemmy so kinda lost here. I will just check around and see what sticks because I refuse to contribute to that fuckspez site.

I already don't miss it, will take a few weeks to break the muscle memory of opening a reddit tab every time I'm bored for more than 2 seconds

sidenote, has anyone been able to get dark mode to stick, or is that broken for now?

Connect for Lemmy is my favorite app so far. I miss some of the really niche subs, and tried making a few here, but it's hard to transition from being a lurker to a poster and contributing member!

Honestly, I've been staying off of reddit and all social media a lot for the past year. It's been good for me. I've been slowly getting back into a few select forums. I like Lemmy a lot more than I've like any kind of social media in a long time. I hope it's sustainable.

there was a moment today while reading a deep thread when i completely forgot which platform i was on. i was simply enjoying the content and community.

I've been here since June 12th, and I'm really liking it. I often sorted Reddit by rising, and this place feels like that experience: posts with fewer comments, so it seems like my comment might not get lost in the deluge.

The only thing I miss is that there were so many people in Reddit that you could post some obscure thing and there'd always be an expert on it. "I did my PhD thesis on the mating cycle of gnats, so I can explain what's going on there..."

I think this place will get there though, and there are some real advantages to a smaller population, as long as there's critical mass.

So far I've only tried Connect for Lemmy and it works well so far. A little slow and occasionally has issues logging in, but it's getting the job done.
I'm really hoping that Sync works (when it's ready) every bit as well for Lemmy as it did for Reddit though, because no other app even came close.

I've also been trying to limit my Reddit use on desktop just out of principle.

I am finding myself absentmindedly clicking my Apollo icon every hour. I’m happy to say screw Reddit for years and years of bucking user preferences and accessible 3rd party apps, but this is definitely an unfortunate transition to leave behind all the many years of content and critical mass of activity Reddit has. I’m still having to use the browser version to access subreddits related to school admissions stuff because there’s extremely valuable content I just can’t get elsewhere yet.

I just hope something pushes another big wave of users off of the platform soon and keeps the momentum going. Knowing Reddit admins it’s only a matter of time.

Doing fantastic. People are slowly posting content. The platform slows down due to spike in users but it gets better little by little. I like seeing content from other instances although you can't really reply to posts. It is great as a place to discover content, one day at a time i guess. I will not be using reddit in the foreseeable future though.

It's tough, I'll be honest. I can't completely wrap my head around lemmy, I'm confused about seeing communities I never subrscibed to (and some I wish I didn't have to see), and can't fully understand how it works. It also just.. doesn't have the same things I used to follow, or at least I can't get them to show up. I'm struggling, and honestly don't know what to do with all that empty time. I guess it really was an addiction.

So far jerboa for android is really great! Gonna switch to sync for Lemmy as soon as it's out though, gonna make this place feel like home :)

I keep opening Apollo out of habit but haven’t checked reddit at all today and I’m ok with that lol

Unfortunately, the reddit app doesn't have the features I want - Sync was a perfect fit, I didn't want to see automod pinned comments on every thread (and a while ago reddit removed the ability to block automod natively), bacon reader did have this feature within the app but after a while stopped perusing it.

I can't use a client where I'm ass-blasted with ads and garbage that I cannot filter out, so here I am... We'll see how it goes.

Been on lemmy.world since around 10 days and I've already noticed a significant increase in activity. Pretty exciting! I tried wefwef but for some reason scrolling doesn't work so well on my smartphone, Jerboa is great and I think I'll stick to it, for now.

Honestly, it reminds me a bit of reddit pre-digg migration. I'm kind of enjoying it. Right now, I'm using connect for my mobile access. I also don't hate the separation that the federated servers are falling into. It seems like moderation might be a bit of a PITA but I don't have any experience to back that up.

Jerboa, but it's not as easy as RIF

Still browsing reddit from desktop, can't stay away from some subreddits like /r/combatfootage and /r/manga. On mobile I use Jerboa.

I'm having the hardest time using Lemmy. I got Jerboa and subscribed to 3 communities. However I see other communities online and Jerboa can't seem to find them. How can I force Jerboa to locate a community?

People keep saying Lemmy is easy to use but it doesn't seem to be so far even though I'm really trying to stay away from Reddit. That's one thing that Reddit has an advantage in, it's very easy to use.

I was early to leave. I’ve yet to delete my Reddit account since I honestly don’t want to put traffic there. But my account is dead. This actually is pretty nice given I was also crashing on Apollo. Dearly missed

Doing great so far, servers were a bit buggy today but I think it can only get better

Besides some of the outages I have experienced and getting used to the Memmy app, I am enjoying my time so far. I haven’t posted yet since I was more of a lurker on Reddit but that will change since I want to see this community succeed.

The only thing I really miss from Reddit is the cryptocurrency mainreddit and the subreddits. Lemmy is definitely going to be amazing once other like-minded individuals migrate to lemmy.

using Connect for Lemmy on Android, and it’s a great experience. Also using Mlem on iOS in TestFlight, and it has been good as well. I also use the browser version if the app is being flaky.

A lot of the content on here reminds me of old Reddit, I'm enjoying it so far!

I haven’t been on Reddit at all today. I have, admittedly, opened Apollo and looked at the app icons several times. Whenever I do that I just go back to Lemmy lol

It’s not too bad. The lack of a history of posts on Lemmy makes me miss Reddit more than anything. The engagement here seems pretty good but I hope it continues to get better. It will just take time.

I wish wefwef would be a proper app. Webapps have never been my thing. I’m using Memmy right now and it’s okay.

Migrated from Apollo, wepwep is my home while testing the other iOS apps. Feels good over here!

despite having 3 Lemmy apps in rotation, it's been an excellent experience!

I found out I enjoy small active instances and communities by interest where I can take part in conversation and even start recognizing other users. Discovered "large communities" feel more like towns and that's fine. At least here I have the option on where I can lurk and post.

Created my Lemmy account about an hour ago after seeing feedback regarding the wefwef app. So far I am not disappointed in its execution. I have already joined a few communities that reflect what I was doing on Reddit and I am hopefully optimistic it continues to grow in a positive manner. I do agree with another comment that the engagement should be more meaningful with fewer users.

I'm having a pretty good time here but I don't really like the desktop interface, I had to write some custom CSS to improve it :p

So far infinity is still working for me, but that might just be because I haven't updated it lol. Either way I'm finding myself using lemming more overall now. Thunder has been a convenient lemmy app for me, especially since I could log into it without hanging or errors.

My first post here. Just Downloaded the app and exported my Apollo JSON file over. Hoping this site grows.

Never used an app for reddit, but I left to protest how spez treated people. Other than missing the science/news/covid research content, I greatly prefer Lemmy. I look forward to seeing how the Fediverse grows, but I truly hope it doesn't detract for longtime users.

As for Lemmy apps... I tried wefwef, and liked it ok, but now I'm using Jerboa and I think I will stick with it for a while.

so long as there's nice content i feel fine. 9gag, reddit, twitter, whatever.

I’ve been enjoying Memmy and Thunder. Tried it out for the first time yesterday and Wefwef is pretty damn close to Apollo. Personally, I’m excited for Artemis, which like Apollo was, is aiming to be a similarly smooth and robust standalone iOS app.

I'm on Android and the app if found that I like the most so far is Connect. For context, I was a sync for Reddit user and I'm already pre-registered for sync for Lemmy and Connect has UI quite similar to what I'm used to

I only opened RIF out of habit about 3 times

So far I've tried Jerboa and Connect, they're obviously not feature complete yet but both are definitely serviceable.

I like Summit best of the three apps I've tried (Lemmy and Thunder being the other two). It's a pretty bare bones layout and style of navigation, which I prefer.

As for missing reddit, well... it seems like most of the community spirit/attitude was slipping away following the API changes. I'm hoping to find it again here and I like what I see so far!

Edit: yeah no, wefwef blows the rest out of the water, fr

I finally realized that 90% of the subreddits I flipped through for hours on end were an absolute waste of time. Good riddance, Reddit.

Been holding off on wefwef until now. I did not realize it looked so closely similar to Apollo. I’ll be using wefwef forever now.

I've been using Jerboa since mid June, but I'm on Android. It was a bit slow at first and I did have those gnawing desires to go back to reddit, but I haven't done so. You really notice the time waste on that site when you aren't actively going to it anymore.

Honestly, I really want to use Lemmy, but the performance of Lemmy.world is almost a deal-breaker. Comments and posts don't load half the time, sometimes typing can even be slow wefwef. I feel like I've made my bed with lemmy.world and don't really want to make accounts on different instances in the hope of getting usable performance.

Pretty damn happy really. Haven't found an app yet but I think i'll go with wefwef. This site is pretty small but that's why I like it! the overbloat of the internet just gives me headaches these days. -3-

I'm using Connect at the moment has been fine. Looking forward to the new version of Sync. But the only sub I miss is buildapcsales but only a matter of time.

I'm on iOS and i found that making a bookmark for the website on my homescreen works pretty much just the same as a native app. Love it.

I am never going to bow down to reddit filth. The Dragon of Dojima never surrenders to assholes making 3rd party devs lives miserable. I am just looking for RiF alternative. Apollo seems to have gotten a good one by wefwef but I sed RiF for years as my main app

I do like wefwef, obviously for the UI but I’m using memmy on a daily basis.

Mostly for one reason, being able to save posts, which is something I do a lot. Now I just need to be able to categorize the saved post like on Apollo pro and that will be perfect.

I have liftoff and jerboa installed. Right now I m enjoying the first the most.

I m realy enjoying lemmy as well. I feel this could be better than reddit (even after 12 years there).

Don t know if it happen to anyone esse, but I tryed using RIF today and still menaged to get posts, Don t know why, I thought it would be completly dead.

Crazy how much busier it’s gotten since I made an account this morning and since I went to work lol. Great to see it, I hope this is the first step to the internet returning to its former state

I’m enjoying Lemmy so far. Agree it will take a while for traffic to pickup and content to grow but so far I’m loving Wefwef from replicating Apollo. Also feeling like I just typed OP’s post back to them but I really don’t know enough about Lemmy yet to contribute much more haha

I'm currently trying out Jerboa. Made my Lemmy acc yesterday, but made my Mastodon acc back in Feb so I've been on the Fediverse for at least a while.

I was using it and thought it was great but it stopped refreshing. I tried to use memmy for lemmy but they are overloaded right now. So now I’m on liftoff for lemmy. I was getting a few errors earlier but it seems to be working well now.

I really did like wefwef! I heard memmy is great too.

I’m giving MLem a trial run and like it so far. I’m a fairly casual user.

I logged into the reddit website today (with adblock of course) and unsubscribed all subreddits, with the exception of some niche stuff that I have to find an alternative for. Currently exploring Mastodon and now Lemmy, looks good so far. I don't miss reddit at all.

looked in my app drawer for sync several times today, but using connect right now. wefwef looks pretty solid, reminds me of sync.

I'm using liftoff at the moment, pretty good so far. I still get compulsions to type reddit after my Google searches though to look up answers on questions I have...need to break that years-long habit

Yeah, its the very same for me...

And we ain’t looking back!

have been using wefwef for now -- keeping an eye out for an upgrade at some point but so far enjoying it!

currently trying different apps but wefwef seems to be the best i tried so far. also connect for lemmy has a great scrolling experience. love it so far!! waiting for that lemmy enhancement suite!

I'm just using it directly from the web via Firefox for Android. It works really well and is a much better experience than any of the trainwrecks Reddit has on offer.

I'm still trying it out. For now I'm using jerboa

I just looked up wefwef and gave it a go, but I can't figure out how to un-blur NSFW stuff, so I'll wait until that's fixed.

I can't compare it to Apollo as I'm an Android user, but I'm very excited for Boost for Lemmy! ❤️

I fled Digg for Reddit ... I have now fled Reddit for Lemmy

Feeling like Lemmy actually puts the control in the content contributors and moderators where it should be!

I use less my phone, so it is good.

I like wefwef the best so far (though it's currently broken for me) and Memmy is a close second. :)

Infinity refugee here. So far, Liftoff feels pretty solid, despite being in alpha still. Jerboa feels ok, but a bit slow and unfinished (I understand dev is actively working on the whole Lemmy and lemmy.ml instance, so no hard feelings for him). Waiting for Boost to give it a chance

I'm doing my best to transfer anything I found enjoyable on Reddit to Lemmy.World immediately. It will take some time.

I’ve been using Memmy for a few days, and it’s done a good job at filling the Apollo-shaped hole in my heart. As for Reddit itself, the community has become so toxic in the last few days that I’m honestly glad I’m not on there anymore.

I have tried Jerboa, Connect and Liftoff and I like Liftoff the best so far. It doesn't really matter though, since I'm mostly waiting for Boost for Lemmy to release.

Trying the Android app Summit ATM. It's gonna take a lot of getting used to

Is there any app that recreates Apollos ability to disable right swipes (to allow back swipes anywhere on screen), and or allows swipe to collapse comments?

Jerboa does okay for me. I still have my reddit account but unsubbed from almost everything. I am good with it.

I plan on keeping Reddit bookmarked for about 2 more months, just to pop in one last time and see what has become of our once precious community. Then I'm deleting everything and never looking back.

I’m doing just fine 💙 need to get out on the water though…

That's awesome. It actually just looks like a completely blank post to me (using Mlem on iPhone), but I assume that's just because there's a lot of bugs left to iron out, and features to implement. Excited to see these apps after a few more months.

Wefwef?

I'm 2 weeks in and the apps are already much better than they were then. I miss specific subs but we'll make more here. All things considered I'm happy with lemmy as a replacement.

I'm a bit confused but I'm getting there. I've figured out I can sign into lemmy.world but otherwise I keep getting account errors. World seems decent enough though

Wefwef for me too. The interface is pretty similar, so it didn’t take much to transition. I’m hoping things will pick up here, but so far I’m liking the new home.

I'm exactly two weeks in, and I LOVE it! all the reddit fiasco was exactly what I needed to wake me up out of my shitty comfort zone. landing on lemmy was really confusing and strange at first, but now I feel like I'm part of something that is developing and growing in the right direction, with all the quirks and hardship that's part of it. it's great, and the wave of people who are coming in, plus the development of apps.. it all feels really pioneering. wefwef is great and liftoff as well. everything is becoming more friendly by the hour & updates.

I've been cheating a little bit and going on libreddit but still logging in to interact and help lemmy grow! Still haven't found an app I like (wefwef has been a bit buggy with refresh) but I'm sure that'll come.

Coming from Brave to Wefwef was actually easier than I thought, so good so far!

I have tried the web site, liftoff, wefwef and Jerboa. I like them in the order of, Jerboa, wefwef, web, liftoff.

The web used to be my favourite but after the update the ui got a bit to small for my liking and I haven't found a way to change it.

Liftoff was the first real app I tried and I do like it, but when I tried it I ran into some big problems with cross instance interactions, so I went back to using the website.

wefwef is perfectly fine, I have nothing really to complain about. Personally I just prefer Jerboa more.

In regards to the overall experience I like it here, I have found some communities. Some a lot better then the Reddit equivalent. Unfortunately some of my favourite communities have not migrated, so that is a bit sad.

This all feels so convoluted I’m not too sure about it. Reddit was kind of confusing initially too so I get that’s part of it but I could never like, recommend my friends or family visit this since it’s so convoluted

Yep its jerboa for me

I deleted my Reddit account on June 11th, so just over 3 weeks ago, and I don't miss it. Lemmy is doing a perfectly fine job filling that void. I'm quite happy here.

I'm still trying it out. For now I'm using jerboa

Where did you find memmy? Is it mobile?

Jeobora with post view mode : list. I had trouble creating a username first because the app just doesn't do it so I did that from desktop.

I used Boost Android app for Reddit and now moved to WefWef. It's already really good and looking very promising for the future considering the speed at which it is evolving

I could never even get into Reddit. I couldn't post because I didn't have karma so it was useless to me.

Loving it so far. The people here want to be here, want things to be better.

Where to find the wefwef app? I can’t find it anywhere

Liking it a lot so far. I'll be able to stay here 100% reddit free if my sports communities ever come over.

Just need a kbin app. I've been splitting time between kbin and Lemmy and I was using kbin way more over the last couple weeks because the site is better but now the Lemmy apps are getting really damn good so I'm finding myself using Lemmy more suddenly. The post or filters or something just seems better on kbin. Also the nsfw rarely shows up in my main feed. I prefer to go out of my way to see that stuff.

Long live Lemmy!

Been on lemmy.world since around 10 days and I've already noticed a significant increase in activity. Pretty exciting! I tried wefwef but for some reason scrolling doesn't work so well on my smartphone, Jerboa is great and I think I'll stick to it, for now.

I've been using lemmy for a couple of weeks now and it's going pretty good. I recently setup a second account on a smaller instance because lemmy.world became often laggy.

I've tried jerboa, liftoff, and took a look at wefwef but I'd prefer an application instead of a webpage. Ofthe three I'd say I like liftoff the best but none of the apps/sites I've tried have all the features I want.

There's a chance that Slide (my preferred reddit app) is going to be repurposed for lemmy so hopefully that pans out. I'll try sync as well when it'sreleased.

It feels so weird without my easy access to niche porn. Like I can get porn anywhere, but some of that niche stuff, it's hard to find that stuff again.

I've never even heard of Apollo before all this Reddit drama. Seemed like a very mediocre app if wefwef is anything like it.