Hi all, tomorrow is when Reddits API change takes place and we are expecting a large influx of users and signups. I have prepared as much as possible but there still may be some down time. I will try my best to keep it as minimal as possible.
Please be helpful and welcoming to all the new users. Also keep an eye out in the Support community if you can and help answer any questions if possible. Thanks for eveyones help and contribution.
Also a massive thank you to everyone who donates. Its a huge help with the expenses for running the site. Im commitied to making this instance the best I can and any feedback good or bad is very much welcome.
Just testing my new account with a comment here.
Hi, I just wanted to ask if there is any banning going on here if you sub to beehaw? I rad somewhere that noobs, like me, are getting banned for subbing to instances without knowing what’s going on.
Apollo appears to have just shut down about 10 minutes ago. I’m going to miss that app.
Have you tried wefwef yet? It makes me feel like Apollo almost never left
I’m not the guy you replied to but I just wanted to say thanks for mentioning wefwef. I hadn’t heard of it before but I just looked it up and gave it a try. This app (well, mobile web app) looks amazing! The UI is very similar to Apollo and I think it will help me through this painful transition from Reddit to Lemmy. Thanks again :)
Yep. I’m currently on Memmy, Mlem, and wefwef.
Same with RIF, it’s throwing error 429 now. Well, Reddit Was Fun while it lasted
I’ll leave a couple of hot tips here.
This tampermonkey script helps make lemmy’s post listing look more like old reddit.
This extension helps you subscribe to communities on other instances, just set it up so it knows your account is on vlemmy.net (or wherever it is):
- Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lemmy-link/glhbnnmcnindhfaebnckcfdblggpjlog/related
- Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/lemmy-link/
- Github: https://github.com/FackJox/lemmy-link
Here’s a list of communities (subs): https://sub.rehab/
and a list of instances with their permissions: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
I hope tweaks like these are combined into a single extension later, like RES
And lemmyverse.net’s functionality definitely needs to be integrated in Lemmy itself. Not seeing the true member count (and thus activity) is a major blow to discoverability. And makes comms seem way smaller than they are to new users
Having looked around Lemmy a fair bit and understanding the platform structure a bit, I understand small well-run instance = gold, but new users without that onboarding would easily be turned away by small user counts.
Maybe it’s a problem of recent internet culture, but it seems like users have a hard time taking the effort to understand a new interface. Whatever the reason, simplicity that pushes users to understand where they are could be quite helpful.
Agreed. Onboarding and discoverability should be the top priority.
Apps should go as far as to assign new users to a random general instances (lemm.ee, lemmy.one, vlemmy.net etc) if it means users not having to know about instances.
Just joined and am a little confused. I went to the link with all the subs and I favorited a bunch of them, but none of them are showing up in my communities.
If your in Lemmy go to communities link, make sure you select all, then search/browse. You’ll need to select one, and from there should see a subscribe button/link. Not sure if your “saving” them or what. Not sure I know what favorite means in your context.
I went to the sub.rehab link and clicked the star to favorite but I guess that didn’t actually subscribe/follow any of those communities.
I like this instance; it has a cool name and logo, is federated properly with other instances, and is updated to 0.18
Only issue I’m having though is that the ‘hot’ view often shows very old and irrelevant posts right now, which would no doubt confuse newcomers that’ll come from tomorrow
This doesn’t seem to occur in other instances like lemmy.world or lemm.ee afaict.
That might be related to me running a 0.18.1 RC as I wanted the captcha to help with the bots, will try to get it resolved asap
Thank you for all the work you’re doing 🙏🙏
Yeah, I love this instance. It doesn’t seem to be blocked by any other instances either.
New user from Reddit here. Someone can explain what instances are?
Think of it like email. You have an account on gmail, i habe an account on yahoo, we can still email each other but we belong to different instances/servers/providers. Thats the most basic way to understand it.
This gives a good explanation.
Been chilling out on Mastodon (donphan.social is awesome). Deleted my Reddit account last week-ish and haven’t looked back. Why would I when I have a whole new world to explore? Learning about the fediverse is a lot of fun!
Haha I feel the same! It really does feel like a completely new and unexplored world. Kind of crazy to think that the idea of federation has been around since e-mail, yet only now people are applying it to social media!
