[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation

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!

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

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'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 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.

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'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

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.

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

Lookin forward to seein wefwef grow

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Finally glad reddit is dying

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

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!

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

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.

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).