[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation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 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 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.

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 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.

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!

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

Lookin forward to seein wefwef grow

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

Finally glad reddit is dying

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.

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

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

long time lurker < 10 posts reporting in

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

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

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).

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.