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.

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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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    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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        1 year ago

        My last day on Reddit I shared an excited post about a fun thing in a hobby sub of mine and I got such awful negative responses and people telling me I was attention seeking. It was really ugly. So that was pretty much when I decided to uninstall my Boost app and switch to Lemmy full time

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      The echo chambers are here, they’re just not quite as obvious. And, there are competing echo chambers so sometimes the whiplash between posts is a bit intense lol.

      It’s probably because of the instances that some of the subs I’m subscribed to are in lol.

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      1 year ago

      What app are you using? So far I’ve tried Liftoff, but I’m looking for something closer to Relay

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        I’m using Jerboa and have been testing Thunder since yesterday, not bad, but still a bit limited, we need to be patient and give the developers some time, there are already like 10 apps and a couple of forks of third party Reddit apps in active development.

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    Y’all are missing the real tragedy of this situation. This api fiasco means the end of RTV, reddit terminal viewer, the world’s finest TTY compatible reddit client. The days of reading reddit on an electronic typewriter are over.

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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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        Oh my… I remember IRC or was it IRQ? I can’t remember either way I’m old because I found out about it talking to someone on MSN.

        Edit: It was ICQ and I’m a square for getting them confused.

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            IRC was basically pre-everything. Before ICQ and MSN and WhatsApp and surely before telegram.

            Probably only Usenet was older, if we’re talking about social networking software.

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                Usenet was a hierarchical structure for what became the forums. You had a main tree and then separated branches for every argument, for example alt.sports then alt.sports.martialarts then alt.sports.martialarts.karate

                Usenet was text only, very fast with old modems compared to web pages.

                All the files (and piracy stuff) were relegated to alt.binaries

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            … another thing I missed lol. Well no more, I am at the beginnings this time. (Insert victorious laughter.)

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      1 year ago

      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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    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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    I didn’t know who Huffman, spez or the fact there was a bid to IPO until Apollo’s announcement of closure occurred. Why? Because I didn’t subscribe the Reddit’s main subreddits, I was very niche.

    Once I learned about all that, I vowed if they didn’t reverse their standing and treatment of Christian, I was leaving.

    Once the last week of June came and Spez triple-downed on his terrible business decision, I began using tools to destroy all of my content including topics I made that were all ranking #1 in Google, that causes plenty of PMs years after creation.

    I’ve since deleted all but one account that I’ll probably hold onto just in case they decide to block my access to information I need.

    I’ve deleted Apollo, Reddit’s official app and logged out on all browsers across all platforms I use. I’m done and liking WefWef as a replacement.

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      Hi, I’m a reddit refugee. Just set up an account and am using Connect app. It took me a while to stop unlocking my phone and slecting the rif icon, muscle memory is pretty weird thing.

      Very new to this as I’m sure many others are. Finding my feet, and am looking forward to creating new muscle memory for this!

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    I’m dropping Reddit completely in a social aspect. I’ll definitely be using it for the treasure trove of information it contains.

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      I’m gonna miss RIF. Such a good app. Would be awesome if they would do a Lemmy version.