• snake_case@feddit.ukEnglish
      18·
      2 years ago

      They could really do with better explanation of the federated servers before people sign up. I did do a little research before I knew which instance to use

      • ugh... lo!@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
        10·
        2 years ago

        Well, that’s why open source is so powerful - everything can (and, in fact, should) be done by community for community

        Usually developers aren’t good writers :)

      • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬English
        4·
        2 years ago

        I still hope it will become easier one day to Docker-host a Lemmy instance where other Docker setup and containers are already present and cannot be changed just for Lemmy.

        • pitninja@lemmy.pit.ninjaEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I spun up a separate instance because I didn’t even want to bother trying to roll my own unsupported reverse proxy config. And things are still glitchy enough as is. It’s a fun learning experience, though. Sometimes the less polished things are, the more opportunity there is to learn

        • DoakSteezy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          2 years ago

          Yeah, I admittedly havent looked into it too much but if it were easy enough I’d set up an instance at the very least to host users.

      • alongwaysgone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, I’m sure it’s only getting worse… I’m in a few instances, and haven’t payed too much attention to what others were around for a couple of weeks now.

      • TwoCubed@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        You know what? I think it’s good if it’s not that accessible. The internet has turned to shit because every fucking idiot with a phone has such easy access to it. It’s good if people have to think for a minute before being able to participate. It’s not difficult, but it might cull the toxic bullshit people a bit.

    • nightyEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ take my energy donation

  • snake_case@feddit.ukEnglish
    451·
    2 years ago

    The amount of people has increased, even within the last few days, a bigger community is always better, but I’d like us to keep the same optimistic and appreciative attitudes we all seem to have at the moment, that would really make it so much better than Reddit

  • PromessaEnglish
    42·
    2 years ago

    Was browsing Sync For Reddit a few minutes ago when it finally shut down. Just got the following notification:

    Sync For Reddit has shutdown. Thank you for using Sync. It’s been one hell of a ride.

    Man am I pissed. It’s been harder and harder to browse Reddit with a clear conscience lately, and now the changes are finally real. Happy to be here now.

  • Bruhmoment@lemm.eeEnglish
    42·
    2 years ago

    I really don’t understand how people can still use reddit with a clean conscience especially after their treatment to Christian and other 3rd party developers. They’ve made it clear with their words and actions that they don’t give a fuck about their users, so how can a respectful person still choose to stay? It was a lost cause since the beginning, the protests were never going to work. I appreciate the ones who’ve decided to abandon the ship and join us here.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      451·
      2 years ago

      People are desensitized.

      Most services or products have some toe dipped in shady shit, so people have been forced to learn to reconcile with participating more or less in a least some unethical bullshit, just to have a normal life.

      Want to have a t-shirt? Probably just supported slave labour.

      Want to talk to a friend? Probably just sold you digital soul to a megacorp, and at least two foreign powers.

      • Bruhmoment@lemm.eeEnglish
        16·
        2 years ago

        I get what you’re saying and I also completely understand why people have become desensitised but there’s nothing more dangerous than an apathetic society.

        We can’t end world hunger, but we can atleast feed a poor person. We can’t end child labour, but we can atleast sponsor a child’s education and basic necessities.

        Just because we can’t end it all doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and contribute to make our society a better place in whatever way we can.

        • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
          14·
          2 years ago

          I agree, and its one of the reasons I push the people around me to think about how the world works more.

          I can’t fix everything, but I’m doing what I can, and I try to get the passive people I can get to, to snap out of it.

          You said you couldn’t understand these people, but it’s possible. And doing so, is step one of getting through to them.

        • like100dollars@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          2 years ago

          I don’t think that just because some people don’t abandon Reddit now means they’re apathetic or desensitized in general. There’s so many things wrong with the world and not everyone can and will fight everything all the time. People have different item on the top of their lists.

          I’m certain you are doing things in your life others would be flabbergasted at like you are here. For example: Do you eat meat, tuna, stuff with palm oil? Do you have pets? Do you drive a car? There’s people out there who’d call you apathetic to the problems these things cause.

          I’m certainly not a saint 100% of the time because if I tried I’d fall apart. Like everyone else would.

          Edit: removed double negative

          • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            I think the biggest takeaway here is time. I have a massive to-do list and priority list, and realistically I don’t have the time to research every single product I buy, what services I subscribe to, nor do I really have time to volunteer because I’m working so much to keep myself and my wife afloat. I do my damnedest to make informed decisions on products I buy, but at the end of the day, there is not such thing as ethically sourced gasoline. I’m down to do something or anything to help change society, but every option at the moment either gets you locked up, made a mockery, or made a martyr.

      • Fredselfish English
        9·
        2 years ago

        Your so right. All these things are because of capitalism. If we could tear that down we may get a chance to fix things. But as long as it exists the world will keep getting worse.

        • Lurking CitizenEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          undefined> But as long as it exists the world will keep getting worse

          The hope I have is that one day, with all the wealth this country has amassed through capitalism, the government can redistribute that wealth to improve the quality of life for citizens. Use that wealth to improve health care, affordable education, build a shit load of homes for people, I can go on and on.

          It’s not wealth itself, it’s the way it’s used.

      • Contend6248@feddit.deEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        Absolutely true, when i saw that there are even people defending Reddit i just had to get rid of it.

        I want to distance myself from this shit or my blood will boil over.

        Cheers to a new home with people doing something against these megacorp practices these days.

        • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          “But companies must make profits! It’s what they are for!”

          It’s disgusting. As if corporations technically being soulless, justifies them behaving in the exact way that implies they would, and do.

          • RootiestEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            It’s not animated when formatted this way though, at least not in any of the apps I tried.

            It does work on the browser page though.

            • DecentMEnglish
              0·
              2 years ago

              It’s animated in Liftoff, although it just now got an update

    • Lurking CitizenEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      undefined> so how can a respectful person still choose to stay?

      You have to keep in mind that most, maybe majority of people, are just consumers. They don’t care about the background stuff going on as long as they can access their favorite source of content. You can say the same thing about Twitter. People won’t care until it directly affects them.

        • Lurking CitizenEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I mean to the point where they can’t log in or some feature they use to just read and reply are disabled because of a change made by Reddit. Or if they have to pay money to keep an account or be active on the site.

    • piandicecream@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      This is me…as much as I wanted to stick around Reddit, my conscience wouldn’t let me. I hope it shrivels in the coming months.

  • lawl@lemm.eeEnglish
    30·
    2 years ago

    Tbh I just hope that reddit will fail after 1st of july just so they would finally understand that the community is everything.

    • speedy_delivery@dubvee.orgEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      It won’t die in a straight line, but this is an inflection point that can help this or another platform mature to the point that it becomes an easier move for the next wave of dissidents.

    • mouldycotton@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I can’t speak for others, but for me Apollo WAS Reddit. With it being gone, I’ve now moved on to Lemmy with wefwef.

      Hopefully with time (and a growing user base) we can all call this place our new home!

      • Lethocerus@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        It was baconreader for me on Android. It was perfect. I even tried looking at old.reddit.com and that was a nightmare compared to baconreader. Can’t wait to see how Lemmy evolves and grows.

      • UnverifiedAPKEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I don’t see them competing with TikTok yet, YouTube is making an attempt though.

      • UnverifiedAPKEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I don’t see them competing with TikTok yet, YouTube is making an attempt though.

  • Dfy@lemm.eeEnglish
    24·
    2 years ago

    Just arrived after sync stopped working… seems like a nice place :)

    • Sololop@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      It’s been only 20 minutes since I got home from work and I already miss RIF. Lemmy is kinda confusing for me but I’m giving it a shot

      • SturgiesYrFaseEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I cut the cord with RIF a month ago, when they put the first notification in app about the coming changes. I’m using Jerboa, it’s buggy, missing a bunch of features RIF had, but it works well enough and updates frequently.

        Welcome to Lemmy.

      • SturgiesYrFaseEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I cut the cord with RIF a month ago, when they put the first notification in app about the coming changes. I’m using Jerboa, it’s buggy, missing a bunch of features RIF had, but it works well enough and updates frequently.

        Welcome to Lemmy.

      • BukoSpooko@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I’m sure it’ll take a minute to get used to it. Communities will take time to build. We’ll see how it goes, but I ain’t going back to reddit after all this buffoonery.

  • Altair@lemmy.worldEnglish
    202·
    2 years ago

    If we keep informing people about them.

    wefwef.app is the best rn imo; starting to feel like Apollo already.

    I say people should keep pushing Lemmy apps in reddit until at least a week after Sync for Lemmy is out in a few weeks

  • Midnight_Ice@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    2 years ago

    I’m excited for everyone to see how much better Lemmy is. I’m really happy we have a good option outside of Reddit.

    • nandosEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      I’ll admit I’m moving from reddit and don’t yet understand what lemmy and the fediverse are all about. I’m currently using the Connect for Lemmy app. So far it feels like there’s a lot less content here, or I have no idea how to find the popular instances/communities. Another small gripe I have is when I search for a community (eg. gamedev) there’s multiple that seem to be about the same thing. I’ve subscribed to them all and I guess that’s just the nature of decentralized communities but it certainly makes the user experience a bit less seamless.

      Does anyone have tips on how to best utilize Lemmy?

      • arthur@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        There is less content, “Rome wasn’t built in a single day”. But it will grow. And about the multiple communities, that’s true, the experience is different from Reddit, but that doesn’t mean it’s worse. This structure is new, so we will see how it grows.

      • Midnight_Ice@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        It does take a bit of poking around to learn, but once you get the hang of it things are pretty good. I’m excited for Sync for Lemmy so I have a more familiar app to use.

      • explodicle@local106.comEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I think we’ve been long overdue to replace essential social functions - like discussion forums - with community-run free software. I’ll put up with a lot of clunky for that payoff: people being able to discuss a topic without corporations getting between them.

        • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Oh yeah, but not as much. And many of the communities that have popped up since, would probably not have had enough activity to be worth starting before now.