Goodnight Apollo, my sweet prince.
Hello Memmy 🫡
Didn’t the Apollo developer say that he was planning on porting his app to the fediverse?
No, some other apps have
You may have already seen this, but there is a web app for Lemmy that looks and functions very similar to Apollo:
I’ve been trying it today, and it’s pretty good.
Wow! It really does feel very similar to Apollo. It will undoubtedly make the transition easier.
Thanks!
🙏
Wow, thanks for this.
Damn, that looks just like Apollo!
That’s the idea, but better because Fediverse>Reddit.
WTF! i been on lemmy for 2 weeks and this is my first time seeing this! Thanks
e: This is friggin amazing!
No prob, fam!
I’m just curious; why is it a web app and not something you can download? The black bar in the bottom of the screen makes it feel weird, also the fact that upvote/downvote colors are reversed. Other than that, it soothens my withdrawals from Apollo, and I think I’ll be using it a fair amount alongside Memmy (which feels nice, it’s not a 100% carbon copy, but familiar)
Click the share button and save it your home screen it’ll save and operate as an app. It’s a web app just a new build option that makes it easier for something to be accessible in multiple ways.
If only this was a native ios app 😭
I said this in another comment, but check out Memmy if you haven’t already! It’s the best I’ve used so far and totally reminds me of Apollo.
Holy shit, the developer has put some serious work in. I didn’t know web apps could be that good. There’s some insane attention to detail going on here
The dev is constantly updating it and is super communicative. Heres a link to the community
Oh nice! Subscribed.
Damn… I hadn’t been paying attention and thought that was actually exclusively an iOS app when I’d seen it mentioned before… Looks interesting.
You can use it oN Android and feels ilegal, but ilegally awesome.
Nah, it’s for everyone.
And if you save it to your Home Screen as an app it feels really good to use.
Yes… This is what I learned and the reason for my comment. It looks very interesting as I said. Not bad at all.
Wefwef feels like home. I was using Apollo for years and this feels very natural
+1
Incredible, and the dev keeps updating it like twice a day.
I’m also running a copy alongside my instance, thelemmy.club at app.thelemmy.club
I never was really fond of web apps but this is great.
Removed by mod
#liftoffgang!
I’ve been loving liftoff! Not sure if I’m ever gonna change or try another lemmy app tbh.
I’ll love what they’re building, but next to Memmy, Wefwef, Mlem, etc, Lift Off’s UI and UX needs the most work. I hope they can get a user experience person to start contributing.
i’m doubting there will be a large exodus… why wouldn’t they be here already?
I’ve personally been splitting my time a bit on mobile until my beloved RIF dies, then I’ll be here 100%.
There will be some but I doubt that it will be huge enough for Reddit to care. People will use their app, generate ad money. People willing to have ads in their experience probably have a higher tolerance for low quality posts, so any moderation changes likely won’t be killer. That’s my pessimistic take.
I think the moderation changes will affect even the most apathetic user in the end. I’m already seeing some of my subs start locking threads more readily instead of trying to keep the discussion going. If that becomes the norm, the value of Reddit from both a business and user perspective will take a serious hit.
The post about the Supreme Court and affirmative action was locked on the news sub
What kind of sense does that make? The number 1 post on r/all …. Locked for new comments? Must not have liked what people were posting about it.
Which is just terrible moderation
It took me a while to find the energy to move over to here. I still haven’t gone to look for a lot of the equivalent communities that I had on Reddit. Frankly I am still using Apollo as if nothing has changed, despite knowing it will stop working hours from now. I reckon there are plenty of people who need the actual impetus from it stopping working to actually change over to an alternative.
Started on RiF but changed to Boost. I’d say I was angry Reddit is doing this but honestly I’m just sad this is how it ends up.
Goodbye Sync for Reddit…
And hello Sync for Lemmy (soon)!
Sync is dead, long live Sync!
I really wish more apps were straight up switching to Lemmy like this.
One more day until Reddit Isn’t Fun… :(
It’s been a good run, but without RiF the site is worthless.
That being said, it paves the way for the Fediverse to grow, so rather than celebrating the end of an era, I’m enjoying the birth of a new one.
I crisis can be an opportunity.
It’s unlikely that reddit was the best site possible for us. We know how to improve it.
Yup. RIF forever stuck on reddit alternatives for me 😭. Out with the shitty old, upwards and onwards I guess.
I need to remember to screenshot the Forza Horizon 5 tunes for this week before it is too late.
So just got on Lemmy.world using the memmy app. Made it super simple to join which I feel will really help this grow as the less tech savvy will be able to join.
What I miss is the amount of content, but that’s about it really. So far, Lemmy feels a lot friendlier and just… more fresh? Maybe Reddit doing their IPO will turn out to be a good thing for the internet overall
It very much feels like early Reddit, i do hope for more content but honestly don’t really want it to grow as much as Reddit did and thus become like it
Agreed. It’s a breath of fresh air from the Reddit mileu, which has seemed to have grown so stale, predictable, and hostile over the years.
I had stopped participating in a lot of subreddits I had been really active in because they just became so large there felt like no point.
Lemmy doesn’t feel so… young. Feels like people here actually want to say something of substance other than a race to the bottom for karma
Have you seen the beehaw community survey~? https://beehaw.org/post/849832
Yeah I mean, that looks better than what I expect Reddit to be: 13-20
Could someone please explain to me that white/not white chart? What is white and not white?
I swear I actually don’t know, and I am kind of embarrassed to ask but I just want to know. Is it strictly skin color, like is there an RGBs value that if a person averages a darker saturation then they are not white, and above that bar they are white? Or is it an aggregate of ethnicities that fall into the category of “white”?
Seriously if anyone could help me understand here. I got into an argument with someone not long ago because I said white is not a race, and her friends were backing her up as well.
I just wanna understand.
I think usually ethnicity is a better way of identifying as that takes into account historical, cultural and ancestual similatities within people, rather than race which is mainly concerned with skin colour and physical differences. Race is seeminly a more outdated concept.
In this scenario I would assume White refers to ‘of european / american decent’.
Though someone correct me if I’m off the mark there!
It is difficult and not that black and white (pun not intended). I would personally say that for external factors it is skin color. Like how other people perceive you. That’s why the term ‘white-passing’ exists. But for internal factors it is different. Like, for example, I am a quarter black. But just like a lot of people who are a quarter black or anything, I look white. So to other people I am white because they can only see skin color, but I know that’s not the whole truth because I know my family history. But I am still given privileges in society purely based on the fact that I look white that people with darker skin don’t get. I have fully black friend and when we were in high school (didn’t know each other back then yet) we both skipped school so much that we got in trouble with attendance laws in our country. We did the exact same thing, and got community service, but I, as a ‘white’ girl, got to spend it helping out a library, while he, a black young man, had to pick trash at the side of the road.
It is to some extent also influenced by ethnicity, more so in the past than now, like how Italians and the Irish weren’t considered white when they immigrated to America by the people of English descent. But because of the history of colonialism and slavery by majority white countries over majority non-white countries, it has almost exclusively connotations to skin color now.
Of course, ‘race’, in the biological sense, doesn’t actually exist in humans. We’re all the same race, homo sapiens. But we still use the word race today as a shorthand because historically, when people didn’t have as much knowledge about biology as we do now, people did actually think the different skin colors were different human races. So, biologically, neither white nor black nor Latino nor Asian nor whatever is an actual race, but socially, societally speaking, it is a useful shorthand for skin color because of difference in treatment, privilege, education, income, etc etc that comes with it from centuries of oppression, colonialism, slavery, exploitation and (‘scientific’) racism.
Gotta wonder why 21% of the people refused to answer whether they were aware of the fediverse before signing up.
Perhaps something along the lines of: skip/I don’t remember ?
Neurodivergence makes a lot of sense.
Back on reddit most of autism, adhd aspie memes itp subs felt way more friendly and generally better
Take into account ND people generally being more … faithful to their moral rules (can’t browse reddit without guilt anymore) and we are probably mostly ND
yes exactly! and people actually want to spark discussion. It’s really nice
I like your thinking!
I’m on kbin. It’s just… lightweight reddit basically. I dig it. The one thing we’re all going to lose is the content from 15 years of reddit though. Can’t just magically recreate or replace that in any short time frame.
Absolutely, people act like swapping over is no biggie, but there were all kinds of posts that led to obscure answers and provided such simple and pertinent information. Don’t know something, try a google then ask on reddit and someone will be either super helpful or condescending. It’s going to take a LOOOOOOOONG time for people to really swap if ever.
You know, there’s a huge difference between using reddit to find answers/solutions and actually adding content yourself. I’ve swapped in that I’m not posting/commenting on reddit anymore.
I can imagine I will be directed to reddit a lot when in search of specific information, but I’m blocking ads so they won’t get money from that and basically I’ll just be ‘taking’ from them, adding nothing of value really.
conversations over 2 weeks on reddit are entirely dead, though. People think you’re a lunatic for commenting on something over 5 days old, and while older posts are interesting, it’s not the way sites like this are used. Maybe for searches for information, but not conversation.
That content isn’t active discussions anymore, just archive to be searched. It’ll still be there. Just make sure you make new content in the fediverse.
It’s just… lightweight reddit basically. I dig it.
One could say you… digg it.
Probably a good time to take a short break until everything settles
lemmy may have growth pains, but I don’t expect reddit exit to be a crash more than a slow burn.
Lemmy has been great so far. I’ll definitely miss Apollo (and Alien Blue!) but the future looks bright for Lemmy.
I loved alien blue! Migrated to a few different apps after that stopped and settled on apollo. AB was awesome, and while i liked apollo (and bacon reader FTM) i always liked AB better.
Try: wefwef.app
Holy shit I’m ontye hot section lmao
RIF was part of my life for a decade. It’s crazy how emotional this experience has been. It feels like losing a home, a community, everything because some fuckface won’t find a compromise.
I do feel like that about Apollo. It’s crazy how different the Fediverse feels via a UI that copies Apollo pretty closely, I feel like I just dropped into a gaggle of tiny subs. Sure most features are missing, but the progress is so fast.
I still am pretty bummed about losing the old site. I’ve spent so long there. But I was hopping sites before and it’s now wrong to start doing that again. Complacency is how we get apps like Instagram, which are more ads than pictures of friends (which is all I want out of that platform)
I lost RARBG and then Reddit both in one month. Both I would go to daily.
I felt, and still do feel a sense of hollowness that their familiarity had filled.
It’s not quite the same but at least for RARBG I’ve found TorrentGalaxy (torrentgalaxy . to) to be good place for torrents now.
