The next few days are going to be wild. Brace yourselves (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 years ago by ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/main@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Tomorrow, reddit will be shutting off 3rd party app access. If the twitter migration is anything to go by, that means that the wave of new users coming in the next few weeks will be much bigger than the wave we saw earlier this month.

Our lead techy admin @supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also recovering from broken bones and surgery, so she will be slower to respond to issues :)

All of that being said, we're as prepared as we can be. We're currently running our instance on hardware with excess capacity to spare, but who knows if it will be enough.

So, good luck to all of us, and see you on the other side :)

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[-] KyleDavidE@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The reddit app I used stopped working yesterday (yes I know why but it's funnier to pretend I don't) so here I am! Trying to figure out how lemmy works in the context of the larger fediverse.

[-] Toto@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Download Wifwif (pwa) and tell your friends. Let’s kill that IPO

[-] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Nothing comes up when I Google Wifwif pwa. What is it?

[-] OccupyMyMind@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

They likely meant wefwef :) It's a mobile app for lemmy

[-] Alegria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I googled that and I didn't find it, what is that?

[-] claymore@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

They mean wefwef, it's a Progressive Web App which means you visit their website (wefwef.app), press the three dots and select "Add to homescreen", instead of downloading it through the app store on your phone

[-] jessicasideways@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

Just got here and I hope a lot of awesome people head on over here from Reddit. To the #fediverse!

[-] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Hi, I'm one of the RiFugees, using the same name I did on Reddit. This looks like my place on lemmy for now, thanks to all who had the foresight to set it up!

[-] zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

I woke up to all this new content, amazing 😍🤩

[-] leigh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Eep! Wishing you a speedy recovery, @supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone! Take care of yourself first, we’ll understand if things here go wonky for a bit. 💜

[-] supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks!

I'm mostly on the mend now and able to tap keys again. Which is timely given the recent Reddit and Twitter happenings!

blobcat, code

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I rode the Apollo train right to the end, about ten minutes ago. So long, Shitty CEO, please let the door hit you twenty times on the way out.

[-] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Just know that I appreciate you all! Thank you!

[-] jdp23@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Exciting times! And get well soon Kaity!

[-] StarLuigi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I'm excited to welcome all the reddit refugees!

[-] onepinksheep@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

reddit refugees

Reddifugees?

[-] z3n0x@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Fledditors

[-] Rassilon@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

lemmigrants

[-] nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Now Twitter shitting itself in the name of forcing subscriptions is causing a mass migration to Mastedon. The Fediverse is going to get incredibly popular....fast.

[-] squip@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I could deal with not having reddit sync, but opening twitter today and seeing that I have a tweet ration made me immediately sign up for lemmy. I imagine a lot of people are similar

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Was waiting for Narwhal to break and it never happened. Turns out the dev got a deal to not pay anything until he can release a ‘Narwhal 2’ that’s subscription only. Wasn’t an Apollo user but the dev got shafted and reddit didn’t offer anything close to what the Narwhal dev did. Still deleted my account as planned and deleted their app off my phone.

[-] JustALilOlive73@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah I saw that too, spez is a piece of shit, did you also see all the lies he made up about the Apollo dev? It was so childish lol

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah. I was following all his posts even though I preferred a different app. fuck spez and fuck the dev of narwhal for being a boot-licker.

[-] leigh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Fuck spez, certainly, but I can easily understand why Narwhal’s developer took the deal. I’m sure they invested a huge amount of time and effort into their app and it’s hard to walk away from that when there’s a viable path forward. Apollo’s dev would have probably taken the same deal, had it been on the table. The problem was never that Reddit needed to start charging for API access, it’s that they priced it unreasonably high after assuring devs they wouldn’t and also gave very little notice before those prices took effect.

[-] LeylaaLovee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I was gonna keep lurking Reddit until Sync shut down, now I'm on Lemmy. Took me a little bit to figure the platform out tbh, having third party apps for it now seems to be great.

[-] Devious_Thoughts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

It's pretty easy once you figure out where to sign up, and download whichever app you like best. It's actually pretty flexible imo

[-] Jelly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

First comment on Lemmy! I think that it'll be hard to for people to understand instances at first but hopefully over time the value of chosing how you interact will be clear