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The next few days are going to be wild. Brace yourselves (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 3 years ago by [M] 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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[–] 4 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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

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    • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

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

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    [–] 3 points 3 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!

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    [–] 2 points 3 years ago

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

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    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. 💜

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    • [–] 1 point 3 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.

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Just know that I appreciate you all! Thank you!

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Exciting times! And get well soon Kaity!

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm excited to welcome all the reddit refugees!

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 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.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 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

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    They let Joey keep API access but cut off the NSFW content...

    So here I am lol.

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    [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I've been here since earlier this month but now that "Boost for Reddit" is down, I'll be here a lot more instead of splitting my time 50/50

    Thanks as always to you and @supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone!!! Best wishes that she gets better soon!

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    • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    get well soon @supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone !

    and good luck to the server and admins!

    hopefully things go smoothly enough :)

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