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  • Jumpstart your subscription list using https://redditmigration.com
  • Try commenting or posting. Just try it! Many people who stopped engaging on reddit find the community more rewarding here.
  • Try sticking with Lemmy / Kbin for a few days. Until your fingers learn to get their fix a new way, and you get your subscription list built up a bit.

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Many people are happy at this point… but what to do if you want to help the switch to fediverse but you’re still jonesing for reddit after a few days? A few ideas….

  • Its OK! Reddit simply has more volume and a bigger stack of communities as of Jun 30, 2023. Its /probably/ (?) not going to disappear overnight. Its not an either/or, you can use lemmy / kbin more and more over time.
  • Start your internet browsing time on lemmy / kbin first. If you’re “still hungry”, supplement with reddit.
  • Consider instituting a “read only reddit” policy: no posts, comments, or upvotes. Its MUCH easier to stop adding to Reddit than it is to quit cold turkey. If you don’t like reddit’s behavior, this is a good way to collectively switch momentum toward the fediverse without making big personal sacrifices.
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Holy shit. Wefwef is so fucking good

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's honestly the best progressive web app I've ever used.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what is a progressive web app? Is it like a pseudo-app built into a browser like Safari?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A PWA is an app that's built on web platform technologies and use the browser engine to emulate a native platform app that uses platform specific technologies (Android, iOS). Since they use the browser to serve functionality, they can be presented on any operating system, and the browser UI is supplanted by the app UI. It can still be deeply integrated into the device, so you can install it to your phone, you get the icon, they can access functions of the device, like notifications, running in the background, running offline even in some use cases. Just instead of the device OS providing the backend, the browser functions as the backend. It's basically a website wrapper, though I hesitate to call it that for fear of being reductive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, that's good to know. That actually makes a lot of sense. Is this the future way of making apps for devices? Can a PWA work on both iOS and Android by just having the url? Sorry for all the questions, it's actually quite interesting to hear about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My knowledge is really surface level as I'm not a developer. I'm just fascinated by stuff like this and seeing how far they can push it. It doesn't seem like web apps have taken off the way that native apps have, but part of that is people getting better and better internet over time and more powerful phones, so that things can run without the jank. It does work on both iOS and Android in modern browsers just by going to the URL. Wefwef really is quite stunning, especially if you take into account how new it is and how much they've done in so little time. Another good one is https://weather.com, which you can install the same way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It feels almost native. I hope they eventually make it native. But even if not I’ll keep using just cuz it’s the best we’ve got.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Also add Sub Rehab to the 'jumpstart your subscription'. Has a bunch of subreddits and a way to submit linked subreddits/communities

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I urge everyone to support a community you like by posting interesting topics and commenting, and the rest will follow. Don't just wait for people to do it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Might be a stupid question, but I iust signed up for lemmy.world today and wanted to add some communities from the migration list here. The equivalent of r/anarchychess is listed as https://sopuli.xyz/c/anarchychess and on my first visit to that site I couldn't really figure out how to subscribe... in this case sopuli would be the hosting instance if I understand. Do I need a sopuli account to subscribe and just add that account to my lemmy app? Or did I just not find the right option?

[–] bdonvr 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The best way to link communities is like this:

[email protected]

You should be able to click that :)

You can also just do a search for it and it should pop up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think you can link communities like that ? Or maybe it's only supported in some clients / instances. My understanding is that you need to link them by using the usual markdown link syntax (or the link button below the editor) and input /c/[email protected] as the link target.

Like this:

[anarchychess](/c/[email protected])

Which will render like this:

anarchychess

Note however that I've had some problems with this previously. I suspect that the first time someone tries to access a remote community from whatever instance you're on, your instance runs some heavy API queries which are prone to failure if either instance is under heavy load.

[–] bdonvr 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your instance is pretty outdated. Most have updated to 0.18, while you're still on 0.17.3

In 0.18 you can just type !community@instance and it will automatically link it and keep you on your own instance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Neat, good to know!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Noob here too.

I don't think you need another account on the separate instance as long as it's federated to lemmy.world

I think you need to subscribe to the following

https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

source of my info https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2212

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Use the web interface and search for either:

[email protected]

Or

The full url like you linked it.

Be patient, if it's a community that's new to your server it may take a couple minutes to find it.

I say to use the web interface because all the apps are rather immature and inconsistent in their handling of this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I figured it out I think! The problem was that the link basically opened in a browser, and the browser has no idea what my Lemmy.world login is. My Lemmy App (Connect) has a search bar on the left side where I had to enter the community name and choose the right instance. IE there were 3 different Anarchychess communities with the same name, but the Sopuli instance was the "right" one. Going to the page trough the search bar allowed me to subscribe like I wanted.

[–] bdonvr 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah there's lots of competing communities with similar or the same name. Usually picking the most active one will be the best bet. One will win and become the default just give it a little time

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I’ve been using wefwef for a bit and just installed memmy. IMHO wefwef has the potential to be great. Memmy is great already - super polished.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Tried downloading the testflight of memmy, but it's asking for a code. I searched the github but didn't find one =/

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it me or kbin just doesn't federate properly? Its always lacking comments on many posts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I can't get kbin to federate at all to my Lemmy server. Other Lemmys work fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There's a map of subredits and their new homes, seb.rehab. Many are official others are just copies. You can filter the list to just lemmy communities and kbin magazine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

wefwef is such a life saver. It literally feels like Apollo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

ELI5: What does “pick an instance” mean? What would I be deciding on?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Basically do you like the administration policies of the instance. All instances can speak to all other instances, unless instances block each other.

Lemmy isn't one website, it's a bunch of websites talking to each other and people choose to moderate in their own manner, and can also choose to stop talking to other websites if they deem them to be a problem.

It's less obvious when picking between big general ones, but here's some examples:

  • beehaw.org: A curated instance with extremely heavy moderation. Leans centre-left.
  • lemmynsfw.com: It's in the name - allows NSFW (porn) posts, which other instances tend not to like hosting.
  • lemmy.dbzer0.com: Primarily focused around Piracy, something other instances wouldn't be comfortable hosting.
  • exploding-heads.com: "Free speech" instance (you know what that means)
  • lemmygrad.ml: Extreme-left instance, labelled as "tankies" by most people.

Then other than that, you have the big general ones such as lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, sh.itjust.works, and so on. Each of those will have their own rules, but tend to be about anything and everything, but it's still important to learn how they moderate their instances!

Don't forget though, no matter which instance you pick, you can still interact with all the other instances unless they are blocked (which they are in some cases for various reasons).

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thank you for this, one part I'm still struggling with and would appreciate help...

How do I subscribe to a community that is on another instance and have it show up on my account? Example - I have an account here at lemmy.world, but there's https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy community and I'd love to see their posts in one place on my lemmy.world account. How do I do this? If I navigate to that link, it asks me to create a lemmy.dbzer0 account to subscribe so i dont think i'm following the correct pathway

eta - nevermind i figured it out. going to leave my comment here for others though

so what you have to do is search for that community on your own instance and then select it and subscribe that way. Can't follow the link directly to the instance, but rather have to search using lemmy.world's search and follow the link from there. So for instance: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

(if there's a more straightforward way, i'd still appreciate tips)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You got it right, if you want to use your lemmy.world account, you gotta browse through lemmy.world.

Going to https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy you would need a lemmy.dbzer0.com account.

You can also link to another community on another instance with this syntax: [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For read only reddit use teddit (old.reddit style) or libreddit (new reddit style). They proxy instead of use the API so both still work but you can't log in. sub.rehab has a good listing of reddit to lemmy equivalents.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Consider instituting a “read only reddit” policy

One should also log-out of Reddit if possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Excellent post! I know I can't switch from Reddit all at once, I was kind of booted off a few hours ago once my app stopped connecting. I anticipate it'll be a lot of fun exploring new communities here. There was a bit of a routine to checking my default subs in Reddit, being forced to change things up might help to expand my interests.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for this. Im a total noob and trying to learn all these new sites and lingo. Now i know enough to be dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm still having a bit of trouble using Lemmy. I have Jerboa on my phone but I can't use it right now, it says something about a version lower than v0.18 and trying a different instance and I can't log-in on my phone's browser because the circle just keeps spinning. I'm on my laptop and I feel like if I log this out, I'm gonna have troubles logging in again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People need to stop recommending lemmy.world when it has so many people already; join lemm.ee, vlemmy.net, or lemmy.one instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Or see if there's an instance for your local community. For example I'm Dutch, so I joined feddit.nl. This makes filtering by Local (as opposed to Subscribed or All) actually usefully to see what's new on communities on the instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.world is a heavily loaded instance. You may be better off trying somewhere smaller. lemmy.one is pretty decent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had the same issue. It seems that lemmy.world is not yet upgraded to 0.18, but Jerboa requires it. I was able to fix it by downloaded an older version of Jerboa (specifically, version 0.34 or older).

I later switched to Liftoff, which seems to be a much smoother experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.world just upgraded to 0.18 a couple of hours ago. Still a little sluggish but has improved significantly over the last half hour.

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