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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      Commenting to help bump this comment up. We’re grateful for the work you provide your community. Take care of yourself and do your best! We’ll all see each other on the other side.

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      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

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    RedditIsFun is down, so I am out. Used it for the 10 years I was there, and don’t like the “New Reddit” they’ve been creating for monetization-sake.

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      10 years here as well. Was sad opening it up and seeing nothing, even though I knew it was coming.

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        Yeah. It’s bittersweet for sure. I used to thoroughly enjoy reddit 5 or so years ago… and at the risk sounding like a crotchety old man, “it’s not as good as it once was!” Things change, and I’m eager to see if lemmy is as good as it is in theory. Federated site sounds so futuristicly positive!

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        Was worse because they closed it down at like 5pm on the 30th where Reddit is based. I was hoping it would last till midnight :/

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      So I was going to go check and make sure Joey wasn’t working and well lol it’s up. Also their subreddit mentions red reader being up. What’s that about?

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      Same, I’ve had a reddit account for 8 years, but I lurked since maybe a couple of years since it’s inception. Used RIF for maybe 6 years.

      I hate what reddit has become. I’m not someone who regularly participates with any communities, so I cannot really be relied upon to generate content, I’m a perpetual consumer rather than a producer.

      I’m just looking for somewhere that gives me access to the latest news about the things I care about. So far Lemmy seems to have a lot if promise!

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        Do you have any advice on finding the subreddit equivalents? I followed a lot of hyperspecific subs like FortniteLeaks and Indiettrpg design and lfg stuff, and I’ve no idea how to find things like that here

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          Every instance seems to make a asklemmy or copy of other popular Reddit subs, so everything is spread out. I bet we just have to wait a bit to see where people will post, how much server power instances needs, which ones will survive and so on.

          Interesting times indeed.

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      Yup, same. Been on it since 2011 or so. I’m transitioning out of that space. Trying to find the most user-friendly Lemmy experience, atm.

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    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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    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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      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

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    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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    Well, rif is gone, so now reddit is too. I hope this place and others on lemmy grow to have vibrant and flourishing communities

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    On that note, jeroba throws an error every time i open it about how this instance is older than the lowest supported version, but it seems like i can still use most of the sites functinality? Just thought i’d mention that

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      Yep, that’s a screw up by the Jerboa devs. If we upgraded to 0.18 we would lose captcha, and version 0.18.1 with captcha hasn’t been released yet. So there is no way for us to safely upgrade to the version Jerboa wants just yet.

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      I switched from Jerboa to Thunder today. It’s so much nicer, but still missing some features. The web app Wefwef is pretty nice too.

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      I use Memmy and i have no issues. They’re going to be in the App Store very soon according to changelog

      Here’s a link to beta if you’re on iOS

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    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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      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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          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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      Same with Relay, seems to be working just fine so guess he struck some kind of deal too

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    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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    It’s a good time to encourage those who can afford it to donate a couple of bucks to your home instance operator for server costs, etc. :)

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    Honestly, it’s really hard to say what will happen. I do think there’s gonna be an exodus from reddit, however it’s hard to say where people will go after that. kbin has been coming up in discussions about reddit alternatives, but same with some of the other federated setups. I’ve been searching for the past week for something that looks/feels like reddit and this is the closest thing so far. I will say, hopefully since it’s going down on a Friday, there might be a lull until Monday before people really start coming in.

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      I really don’t think that many more people are going to switch at this point. Not even sure why so many people think they’d be fine with everything the last two weeks have held, but the actual date of the API change would be the breaking point.

      • Many simply don’t know about it. I was talking to a friend yesterday. I know he uses Reddit as we share memes and stuff. He said that he had no idea that that was happening. I helped him get onto Lemmy.

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        I mean, I knew it was probably hopeless that there would be any reversal but I stuck around until a day ago. I imagine that 3rd party app users, especially those who know they hate the official app, will be more likely to emigrate now that most apps cut off today. The only reason I used reddit as much as I did was because of Boost. I’m sure there are plenty of others who feel the same about other apps and stuck around until the end.

        As for how many… I’m not sure. I saw a lot of people in 3rd party app subs posting about losing access but of those how many will go to Lemmy? We’ll see I suppose.