Communities will need time to grow again, but I'm hopeful and cautiously optimistic

Any time you feel the urge to open reddit, make a post on Lemmy...

It might take a minute, but this will be the new exciting place if we keep at it.

I on the other hand feel free lol. I have no urge to check reddit and I'm still exploring lemmy. Also it's just better to go do other things instead of wasting my phone battery just for the sake of wasting time.

This blackout has highlighted the extent of my scrolling addiction.

Did the same thing, replacement is Jerboa!

@JackOfAllTraits @gimlithepirate great idea!

This worked lol.

Same. Def worked so far too.

Same here. Been using Mlem for iOS

This is the way.

Very much this. I've got an almost automatic habit of opening reddit when I'm bored and don't have much to do. After a couple of times of seeing that message, I've been searching for the lemmy counterparts for my favourite subs. Turns out a lot of them are getting some steam!

Same here. It is muscle memory still.

Find a community that you like here and create post and talk. Only way around reddit for now. Give it a week and it will die down

Most of the redditors only use reddit. To get news, memes, communicate, QnA, everything. That's the reason this protest isn't that effective. People are still gonna browse now and then and give them the sweet ad money, because people literally have nothing else to do.

lt would be a lot harder to say goodbye if they cared about having us.

Jerboa has made the transition much smoother than I expected. Dark mode, card views and basic collapsing and font adjustment is such a relief.

The mobile browser version is already pretty satisfying though and feels almost like home as a long time RIF user.

I just noticed that I was 2 versions out of date (installed via F-Droid last week) and was annoyed at some usability bugs. The latest version seems nicer so far.

I'm interested in getting involved in development of Jerboa, so hopefully I find a few more annoying things that haven't been fixed yet. Feel free to complain to me to hopefully motivate me to actually fire up Android Studio and get working on it.

I've commented once already that I hope the influx of new users helps the development of Jerboa and/or encourages other developers to build on Lemmy.

It would be nice seeing Lemmy is Fun/Boost for Lemmy/Sync for Lemmy clones popping up.

I had to go and delete the app to stop me opening it!

And you’re back, just as the cycle foretold.

Exactly my experience and what I ended up doing, put Jerboa on the spot I normally have RIF

I'm on a Pixel so not sure if what I'm about to say is possible for everyone, but I used "Digital Wellbeing" to set a usage limit of 0 minutes for RiF, then put Jerboa in the same spot. Working for me at least to not have to completely change muscle memory.

I'm sorta looking forward to how lemmy/beehive/fediverse system improves. It's kinda exciting. Like sure things are a bit rough around the edges for now but so was reddit for a long time. Seems like there's a lot of people working to improve and make it better, and the communities are actually pretty big! I'm excited to get off reddit, that shit was getting stale and I'm hoping that this "reset" will also help build new communities that aren't just reposting the same shit over and over again.

Yeah, I'm really liking this app. Works pretty smoothly and has great UI.

I got permabanned on reddit and twitter so i'm staying here too

That will probably take a while. The only reason we’re here is because of reddit and spez being a greedy pigboy, so naturally that’s gonna be a topic of discussion for a while.

Once this place has a chance to build up a bit of an identity, I suspect that’ll go away.

It's gonna be like this until the blackout is over. eventually we will move on from reddit

As the other community said, right now, we're just here because of spez being an asshole. Let this situation end and it'll normalize

all AI on this instance, we keep the reddit stuff in meta.

At the same time?

There's more of us lol

For me, reddit was mostly something I browsed in a moment of boredom, micro breaks from work to clear my mind, or on the toilet.

Unlocking my phone and clicking on the app was one of those muscle-memory actions I wouldn't even think about. Especially when stoned..

I've unlocked my phone and clicked on the empty space in my home screen before I consciously processed what I had just done.

I've now replaced it with jerboa for lemmy haha.

Perspective may not fix my problems, but it sure makes me happy I'm not those guys.

I just did this too. Only hope I have 😂

Haha I got bit by that today. Had to use the wayback machine.

3 times today

Agree, it's happened to me too, answer is post the question on Lemmy instead! This time those ass hats can't take it away.

That ought to get the general public's attention. Spez really stuck his foot in it this time.

That's what I did too. It's not quite the same. But muscle memory doesn't betray me at least.

Jerboas a really nice app. Very customizable like RIF

This did the trick for me as well

I replaced it with Jerboa. Muscle memory will help :P

Absolutely agree. The signal-to-noise ratio here is just incredible.

Aye captain.

Amen. Half the battle is actually contributing/replying for engagement metrics, so here I am :)

I wish I could find an enjoyable experience, but it’s tough to use Lemmy the way I want on iOS. I’m sticking with it though and hoping tooling catches up soon.

I used rif, so I'm just done with reddit now. I'm not using any other app, and I refuse to use a browser. Bye bye, reddit.

i get this a lot randomly as well, on any platform. i assume it's just a bug, sometimes hours later it'll have worked on the server side, sometimes not. very annoying

I love trashy sci-fi! Any recommendations?

I deleted Boost from my homescreen and added jerboa. Seems to be working for now. I've also been on YouTube more than I've ever been in my life. Thank the devs for revanced.

Lol I've clicked it so many times while it's paused. Need to switch my app locations

I still have like 1 or 2 communities I don't have replacements for (yet), so I plan to treat them as forums essentially. Just the specific subs I care about.

Basically I'm thinking I'll quit using the front page.

I'm on my computer, so that doesn't work quite as well.

Boost for Reddit was the best 3P app and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise! Hopefully, we'll be seeing a Boost for Lemmy clone in the app store soon.

I fuckin like Lemmy man. It's kinda jank on the app (Jerboa) but it's in alpha and they're doing a great job fixing it and making it intuitive. It's fun to talk in the comments, threads are smaller but the chat is real. I wish there was more content but it'll come.

Idk man it's cool I dig it.

Yeah, once I replaced RiF with the Jerboa icon it's like muscle memory Day 2 and I'm already used to jerboa/Lemmy/feddiverse whatever you wanna call it lol

What's the news aggregator you downloaded?

Same, RIF will be dead soon once the API changes take effect. Might as well rip the bandaid off now.

I just put the gerboa app in the same position as reddit so muscle memory opens to Lemmy now.

I killed my 15 year old account yesterday. Looking through the history though there wasn't anything to be nostalgic about - I talked a lot of shit

Really? Lemmy loads instantly for me. Weird.

I had this problem too, when my account was on lemmy.ml. I recreated my account on my now-home instance, and everything has been so fast that I'm realizing how slow even old reddit has become. Lemmy caches your feed's posts on your home instance, so it's faster even for posts made on overloaded servers (though new comments coming in might be intermittent in that specific case).

Are you comnected to one of the more popular instances? Mine was the same way until I switched.

What's tildes for?

You've gone this whole time without a bookmark??

Lol I never had notifications on for reddit. That would feel so invansive.

My most recent notification was from 16 hours ago. Looks like all of my subscribed subs have gone dark!

I think it's a good idea to log out, outherwise they still count you in I think...

If you make it I will join! Or I can make it

When I click your link I get stuck on the wrong server or something and can’t comment, any advice?

It’s not just an outage, it’s a boycotting that happened to cause an actual outage. My outage is indefinite!

It is, but it sort of depends on if you're on Lemmy to pass the time or to see if it's a platform you'd be able to migrate to if you choose to. I'm personally hoping that Lemmy becomes a viable alternative that can be my primary community board, and maybe return to Reddit only for the couple of communities that don't have suitable replacements yet.

Yes the 12th through the 14th but come june 30th all third-party apps will die. and that's when the real traffic here will start. my sub has went dark for 2 days as well to protest.

A lot of the subs I follow are closed indefinitely.