Tomorrow's API Change

3 years ago by pyarra to c/chat

Hi all, tomorrow is when Reddits API change takes place and we are expecting a large influx of users and signups. I have prepared as much as possible but there still may be some down time. I will try my best to keep it as minimal as possible.

Please be helpful and welcoming to all the new users. Also keep an eye out in the Support community if you can and help answer any questions if possible. Thanks for eveyones help and contribution.

Also a massive thank you to everyone who donates. Its a huge help with the expenses for running the site. Im commitied to making this instance the best I can and any feedback good or bad is very much welcome.

elephantintheroom 16 points 3 years ago

Thank you for enabling us to be here. Keep up the good work!

I'm quite curious as to how many will actually turn up here. I guess we'll see.

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venia_sil 7 points 3 years ago

Starting tomorrow we're going to be seeing a new wave of “window shopping”. It'll be interesting to see how many (and which ones) of those do end up staying after, let's say, Jul 7th.

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OtakuAltair 7 points 3 years ago

3rd party app users will stay on lemmy/kbin if we comment and post about wefwef.app and Sync for Lemmy enough

both here and on relevant reddit threads

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drdiddlybadger 3 points 3 years ago

Yeah I didn't know about wefwef.app at all but I had heard of Sync, gotta hype the apps up more.

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OtakuAltair 13 points 3 years ago

I like this instance; it has a cool name and logo, is federated properly with other instances, and is updated to 0.18

Only issue I'm having though is that the 'hot' view often shows very old and irrelevant posts right now, which would no doubt confuse newcomers that'll come from tomorrow

This doesn't seem to occur in other instances like lemmy.world or lemm.ee afaict.

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pyarra 21 points 3 years ago

That might be related to me running a 0.18.1 RC as I wanted the captcha to help with the bots, will try to get it resolved asap

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OtakuAltair 13 points 3 years ago

Thank you for all the work you're doing 🙏🙏

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hemmes 6 points 3 years ago

Yeah, I love this instance. It doesn’t seem to be blocked by any other instances either.

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hubobes 13 points 3 years ago

Thx for the quick approval. Trying to find all my old reddit communities :)

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pizza_pineapple 5 points 3 years ago

Same haha

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avatar 12 points 3 years ago

I'll leave a couple of hot tips here.

This tampermonkey script helps make lemmy's post listing look more like old reddit.

https://github.com/soundjester/lemmy_monkey

This extension helps you subscribe to communities on other instances, just set it up so it knows your account is on vlemmy.net (or wherever it is):

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/...
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/...
Github: https://github.com/FackJox/lemmy-link

Here's a list of communities (subs): https://sub.rehab/

and a list of instances with their permissions: https://github.com/...

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OtakuAltair 4 points 3 years ago

I hope tweaks like these are combined into a single extension later, like RES

And lemmyverse.net's functionality definitely needs to be integrated in Lemmy itself. Not seeing the true member count (and thus activity) is a major blow to discoverability. And makes comms seem way smaller than they are to new users

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sogekingfisher 3 points 3 years ago

Having looked around Lemmy a fair bit and understanding the platform structure a bit, I understand small well-run instance = gold, but new users without that onboarding would easily be turned away by small user counts.

Maybe it's a problem of recent internet culture, but it seems like users have a hard time taking the effort to understand a new interface. Whatever the reason, simplicity that pushes users to understand where they are could be quite helpful.

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OtakuAltair 2 points 3 years ago

Agreed. Onboarding and discoverability should be the top priority.

Apps should go as far as to assign new users to a random general instances (lemm.ee, lemmy.one, vlemmy.net etc) if it means users not having to know about instances.

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CashmereWitch 2 points 3 years ago

Just joined and am a little confused. I went to the link with all the subs and I favorited a bunch of them, but none of them are showing up in my communities.

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dmtalon 2 points 3 years ago

If your in Lemmy go to communities link, make sure you select all, then search/browse. You'll need to select one, and from there should see a subscribe button/link. Not sure if your "saving" them or what. Not sure I know what favorite means in your context.

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CashmereWitch 2 points 3 years ago

I went to the sub.rehab link and clicked the star to favorite but I guess that didn’t actually subscribe/follow any of those communities.

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CashmereWitch 2 points 3 years ago

Also, I’m using wefwef and there doesn’t appear to be a communities tab anywhere.

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The_Weird_Child 12 points 3 years ago

Apollo appears to have just shut down about 10 minutes ago. I’m going to miss that app.

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broken_chatbot 9 points 3 years ago

Same with RIF, it's throwing error 429 now. Well, Reddit Was Fun while it lasted

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FrayDabson 5 points 3 years ago

Have you tried wefwef yet? It makes me feel like Apollo almost never left

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The_Weird_Child 3 points 3 years ago

Yep. I’m currently on Memmy, Mlem, and wefwef.

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RIP_Apollo 2 points 3 years ago

I’m not the guy you replied to but I just wanted to say thanks for mentioning wefwef. I hadn’t heard of it before but I just looked it up and gave it a try. This app (well, mobile web app) looks amazing! The UI is very similar to Apollo and I think it will help me through this painful transition from Reddit to Lemmy. Thanks again :)

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RatzChatsubo 2 points 3 years ago

Wefwef is the best currently until sync comes out

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crusa187 2 points 3 years ago

Checking in from Memmy, a beta mobile app that already has some familiar features from Apollo.

I’m going to miss it too amigo, but there’s hope for a bright and federated future for all!

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sour 11 points 3 years ago

Thank you for having us @pyarra. After years on Reddit (almost all of which using Apollo), I look forward to being here. I've even made a community reminiscent of one of my old favorites and I look forward to finding others!

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ExecuteOrder69 5 points 3 years ago

Another reddit refugee. Used Sync for about a decade so Lemmy was the obvious choice when I heard there would be a sync for Lemmy. I have high hopes

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Hyphlosion 10 points 3 years ago

Been chilling out on Mastodon (donphan.social is awesome). Deleted my Reddit account last week-ish and haven’t looked back. Why would I when I have a whole new world to explore? Learning about the fediverse is a lot of fun!

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amanwithausername 2 points 3 years ago

Haha I feel the same! It really does feel like a completely new and unexplored world. Kind of crazy to think that the idea of federation has been around since e-mail, yet only now people are applying it to social media!

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smoll_pp_operator 9 points 3 years ago

Hi! Thank you for approving me!

Currently mixed emotions as I watch Power Delete Suite meticulously destroy my 12 years of reddit history.

201 pages and counting...

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lankyfrog_redux 8 points 3 years ago

Thanks. Not thrilled about this move, but glad to have an alternative

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Gimmethehotsauce 7 points 3 years ago

Count me as 1 from Reddit. 11+ years with BaconReader.

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Cryan24 1 point 3 years ago

I'm in the same boat, I hope u/onelouderchick ports baconreader to Lemmy.

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Worstdriver 6 points 3 years ago

Thanks for having a place for us to come to. 11 year account with Reddit died today.

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tappytoes 5 points 3 years ago

Thanks for prepping and creating this, you rock!!

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hero2zer0 4 points 3 years ago

Thanks for taking the effort, mate!

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PANICGHOST 4 points 3 years ago

Just testing my new account with a comment here.

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Guster 3 points 3 years ago

New user from Reddit here. Someone can explain what instances are?

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pyarra 11 points 3 years ago

Think of it like email. You have an account on gmail, i habe an account on yahoo, we can still email each other but we belong to different instances/servers/providers. Thats the most basic way to understand it.

https://imgur.com/a/uyoYySY

This gives a good explanation.

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Guster 3 points 3 years ago

Thank you, that image explained it perfectly

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Jay_RnR 2 points 3 years ago

Thank you, that helped!

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slowcurrent 2 points 3 years ago

Hi, I just wanted to ask if there is any banning going on here if you sub to beehaw? I rad somewhere that noobs, like me, are getting banned for subbing to instances without knowing what's going on.

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CashmereWitch 1 point 3 years ago

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W1ldW1ngs 1 point 3 years ago

This is my issue, I've followed a bunch of subs. But my main homepage isn't filtered to that list.

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W1ldW1ngs 1 point 3 years ago

Actually just found the setting.

Settings > Appearance > Homepage > Subscriptions

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