Reddit

I haven't gone to Reddit for a few days now. I might go later to watch it all for entertainment.

Anything been taken over by the admins and turned back on yet?

Half the battle was finding something to put in the tray besides Reddit. Jerboa it is!

Oh I didn't know about Jerboa. Loving it so far!

Well, about 6.5 years ago I found r/Grimdank and r/40klore…and r/Rabbits. I immediately fell in love with those communities.

I first started on the browser and the official App. But the App sucked (shocker I know) and I switched to RIF. Wonderful App.

Half a year ago I switched to Apple for the first time and found Apollo. Fantastic App.

I can’t give less of a shit about Reddit itself. But I hope the communities I grew to love will do fine or maybe even come here too.

I discovered reddit for myself about 3ish years ago, I don't even remember how. Used the official app and still don't know why people shitting on it so much, the app itself is fine, like not smooth or especially pleasant to use but fine. So yeah, been using it daily - reading cool tech posts, watching dunk memes, asking dumb questions - all the good stuff. Saw the shitshow - decided it's time to leave, saw Lemmy as an alternative - decided to join. Jerboa is fine, the plan is to do all the same stuff.

I have Reddark open on my laptop while doing chores. Listening to it ding every few minutes is cathartic.

Almost the same path for me, except I never bothered with Digg. Just went directly from Fark & /. to Reddit

Now I'm hoping some of the active contributors to my loca subreddit show up here.

I joined Reddit in 2015 after some Destiny creators mentioned it somewhere as an alternative to the Bungie forums. Been a daily user ever since. I joined in Windows Phone, which only had third party apps, so I've literally never used the official app. When I switched to Android in 2017 I believe it was, I downloaded Sync because it was most similar to the app I used before (I can't remember what app it was on Windows).

And now I'm here.

I migrated from Digg to reddit like 12 years ago. Now migrated to Lemmy and I’m on Tildes too, but I am definitely leaning toward Lemmy so far. I’m using the mobile site for Lemmy, but was wondering if there’s a good app for iOS. I loved Apollo and am so sad that it’s going down, although I totally understand why Christian is nuking it. Is Jerboa only for Android? Is there a decent app available for Lemmy on iOS?

I'm surprised r/libertarian is joining...

Is this even accurate? I can still view these sites and there are current posts being added

Strange, the Reddark site shows me a 404 error now, it worked previously.

Edit: nevermind it works again.

I started with SlashDot too, then Kuro5hin which was a pretty unique mix of tech and arts/culture. From there I am not sure how I ended up on Reddit, but I do know it was through Imgur because the odd comment would mention it. I didn’t do much with Fark outside of enjoying the photoshop contests, and never used Tumblr or Digg (in fact I always thought the Digg interface was kind of goofy).

I’m curious to see how lemmy will pan out. I don’t know if the Reddit board will backtrack and try to fix this, or if they are just looking for a quick cash out and then let the chips fall where they may.

I like the idea of federation but so far both mastodon and lemmy have the same basic issue that jabber/xmpp have: there needs to be an easier way to distribute traffic through a single domain as well as a way to “move” an account to another server without dropping old links/addresses. In the case of lemmy specifically, there should be a way to merge/replicate communities so that (for example) [email protected] and [email protected] and [email protected] are either identical communities or somehow made clear to the average person that they’re distinct and not the same community.

The “one domain” / load/user distributor needs investment to keep running, which is why I think none of these federated services gets too far off the ground.