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submitted 2 years ago by ada to c/main

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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[-] StarLuigi 96 points 2 years ago

I'm excited to welcome all the reddit refugees!

[-] leigh 70 points 2 years ago

Eep! Wishing you a speedy recovery, @supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone! Take care of yourself first, we’ll understand if things here go wonky for a bit. 💜

[-] InputZero@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

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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[-] CaptainBuddha@lemmy.fmhy.ml 55 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Everblue@lemmy.fmhy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

I don't remember hiring a ghost writer for my autobiography, but you got all the details right!

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[-] Lifetrip@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 year ago

Sync just stopped for me sooooo here I am.

[-] blazix@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 year ago

RIF just stopped too. RIP.

[-] kammalage@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 1 year ago
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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Orange@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

BaconReader went down too and I finally decided to make an account here. Interested to see how this goes but I know I won't be using the official reddit app

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[-] nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] squip@lemmy.fmhy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

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

[-] KyleDavidE 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] Midnight_Ice@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

Sync has stopped working for me now. Looking forward to the future on Lemmy!

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[-] princessnorah 22 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] JustALilOlive73 15 points 1 year ago

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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[-] nbnewdsandludes 21 points 1 year ago

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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[-] LeylaaLovee 21 points 1 year ago

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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[-] poweredbygamespy 21 points 2 years ago

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

[-] ada 41 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Lucky, Jerboa just crashes on launch for me now.

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[-] jetsetdorito@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

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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[-] abs_mess 18 points 1 year ago
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[-] LuckingFurker 18 points 1 year ago

Good luck and godspeed admins, and get well soon @supakitty@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[-] jdp23 17 points 1 year ago

Exciting times! And get well soon Kaity!

[-] FinalFallacy@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

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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[-] Rozauhtuno 15 points 1 year ago

Good luck to the admins, and welcome to all the reddit refugees.

[-] BlahajEnjoyer 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I kept my reddit account until today, coping that Reddit will go back on their word and allow Apollo to continue working. Granted, it didn't. So I looped shreddit with a PowerShell script and sealed the deal today and just put the final nail in the coffin and deleted my account. Guess it's Lemmy from now on.

[-] Hyggyldy 14 points 1 year ago

I invade! I'm sad about the small communities that are dying but I hope I can be a part of new ones here!

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[-] skylestia 14 points 2 years ago

get well soon @supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone !

and good luck to the server and admins!

hopefully things go smoothly enough :)

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[-] zanyllama52@infosec.pub 13 points 1 year ago

I stepped away from that website years ago, saw voat come and go, and am giving this a shot. So far, it checks all the right boxes! Welcome one and all.

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[-] cupcakezealot 11 points 1 year ago

Get well! Hopefully it won't be TOO bananas since I like the quietness without all the riff raff and bigotry of the other sites :P

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[-] eestileib 11 points 1 year ago

Hi, I'm one of the RiFugees, using the same name I did on Reddit. This looks like my place on lemmy for now, thanks to all who had the foresight to set it up!

[-] jago@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Heal-up, @supakaity. All best wishes to your body's restoration work.

[-] MountainTurkey 11 points 1 year ago

Goodbye Baconreader, hello blåhaj

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[-] hardypart@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

Apollo and RIF already stopped working, so I’m not sure if the influx of users will increase that much tomorrow.

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[-] cranberryjam 10 points 1 year ago

I moved over here in preperation for the shutdown. This place seems nice.

[-] moss 9 points 1 year ago

o7 ready for the wave!!

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