I installed the official Reddit app yesterday, but uninstalled it earlier on as it's just awful. The Dev for Reddit Sync is creating a version for Lemmy.
I'm hoping this takes off!
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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Is there a Lemmy community for sync yet?
Yes! The official one is lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy
Brilliant, thanks
I installed the official app too, but only because reddit in the mobile browser is offensively terrible and I still unfortunately need reddit for decent search results. Hoping as communities move over here and we start building up a library of useful info that I won't have that dependency anymore.
Reddit Sync was the best. Can't wait for Lemmy Sync!
Ironically the star trek instances seemed the most active by far when I first got here. I guess the joke wasn't lost on the trekkies.
Nerds are often early adopters, that's how reddit started and how I knew this fediverse thing would survive.
I'll personally be using a mixture of both until the communities are a bit more active. Using WefWef until Sync for Lemmy is released.
I just registered to get Boost for Lemmy as soon as it's released. I think seeing it in a more familiar context will make things easier moving here from Reddit
Heya, a fellow UK/Kendrick/Reddit deleting/star trek referencing/likely nerd. Hi from one to another 👋
I’m still keeping my Reddit account to make sure the edits to my past posts are not overwritten by a backup. I’ll delete the account in a week or two. Now it is up to us to make Lemmy a thriving community. Keep posting and commenting, folk!
Completely agree and this is my approach too. I'm refusing to visit or use anything connected to Reddit.
I've only been a lurker here so far but looks like it time to contribute to the numbers.
On a positive note, I have notice an uptick so not sure if it's the latest update, another wave of new users or both.
We should nick all the interesting links though...
I was stupid for ever financially supporting reddit.
Didn't even know you could pay for Reddit, what does a subscription even give you?
700 coins monthly, unique awards to give, and no ads.
My next question would be what is a coin?
Sounds pointless to me so far, you can get no ads with an ad blocker :/
500 coins are needed to award gold to someone, the daily free awards can also be awarded for 200 coins I recall, but awards are from 20 coins each.
And I took stock of where I spent my time, and it was better value for money than many other things. Fair pay to fair services, if you can fairly afford it imo.
I'm so glad this place is here, I was banned from the reddit UK subs for making pro republican statements when Phil died and then when the Queen died I questioned the mods burying of the Republic arrest story and was perma banned.
It wasn't just the reddit API stuff, the way the moderation works is awful, just perma ban you for nothing, I had an account 8 year old and it was perma banned from the sub I posted in most in an instant at the whim of some pro royalist moderator. There's no way to appeal, they also mute you and that's it.
I have a theory that reddit mods always end up bad because the system makes them that way. Dealing with a huge number of bots, fakers, manipulators and that's before you get to the genuine-but-lazy rule breakers.
Maybe, I can understand that, we're all human.
Personally, I think perma banning should not be possible in most cases, maybe just increase the maximum ban time with each ban, or have a ban expire after 12 months. That way at least the account doesn't just become useless to you because of one dickhead mod.
Hopefully lessons will be learned for this platform! :)
With disenfranchisement it's probably an even bigger problem here. Who swathes of users being cut off through no fault of their own other than which site they created an account on.
How do you mean, I am new to this?
I'm new to so still getting to grips. As I understand it, users from different sites in the fediverse have access to others and can share content when federated. Just like I'm on FMHY at Lemmy and you're on feddit.uk, we can still interact on feddit.uk because they're federated. The owner of feddit.uk could decide tomorrow to split from FMHY and I'd still see posts and comments but you wouldn't see my comment here(those in FMHY would see me though). I'd effectively be banned (or in read only mode I suppose) even if the action wasn't taken against me directly.
From what I understand, this is the case between Lemmy.world and BeeHaw at the moment which are 2 of the largest collection of users. The .world users can read BeeHaw and interact with each other there but not with users outside of Lemmy.world.
The admin here has said he'll use defederation sparingly. Also Beehaw defederating lemmy.world is only temporary while they get their house in order.
It will happen but only against instances that have a real bot problem. In general I wouldn't worry about this.
In both cases I fully expect that and entirely understand the BeeHaw admin decision, to the point I've thought about moving myself as I've seen a few posts already that make me uncomfortable. I wasn't critiquing it, was just highlighting that "one dickhead mod" actions having a much larger potential impact here in the Fediverse compared to somewhere like Reddit where you'd lost access to only one sub (or a handful in the case of massive dickhead super mods)
Just deleted my accounts a few moments ago.
I was there since Digg.
Wait... you could pay for reddit?