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I used to browse Reddit 90+% of the time from my phone through the RiF app, so after June 30th, here is what I did and what I recommend as a starter pack for others in the same situation:

  • Create account on lemmy.world, so the browser part is covered
  • Search for the information on which app provides the closest to the RiF (Apollo, etc.) experience
  • Instal Liftoff and be happy - it is just like RiF :-) (for Apollo and others, it could be different - find your own favorite!)
  • Dial back dramatically on using Reddit at all. I only load 4 subs in my phone's browser, because I did not find the Lemmy / Fediverse alternatives yet
  • Constantly look for the communities to replace the subreddits you are still visiting
  • OPTIONAL - once or twice a week, look at /r/pics and /r/videos and laugh at the creativity of the still ongoing protest :-)

So that is where I am right now, posting this via the web browser on the lemmy.world site, by pressing "create a post". Seems easy enough for now, but I find it a bit confusing that other people can post from Mastodon and other Lemmy instances... Do they see the same communities I do? Do I see all Lemmy communities if I use lemmy.world....? So many questions, but it's exciting to explore this brand new structure.

Even after reading the Fediverse and ActivityPub articles on Wikipedia my head is spinning, and I don't really understand how everything fits / works together, but here I am! An ex(-ish) Redditor after the APIcalypse, looking for cool new communities, and excited about the future that the Fediverse can bring!

(I'm willing to learn! Someone please link me a FAQ where I can find the answers to my questions :-) )

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[-] Amir@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I highly recommend trying the Summit for Lemmy app. It doesn't have an Inbox or Profile pages yet, but browsing is much smoother than all alternatives

[-] Decide@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Can confirm. Instantly better than any other app I've installed for Lemmy. Also, Liftoff requires you to login to each individual instance to upvote anything from that instance for some reason. Summit is great, is what I'm saying.

[-] th4@feddit.it 6 points 2 years ago

Also, Liftoff requires you to login to each individual instance to upvote anything from that instance for some reason.

Uh, I just upvoted you and this post from feddit.it using Liftoff

[-] Decide@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Are you logged into lemmy.world, too? I tried using Liftoff to upvote pretty much anything else, but I get errors like, “this thread was retrieved via lemmy.ml. You are not logged in there.”

[-] th4@feddit.it 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You probably have an empty instance in your settings (eg. lemmy.ml but with no account under it) and were browsing the "Everything / All" feed, you went inside a post served "via lemmy.ml" and tried to upvote. Obviously it asks you to login in that case.

You can remove instances with no accounts by long pressing them. Also you can hide the everything feed from settings ;)

[-] Decide@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I must say, that's an odd default behavior since no other app I've tried does it like that. Regardless, removing the empty logins worked.

this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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