Long time Reddit lurker, first time poster.
I am a pretty basic redditor. never even heard of the 3rd party apps until the whole API thing happened. but i followed the news and was seriously triggered by how the admins acted towards the users and the mods who worked voluntarily for reddit. i feel like i cannot in good faith stay with such a corporation, and i wholeheartedly support the communities migrating here.
where i’m from there was also a similar incidence, where one of the largest forum experienced a massive exodus because of 3rd party app issues. it turned out to be a huge success for the new forum. so it can be done - but it does require solidarity and perhaps more importantly functionality.
so, hang in there ;)
edit: i meant basic not based LOL. sorry :(
Hi! If you want to do a search of top Lemmy instances (like how we used to append “Reddit” to search terms on Google and what not), a user named Benjamin Pryor made a great search tool here:
https://fedi-search.com
I saved the favicon to my favorites bar and have been using it like a search button.
Also, if theres a sub on Reddit that you just really want to keep tabs on, there’s an instance called lemmit.online. They have a bot that will pull content over that you can subscribe to it as a Lemmy community. Details on how to request a sub so the bot will pull content over are here:
https://lemmy.world/comment/325260
Lastly, are you on Android or iOS? You can search for an Android app called Jerboa on the Google Play store to browse Lemmy and there’s an iOS app called Mlem in the Apple app store.
Have fun!