When my wife (then girlfriend) was in in school, she moved in with a couple of female roommates. I set up their WiFi and called it “GirlsGoneWireless”

With a closed source server. Sure, your messages are encrypted from your device to their sever, but you have no way of knowing what’s going on in-between.

You have summed up my feelings exactly.

Greetings, fellow lurker! The torch has been passed. It is our turns to carry it until the communities grow larger and we can recede back to the shadows

Same here brother. I love that Jerboa is open source and available on F-Droid, but it acts up sometimes and only supports servers >= 0.18.0, so I’ve been bouncing until some more of the instances that I’m on catch up.

What drew you to BaconReader? I was a user by circumstance, really. The only real options back on the day were BR and RIF (I think Alien Blue was a thing at that time, but we all know how that turned out) and I just happened to go with BR and never switched.
I shouldn’t say that. I did give Sync a shot for the last couple months before the apocalypse, and it was pretty snazzy once I got used to it. Excited to see how their Lemmy app turns out!

Keep at it! I suspect these first few days will be the hardest. I uninstalled BaconReader last night and put “Connect for Lemmy” in its place on my home screen. So far it’s been a pretty easy transition!