Friendship ended with Reddit, now Lemmy is my best friend
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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Welcome!
Sorry for the unwelcoming people. They're actually all Reddit refugees from a month ago and you know what some Redditors be like.
Find a good app, there's quite a few now. I like Thunder, but try out a few since preferences seem to be based on what users were most familiar with on Reddit. They're all solid.
There's a few things around explaining how it all works if it's confusing at first. But basically, start searching for and following communities to build up your feed. Until then, viewing Hot and Top Today for All instances will get you by.
Don't be surprised if it's slow sometimes as traffic uptick is big. Also, there's a lot of NSFW that pops up and I'd recommend not browsing at work even with it filtered.
Have fun!
Wdym? The community here is already much better than on Reddit. Same post there was met with little notice, and all of that was like "stop shilling, loser".
I believe I'm quite settled here already, using Jerboa on my phone. One thing that could help get more people here in my opinion is promotion of the "lemmy" "brand". Now when I try to lookup the lemmy keyword on my search engine, I have to scroll waay below the first results (which is not a behavior of most users). Why isn't e.g. the "official" app called simply Lemmy, but instead "Jerboa"? I assure you this is confusing for many people.
Anyways, thank you for welcoming me! I see great potential in Lemmy (compared to e.g. Mastodon, which is dependent on specific people and not communities).
TLDR: Met with awesome community already, but the app is a little bit confusing.
Ah, a fellow rat appreciator. Welcome! (Also, I don't think there is an official Lemmy app, or indeed official Lemmy anything. The whole point is decentralisation)
Sorry, my bad. By "official" I meant "by the lemmy devs", as stated on join-lemmy.org
Because, truthfully, that app isn't really that great. It's good that they aren't trying to force their thing as the official one. If we wanted a bad official app we'd just go to reddit.
Highly, highly recommend Connect for Lemmy! It's very streamlined and polished.
If I had to guess, LiftOff, Thunder, Connect, and Sync are the front-runner apps, so try them out. I bounced between 5 when I got here before landing on a favourite. Jerboa has reportedly gone a bit downhill, or other apps have surpassed it. As a former RIF user, I personally didn't like it.
You should always upvote people like @saltesc that are friendly to newcomers, that's how you build a friendly community