Thanks to everyone who left reddit because they killed the useful mobile apps, lemmy is becoming a viable alternative.
I've been waiting for a viable alternative that isn't as toxic as reddit for some time now. I hope they kill off old.reddit soon.
Thanks to everyone who left reddit because they killed the useful mobile apps, lemmy is becoming a viable alternative.
I've been waiting for a viable alternative that isn't as toxic as reddit for some time now. I hope they kill off old.reddit soon.
Welcome kit
I’m sure this “welcome kit” is meant as a helpful thing but I have to wonder if it is exactly the problem that prevents Lemmy from being adopted.
When someone joins Reddit, they don’t need to read a literal plethora of guides on how to use Reddit. It’s obvious.
What looks like a helpful thing to do is instead going to intimidate and confuse new people.
So ultimately the question is: why isn’t Lemmy obvious to use, and how do we make it so?
Reddit wasn't easy to understand either when I joined 13 years ago. I guess discovery is part of the fun.
Thing it though, you don't really need to read any of it.
The experience is pretty similar for the end user. However the guide is very useful if you want to get to the back end stuff.
With time. Reddit is 18 years old I heard. Lemmy few months old
Reddit wasn't easy to understand either when I joined 13 years ago. I guess discovery is part of the fun.
I have the most extensive list of Lemmy apps, you can include it in your welcome kit: https://lemmy.world/post/465785
added, ty
Here is where I'm keeping the updated list. https://lemmy.intai.tech/post/30829
I think Sync for Lemmy is being fast tracked.
Six weeks out, last I heard. Can't wait!
And that was like a week ago so now its 5-ish! Also: https://syncapps.io/
I'm using Connect for Lemmy. It's no Sync but it'll do in the meantime.
Reddit on mobile no longer exists for me now that Sync for Reddit's gone.
Can't wait to try Sync for Lemmy and see it grow.
Well. Judging by my world feed, the porn is coming.
We really should have the ability to block entire instances as users.
You can turn off NSFW content. I suppose if I'm browsing all then I should expect it.
While that is reasonable, its really just the porn I want to filter, most people won't really give you too much trouble for a lot of the non-porn things that get labeled nsfw, some won't even really register it, but porn always catches peoples eyes.
Welcome! For me, it was Apollo (try WefWef). I love it here except for the server issues. All in due time.
Edit: I just tried all kinds of gestures for closing image preview, and apparently swiping up now works! The update today said something about this, so wefwef all the way for me. It also just added top day (and top hour!) the best app on all fronts so far.
Wefwef is the best in many respects - but the inability to press images to close them is almost a deal breaker for me. The back button takes me out of the feed and into the side bar, with the image still opened on top.
I'm not gonna press the x in the top right corner every single time, it's bad UX, my phone's too tall.
Connect for lemmy has this functionality right, it's just ugly looking in my phone (the images in the play store look so nice, I suspect it's a bug with my specific phone)
Looking forward to Sync - it showed me UI with UX I hadn't even considered requesting. Sync just got everything right for me.
I’m using wef wef now. I saw some bugs but I feel that eventually it would get better
Same, I heard about Lemmy from Sync. I'm just waiting for them to roll out Sync Pro for Lemmy
Same here. I don't want to use reddit's official app given how spez spelled out he will do everything he can to squeeze every penny out of that place. I want to browse interesting communities, not endless ads.
Welcome to the party, pal.
Same here but for RIF is fun. I've had that app for a decade and when it finally closed I moved straight to lemmy.
Same for me. Sync for Reddit was my app of choice as well and with the announcement of Sync for Lemmy I've joined here as well. Make sure to check out the community for the app as well: !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
Same here. Such a fantastic app. Sync for Lemmy is in development, and I can't wait!
I feel the same but I've also had reddit mods who do not like anyone having a different opinion. So yeah I was done with reddit quite a while ago.
I once was banned from all of reddit for saying I suspected a love Island contestant acted like he was gay. I didn't even do it maliciously it was just an honest opinion and I stated as much.
Flip flopping between Lemmy and Reddit ever since they killed Apollo. The main app is just a pain to use so it definitely killed my enjoyment of browsing reddit
I'm using Connect for Lemmy, and its okay. Very impressive for how fast its come out, but its no sync. It's like diet sync, which is good enough.
Can't wait to see what ljdawson comes out with.
You're in luck: !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
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