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& I’m doing pretty good! The wefwef app has done a great job of recreating the Apollo experience and has made it a lot easier to not want to go and download the Reddit app. The more active it gets here, the easier it’ll be. How are you guys doing so far? Have you found an App for Lemmy that you prefer the most yet?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep its jerboa for me

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I’ve been enjoying Memmy and Thunder. Tried it out for the first time yesterday and Wefwef is pretty damn close to Apollo. Personally, I’m excited for Artemis, which like Apollo was, is aiming to be a similarly smooth and robust standalone iOS app.

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Honestly, I really want to use Lemmy, but the performance of Lemmy.world is almost a deal-breaker. Comments and posts don't load half the time, sometimes typing can even be slow wefwef. I feel like I've made my bed with lemmy.world and don't really want to make accounts on different instances in the hope of getting usable performance.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Move to a different instances

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I moved over here a while ago. Doing great so far, loving the community, though I'm doing a lot of lurking at the moment cause I have to keep reinstalling my app for testing.

Currently using thunder, working on contributing to the project cause I liked the early alpha so much. New updates come frequently, looks nice, functions great, cross platform.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Try WefWef (wefwef.app URL) and Liftoff. Awesome apps!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I have tried both, at this point I think I've tried every client on Android. I kept circling back to Thunder. I liked it so much I started contributing to it. Gets better every day.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I have been trying Jerboa. No real complaints about the app, I just want to see the more niche spaces get more activity

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I've been using Jerboa as well and I find it crashes quite a bit. When I hit back, or the back arrow it'll just shut down. I'll give it a fair shot, tho.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Same, i'm on Connect for Lemmy now. I've heard about wefwef but I'm not sure what exactly the deal is or how to set it up.

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Finally glad reddit is dying

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

using connect rn, it's pretty good looking but a bit buggy, i guess i'm waiting for updates!

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Killing Bacon Reader was a deal breaker for me. Not looking back at all.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Former RIF user here. I rather not use reddit than use the official spyware app

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I deleted my account once Sync stopped working. So glad Ljdawson is switching it over to lemmy

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

15 year club on reddit. I've parted a few weeks ago and not coming back.

I hope lemmy gets good and better content.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

14 year club. Also not going back to mobile browsing Reddit. I was a baconreader user for more than a decade. RES and old.reddit seems unaffected so far but Connect for Lemmy is working well. Happy to see some traction here.

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Wefwef is incredible. I've never seen a web app that's even half as technically impressive, and it gets 2-3 major updates a day. Huge hats off to the devs.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

2-3 major updates a day.

as a QA Manager that makes me deeply nervous

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I'm having the hardest time using Lemmy. I got Jerboa and subscribed to 3 communities. However I see other communities online and Jerboa can't seem to find them. How can I force Jerboa to locate a community?

People keep saying Lemmy is easy to use but it doesn't seem to be so far even though I'm really trying to stay away from Reddit. That's one thing that Reddit has an advantage in, it's very easy to use.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Lemmy is still in a very early stage and development is accelerating super fast in the last weeks. I read somebody say Reddit was also very hard to use 15 years ago. However I can absolutely understand the frustration that can come with Lemmy and all the young apps.

I'm no expert but I see two possible solutions for your problem.

One could be that your instance does not know the community yet. All communities that are local on your instance should be found by Jerboa. The most other big ones too, because other users of your instance have already joined one of them (only after 1 person subscribed, the community is known for everyone). If you are looking for niche communities, you may have to search with the whole link, so search for https://feddit.de/c/ich_iel instead of ich_iel and wait for 10 seconds.

The other one could be to to set standard links for jerboa. You can do this on Android in the app settings of Jerboa, I don't know how the option is called in English but it should be easy to find. Same place where you delete storage and cache, handle permissions etc. If you press on "add links" you can select all the different instances (feddit.de, Lemmy.world etc.). Maybe you can open the community you want to locate by opening the link to it with Jerboa.

That's only some ideas. You can also consider trying out other apps such as Connect for Lemmy or Liftoff. It seems Slide and Boost will also be developed if I'm correct. It needs some time until everything is round, but so far most of us are amazed what has already been done!

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thanks for the suggestions. However they didn't work.

What's odd is that the instance I joined does seem to know about the other instance as I can see one community on the other instance. Could the community on the other instance be "hiding" themselves somehow?

Here's the one I'm trying to join: https://midwest.social/c/milwaukee

Edit: I finally got it to work! I went to the web interface for my instance and kept searching for it and then it finally found it. Once the web interface found it, then Jerboa found it.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Great, then my theory was correct. Yes the instance was known, but not the community.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Can you recommend a resource that would explain these differences and more Lemmy lingo? I'm still quite overwhelmed by everything. Thanks!

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately, the reddit app doesn't have the features I want - Sync was a perfect fit, I didn't want to see automod pinned comments on every thread (and a while ago reddit removed the ability to block automod natively), bacon reader did have this feature within the app but after a while stopped perusing it.

I can't use a client where I'm ass-blasted with ads and garbage that I cannot filter out, so here I am... We'll see how it goes.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

It's tough, I'll be honest. I can't completely wrap my head around lemmy, I'm confused about seeing communities I never subrscibed to (and some I wish I didn't have to see), and can't fully understand how it works. It also just.. doesn't have the same things I used to follow, or at least I can't get them to show up. I'm struggling, and honestly don't know what to do with all that empty time. I guess it really was an addiction.

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I’ve been using wefwef too (and I’m also an Apollo refugee). Liking it so far, even if I am very confused about how a lot of this works. I hope the Lemmy community continues to grow!

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I like Summit best of the three apps I've tried (Lemmy and Thunder being the other two). It's a pretty bare bones layout and style of navigation, which I prefer.

As for missing reddit, well... it seems like most of the community spirit/attitude was slipping away following the API changes. I'm hoping to find it again here and I like what I see so far!

Edit: yeah no, wefwef blows the rest out of the water, fr

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Check out wefwef, jerboa and Connect as well.

Many more to come in the near future.

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[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

I never used any Reddit app other than the official one but I wanted to check out Lemmy as an alternative and I’ve gotta say, I’m liking it a lot so far! I’m on wefwef as well and it’s a pretty good experience. I’ll probably start contributing to some of the communities I’m interested in to help them grow and hopefully the growth continues across the platform!

I’m also looking into hosting my own instance, I might work on getting that set up in the next couple weeks.

Only issue I’ve seen is that it’s been a little slow here and there, but I understand that it’s in the growing pains stage so I’m not too worried.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

It feels so weird without my easy access to niche porn. Like I can get porn anywhere, but some of that niche stuff, it's hard to find that stuff again.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Have you browsed the lemmynsfw.com communities?

Porn May do better on Lemmy than Reddit in the long run. Advertisers don’t like porn.

Edit: you may need to logged in to that instance to see the communities? Lemmy explorer helps NSFW communities

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