Done with Reddit’s bullshit, and happy to check this out as it seems to be popular. Any apps that people would recommend for this platform?
Hey! I noticed your title doesn’t match the question in your body text. Could you maybe change that?
Lemmy has completely solved my need for news content when bored. I no longer use Reddit.
What are your top news communities here. It sounds pathetic, but I got to nearly 99% of my news from Reddit.
There are a lot of the same type of communities as reddit, a symptom of so many of us coming over. I looked through my subscribed subs and just searched for fediverse alternatives, they were pretty much all easy to find
Tap communities in the header and filter by “all”
That will show you all of the most popular communities across Lemmy.world, and other sites sharing their content with Lemmy.world
i suggest browsing communities with https://lemmyverse.net , https://sub.rehab and https://browse.feddit.de/
whatever will work for you the bestIt’s not here, but you can watch the pbs newshour on YouTube for free, or you can stream the audio over your phone (I use spotify, but I’m sure it’s on other platforms too).
Browse lemmy for entertainment, watch the news for information
Same. Haven’t been over there in weeks. I have a few friends that roll their eyes whenever I link to something or say “on Lemmy” when answering a “where did you find this?”
The answer is Voyager.
I prefer having an app because it takes up my whole screen, but MAD respect to Lemmy for having multiple website frontends that are 100% useable on mobile.
I’m on android and just saved it as an app. It fills the whole screen.
Oh wow, that’s cool! Unfortunately, it seems to make Firefox crash. I’m also on lemm.ee, which doesn’t appear to have Voyager accessible online.
I’m also on lemm.ee and voyager/wefwef runs smoothly and is installed like an app
I’m replying from Voyager right now. I had to figure out how to access it from their website instead of an instance and then log in using a custom instance.
If you’re on an apple device you can have it take up the whole screen. Go to settings> install app and it will walk you through it
Same on Android. I’m running it on Firefox, but probably also works with Chrome.
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It will always be WefWef in my heart
I’ll never not call it WefWef tho
I’ve switched to Memmy for now, seems a bit more stable. Keeping an eye on Voyage.
This first app to allow full screen swipe back will win for me.
I feel like I forgot that was a thing but now I’m sad that I remember. The race is on!
Do I just not know what full screen swipe back means? On Liftoff, Connect and Jerboa I return to the feed by swiping from the left side to the middle of my screen.
Summit does it too. I actually swiped back just to see if it was true. Then grumbled the whole 5 seconds it took to get back.
Nahhhh, Thunder.
+1 for Voyager. It’s had like 6 releases since I installed it, sometimes multiple on the same day. It’s the most polished and complete interface I’ve found on Android and it installs absolutely everywhere on every system because PWA.
Memmy is great too
Tip: try sorting by hot instead of active. Gets better results imho. Also Top 6 hours.
Hot show me the hottest 4 yeard old posts. Top day and less is the best.
I’ve heard there’s a bug that can cause old posts to show in Hot if your instance admins haven’t restarted Lemmy in a while.
Maybe can be, I’m in a relatively small instance (I think less than 600 users).
This should be long fixed. I think people who have been taking about this recently are in instances that are having trouble helping up with traffic? Definitely not sure
Huh, hot never seems to show me old posts. It’s not something that should be app specific, right?
Hot has been showing me old posts… today only. really weird.
Oh. I haven’t used it much today so I guess I can’t know.
Sort by New. There’s all sorts of weird stuff popping up like mushrooms after the rain.
I trialled 5 different lemmy apps for Android and IMO Liftoff was the standout best. Looks good, runs smooth and the dev is quick to fix bugs and issue updates.
Liftoff gang represent!
I just switched to liftoff from Connect. Immediately liking it more.
It’s been the least buggy for me. Some weird quirks here and there and the occasional scroll-teleportation, but I couldn’t even post replies on Connect.
Connect literally deleted one of my comments I think.
I liked Connect! It just didn’t seem to like me. Lots of bugs.
Had those problems in liftoff until I removed and re added my account.
Good to know. So it’s more of a Lemmy issue? It seemed like a pretty big bug to miss from the frontend side haha.
The green color in liftoff just does it for me
But I stay for the granular text options that so few have
Haha, that colour is configurable in Settings > Appearance.
There’s some UI work on the way that may help with first impressions.
Maybe my phrasing wasn’t clear. Does it for me = really makes me happy.
I did change it to match my theme/wallpaper which changes every day. Every other app had that but when I enabled it I missed the green so now it stays
Oh sorry I totally misunderstood! I’m glad you’re enjoying that colour choice then!
Connect is a bit better and more stable in my experience, but I’m staying with liftoff due to it being open source. But I miss its continuous vertical bars in the comments. And I miss the per-page scroll and folded comments by default of RiF!
Voyager if you’re familiar with Apollo.
It’s so similar to Apollo it makes me happy.
Useful update frequency is awesome!
I’ve tried a few iOS apps but keep coming back to Memmy
Memmy’s my go to, but it’s only on iOS currently and OP is on android
Voyager, formally Wefwef, is fantastic. It’s like if Apollo and RiF had a baby that’s slowly growing into a fully functional contributing member of society with a mortgage a 2.5 kids.
I second Voyager. I tried Memmy and found it hard to wrangle. I wasn’t sure I’d like a Web app on my home screen but I was mistaken. It’s seamless and feels just like a native app. It’s the perfect transition for Apollo users (RIP).
Same, I originally used Memmy but it’s really buggy, and ever since the lemmy.world hack it’s completely forgotten all of my subscriptions and blocks- so no home feed, and I still have to scroll past communities I find unbearable and that one terminally online self-promo spammer on c/atheism who keeps polluting it with links to his rather angry blog posts.
Same. I read some posts in various communities about how, post-hack, you had to log out and back in at Lemmy.world and that would resolve the fact that even though you appeared to be online in Memmy, you actual were not (as a result I couldn’t post or comment). But that didn’t work. On the flip side, there was no clear login for Memmy and the only thing I could think of was to delete the accounts and set them back up. Except that didn’t work either. Once I deleted my account from Memmy, I could “login” again. So I got mad (lol), jumped to Voyager, created a new account/logged in and that was that. Flippin’ perfect.
I’d recommend voyager first it’s what I’ve been mostly using and since I started there’s been almost daily updates adding more and more quality of life features and stuff people are requesting. It’s been pretty incredible to see! There’s also a neat feature that can take your list of subreddits from a reddit account and help you find their equivalents throughout lemmy. Liftoff and Thunder are 2 other good ones I’ve been playing around with. And best of all, no fuckin ads haha
There’s also a neat feature that can take your list of subreddits from a reddit account and help you find their equivalents throughout lemmy.
I tried to use that feature but it looks like reddit has broken two factor auth on their website. I literally can no longer login through a web browser like the tools instructions say to do.
I’m using Lemmy on Connect, I really like it.
I tried a few different ones and also settled on connect. I’m coming from RIF in case you find that relevant.
Is there a plan for RIF to develop something for the lenny verse? I heard they might, but not sure where to keep updated
I believe the RIF dev is working on a client for tildes.
I came from baconreader and it’s very similar in its simple layout. It’s been an easy transition :)
Nice! I’m using liftoff and it’s really good so far
Tried both and Connect seems to make a bit more sense to me. But more options is more better!
For sure
Yeah I’m here from RIF on connect, feels good. Still missing a few things, like I don’t have a “hot” filter, I seem to be seeing a lot of the same posts. But over all after the past two weeks of using Lemmy, I’m happy to be away from Reddit
Just to clarify, since there’s a lot of apps named “Connect” on the app store and this seems like a great opportunity for malware authors to hijack people looking for one of these new lemmy apps, do you mean “Connect for Lemmy” by kurononeko?
Yes that’s the one :) Sorry for not being clear.
I switched from Jerboa to Connect, Connect has been doing well for me so far, I like it.
Just switched to Connect from Summit and Jerboa. So far so good. I have it setup closer to what I had with RIF, I switched it to reverse list, and amoled theme and darkened up the comment box color.
I also use Connect and just realize there’s an AMOLED theme
I did exactly the same. Much better experience personally.
I did too, but switched to Liftoff afterwards. I think it’s the best of all those 3.
I like Connect best, followed closely by Voyager.
Same for me. I switch back and forth between them. I just uninstalled Summit, Jerboa, and Liftoff today.
I did the same. Jerboa has been broke for me for a while. Liftoff looks really nice but I get a terrible stutter when scrolling the feed.
Hello there. If you’re not a bot, can you please mark your account accordingly? Thank you :)
How do I do that? I am not seeing I Am Not A Bot in the settings anywhere.
It should be a checkbox on your settings page.
Ahh, I think I just found it on the website on the computer. It indeed was checked Bot Account which I never checked. I couldn’t find the option using the Connect app.
I’m using Jerboa.
Jerboa and Liftoff.
As a former Boost for Reddit user I’ve been digging Jerboa. Definitely going to check out Boost for Lemmy once it’s available too.
I switch back and forth but liftoff is currently my main. I kinda wish I only picked one because the going back and forth is overwhelming but I love checking out the changes lol.
I wish that I could create communities in the app.
Never able to post using Jerboa. It does not even load comments. SMH.
On Connect and Liftoff rn.
Funny, Jerboa is the only app with which I can actually post new threads.
Yeah I haven’t had any problems with jerboa so far. So great we have these choice available though isn’t it!
Currently using Liftoff.
100% full agree.
(posted by Liftoff while laying in my bed :p)
Liftoff for f-droid FTW! 🥳
