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?
The answer is Voyager.
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I’m on android and just saved it as an app. It fills the whole screen.
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I’m also on lemm.ee and voyager/wefwef runs smoothly and is installed like an app
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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.
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.
+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.
Nahhhh, Thunder.
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.
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
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!
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Connect literally deleted one of my comments I think.
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Had those problems in liftoff until I removed and re added my account.
I just switched to liftoff from Connect. Immediately liking it more.
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!
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 if you’re familiar with Apollo.
It’s so similar to Apollo it makes me happy.
Useful update frequency is awesome!
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 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.
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I’m using Jerboa.
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 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
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?
I switched from Jerboa to Connect, Connect has been doing well for me so far, I like it.
I did exactly the same. Much better experience personally.
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
Currently using Liftoff.
100% full agree.
(posted by Liftoff while laying in my bed :p)
Liftoff for f-droid FTW! 🥳
Great actually. I think a large portion of Reddit was just bots and shills. I haven’t felt a need to return tbh
I prefer Kbin but I’ll be switching to Boost for Lemmy when it’s available since I used Boost for Reddit before it stopped working.
What is the difference between kbin and Lemmy ? Is it just a different instance?
Different platform (software) but they still talk to each other, so same content. Check kbin.social
Kbin and Lemmy are different software that have communities (magazines on Kbin) where people post content and have threaded discussions. Very much reddit-like.
There are many instances of both Kbin and Lemmy.
Kbin and Lemmy do federate, i.e. ‘talk’ to each other via the same protocol. This means you can see and interact with content regardless which of the two software an instance has chosen. It’s not perfect, e.g. I believe some minor features are not compatible (yet) and I have experienced that federation doesn’t always work, but hopefully this all becomes smoother when both mature.
Also waiting for boost. Will probably pay for it, again, too, since every issue I ever had with the reddit app I got a direct response from the dev.
