I’ve introduced two of my friends (not into tech) to Lemmy. Since they’re not into tech this is their first web forum.
I’ve explained the federation thru the usual email metaphore and that’s ok, but to lookup for communities is not quite there on client side.
Let me explain.
He wanted to see all the communities on an instance because that instance is in his native language but he’s registered on another instance. So to see all those communities you must go on instance.domain/communities, copy the name of the community you are interessed in and paste it inside the app/web client to look it up.
And to see all the communities all over the fediverse you must use lemmyverse.net which is a cool site, but still you got to copy paste back and forth to the app.
This could be implementend inside app itself by listing all communities and add ability to filter by things like instance.
Obviously open to discussion about the issue itself and how that could be improved.
Feel free to tag apps/clients devs to ear their opinion too.
I really miss having Liftoff work because it has been the only app I’ve used on android that actually had a functioning search feature that let you search individual posts, community names, instances, or users.
@[email protected]: pls come back 🥺
Give Summit a try. It’s got all those search options, and it seems to work well enough any time I use it.
If you liked RIF on Reddit, it’s far and away the closest I’ve found.
Sold.
Edit: Ooooh yeah… This is way better than Jerboa.
I agree in that Summit is the most feature complete and polished Lemmy client for Android.
Love you guys 💜
Test out Play Sync for Lemmy works great.
It seems you’ve found an app already, but also check out Thunder or Raccoon.
I moved from Liftoff to Thunder and the search seems to work when I need it.