GamerBoy705

GamerBoy705

Greetings to the members of Lemmy! I am a Reddit refugee and I’m currently re-creating all of my favourite subreddits. I invite you to join these communities made for the Android phone brands. I’ve always talked and lurked on their respective subreddits on Reddit and I’d like to speak with other enthusiasts here too!

In these communities, you can talk about new phone launches, ask for purchase advice, discuss software updates, get support and assistance regarding the products, share your opinions regarding the brands, even talk about the other categories of products these brands make and more! You can join the communities of the brands you have an interest in.

Links:

OnePlus Community: https://lemmy.world/c/oneplus [for other instances]

realme Community: https://lemmy.world/c/realme [for other instances]

vivo and iQOO Community: https://lemmy.world/c/vivo [for other instances]

Oppo Community: https://lemmy.world/c/oppo [for other instances]

A little bit of background on these 4 companies (click to expand):

Oppo, vivo, OnePlus and realme are all brands that predominantly market to the Asian market. These brands belong to the same parent company called BBK Electronics based in China.

Oppo and vivo were initially their main brands. They did other stuff before they first made mobile phones. When they did start making them, their phones became very successful in China that they started expanding abroad. They found huge success in India, and subsequently in the wider Indian subcontinent.

In the present day, this single company controls 16.03% of the worldwide smartphones market now. That number rivals giants like Apple and Samsung, who control 31.44% and 25.27% of the market respectively. This makes BBK Electronics the third largest smartphones manufacturer in the world. The 4th is Xiaomi with 11.13% and 5th is Huawei with 4.01% of market share. So that’s a fact for the day, a company you might have never heard of before controls a large chunk of a market!

Market share source (direct download link to .csv file with info)

Rules

The rules for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World’s rules. You can click the link but we’ve reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn’t a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.

1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.

A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn’t rulebreaking and we can’t be supportive to them then we probably shouldn’t engage.

B. No illegal content.

C. Use content warnings where appropriate. This means mark your submissions NSFW if need be.

D. No uncivil behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: Name Calling; Bullying; Trolling; Disruptive Commenting; or Personal Criticisms.

E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned here.

2. Include a community title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.

FAQ:

Q: Why do I get a 404?

A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.

Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?

A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn’t get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn’t actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.

Image Attribution:

Inviting Android phone enthusiasts to multiple communities! Invitation to the OnePlus, realme, vivo and Oppo communities!

Inviting Android phone enthusiasts to multiple communities! Invitation to the OnePlus, realme, vivo and Oppo communities!