• @ChocoboRocket
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    361 year ago

    Reddit is fun croaked for me last week, now I’m all Lemmy!

    Unless lemmy crashes, then I lurk reddit signed out with browser.

    As the crashes and maintenance here become less frequent and the platform is more reliable I’m ready to leave reddit in the dust entirely

      • @ChocoboRocket
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        I’m clearly not understanding this platform as well as I thought, I should probably watch a video or something!

        The memes and boobs are great, but I’d love to get more reliable news and local information, seems like every Canadian one dies or is unpopular (fair enough given the limited user base which is still kind of nice)

        And the news + politics seems to crash, but that’s because I’m still using .World …I think?

        • @duckington
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          101 year ago

          The way it works is that there’s not one lemmy site, there’s many different sites, or “instances” that people can host on their own servers—lemmy.world and lemm.ee are two of these. The catch is that they are “federated”, meaning that a user in one instance can see, vote on, comment on, etc posts from another instance. That’s why you can be on lemmy.world and see posts from [email protected]. So if lemmy.world goes down it’s as simply as typing in another instance to your address bar :^)

          • @[email protected]
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            However, all the communities hosted on lemmy.world will be inaccessible while it is down. If you really only care to look at one of those at a particular moment, lemmy might as well be down for you.

            • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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              61 year ago

              They’ll still be accessible, since instances store local copies of data from servers that they’re federated. Your interactions with those communities will be invisible to anyone outside your own instance until the instance hosting the community comes back up, though.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          It’s more like email than a regular platform. Each insurance is a Lemmy “provider” but from any instance you can reach every other instance. It even used the @server for user names and communities like email. It also means you have a [email protected], [email protected], …

        • @big_slap
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          think of all of this like email, you get data from other providers and interact with people and posts using an “email address”. im oversimplifying it, but that’s how i started to wrap my head around all of this

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Only reason I use lemmy.world is for community discoverability. Until subscriber counts are federated, it only shows the amount of subs on your instance, and on average the most subs are on lemmy.world. I have a backup alt for when lemmy.world is down

        • @[email protected]
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          Since when is Jerboa the “official Lemmy app”? It’s not even the only FOSS app and I’m not aware of any connection between the Jerboa and Lemmy developers, let alone the various admins of the lemmy communities that Jerboa accesses. Use a different app if Jerboa isn’t working for you

          Edit: I was wrong, just looked at github and it looks like there is an affiliation between lemmy developers and Jerboa. But it’s still not the official app of any of the instances, so it’s not like Reddit where the devs and admins are the same entity

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Then don’t use it? Lol

          Isn’t the freedom to use whatever app we like a large part of why we’re on Lemmy now?

          Sync is amazing. Voyager and Thunder are also great if you only want foss.

    • this_is_router
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      Haven’t visited reddit since the API gate. Deleted my account instantly, I miss nothing

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      I went back to reddit out of boredom a couple of days ago while lemmy.world was doing it’s thing. It dawned on me how shitty things have gotten there over the years. It’s more active, sure but the comments sections are full of hot garbage 99% of the time unless you’re in a small community. And the sheer quantity of comments basically guarantees you won’t be seen or responded to unless you appeal to lowest common denominator bs.

      The engagement you get here is much higher quality. It isn’t nearly impossible to have a real conversation and get deep about any given topic. I miss my hobby subs and go back every now and then for those but I’m otherwise all in on lemmy

      • mommykink
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        41 year ago

        This.

        Username checks out

        Based.

        Sorry I don’t have gold to give (Vintage)

  • @[email protected]
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    I even tried being a good little product and subjected myself to using the official reddit app.

    Absolute worst experience with an app I’ve ever had. Honestly couldn’t even use reddit now even if I wanted to.

    • @Kage520
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      41 year ago

      Not only did I have to deal with ads, but they also gave me posts from subreddits it thought I would be interested in. I had carefully constructed my frontage to be subreddits I was interested in, but now still had essentially ads for OTHER subreddits, hoping of course I would subscribe to them too and then get more ads overall.

      Feels very dirty now. Glad to leave. Sucks though. I’ve been using Reddit for a very long time now.

      • @foggy
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        21 year ago

        Yeah, it’s Facebook now.

        Those posts from subreddits you’re not subscribed to will very soon be replaced organic looking advertisements. Along with the advertisement looking advertisements.

        Eventually it will just be a place to learn what’s new and on sale.

    • @[email protected]
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      Same. I went back for r/place and to comment a few more “fuck u/spez” in posts, and it’s hilarious how bad the app still is. Still slow. Videos randomly won’t play. There are even times when all you can do when tapping the video is see a still image of it and can’t even get into the post/thread. They just really don’t give a fuck about the app except as a vehicle for ads. Smh.

  • z3k3
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    101 year ago

    I just uninstalled RIF, I was keeping it just because. I tried to open it and nothing loaded, anyway, it has been lemmy only for me since july.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I don’t know what happened to my rif app, but mine disappeared from my phone without me deleting It.

      • @AngryCommieKender
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        11 year ago

        If you have a Samsung, their OS will remove apps after so long without being used. There’s an option to turn that off, which I do after it cleans out all the Samsung junk that I won’t use.

  • koyo (they/them)
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    91 year ago

    Yeah the Lemmy apps are lightning fast compared to the official Reddit app. I’m really giving up on Reddit soon.

  • @HIGHinthehills
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    91 year ago

    Use Lemmy and third party Reddit app while waiting for third party Reddit app to go dark. Then just use Lemmy

      • @TheRedSpade
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        11 year ago

        Last I knew, Relay was switching to a subscription model, though I don’t know if that’s the one they were referring to.

      • @HIGHinthehills
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        11 year ago

        Still using Joey. It works if you’re a mod and anyone can be a mod. Not sure how long it will last though

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    When the jerboa was crashing right after opening it. That was a better experience than using the official Reddit app. And since 99% of my time on Reddit was spent on mobile devices, I‘m not going back there.

  • @notExactlyI20
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    41 year ago

    Choose wisely

    this a one way street in my books

  • Roundcat
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    Lemmy: “Use Lemmy”
    Me: Uses Sync or any other non FOSS app
    Lemmy: “No not like that!”

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Are the lemmy police coming to your house and confiscating your apps? If you hadn’t said anything about using sync, no one here would know or care. People complain and get elitist about everything. I’m sure there’s someone out there who looks down on others for not using the “right” brand of q-tips. Does it matter? No. Will the fact that it doesn’t matter shut the q-tips elitist up? Also no

      • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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        21 year ago

        There’s only one brand of Q-Tip. It’s a trademark of the Unilever corporation. The rest are cotton swabs.

      • Roundcat
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        11 year ago

        “LEMMY POLICE, FREEZE! Sir/Ma’am and or otherwise, you are under arrest for the following crimes against lemmy. Use of an unapproved app, 2 counts. Pointing out elitism, 5 counts. Making comparisons between lemmy and reddit, 10 counts. Criminally bad meming, 5 counts. And expecting better of lemmy, 1 count. You have the right to stfu.”