Lemmy really needs something like topics, categories or tags you can opt-in or -out of. There are just too many communities to subscribe one by one and if I browse everything theres so much super boring niche stuff, like some Go library releasing version 0.02-beta. I mean that’s nice for those 5 Go programmers waiting for that, i guess, but they are probably subscribed to it anyway.
I calles this ages ago. The federated nature is counter to community growth and discoverability.
Lemmy as a platform needs support built in for this problem.
It’s also painful that servers upgrade lemmy versions and suddenly they are unavailable on apps. Or old versions similarly break.
It’s a problem in browsers too. I’m constantly running across broken links, previews, and other small things that really hinder it. I’m used to it as I’ve been around many forums as they were coming up. The general public for sure won’t like when they come here and they see a link to content but, wait, there’s really no link or no preview and it’s content they really want to see.
Even that is better than the massive waves of posts in languages I don’t understand.
You can change this via your account in your instance (not all apps have these settings)
I leave Undetermined, English and German.
I only ever get English and German 👍
Thank you! I didn’t know about this setting.
I suffer from that in Mastodon because I follow hashtags, but in Lemmy? No way, all I see is English in Everything.
Also I have more than 800 subscribed communities so I have a better understandable feed.
I’ve stuck with sorting by “local” and that seems to work for me. At least on Connect for Lemmy
I am new here and I do not understand how to find the stuff I want to see. So far I blocked a lot of porn, though.
I have two accounts. One has NSFW off and the other on.
Too bad there is no option for “NFSW only”
I remember someone attempted to create an instance to centralize all content from nsfw instances so your All feed is explicitly nsfw and you don’t need to subscribe. Dunno what happened but I think the instance is gone now.
lemmynsfw.com and pornlemmy.com do that.
Not exactly. When you join either of those instances, you’ll only see their hosted content by default and you’ll have to manually subscribe to communities on the other. The instance I was talking about was intended to federate with all known nsfw instances only. So when you browse All, it’s strictly only communities from nsfw instances giving you access to purely nsfw content.
Switch to All-Hot
I do this too, but also use separate apps. Dont want to open the app after forgetting to switch accounts.
Until some communities stop marking their shit as NSFW. Not everyone wants to see that MMA bodies fetish shit in the middle of checking news.
I browse an All > New to find communities I like. There’s not really so much content that it’s overwhelming, unlike if you did that with a huge site like reddit.
Shortly after that
LMAO, nice
What’s with the big and blue username?
Theres more apps than users. I mean I’m grateful for the apps tho
I hope at some point more people start contributing to the core lemmy codebase as well. I don’t suppose there’s that many rust devs out there, but I think that would have much more of an impact in the long run.
I’m pretty sure Lemmy is like 95% software devs
Devs, yes, but I think very few of us program in rust :)
Your loss =D
lol, can’t disagree
I must be the 5%
Mhm, agreed. Way too many apps, not enough PRs to main codebase.
And the users too.
Did they have any grapes?
Bahm bahm bah bah bah bahm
And he waddled awayyyy, waddle waddle waddle
No, they just sell lemonade. But it’s cold, and it’s fresh, and it’s all home-made.
When life gives you Lemmy…
Call me a fuddy-duddy if you like, but I just browse Lemmy in a browser via the default interface, on both desktop and mobile. And this has not yet caused my spleen to spontaneously catch fire or anything.
I’m really not convinced everything needs to be an app.
Fuddy-duddy.
(You said I could)
For some reason, I can not log into any instance of Lemmy on FireFox mobile. No errors or anything; I log in, it goes through reloading the page after submitting my credentials, and then I am not logged in. :/
Desktop FireFox is fine. I do have problems with the posts (but not the page containing them) loading when trying to view it through Steam’s overlay browser though.
I can log in only after deleting and retyping the final characters on my login and password. Apparently it has a problem with password managers.
This coupled with it randomly logging me out has forced me to use an app instead, however.
It works for me on Firefox mobile on Android. Some kind of extension issue for you, maybe? I dunno.
I used it until boost released and it was perfectly fine. Losing boost was why I left reddit to begin with though.
I like endless doomscrolling
Props to the Lemmy-ui devs for designing a mobile capable site that’s light and works well.
I use Jerboa but I have to switch to browser to view other Lemmy server links but it’s seamless, and better than what I can say for 95% of modern mobile websites.
The mobile version of kbin is great. I don’t feel it needs an app although there could always be qol improvements
@mrnotoriousman yeah it’s aesthetically pleasing too.
Lemmy’s mobile UI is nice. Voyager is just a PWA, and it’s both really smooth and stupidly nice. In my eyes, the spiritual successor of Apollo. I’m not leaving it.
Been a happy Boost for Lemmy user for 2 months now, before that was using Jerboa.
I heard about one called Raccoon being made and now I am waiting for that to have a download all for the name alone. I’d like to keep with Liftoff but the dev had a kid not too long ago and that was the last we’ve heard from him. Unless something changes soon, 0.19 Lemmy is gonna break Liftoff :(
Are there any apps that have swiping between posts?
I have no idea what that means.
Sounds like Lemmy:Piss tbh.
The only apps are really care about are the ones that were created before or during the great redded debacle. Anything coming out months later, especially ones that charge money. Yeah no. You weren’t here when this began. You’re just coming in after everything’s already been cleaned up. No I’m not saying that people shouldn’t develop apps. They can do that if they want but there’s really no reason to switch when something is already working and it’s been working fine for months.
I think you don’t have in mind that it takes time to develop an app. Some people do it in only their free time so it takes even longer. I think some apps started being developed during the reddit blackouts.
