I’ve made my choice
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
Lemmy doesn’t crash, the .world server does. Just use a smaller instance like lemmy.zip or lemm.ee
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?
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 !memes@lemme.ml. So if lemmy.world goes down it’s as simply as typing in another instance to your address bar :^)
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.
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
Discoverability is definitely one of the biggest hurdles in using Lemmy right now.
Haven’t visited reddit since the API gate. Deleted my account instantly, I miss nothing
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
I even tried being a good little product and subjected myself to using the official reddit app.
Absolute worst experience with an all I’ve ever had. Honestly couldn’t even use reddit now even if I wanted to.
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.
Relay for reddit works. It’s what I’m using to browse reddit.
Yeah the Lemmy apps are lightning fast compared to the official Reddit app. I’m really giving up on Reddit soon.
What is your preferred lemmy app?
For iOS memmy, for android voyager, connect, or sync. Mlem and voyager are also good on iOS but neither are developed as fast as memmy
Infinity for lemmy
Sync is so smooth and responsive… and also the one only one with proper tablet support afaik
Voyager is also great. Was using that earlier.
Oh look it’s this tired meme that was just posted 15 minutes earlier
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=XCqLuEAmNW8&
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Lemmy: “Use Lemmy”
Me: Uses Sync or any other non FOSS app
Lemmy: “No not like that!”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
There is only one Q-Tip! And if aren’t using them then you are doing it wrong!!
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It’s equate or nothing baby! Anything else entering your earhole is sinful and immoral. I will commit acts of violence to enforce this
“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.”
