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...how many of you will stay? Personally, I wiped my Reddit history and deleted my account, so I'm definitely here to stay. I can see, however, that a number of people see Lemmy more as a distraction until the blackout is over. I wonder what that number would be.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I tried lemmy a little, there's not much content yet. It really depends on if the major power users migrate to lemmy, and on which instance they will migrate. The other problem being that I have yet to find a good mobile app to access the lemmy instances, and I'm too lazy to make my own (though it would be a good side hustle in my opinion).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which OS are you on, android or IOS? On android I'm using Jerboa and it's honestly quite a nice app for being in the alpha stage, didn't check to see if it's on IOS as well

[–] DarraignTheSane 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] yacht_boy 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you been able to get it to work? It crashes on me after about 60 seconds every time I open it. I definitely am feeling the loss of Apollo. Lemmy from the desktop isn't bad, but the mobile experience is atrocious.

[–] aaronious 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’ve also been having that issue. I ended up adding Lemmy as a web app and it’s a pretty decent experience.

[–] yacht_boy 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have not found it's all that usable as a web app. I did probably 90% of my redditing from my phone so this is a big one for me. If I had any tech skills at all I would consider trying to make an app, but dammit Jim I'm a geologist not a coder.

[–] aaronious 3 points 1 year ago

Ha. Maybe with the increased interest here we’ll see a few apps pop into the scene.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There’s another new app called Memmy to check out as well.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

undefined> Which OS are you on, android or IOS? On android I’m using Jerboa and it’s honestly quite a nice app for being in the alpha stage, didn’t check to see if it’s on IOS as well

Android, I tried getting Jerboa to work (it's the only option after all), but I couldn't, it keeps crashing on me

[–] fluffyrex 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, no! I'm having such a good experience on Jerboa. I get little "time out" messages popping up now and then, but they don't affect anything unless I'm actively navigating. I can continue to scroll & read comments on the page I'm on without interruption.

I also figure that the rapidly increasing user base is a challenge for developers, so I am more than willing to be patient while kinks get worked out, especially when the inconvenience factor is so unnoticeable (for me).

[–] jcb2016 1 points 1 year ago

Use the mobile web and Desktop ui. get used to it so when the apps come you will be a pro at it. Give it a good day