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[–] [email protected] 273 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Its so nice being on a platform where the first 1000 comments on every post aren't just low effort jokes.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I haven’t even considered this. Most users on Reddit are lurkers. It doesn’t take many of us to make new communities worth visiting

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Former lurker checking in, trying to take this new start on Lemmy as a way to participate more and hopefully contribute a bit, I wonder how many will do the same coming from reddit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am! Mostly lurked because by the time I got to threads they were already too popular and were flooded with hundreds of comments.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. Currently a lot of places here feel how Reddit used to be when I joined up. I quite like it.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your low-effort comment wasn't even funny.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Coming to a comment thread to reply "this" feels so cheugy. When I think of the heydey of reddit, I think of 2011 in my dorm room doing the grow a college subreddit. And here we are twelve years later and the best experience you can get now is exactly that same experience.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A month or two ago I got a bunch of downvotes for explaining why I didn't like a game. The people responding said it was because my comment was "too long." It was like six sentences. Why are these people on Reddit instead of Twitter?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The fuck does cheugy mean?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cheugy – A pejorative description of lifestyle trends associated with the early 2010s

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You forgot reposts for karma whoring.

[–] Klear 12 points 1 year ago

Good thing about Lemmy is the lack of karma, so we'll be doing just normal whoring I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Yeah lve been a lurker for over 10 years over there and I was sick of all the karma whoring, the low quality posts and especially the pun threads that would bend my face with cringe. Hopefully we can get things right on the Lemmy-verse

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[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Would love for the Apollo app developer Christian to get on board and join the Wefwef developers to make a native app.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Found wefwef today and love it.

I was kind of bummed when I realized it wasn’t a native app, but so far it’s been working great regardless.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I’ve added it to my Home Screen and to be honest I can barely tell it’s not a native app. It’s shockingly well put together so far.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

the native site added as an app isn't half bad either, it works in a very similar way but it just has some UI niggles

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. I only viewed reddit through apollo; if he can shift, I’ll absolutely stay with apollo over reddit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Which apps are doing this by the way?

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

Sync and Boost officially are.

Infinity for Everything (Fediverse) is on GitHub.

wefwef and Memmy are starting to feel like Apollo already.

Connect seems to be inching closer to Relay with each update, and Jerboa gives off RiF vibes.

People need to post about this on reddit more to perhaps encourage the other devs to do the same; might've actually worked for Boost cuz the dev didn't originally plan to port it to Lemmy it seems

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using wefwef right now I'm honestly Impressed!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Wefwef is absolutely nuts as a PWA, was looking forward to Sync for Lemmy but as a former heavy iOS user this is so cool!

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Boost is the one I'm looking forward to the most. Highly customizable and highly streamlined

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boost is a legitimately perfect app for the format IMO. I'm so so so glad it's coming over

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Developer of RedReader also said they want to eventually support Lemmy and perhaps tildes and hacker news, even though RedReader got an exemption from the api fees for now. But as a "long-term vision", so probably not immediately.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In addition to the others mentioned, someone is making an unofficial port of Slide.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hell yeah, it's the best reddit app hands down.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please RIF, become a fediverse app!

[–] xaxl 22 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Sadly, it's going to become a Tildes app apparently.

Don't despair though, you can get fairly close with the Connect app with a few settings changes already.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sync has announced that they are developing for Lemmy and I am so down for it.

[–] scarrtt 12 points 1 year ago

Sync is a remarkably well made app, I was delighted to see that announcement

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[–] Chatotorix 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I gotta admit that I'm a bit disappointed with the owner of Relay for Reddit as he decided to stay and turn it into a subscription model. He might have attached his cart to the wrong horse. That's what I want to believe anyway.

[–] SoLongSealion 17 points 1 year ago

It's probably hard to give up entirely on an app you've been working on for so long.

[–] TechnoBabble 13 points 1 year ago

Won't all nsfw content be invisible to third-party apps?

So people aren't paying to keep reddit alive, they're paying to have some advertiser friendly, bot-ridden husk of reddit available outside the official app.

Those outsized API fees don't even get you the original reddit experience, it's disgusting.

I don't blame the dev, but I also don't understand his decision.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Baconreader, please become a fediverse app!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I begged the boost dev to make a Lemmy app, I sent him several DMs and made a post about it

I like to think I contributed to his decision

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Which apps are specifically turning into fediverse apps? Very curious.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Sync and Boost officially are.

Infinity for Everything (Fediverse) is on GitHub.

wefwef and Memmy are starting to feel like Apollo already.

Connect seems to be inching closer to Relay with each update, and Jerboa gives off RiF vibes.

People need to post about this on reddit more to perhaps encourage the other devs to do the same; might've actually worked for Boost cuz the dev didn't originally plan to port it to Lemmy it seems

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Jerboa is crashing for me on start, which isn't a great sign. I just want Boost already!

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

Probably because blahaj is on 0.17.4, and Jerboa only supports 0.18 and later right now.

Use wefwef or Thunder. And Connect and Liftoff are on the playstore already.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I've been test driving android apps for lemmy for hours now and it's been fun but I'd love to see one with a RIF UX. Any chance we can convince Andy to develop RIF for lemmy?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I know Boost is going to become a Lemmy app. You can even "preorder" it on the playstore and itll download on your device as soon as its released.

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