I barely use reddit anymore save for porn and niche subs but after that glorious app I had used for ages finally died a few days ago I felt devastated. it was like losing an old friend. I hope reddit dies an even slower and more painful death

  • Paradox@lemdro.idEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I’m using Connect for Lemmy, and its okay. Very impressive for how fast its come out, but its no sync. It’s like diet sync, which is good enough.

    Can’t wait to see what ljdawson comes out with.

      • psyspoop@kbin.social
        31·
        1 year ago

        I wouldn’t be surprised if the large “mainstream” Lemmy and KBin instances start degenerating from the NSFW focused instances before too long.

        • guyman@lemmy.world
          31·
          1 year ago

          I hope they don’t. Users should have the power to decide for themselves what content they want to see.

          • psyspoop@kbin.social
            11·
            1 year ago

            I understand that but at the same time instance admins need to take into consideration whether they’re willing to deal with NSFW content in terms of moderation. Especially with NSFW content from other instances that they have no control over. When you’re talking about consequences that could include legal issues, it’s completely fine for admins to decide they’d prefer to not deal with it at all. Especially especially since for the end user, the way to get around defederated porn instances is to just have an account on or simply visit a NSFW instance.

            • guyman@lemmy.world
              11·
              1 year ago

              Errr… this has nothing to do with illegal content or even specifically NSFW content. Users should have the power to block instances they don’t want to. It’s impossible to find an instance that blocks all the instances an individual user wants to unless they host it themselves or are friends with the hosts.

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Agreed, but they are working to get the federation scaling issues resolved, first.

        We’ll have to make do with blocking communities.

      • Fantomas@lemmy.worldEnglish
        181·
        1 year ago

        You can turn off NSFW content. I suppose if I’m browsing all then I should expect it.

        • BackStabbath@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Where do you turn off NSFW? I checked the box to allow it when creating my account. Where can I turn it off now?

            • BackStabbath@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Ahh ok in the settings of the website of the instance? Would be great if there was an option in the apps themselves, but I’m guessing there’s a reason it’s not like that?

              • ultranaut@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                1 year ago

                Some apps do have it as a setting, or at least one I tried did. I think app development isn’t far enough along. There’s all kinds of basic functionality that isn’t implemented yet in the available apps.

                • BackStabbath@lemm.eeEnglish
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  I have hope for Sync, it was such a great Reddit app. Right now I’m using wefwef, which is interesting because I’ve never used an iPhone before.

        • guyman@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          That’s not good enough. Some NSFW users may want to see that isn’t porn. Being able to block instances like “lemmynsfw” is way more effective.

        • KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

          While that is reasonable, its really just the porn I want to filter, most people won’t really give you too much trouble for a lot of the non-porn things that get labeled nsfw, some won’t even really register it, but porn always catches peoples eyes.

          • Fantomas@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            Mine has the blur filter on it.

            Reminds me off the day Reddit removed porn from its all feed and everyone was upset. Lol

        • N1NJ4W4RR10R_@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’d wager most people who want to see NSFW don’t want to see it in all. NSFW seems like it’s more of a thing you search for at specific times rather then something you want popping up while you’re browsing for the other kind of entertainment. Not that I’m speaking from experience of course.

          Also, as others have mentioned, the more gorey or profanity filled style NSFW isn’t something I’d like to have blocked from all, but it is something I don’t want to autoplay or be uncensored in case I’m actually at work.

            • Silverseren@kbin.social
              0·
              1 year ago

              When you’re on an instance, instead of clicking the subscribe button on the right hand side, click the circle with a line through it.

              • Nougat@kbin.social
                0·
                1 year ago

                Ah - “on an instance,” I hadn’t ever done that. While I’m not seeing a handy “click to browse this instance,” I have sorted out that I can do kbin.social/d/[instance} to get there. That works well enough for my purposes. (And kbin refers to these as “domains.”)

                • Silverseren@kbin.social
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Just for future knowledge then, you can click on the little name of the instance/domain below a post and that’ll take you to that same main page you’re manually navigating to.

  • trambe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    1 year ago

    Flip flopping between Lemmy and Reddit ever since they killed Apollo. The main app is just a pain to use so it definitely killed my enjoyment of browsing reddit

      • trambe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m using Memmy for now. It works pretty well, aside from the issues with Lemmy servers.

    • BackStabbath@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I still haven’t dared to use the official app lol. Boost hasn’t died yet so I’ll still look at it here and there until it’s gone, but I’m really hoping Lemmy succeeds (although I’m unfortunately not expecting much, since it’s not the easiest for the average user to get into).

  • SoLowChoLowRider@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    1 year ago

    Same here but for RIF is fun. I’ve had that app for a decade and when it finally closed I moved straight to lemmy.

  • BornVolcano@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I didn’t realize I could transcribe on mobile using 3PAs until a few days before the takedown. It was frustrating and shitty, but the biggest thing that drove me away was looking at that site that told me how many shadowremovals and silent moderation I got without even realizing it, for completely innocent things. I was done.

    Ngl liftoff is still really iffy about mobile transcribing on Lemmy but I’m working with/harassing to dev on that (I got a reply saying they’ll look into it and now it’s just a waiting game ig)

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    90·
    1 year ago

    Thanks to everyone who left reddit because they killed the useful mobile apps, lemmy is becoming a viable alternative.

    I’ve been waiting for a viable alternative that isn’t as toxic as reddit for some time now. I hope they kill off old.reddit soon.

    • Ezergill@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      39·
      1 year ago

      I mostly left because I saw an abundance of bootlicking posts and comments, people dunking on mods for continuing the protest and saying that it doesn’t concern them cause they don’t use third-party apps. Granted, some of them might’ve been bots or payed, but a lot of frustration seemed genuine and fron real accounts, and it rubbed me the wrong way.

      • illi@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I really don’t get it. I also used official app for years now and now I’m here and reddit is becoming a memory because how they treated it.

        • TrontheTechie@infosec.pubEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Same. I hadn’t used a 3rd party reddit app in years, and I slowly watched as my reddit experience got worse and worse, but when they mishandled the whole situation it made me wonder why I’m sticking around.

          • illi@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            Same. The app was shit, but I didn’t want to bother with finding something else. I supported the protest but it was not enough for me to leave - their reaponse though, the strongarming of the mods and all the shitshow around me just made me snap. I was aware reddit is going down a bad path, but I was a frog being boiled. This made me realize it and thank god for that one guy on r/lotrmemes mentioning Lemmy as an alternative.

      • Casmael@geddit.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I haven’t been to Reddit since mid June, wondering what portion of the posts you saw complaining about protests and the blackouts were real and what portion were made by bots / ai / etc? 🤔

  • manitcor@lemmy.intai.techEnglish
    831·
    1 year ago

    Welcome kit

    • phario@lemmy.caEnglish
      504·
      1 year ago

      I’m sure this “welcome kit” is meant as a helpful thing but I have to wonder if it is exactly the problem that prevents Lemmy from being adopted.

      When someone joins Reddit, they don’t need to read a literal plethora of guides on how to use Reddit. It’s obvious.

      What looks like a helpful thing to do is instead going to intimidate and confuse new people.

      So ultimately the question is: why isn’t Lemmy obvious to use, and how do we make it so?

      • Moohamin12@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Thing it though, you don’t really need to read any of it.

        The experience is pretty similar for the end user. However the guide is very useful if you want to get to the back end stuff.

      • antricfer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Reddit wasn’t easy to understand either when I joined 13 years ago. I guess discovery is part of the fun.

      • antricfer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Reddit wasn’t easy to understand either when I joined 13 years ago. I guess discovery is part of the fun.

      • Copernican@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I think it’s really the choice of federation. I imagine it’s against the spirit of federation, but is the answer just to direct people to lemmy.world to first sign up? From there, do what you always did on reddit, but check note that you can sub to other communited not on lenny.world? I just migrated a few days ago, but it was that initial choice that was confusing to me and delayed my signing up.

      • Master@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        When someone joins reddit it isnt obvious what to do. A lot of people come from more common linear communication systems like bbs and etc and the whole reddit comment chain can be confusing to follow. It also is extremely confusing about joining communities and what that does to your feed. The thing is reddit has been around for a lot of years and those of us who have used it have forgotten how confusing it was in the beginning.

        • TheGreenGolem@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Exactly… I’ve tried to convince one of my friends to use reddit instead of 9gag (yes) and she found it too difficult.

        • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          Lemmy is like 3 years old. But yes, it’s only really gotten attention for a few weeks and development has ramped up considerably in that time.

  • Sucuk@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I joined kbin because of the upcoming “death” of Infinity for Reddit. Infinity still works for now, (for free, I mean. But after a while it will be subscription-based) but I joined kbin before the “death” of Infinity because WHY NOT :D