& I’m doing pretty good! The wefwef app has done a great job of recreating the Apollo experience and has made it a lot easier to not want to go and download the Reddit app. The more active it gets here, the easier it’ll be. How are you guys doing so far? Have you found an App for Lemmy that you prefer the most yet?

  • mke_geek@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’m having the hardest time using Lemmy. I got Jerboa and subscribed to 3 communities. However I see other communities online and Jerboa can’t seem to find them. How can I force Jerboa to locate a community?

    People keep saying Lemmy is easy to use but it doesn’t seem to be so far even though I’m really trying to stay away from Reddit. That’s one thing that Reddit has an advantage in, it’s very easy to use.

    • gigachad@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Lemmy is still in a very early stage and development is accelerating super fast in the last weeks. I read somebody say Reddit was also very hard to use 15 years ago. However I can absolutely understand the frustration that can come with Lemmy and all the young apps.

      I’m no expert but I see two possible solutions for your problem.

      One could be that your instance does not know the community yet. All communities that are local on your instance should be found by Jerboa. The most other big ones too, because other users of your instance have already joined one of them (only after 1 person subscribed, the community is known for everyone). If you are looking for niche communities, you may have to search with the whole link, so search for https://feddit.de/c/ich_iel instead of ich_iel and wait for 10 seconds.

      The other one could be to to set standard links for jerboa. You can do this on Android in the app settings of Jerboa, I don’t know how the option is called in English but it should be easy to find. Same place where you delete storage and cache, handle permissions etc. If you press on “add links” you can select all the different instances (feddit.de, Lemmy.world etc.). Maybe you can open the community you want to locate by opening the link to it with Jerboa.

      That’s only some ideas. You can also consider trying out other apps such as Connect for Lemmy or Liftoff. It seems Slide and Boost will also be developed if I’m correct. It needs some time until everything is round, but so far most of us are amazed what has already been done!

      • mke_geek@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Thanks for the suggestions. However they didn’t work.

        What’s odd is that the instance I joined does seem to know about the other instance as I can see one community on the other instance. Could the community on the other instance be “hiding” themselves somehow?

        Here’s the one I’m trying to join: https://midwest.social/c/milwaukee

        Edit: I finally got it to work! I went to the web interface for my instance and kept searching for it and then it finally found it. Once the web interface found it, then Jerboa found it.

          • Calidro@feddit.de
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            1 year ago

            Can you recommend a resource that would explain these differences and more Lemmy lingo? I’m still quite overwhelmed by everything. Thanks!

            • gigachad@feddit.de
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              1 year ago

              Most oft the stuff I know I read from some explanation posts in my first days, but I don’t habe a link atm. You can always read the Lemmy docs, there is a section “following communities”, but that’s also a very basic level without too much technical details.

              I will send you some resources if I stumble over them again!

              • Calidro@feddit.de
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                1 year ago

                Thanks! I think while we all figure this out it’s good to just coast along as well. Fake it till you make it, haha!

  • HungryKoala@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I’m happy that boost for Reddit is still working, but I know that once boost for lemmy is released I’ll never look back at reddit. Fuck u/spez for how he treated his users

    • Jah@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Seems like Boost can go down any minute. It says it was shutting down on July 1 but it’s still up.

      • HungryKoala@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, it seems that reddit hasn’t yet made the rate limit changes to the API. They talk about it here how it will go into effect the upcoming week(s)

  • itadakimasu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    95% of posts that contain active discussion and more than 3 comments are about Lemmy and/or Reddit implosion. I would love to see a pivot to more engagement in other subjects. I do enjoy reading about lemmy and participating in the discussion, but would be good to see the users disperse a little bit :)

    • Johnny@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      This is just a byproduct of current events. It’s also what tends to happen in other areas of the Fediverse. Like Mastodon, when something really stupid happens at Twitter again (which, tbf, happens a lot these days).

      If I’m to guess, discussions will normalise within a week. Some of the users who jumped ship from Reddit are going to go back again or give up on the Fediverse in some other way. That is just an unfortunate reality. But if we’ve learned anything from Mastodon, the user base will continue to grow at a more stable pace and the “Threadiverse” (Lemmy, Kbin) will become a suitable alternative to Reddit without caring about Reddit too much.

    • spleenfiesta@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Wait Boost is making a lemmy app??? Boost was the first reddit app I used before I switched to infinity

  • Obinice@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So far Jerboa has been the best one for me, I tried wefwef but wasn’t a big fan (and couldn’t work out how to uncensor NSFW content across the board, very annoying haha).

    But Boost is coming out at some point! I’m really looking forward to it!! <3

    So far I’m doing okay, just tough with how slow everything runs and all the network errors and stuff, but it’s early days so I’m patient :-)