I’m asking new joiners because I know it can be confusing at first to see issues with content discoverability, instances unavailability, people migrating accounts, etc.
It is making me miss the communities I used to follow on Reddit that don’t (yet?) Exist here. But it is a comfortable way to get my distraction scrolling in.
Maybe time to start your own community on lemmy?
I have joined a few similar ones and try to be active but there’s very little to work with. But fair suggestion. I’m just a consumer more than a creator 🤷♀️ my activity on Lemmy FAR surpasses my activity on Reddit, however. Trying to do my bit.
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Lemmy is quite different. Discovering my where my old communities have migrated to is interesting…
I used sync before I ever had a Reddit account, I was a digg person and after the mass migration I just kind of ‘meh’ and didn’t have a doom scroller
But then, magic, more and more friends discussed Reddit (never giving away their usernames of course) and I asked and someone just said “oh don’t bother with the web, just download sync” and I fell in love, the UI just… It is the definition of a good UI, I just “knew” how to use it
Then when I found out if I made a Reddit account I could sub and find more content I liked, was the first time I ever loaded the Reddit page, only yo make an account and then login to sync.
When the most recent bad Reddit occurred and our dear dev was pondering moving I just waited and now, I have a lemmy account
Might not be for everyone, but it’s the only app for Reddit (I did actually try others during a brief time when I didn’t have the ability to filter videos out) but nothing ever clicked
Side notes, I am more of a lurker which may or may not be relevant
Started using Lemmy a lot more with sync than without. No longer using Lemmy web (I’ve never used Reddit web anyway). Still running into occasional bugs, such as thread comments rendering out of order. But definitely expected as this is still in beta.
Did have to change servers as lemmy.world was getting bogged down.
Still running into occasional bugs, such as thread comments rendering out of order. But definitely expected as this is still in beta.
For what it’s worth, this seems to be a bug with lemmy, not sync. Same bug posted on another app community and that was the consensus.
Sync for Lemmy is awesome, it is not bugless but it is the one I like more.
My current ROM doesn’t manage the RAM well, so my apps reload faster than I would like if I exit them.
This is not an issue with Sync, I don’t know what dark magic it does to avoid it tbh.
One thing that I’ve really enjoyed about Sync is how good it is at restoring its own state. I don’t think I can ever remember a time where I went back to open Sync, and it wasn’t where I expected it to be.
I swear it also just seems to know when its a good time to actually reset its state, and take me back to the home screen. Logically I know that Sync doesn’t have machine learning capabilities built-in to “guestimate” this and is probably just a state-cache invalidation timer (or something along those lines)… but it certainly does feel like some dark magic!
Yeah that’s what I mean, legit when I’m using Connect for Lemmy I just swipe to another app to respond a message and go back to Connect and all is gone lol, and this shit is worse because I have connect to hide read posts so yeah, it is a funny quest to find the post I was before.
This isn’t specifically of connect though, I’d say it happens to all the Lemmy apps but Sync and maybe Voyager.
I’ve been loving it, feels good to be using it again. Lemmy isn’t as active as I would love it to be (especially in the topics I’m interested in), but being able to scroll around using Sync has really motivated me to be active here. I hope that happens with more people.
I really wish I could submit posts using the app, and there are a couple of the features that feel like should be basic functions that require a subscription to use. Happy to support the developer, but I don’t like subscription models and not sure if there’s enough value here for me (yet) to justify a one-time $99 payment.
I’d also love it if the “no more posts loaded. Retry?” toast message would time out and fade away. It ends up blocking some of the info for the last post it loaded at the bottom of the screen, and it just doesn’t leave!
Glad to hear you like it! Just a small correction, the one-time payment is 20$ and not 99
Not for pro (which is what I was talking about). A lifetime subscription (a one-time payment) is $99 to get all of those locked features.
I happily paid $20 already for no-ads (even though I use an ad-blocker and never saw ads in the first place)
Oh I see, sorry for that!
It’s been pretty good. I have noticed the default sort order (‘Active’) results in the feed getting stale pretty quickly. Changing the default to ‘New’ has been a better experience so far, at least at the current level of activity.
I have had a few issues subscribing to communities on remote instances (i.e. not showing up in search, or showing up but with an empty feed when content definitely exists when I check the web UI) - this does not appear to be an SFW/NSFW issue, and some communities from the same remote instances appear correctly.
Hard to tell if this is an instance/protocol issue, or an app issue.
Not sure if Sync allows it, but default sorting to top/6 hours has given me the most enjoyable experience of cycling content so far
I have had a few issues subscribing to communities on remote instances (i.e. not showing up in search, or showing up but with an empty feed when content definitely exists when I check the web UI) - this does not appear to be an SFW/NSFW issue, and some communities from the same remote instances appear correctly.
That happens if no-one on your instance has subscribed to that community - search for the address with ! at the start and refresh the page if 8tbis blank or shows and error, this should force it through for you.
This is one of the more confusing and frustrating aspects to Lemmy and they are working to improve it
There is this tool that can be used to address that issue, you have to ask your admin to run it:
It’s not an app issue, you’ll notice the same behavior in any Lemmy client. Once you’re subscribed successfully, new content should be coming in normally unless, again, there is an instance/federation issue.
