Done with Reddit’s bullshit, and happy to check this out as it seems to be popular. Any apps that people would recommend for this platform?

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    Hey! I noticed your title doesn’t match the question in your body text. Could you maybe change that?

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    Lemmy has completely solved my need for news content when bored. I no longer use Reddit.

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      What are your top news communities here. It sounds pathetic, but I got to nearly 99% of my news from Reddit.

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        There are a lot of the same type of communities as reddit, a symptom of so many of us coming over. I looked through my subscribed subs and just searched for fediverse alternatives, they were pretty much all easy to find

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        Tap communities in the header and filter by “all”

        That will show you all of the most popular communities across Lemmy.world, and other sites sharing their content with Lemmy.world

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        It’s not here, but you can watch the pbs newshour on YouTube for free, or you can stream the audio over your phone (I use spotify, but I’m sure it’s on other platforms too).

        Browse lemmy for entertainment, watch the news for information

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      Same. Haven’t been over there in weeks. I have a few friends that roll their eyes whenever I link to something or say “on Lemmy” when answering a “where did you find this?”

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      I prefer having an app because it takes up my whole screen, but MAD respect to Lemmy for having multiple website frontends that are 100% useable on mobile.

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          Oh wow, that’s cool! Unfortunately, it seems to make Firefox crash. I’m also on lemm.ee, which doesn’t appear to have Voyager accessible online.

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              I’m replying from Voyager right now. I had to figure out how to access it from their website instead of an instance and then log in using a custom instance.

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        If you’re on an apple device you can have it take up the whole screen. Go to settings> install app and it will walk you through it

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          Same on Android. I’m running it on Firefox, but probably also works with Chrome.

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      I’ve switched to Memmy for now, seems a bit more stable. Keeping an eye on Voyage.

      This first app to allow full screen swipe back will win for me.

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        Do I just not know what full screen swipe back means? On Liftoff, Connect and Jerboa I return to the feed by swiping from the left side to the middle of my screen.

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          Summit does it too. I actually swiped back just to see if it was true. Then grumbled the whole 5 seconds it took to get back.

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      +1 for Voyager. It’s had like 6 releases since I installed it, sometimes multiple on the same day. It’s the most polished and complete interface I’ve found on Android and it installs absolutely everywhere on every system because PWA.

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    Tip: try sorting by hot instead of active. Gets better results imho. Also Top 6 hours.

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    I trialled 5 different lemmy apps for Android and IMO Liftoff was the standout best. Looks good, runs smooth and the dev is quick to fix bugs and issue updates.

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      It’s been the least buggy for me. Some weird quirks here and there and the occasional scroll-teleportation, but I couldn’t even post replies on Connect.

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      The green color in liftoff just does it for me

      But I stay for the granular text options that so few have

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        Haha, that colour is configurable in Settings > Appearance.

        There’s some UI work on the way that may help with first impressions.

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          Maybe my phrasing wasn’t clear. Does it for me = really makes me happy.

          I did change it to match my theme/wallpaper which changes every day. Every other app had that but when I enabled it I missed the green so now it stays

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            Oh sorry I totally misunderstood! I’m glad you’re enjoying that colour choice then!

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      Connect is a bit better and more stable in my experience, but I’m staying with liftoff due to it being open source. But I miss its continuous vertical bars in the comments. And I miss the per-page scroll and folded comments by default of RiF!

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    Voyager, formally Wefwef, is fantastic. It’s like if Apollo and RiF had a baby that’s slowly growing into a fully functional contributing member of society with a mortgage a 2.5 kids.

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      I second Voyager. I tried Memmy and found it hard to wrangle. I wasn’t sure I’d like a Web app on my home screen but I was mistaken. It’s seamless and feels just like a native app. It’s the perfect transition for Apollo users (RIP).

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        Same, I originally used Memmy but it’s really buggy, and ever since the lemmy.world hack it’s completely forgotten all of my subscriptions and blocks- so no home feed, and I still have to scroll past communities I find unbearable and that one terminally online self-promo spammer on c/atheism who keeps polluting it with links to his rather angry blog posts.

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          Same. I read some posts in various communities about how, post-hack, you had to log out and back in at Lemmy.world and that would resolve the fact that even though you appeared to be online in Memmy, you actual were not (as a result I couldn’t post or comment). But that didn’t work. On the flip side, there was no clear login for Memmy and the only thing I could think of was to delete the accounts and set them back up. Except that didn’t work either. Once I deleted my account from Memmy, I could “login” again. So I got mad (lol), jumped to Voyager, created a new account/logged in and that was that. Flippin’ perfect.

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    Voyager if you’re familiar with Apollo.

    It’s so similar to Apollo it makes me happy.

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    I’d recommend voyager first it’s what I’ve been mostly using and since I started there’s been almost daily updates adding more and more quality of life features and stuff people are requesting. It’s been pretty incredible to see! There’s also a neat feature that can take your list of subreddits from a reddit account and help you find their equivalents throughout lemmy. Liftoff and Thunder are 2 other good ones I’ve been playing around with. And best of all, no fuckin ads haha

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      There’s also a neat feature that can take your list of subreddits from a reddit account and help you find their equivalents throughout lemmy.

      I tried to use that feature but it looks like reddit has broken two factor auth on their website. I literally can no longer login through a web browser like the tools instructions say to do.

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    I switched from Jerboa to Connect, Connect has been doing well for me so far, I like it.

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    Just look at the meme stream in All. How does it look like it’s going? There’s no stopping this train till lemmy.world runs out of disk space. 🤘

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      I’d just use the officialy hosted one cause the lemmyworld admin has yet to automate updates and voyager updates FAST.