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I just checked and my account on lemmy is 3 years old, I was waiting for all of you. At moments lemmy looked like it will take of by it self, but last few months was pretty quiet. I hope this is the push this community needs to succeed.
Reddit got too big for my taste since digg joined in, I don't think this will kill it ( they have the data how many people is using it outiside official apps), but let's make space out of it.
All it took was for a few power users, aka content thieves, someone like MrBabyMan who's spent all conscious time submitting entertaining content from other less user friendly platforms, to convince a majority of users on the internet to pay attention to reddit more.
Simply getting more content, regardless of its quality or dubious origin, only as long as it is interesting or entertaining, will draw more users here. This is probably not what people want, but that's what it will take for Lemmy to take off.
Those memes look organic and sustainably sourced, delightful!
You're right, that's absolutely what I don't want
We just need a easy to use, beautiful mobile client and so many people will switch over to it.
Jerboa is pretty good tbh.
Yeah I'm impressed actually. Absolutely a big improvement over the web browser on the phone.
I'm using jerboa currently. Albeit very new to the app, but I'm still a bit put off by the lack of options for personization and features. It also desperately needs an in app browser so all the links stop sending me out of the app.
There is definitely potential here, but leaves a lot to be desired.
Yeah, honestly it isn't too bad. I was a little put-off by the size of everything at first, but, when I checked the settings, there is an option to change the size of the font—and that really helped.
All in all, it isn't perfect, but I am enjoying it so far. I look forward to seeing it grow and improve!
One can only dream that these canceled 3rd party clients might join some day. Hopefully some will be opensource or they decide to support any other platform.
It would've been great if they just collectively change to something else.
The Tafkars API might be helpful in that: Tafkars: Reddit-API proxy for Lemmy (help wanted). To quote,
That's great! Thanks for the info
the dev for RedReader (minimalist and awesome FLOSS reddit client) has indicated RR will be targeting Lemmy as soon as Lemmy instances smooth out after an anticipated load ramp up from reddit defectors. I am sure others are planning the same thing.
Absolutely great news. RedReader was my go-to app for a while now. The absolute dedication to function over form is/was praise-worthy.
Probably not just waiting for instances to smooth out, but waiting to see if reddit actually follows through. I think they likely will, but there is an off chance heads roll when they realize all the people creating, aggregating, and moderating their site are the ones that are pissed off and leaving. The casuals may not care directly about this decision, but they will when the content goes to shit.
This is what I am really waiting for, to be honest. Jerboa is too slow and jerky for my liking.
While I agree that porting one of these great reddit clients to a new platform like Lemmy is the way to go, I don't see why it should be done by the individual developer instead of treated as a community effort. We'll just end up in the same boat again where he's piggy backing on another project (Lemmy, etc) to build a closed-source business that only he profits from. And while I have no problem with people selling apps they wrote, if none of these developers are going to open source their work so that the community can participate, I'd rather see a longer term effort go into improving FOSS solutions.
If one was still browsing reddit using rif and seldomly old reddit it somehow still felt similar to what it was 10 or more years ago. Over time I ditched Facebook and some other social media I used but Reddit somehow stayed. Maybe because it was the "anonymous" one, the one I just used for myself without sharing my account with my real-life friends.
Anyway thanks for waiting for us, took some time for me to get up and leave reddit. I hope others will follow, but so far even for me as a software dev/ architect it was quite a change to switch to fediverse services. Maybe it'll be smoother when you're joining bigger servers but let's see what the future brings. As a fan of Foss I'd really like to see this thing grow.
Agree, Reddit itself is unusable without old design.