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My experience with the Fediverse has only been through Mastodon, through which I struggled to find a community I really gelled with. Either it was supper overwhelming with meme posts or NSFW, or it was too chill to the point of nothing. Or, it was hyperfocused like FOSS/Linux and became uninteresting after awhile. May try again, but I think I will explore the other fedisites like Plemora or Calckey to see if I like it better.

I love the pace of a forum. I grew up primarily with GameFAQS and some lucid dreaming forum, and honestly it was very formative in teaching me how to write and use critical thinking skills, as well as how to respond to a variety of temperaments. I stopped participating in online forums awhile ago, and while I loved Reddit as a resource, I never felt inspired to participate. In the same way, there are an incredible number of forums dedicated to a certain topic, and are extremely valuable, it would be annoying to make an account for all the things I am interested in.

I like what lemmy is becoming. Glad to find system that makes interacting with people enjoyable.

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[–] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Mastodon is WAY better if you follow tags. that said, I am very optimistic of Lemmy, it just needs a quality app.

[–] SammichParade@vlemmy.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

I'm currently using Jerboa (edit: Android). Seems pretty good but I've only been here a couple hours. Have you tried it?

[–] KreekyBonez@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'm on Jerboa now, and I think it's got good bones, but it still needs some work. Minor stuff tho, like how setting the overall font size affects pages slightly differently.

I also miss how RIF would open articles/media natively, instead of utilizing my default browser for everything. It's actually nice using reader view in firefox for some stuff, but the extra loading and app-swapping is a little clunky. I'm sure it's something I could get used to if I stick with it.

I also need to figure out what pages/instances to follow so I can curate what shows up on my home page. I'm on day 2 here, so a grain of salt is needed for my commentary on a project that I can nitpick, but could not build on my own.

[–] Scirocco@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The RiF dev is working on an app for Tilde, I hope that works out.

Edit: tilde.net

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