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The Day Will Come When The First Exodus Will Look Like Child's Play (lemmy.ca)

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Lemmy is going to look more appealing as time goes on.

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[–] Shameless@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I left after they closed off the API and shut down third party apps. I could never go back, whilst Lemmy hasn't always offered the same amount of content, its always still offered good content, plus I know I'm guilt free of supporting Reddit and what a shit show they've become 🙂

[–] LaminatedDenim@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Same, but then I immediately returned to reddit. Today I suddenly realized I wanted to leave reddit, so here I am again. Any good tips for Android apps?

[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

Im on Voyager. I like it so far.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I got used to Lemmy eventually and like it. I spend less time scrolling which is good. Now just to ditch Instagram....

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Same but with piefed. It's the same communities. Love the extended capabilities on both platforms. And fedi integration makes it so anyone can use anything.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My friends aren't on piefed

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Be the change.

I know the struggle though I can't get anyone on Signal beyond my wife and one friend.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago

Already am. Nobody follows me.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 1 points 4 months ago

I was in meme withdraw for a bit adjusting to the slower content. I even touched grass that one time.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Welcome new friends! 💜

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This is not a drill.

The Reddit post in the second link starts:

Olympus has fallen folks, r/rule34 has been banned!

[–] Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The problem for me was not Lemmy. I still believe in Lemmy, the Prolem was that slrpnk.net really was not user friendly. I'm writting this from phtn.app which someone told me about and it's awesome! Looks wayyy more like Mastodon and something from today :D

[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 1 points 4 months ago

I've had no issues with @pawb.social and Voyager

[–] malcriada_lala@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I'm using the Sync mobile app. I should try another one just to see what's out there. Are you aware of any third party apps that can be used on desktop?

[+] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

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[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What would you like to see improved ? This could be great contributions to the codebase :)

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, the downsides of the Fediverse have been discussed at length.

Here's a routine occurence: i'm browsing around, opening new tabs and such; then i go to upvote something, and it tells me i'm not logged in. This is how i find out i've accidentally left my instance. It's cooked at that point, i'm not going to post that comment, if i really wanted to i'd have to carefully replace the relevant parts of the URL. This keeps happening in both Lemmy and Mastodon.

I need to 1. Not fall out of my instance as easily, and 2. if i've opened a page outside my instance, i need to be able to open the same page in my instance in one click. Anything else is is annoying to me and a complete deal breaker to most new users.

I don't doubt that there's loads of work done in the backend that i don't see, but from my point of view as a user, Lemmy still has the same problems it had when i joined two years ago. That's right, it's been just about two years, the Reddit API debacle was around April-June of 23, and i haven't seen glaring problems adressed.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that's annoying.

There is a universal link system (example), so someone could write a browser plugin but it demonstrates that this can be done by Lemmy itself and you see this in the links next to usernames and posts where you get the option of two links: local to you (a chain) and canonical (Lemmy pentagram). The problem is, the system would need to identify that the link goes to Lemmy instance and parse it accordingly and there is no standard URL. However, if you held, say, the top 40 instance URLs in an array and ran a quick check when rendering the page it would solve 99% of these problems overnight and you could flesh the link out a bit later on. The extra processing would be minimal.

edit: I asked @flamingos@feddit.uk (as they know more about the Lemmy code) and they pointed me to this which would resolve many of those issues, but also that using Photo gives you a "remote" and "local" version link at the top of the page to switch you back if you ever wander off instance.

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's great! Good to see that these issues are being worked on.

I would have thought that the solution would involve checking the cookies to see which instance the user is logged into?

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago

That may require a browser plugin but if all links between Lemmy instances were rewritten to point to the version on your own instance, that would solve the problem of suddenly finding yourself off the reservation.

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[–] needthosepylons@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Popular/Unpopular opinion : Lemmy is currently perfectly sized. The amount of altrighters and trolls one may encounter is low enough to make is a healthy network. Depending on the people leaving reddit, it might be a blessing... or a curse.

[–] malcriada_lala@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Counterpoint: There still is too little activity within communities that aren't tech related for me to say that it's the perfect size. I think we still need a good number of non-tech focused users here. Also, the jokes are stale, but reddit has that issue too.

[–] Jtotheb@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this site is basically a news aggregator with a side of tech memes. None of the niche communities we used to interact with exist, and no matter how many times someone says “just make them lol” it’s just too small to support a Memphis Grizzlies or a cat mlem or an alt-biking scene

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, this site is basically a news aggregator with a side of tech memes.

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

If someone like Musk were to take control of Reddit, be prepared. Let's be real, Spez is not even in the same league as Musk in terms of being unpalatable to Redditors so claiming something like "already has been" is ... a choice. But for sure, if someone far worse takes over, there will be an exodus. And frankly, the Fediverse is fully unprepared to handle that, so that'll be fun.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago

Which is why Musk will keep spez to take the blame, just tweaking the site slightly to not allow it to ban links to X anymore.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

I feel like spez is swallowing billiard balls to be ready to accomodate musk

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

When Musk took over Twitter I deleted all my Tweets and never even visited the site again, blocked on parental filters and through NextDNS.

I had been there since 2006.

I would definitely do the dame for Reddit if Musk took over, and I have been there since like 2010 and have some million total karma across several accounts (mostly on one).

I actually did quit for about a year when they killed 3rd party apps.

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