I miss the finance communities on reddit. But everything else I looked into on reddit I can mostly find here. I also put the effort into posting when I can’t find an existing topic. You have to have a pioneer mentality here to establish your community.
Stop checking lemmy so often. Or post content.
I just made the account, subscribed to all the equvalent groups and nothing else
I wanted to switch from a proprietary centralized platform to a free federated one. The only inconvenience is that I find a group with same name on multiple instances, each with its own content. Instead of one containing them all.
Sort by top 24 hours and theres much more activity than any of the sorting algorithms.
I do this as well. Works great for both serving me the most interesting content and limiting how much time I spend on Lemmy.
Oh I use the “auto hide read posts” feature of Voyager so the posts are always fresh. With that combination of settings Lemmy has enough content to spend a few hours every day on if you want to haha.
use a decent app like sync
blorp has been pretty solid for me and you can also use piefed with it
does it allow you to hide image posts? I haven’t found a client that allows you to hide image posts.
Blorp dev here. Do you mean hide the image posts entirely, or just hide the image from the post? I’m in the process of rolling out an “Extra Compact” post view that renders the image posts without the images. But that won’t roll out to iOS and Android for a few days.
I want to hide the image posts entirely.
here’s my reasoning: lots of communities have interesting text/link posts, but are plagued with worthless meme posts. hiding image posts would instantly clear up 100% of that noise.
hiding the thumbnails isn’t good enough. I don’t want to see thread titles for the hilarious Anakin Skywalker four panel dead horse joke cluttering up half of my feed all the time. a lot of really interesting communities are like 50% meme slop, so it’s not insignificant. an anti-idiot filter would make a lot of communities infinitely more tolerable.
I don’t think I’m going to add this feature tbh, BUT
I’m currently collaborating with the Interstellar devs to design a very powerful filter engine for both our apps. This will let you load in one or multiple filter files for complex filtering within the app. The specification we designed would allow you to write a filter that says
IF post.thubnail.url has length > 0 THEN hide the postYou can combine that with other checks
AND post.community.name is in this listAnd the best part, these filters will be shareable with other users! You will be able to browse or optionally publish a filter you designed.
Instead of building a dozen niche features like this, we can ship one very powerful filter engine that can handle many use cases. How does that sound?
yeah that sounds pretty good.
is there any way to get a super compact clean feed
like this?
This is what the new extra compact posts look like. I can probably tune this a little more, but let me know what you think. That’s currently in beta. Idk if you’re using Google Play, but if you are, you can join the beta for immediate access.The filter system I described will take more time to implement. Probably a few months, but it’s going to unlock filtering that no other Lemmy/PieFed client supports
i don’t think so.
My best is: just stop. Yes, Lemmy is like the rural version of Reddit. It’s slower, more niche communities, and not a lot of people making content. But screw Reddit. I was a 15 year reader. They’ve destroyed it for corporate greed. I’m all set.
I did exactly this, quit after 15 years.
Lemmy has a tiny fraction users compared to Reddit, it took me a while to get used to the new rhythm of things here. But after a few weeks, I realized that this is actually much better for me.
In 2 years I have encountered only one troll. There’s a lot less content, yes, but I’ve learned that it’s still more than enough. I do miss some of the active niche hobby communities, but I fixed that by digging up my old hobby forum site profiles. The old school forums are just as active as they ever were and I don’t have to expose myself to Reddit’s neverending stream of garbage anymore.
The transition was actually pretty painless and I wouldn’t go back, even if they magically decided to clean the platform and restore the 3rd party apps. This is a smaller world and it fits me very well.
For me, the realization of how toxic Reddit can be combined with how lost in the crowd I felt was enough. I enjoy the smaller feel to the communities and that I can actually have a conversation instead of getting buried in comments was just the right combo.
The moment they announced increasing censorship was what did it for me, basically it was the ‘It’s only a matter of time before I get banned on here so I might as well nuke my account while I’m still ahead’ realization when that went down.
Even just reading Reddit without an account sucks because Redlib is always getting blocked.
Heh, on Reddit, I just avoided the larger subs. r/gaming was the worst gaming sub (aside from subs for free competitive games that are playable by children)
I’m curious how the Counter Strike subreddit was. It wasn’t that bad I don’t think a long time ago, before Reddit was as large as it became, and also before it was free. Now that Reddit is a hell-hole and the game is free, is the subreddit horrible too? I’d imagine it is, but I’d expect it to lean a little toward older audiences than the other games, so there’s a chance it’s fine.
New accounts on reddit are heavily restricted making it impossible to share things so I left. Found Lemmy by accident. Instantly way better community and low barrier to contribute has me hereforawhile.
Never used reddit but then found lemmy and liked it
I never really posted on reddit. The apps I used to lurk all stopped working to one degree or another, and more and more of the content on reddit is just bots karma farming with AI slop and reposts.
Made it pretty easy to stop going there.
Signed up for Lemmy, participated in things I was interested in.
If you’re that addicted to Reddit just stay there. I hate this “please beg me to stay” crap that goes on pretty frequently.
I just don’t care for Reddit, or it’s redditisms.
Honestly, just do what you like. You can browse both, too.
I didn’t really, I have 13 Reddit tabs and like 25 Lemmy tabs open in this browser window atm
