I’m the same. I signed up to Mastodon and really liked the concept but I was never a huge fan of the Twitter format and never actually used Twitter. I wanted a Reddit equivalent and ended up here.
Some parts, especially the apps, need a bit more polishing and I’m only saying that because I’m coming from using Infinity for Reddit. If I came from the official Reddit app the new lack of ads alone would help me ignore those quirks.
English3•11 months ago
In my experience, I have never needed an app on Lemmy or Mastodon the way I have for Reddit or Twitter. It turns out you can actually make a web interface that is lightweight and responsive when it isn’t bogged down by a long list of arbitrary conflicting demands for data collection, advertising, and inflating corporate KPIs.
It’s still nice to have some good apps, but it is not essential and website-ending the way it is with Reddit.
I really hope the Infinity Dev decides to come over here too, for a while now that app is the main way I viewed reddit and there are definitely some features that I’ll miss from it when July roles around
Jerboa works for me so far, but imo it’s incredibly basic, and I would like a wider range of choice
I tried Lemur but I had a lot of issues with it. It hasn’t been updated for 9 months now and that might be why it stopped working entirely? Jerboa works most of the time but showed a few cracks when the instance I’m on was returning errors and logged me out completely a few times.
I’d also like to see Infinity adapted for Lemmy and I wonder how easy it would be? Even if it needs to be forked, which is probably a better idea anyway, it’s a pretty great base to start from. It’s been pretty flawless for using Reddit and it’s the only reason I didn’t give up on the platform a few years ago.
Yeah as I understand it lemur is no longer maintained, and is not really compatable with some lemmy update or something
Also same here in regards to infinity being the only reason I didn’t abandon reddit sooner, I don’t exactly have enough knowledge on the matter to know how hard it would be to adapt to lemmy, but at the very least it’s a start, even if it has to be forked by someone else
I’m the same. I signed up to Mastodon and really liked the concept but I was never a huge fan of the Twitter format and never actually used Twitter. I wanted a Reddit equivalent and ended up here.
Some parts, especially the apps, need a bit more polishing and I’m only saying that because I’m coming from using Infinity for Reddit. If I came from the official Reddit app the new lack of ads alone would help me ignore those quirks.
In my experience, I have never needed an app on Lemmy or Mastodon the way I have for Reddit or Twitter. It turns out you can actually make a web interface that is lightweight and responsive when it isn’t bogged down by a long list of arbitrary conflicting demands for data collection, advertising, and inflating corporate KPIs.
It’s still nice to have some good apps, but it is not essential and website-ending the way it is with Reddit.
I really hope the Infinity Dev decides to come over here too, for a while now that app is the main way I viewed reddit and there are definitely some features that I’ll miss from it when July roles around
Jerboa works for me so far, but imo it’s incredibly basic, and I would like a wider range of choice
I tried Lemur but I had a lot of issues with it. It hasn’t been updated for 9 months now and that might be why it stopped working entirely? Jerboa works most of the time but showed a few cracks when the instance I’m on was returning errors and logged me out completely a few times.
I’d also like to see Infinity adapted for Lemmy and I wonder how easy it would be? Even if it needs to be forked, which is probably a better idea anyway, it’s a pretty great base to start from. It’s been pretty flawless for using Reddit and it’s the only reason I didn’t give up on the platform a few years ago.
Yeah as I understand it lemur is no longer maintained, and is not really compatable with some lemmy update or something
Also same here in regards to infinity being the only reason I didn’t abandon reddit sooner, I don’t exactly have enough knowledge on the matter to know how hard it would be to adapt to lemmy, but at the very least it’s a start, even if it has to be forked by someone else