A few weeks ago Lemmy was buggy on computers and there were no good mobile clients out there, now on PC the site is pretty stable and fast, and there are now some pretty good iOS/Android clients too. Thanks to all the people who made this possible!
Thanks spez! You sent all the best devs making free programs for your platform to your biggest competitor, plus enough users for it to reach critical mass and allow the snowball effect to grow. And it’s FOSS so it can’t be stopped!
As someone who has been here for quite some time before the reddit exodus, it is crazy how much this place has improved in such a short time. I used to check lemmy once or maybe twice a day and then I’d go back to reddit. Now with all the new people posting here, lemmy has replaced reddit for me
Yeah, nearly three years ago when I first saw Lemmy I found the idea so cool but I didn’t expect people not interested in fun rust projects to actually come here. And here we are now with an active platform with a wide variety of users !
I joined too early and stopped looking as there was so little content. In fact, when Lemmy started becoming well-known, I forgot I even had an account and made a new one elsewhere. Luckily, my password manager has a better memory!
Now if only my upvotes would go through. Hopefully the patch that was applied to lemmy.world yesterday addresses that. Their instance seems much more stable and responsive now.
I think the whole Fediverse is struggling with Reddit and Twitter sending a lot of new users their way.
It’s struggling less than my RiF app though.
I remember when reddit was a bug filled mess but it was the user community that made the site. That is happening here as well. We shall evolve beyond the limitations of reddit.
Still some improvements need to be made but it’s way more usable now than before 0.18.0.
As a very new user, not one too tech savvy either, having constant improvements over the short time I’ve been here is so refreshing to see! Still getting my head around some of the navigational aspects, but Wefwef has been a blast to use.
Thank you Devs, this is truly a labour of love.
Yeah, it’s amazing how quickly things have improved amid a massive influx of new users! Truly impressive!
Developers have been kicking into overdrive to smooth things out. Web UIs are improving in stability under load, and apps like Wefwef are performing great. Each day people participate, donate, bug report, and audit code, is another day that Lemmy improves its rigidity.
They’re working so hard. I love it.
I’m really enjoying Jerboa. It stays lightweight and fast!
Same, I just wish for mod tools.
What mod tools do you want to see?
I’ve been on Jerboa as well. Reminds me of Boost, took no time at all to figure out.
I have also been loving Jerboa.
I would really appreciate the ability to display thumbnails on the left side though.
Donate if you want to keep it alive and improving!
Donate to the Lemmy project, but also look at donating to your instance / instance admin. It ain’t free to host and operate this stuff.
And remember that even a Euro per month is enough. It doesn’t sound like a lot but if enough people donate just a little, it can grow to a pretty good amount of money.
I’m trying out Memmy right now and it seems like I can’t reply to comments, which seems pretty important to me, but other than that it’s good
Liftoff on Android is very similar to RIF.
I am using connect and finding it very similar to RIF as well
I remember when I’d refresh the front page and see posts from the day before. Now it seems like every few hours there’s new content. This is a really happening place
Use Wefwef for mobile.
100%
I’ve tried a few different apps and wefwwf is the best and most refined option at the moment. It’s the closest feel to reddit that I’ve found so far.
Wefwef is crushing it. 2+ updates everyday and improving quickly
Use it for PC too 😉 Since it’s a PWA (Progressive web application) it can be installed (as its own program) on any os with a compatible browser, including Windows, Linux and Mac.
Just not using Firefox…
I installed it via firefox mobile as a PWA and have no issues.
Literally does nothing for me… Any site with an official pwa doesn’t install for me with FF on android.
Weird. Maybe you have removed some permissions or dosabled installing apps from unkown sources?
Nope just YT is so baked it it keeps taking over.
Edit: Wrong reply… Firefox has permissions, no idea. It works for non-pwa sites.
This is my main reason why I don’t use Firefox. Well that and the absence of the extension manager add-on. I even adapted the layout to be the way I use my browser (through CSS) with hiding vertical tabs, much like edge.
Wefwef looks like a massive iOS app on my desktop. No thanks! The browser experience @ lemmy.world is a nice blend of old.reddit with modern UI.
It’s amazing to think it has only been a few weeks and I still find it mind blowing how quickly everyone came together for all these projects.
Especially for the level of changes that have taken place. Lemmy basically had a major rewrite to move away from web sockets, and Lemmy.world’s operators are running overtime just trying to fix the site up, and make it work for the massive amount of users that they have, addressing a few of the scaling issues in the process.
