YSK: Lemmy is Open Source, which means that there are many ways to use the platform through various user created apps. Here is a list.
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For the newbies. đź’“
See also: https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/
i’m a newbie help me understand. what are the benefits of some of these other apps versus the Voyager app I’m currently using?
Mostly personal preference. :)
OP's site explains some differences. Mostly device based. I personally use Sync and it's just like Reddit! So, the interface curve was almost zero.
Because the creator simply converted his app "Sync for Reddit" to a Lemmy app when Reddit fucked over all third party apps at the first big exodus
Sync is not open source tho, just in case someone cares about that.
Thanks for that! Had no idea!
thanks I’ll check it out
I use voyager, too. I like it better than sync for being open source and more frequently updated
Warning, Sync seems abandoned and some features are broken, e.g read posts don't stay hidden. I'd recommend Boost, Summit, Jerboa, or Thunder
This listing has filters for features: https://www.lemmyapps.com/
Hopefully someone else chimes in but I know that there's one app that allows you to export your Reddit communities here. [Finds Lemmy communities of the same name as the Reddit ones.]
That's nice, right?
Voyager has this option, but I did not use it, so I don't know how well it does.
I search for a community and add the one with the most users or most recent posts. If it isn't active, I find a less broad topic that would encompass that community.
I also spend most of my time on "all" and find active communities that way
yeah, that’s what I’ve been doing so far and this place feels a lot more like how I remember Reddit being 10 years ago. which is a good thing
Got'cha!
unfortunately, I got banned, nuked my account, and deleted it all before I came over here. so I’m rebuilding from scratch, but so far so good.
Ouch, sorry to hear that.
all good feels like a clean slate.
Different feature sets, really. I chose Thunder because of all the view customization. I still use Thunder because I did a PR for 2-column tablet support, and no other apps I know of do that.