Done with Reddit’s bullshit, and happy to check this out as it seems to be popular. Any apps that people would recommend for this platform?

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Hey! I noticed your title doesn’t match the question in your body text. Could you maybe change that?

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Lemmy has completely solved my need for news content when bored. I no longer use Reddit.

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What are your top news communities here. It sounds pathetic, but I got to nearly 99% of my news from Reddit.

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There are a lot of the same type of communities as reddit, a symptom of so many of us coming over. I looked through my subscribed subs and just searched for fediverse alternatives, they were pretty much all easy to find

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Tap communities in the header and filter by “all”

That will show you all of the most popular communities across Lemmy.world, and other sites sharing their content with Lemmy.world

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i suggest browsing communities with https://lemmyverse.net , https://sub.rehab and https://browse.feddit.de/
whatever will work for you the best

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It’s not here, but you can watch the pbs newshour on YouTube for free, or you can stream the audio over your phone (I use spotify, but I’m sure it’s on other platforms too).

Browse lemmy for entertainment, watch the news for information

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Same. Haven’t been over there in weeks. I have a few friends that roll their eyes whenever I link to something or say “on Lemmy” when answering a “where did you find this?”

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The answer is Voyager.

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I’m on android and just saved it as an app. It fills the whole screen.

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If you’re on an apple device you can have it take up the whole screen. Go to settings> install app and it will walk you through it

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Same on Android. I’m running it on Firefox, but probably also works with Chrome.

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It will always be WefWef in my heart

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I’ll never not call it WefWef tho

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I’ve switched to Memmy for now, seems a bit more stable. Keeping an eye on Voyage.

This first app to allow full screen swipe back will win for me.

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Do I just not know what full screen swipe back means? On Liftoff, Connect and Jerboa I return to the feed by swiping from the left side to the middle of my screen.

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Summit does it too. I actually swiped back just to see if it was true. Then grumbled the whole 5 seconds it took to get back.

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I feel like I forgot that was a thing but now I’m sad that I remember. The race is on!

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Nahhhh, Thunder.

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+1 for Voyager. It’s had like 6 releases since I installed it, sometimes multiple on the same day. It’s the most polished and complete interface I’ve found on Android and it installs absolutely everywhere on every system because PWA.

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Memmy is great too

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Tip: try sorting by hot instead of active. Gets better results imho. Also Top 6 hours.

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Hot show me the hottest 4 yeard old posts. Top day and less is the best.

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I’ve heard there’s a bug that can cause old posts to show in Hot if your instance admins haven’t restarted Lemmy in a while.

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Maybe can be, I’m in a relatively small instance (I think less than 600 users).

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This should be long fixed. I think people who have been taking about this recently are in instances that are having trouble helping up with traffic? Definitely not sure

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Huh, hot never seems to show me old posts. It’s not something that should be app specific, right?

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Hot has been showing me old posts… today only. really weird.

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Sort by New. There’s all sorts of weird stuff popping up like mushrooms after the rain.

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I trialled 5 different lemmy apps for Android and IMO Liftoff was the standout best. Looks good, runs smooth and the dev is quick to fix bugs and issue updates.

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Liftoff gang represent!

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Connect literally deleted one of my comments I think.

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I just switched to liftoff from Connect. Immediately liking it more.

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The green color in liftoff just does it for me

But I stay for the granular text options that so few have

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Haha, that colour is configurable in Settings > Appearance.

There’s some UI work on the way that may help with first impressions.

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Maybe my phrasing wasn’t clear. Does it for me = really makes me happy.

I did change it to match my theme/wallpaper which changes every day. Every other app had that but when I enabled it I missed the green so now it stays

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Connect is a bit better and more stable in my experience, but I’m staying with liftoff due to it being open source. But I miss its continuous vertical bars in the comments. And I miss the per-page scroll and folded comments by default of RiF!

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