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Jerboa is a native-android client for Lemmy, built using the native android framework, Jetpack Compose.

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Suggestion: show all instances in feed by default (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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As a longtime redditor but newcomer to Lemmy, it strikes me as odd that Jerboa shows only posts from the local instance in the home feed by default.

If we are to promote the use of less-burdened instances, and stress the connectedness of this federated platform, we should be displaying the collective content right from the start. Content scarcity is already a stumbling block for many converts, and purposely limiting the view even further doesn't make much sense to me.

If there is a more technical reason for this default view, then I can understand the rationale, but if not I'm curious to know why this is the case. What are your thoughts?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for mentioning, I just did this. Feels a bit more alive and you discover more niche channels this way.

Also, what helped me is to set the default sort mode to "hot" instead of "active". The former shows newer and more discussed posts, while the latter showed me posts from 4 days ago. Might be worth checking out. :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love active as an option! But right now, it being the default, it just makes people keep commenting on the same posts every day. I'd use it much more if it wasn't the default.