Holy shit. Wefwef is so fucking good
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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It's honestly the best progressive web app I've ever used.
what is a progressive web app? Is it like a pseudo-app built into a browser like Safari?
A PWA is an app that's built on web platform technologies and use the browser engine to emulate a native platform app that uses platform specific technologies (Android, iOS). Since they use the browser to serve functionality, they can be presented on any operating system, and the browser UI is supplanted by the app UI. It can still be deeply integrated into the device, so you can install it to your phone, you get the icon, they can access functions of the device, like notifications, running in the background, running offline even in some use cases. Just instead of the device OS providing the backend, the browser functions as the backend. It's basically a website wrapper, though I hesitate to call it that for fear of being reductive.
Oh, that's good to know. That actually makes a lot of sense. Is this the future way of making apps for devices? Can a PWA work on both iOS and Android by just having the url? Sorry for all the questions, it's actually quite interesting to hear about.
My knowledge is really surface level as I'm not a developer. I'm just fascinated by stuff like this and seeing how far they can push it. It doesn't seem like web apps have taken off the way that native apps have, but part of that is people getting better and better internet over time and more powerful phones, so that things can run without the jank. It does work on both iOS and Android in modern browsers just by going to the URL. Wefwef really is quite stunning, especially if you take into account how new it is and how much they've done in so little time. Another good one is https://weather.com, which you can install the same way.
It feels almost native. I hope they eventually make it native. But even if not I’ll keep using just cuz it’s the best we’ve got.
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It’s kind of shocking to me that the best app is a webapp. But it clearly makes the decision to just outright copy Apollo and there are a lot worse ways to go.
It is amazing. Made the experience of switching almost pain free. Lemmy still lacks a lot of content that was on Reddit, but it will come with time. I’m also digging lemmy.world. The server seems a bit beefer than lemmy.ml, where I started off. I was getting a lot of errors and slow requests, but not after switching.
Might be a stupid question, but I iust signed up for lemmy.world today and wanted to add some communities from the migration list here. The equivalent of r/anarchychess is listed as https://sopuli.xyz/c/anarchychess and on my first visit to that site I couldn't really figure out how to subscribe... in this case sopuli would be the hosting instance if I understand. Do I need a sopuli account to subscribe and just add that account to my lemmy app? Or did I just not find the right option?
Noob here too.
I don't think you need another account on the separate instance as long as it's federated to lemmy.world
I think you need to subscribe to the following
https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
source of my info https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2212
The best way to link communities is like this:
You should be able to click that :)
You can also just do a search for it and it should pop up.
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I've only just signed up for Lemmy myself, but it looks like you can access federated communites with URLs like https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
There's probably a more ergonomic way to get there than manually constructing the URL though!
Search for !community@server or the original url.
Use the web interface and search for either:
Or
The full url like you linked it.
Be patient, if it's a community that's new to your server it may take a couple minutes to find it.
I say to use the web interface because all the apps are rather immature and inconsistent in their handling of this.
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Also add Sub Rehab to the 'jumpstart your subscription'. Has a bunch of subreddits and a way to submit linked subreddits/communities
I urge everyone to support a community you like by posting interesting topics and commenting, and the rest will follow. Don't just wait for people to do it.
I’ve been using wefwef for a bit and just installed memmy. IMHO wefwef has the potential to be great. Memmy is great already - super polished.
Tried downloading the testflight of memmy, but it's asking for a code. I searched the github but didn't find one =/
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wefwef is such a life saver. It literally feels like Apollo.
There's a map of subredits and their new homes, seb.rehab. Many are official others are just copies. You can filter the list to just lemmy communities and kbin magazine.
Is it me or kbin just doesn't federate properly? Its always lacking comments on many posts.
I can't get kbin to federate at all to my Lemmy server. Other Lemmys work fine.
Thank you for this, one part I'm still struggling with and would appreciate help...
How do I subscribe to a community that is on another instance and have it show up on my account? Example - I have an account here at lemmy.world, but there's https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy community and I'd love to see their posts in one place on my lemmy.world account. How do I do this? If I navigate to that link, it asks me to create a lemmy.dbzer0 account to subscribe so i dont think i'm following the correct pathway
eta - nevermind i figured it out. going to leave my comment here for others though
so what you have to do is search for that community on your own instance and then select it and subscribe that way. Can't follow the link directly to the instance, but rather have to search using lemmy.world's search and follow the link from there. So for instance: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
(if there's a more straightforward way, i'd still appreciate tips)
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Thanks for this. Im a total noob and trying to learn all these new sites and lingo. Now i know enough to be dangerous.
ELI5: What does “pick an instance” mean? What would I be deciding on?
Basically do you like the administration policies of the instance. All instances can speak to all other instances, unless instances block each other.
Lemmy isn't one website, it's a bunch of websites talking to each other and people choose to moderate in their own manner, and can also choose to stop talking to other websites if they deem them to be a problem.
It's less obvious when picking between big general ones, but here's some examples:
- beehaw.org: A curated instance with extremely heavy moderation. Leans centre-left.
- lemmynsfw.com: It's in the name - allows NSFW (porn) posts, which other instances tend not to like hosting.
- lemmy.dbzer0.com: Primarily focused around Piracy, something other instances wouldn't be comfortable hosting.
- exploding-heads.com: "Free speech" instance (you know what that means)
- lemmygrad.ml: Extreme-left instance, labelled as "tankies" by most people.
Then other than that, you have the big general ones such as lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, sh.itjust.works, and so on. Each of those will have their own rules, but tend to be about anything and everything, but it's still important to learn how they moderate their instances!
Don't forget though, no matter which instance you pick, you can still interact with all the other instances unless they are blocked (which they are in some cases for various reasons).
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OP here: IMO choosing an instance is mostly a big decision about nothing. What I mean is its an annoying barrier of a decision you gotta make to play that’s both cheap to change AND probably will have very little impact on your experience.
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In two weeks you probably won’t care which instance you picked. 90% of instances are going to be relatively generic: same posts, same communities, same federation.
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If for some reason you do regret your first pick in a couple weeks, you’ll know, and you probably won’t feel like its a big deal to switch. There’s no karma, and losing your account’s link to a couple weeks of post/comment history is, at least to me, a little 🤷♀️.
My advice would be: pick any semi generic instance to start (e.g. lemmy.world), and if you’re curious about more curated instances (there’s a lot less of these, most notable is beehaw.org) make an account on them a few days later just to check out the vibe.
The only wrong decision is to waffle lol.
If I want to switch to say, Beehaw, would I need a different username? Also, I just looked at the Politics community on Beehaw, and it’s different than the Politics community on LemmyWorld. Shouldn’t they be the same?
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As far as switching to wefwef goes, does anyone know if you can still download your Apollo data? With the update the settings tab on the app is gone.
The option is indeed gone from Apollo. I @‘d him on Mastadon about potentially re-enabling it, though. May want to do the same.
I'm using it right now and the settings tab is still there. Try uninstalling and reinstalling, maybe?
Excellent post! I know I can't switch from Reddit all at once, I was kind of booted off a few hours ago once my app stopped connecting. I anticipate it'll be a lot of fun exploring new communities here. There was a bit of a routine to checking my default subs in Reddit, being forced to change things up might help to expand my interests.
Consider instituting a “read only reddit” policy
One should also log-out of Reddit if possible.
i can't figure out how to subscribe to communities that are outside of my instance? i keep trying to do the thing where you append it to the url or search for it but it's not working..
I'm still having a bit of trouble using Lemmy. I have Jerboa on my phone but I can't use it right now, it says something about a version lower than v0.18 and trying a different instance and I can't log-in on my phone's browser because the circle just keeps spinning. I'm on my laptop and I feel like if I log this out, I'm gonna have troubles logging in again.
People need to stop recommending lemmy.world when it has so many people already; join lemm.ee, vlemmy.net, or lemmy.one instead.
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I had the same issue. It seems that lemmy.world is not yet upgraded to 0.18, but Jerboa requires it. I was able to fix it by downloaded an older version of Jerboa (specifically, version 0.34 or older).
I later switched to Liftoff, which seems to be a much smoother experience.
Had the same problem, I'm using Connect for Lemmy on Android right now, hope it helps. However I'm using Sync for Lemmy once the development ends
Just installed connect. It's nice!
Lemmy.world is a heavily loaded instance. You may be better off trying somewhere smaller. lemmy.one is pretty decent.
Lemmy.world just upgraded to 0.18 a couple of hours ago. Still a little sluggish but has improved significantly over the last half hour.
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