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Well i am certainly not using reddit on my tablet anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly Reddit doesn't infuriate me anymore. I haven't been on reddit for 2 weeks now and I no longer feel the urge to check that site. I expect I'll still end up there occasionally when I search for stuff, but gone are the days when I spend an hour or two every night on reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would I go on bad lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That’s actually been my experience as well lol.

I did actually deliberately jump on reddit on desktop recently, just to check on a few things and see how the protests were going.

There wasn’t really anything informative on the front page that hadn’t already been posted here. The quality of posts actually seemed worse overall

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There's still quite a few subreddits I miss. Plus the larger community. Some communities are here, but they're dead with no users, and I don't really have what to contribute.
I wanted to try listing all of them, but I realized there's like 40 of them.
Mostly, I miss r/batteries, r/ElectroBOOM, r/linuxmint, r/ManjaroLinux, r/LinuxMasterrace, r/SpaceXMasterrace, r/pcmasterrace, r/computers, r/laptops, r/amateursatellites, r/whatisthisthing and r/RTLSDR which also had cool people like developer of noaa-apt and Ryzerth, the developer of SDR++, plus many more.
Edit: Oh, how could I forget dereksgc, another cool guy who puts out lots of useful info.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Things will slowly grow if we all stick with Lemmy though. It's really just a matter of time until it reaches a critical mass.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great news.

I only ever used Reddit in Firefox on desktop anyway - but now I use it a whole lot less (maybe just one reply per day trolling people with interesting posts they'd be better posting here).

Lemmy is a shit-show... but it's OUR shit-show and we'll adjust, and clever people will develop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MY shit-show ya commie bastard. NEXT.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You dodged a bullet homie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What is that app possibly made of that it cant run on literally anything? It's just an app for text and images. I dont get it, is it optimized like an actual potato?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

is it optimized like an actual potato?

Back when it was still in beta, it went through a period where it drained my battery from 100% to dead in under 30 minutes.

Just by being installed, not even actually using it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, look at the facebook app. They had to do "optimizations", because they ran into limits of Android's Dalvik a few years back.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could be a library or feature that the devs didn't consider worth maintaining on older devices.

For context, the OP appears to be using Android 5 or 5.1, released in 2014/2015 respectively and is used on 1.1-1.3% devices worldwide.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a stupid anti-human shit, I hate it. All my devices from 10 years ago are still perfectly fine and operational, and I can't use them because of some people's laziness. They are used on 1% devices not because they are necessarily bad or broken but because it's impossible to use them now for arbitrary reasons.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, true. But it is more reasonable to hate the manufacturer who refused to update, not the app devs who would have to do more work for small gain. Or unofficially update your own device, if possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not hating on the developers, I'm hating on the whole situation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit app is the only app on my phone that doesn't like Samsung's multitasking and the good lock taskbar for the folds. It crashes the entire systemui sometimes if I try to open it from the task bar, and it breaks multitasking until a reboot sometimes if I try to set it next to another app that's open. Even if it "works" and I resize it it picks some arbitrary post I commented on some earlier time the app was open to fling itself back to maing me lose whatever I was doing before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Boost and infinity still work, but not for long

Edit: Mixed up sync and infinity lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm gonna miss Joey, spent a lot of time scrolling. I'm still using it for now until the API changes kick in, then I'm probably gone from Reddit for good after I sort through the saved content that I actually care about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The app is named joey but the icon is of a koala??? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Although commonly known as a baby kangaroo, a joey is basically a baby marsupial. So that can include koala, opossum, wombat, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

holy fuck, Android 8? My Android phone is only just compatible (8.0)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Can we please stop with all the posts about reddit? Jesus christ you guys it's a website, not your crazy ex. Lemmy is never going to surpass reddit in popularity when the only thing on the frontpage besides beans is "reddit this, reddit that".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You sound mildly infuriated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's less than a week after the largest website in the world shit the bed. It's still topical.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Honestly, I'm really trying to like Lemmy. I feel like none of the good communities came over here, just the one's you mindlessly scroll through. I just looked for a fitness community yesterday and the one i found had like 5 posts. There is basically no communities for any of my hobbies. It seems like most people stayed on Reddit, except for the techy people. It's a shame because I really want to support the idea of federation and I do like the website.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I initially had the same lament, but since we're early adopters of this tech, it really is on us to build the communities here. If you want to discuss something, just post a thread. Even if no one replies right away, as people start coming they will start engaging with posts that are already there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's a fair point, I noticed if I open baconreader, I can still see my subscribed sub list. I need to learn how to make subs on here, and as you suggest, either find them, or get off my ass and make them myself.

On a nice side note, being an early adopter, I was able to get my username back without some damned number stapled on the end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Which fitness subreddits need growth? I have arrived.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Be the change you want to see. There are probably other people looking for those coversations, but see low engagement and move on. The more you post the more attractive it makes the community for other people.

I have also found that even if there are fewer comments, other people tend to respond and have more discussions.

I do have alot of hope that well see the community continue to grow & hopefully more activity as people search out reddit alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's only been like a week, people will come

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you build it they will come.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I heard that same advice about The Bunny Bar down the street, and you know what? They were right!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's an online community that people have been using for decades. The fact that many of us can't use it anymore is a real issue, even if it isn't relevant to you (believe it or not).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can for sure see both sides of this one. I had ditched all other social media years ago, and baconreader was my one guilty pleasure.

If I had my phone in my hand, I was catching up with other old skaters like myself, reading about the latest trends in tech, or browsing the daily news.

The tag line of "Front page of the internet" was quite literally true for me. That was the portal through which I found content.

In the weeks leading up to the June 30th, I felt a strong sadness, what was I going to do with my screen time? I had created a very custom space using baconreader that neither the reddit app, or to be fair, Lemmy, could provide.

While I am really enjoying learning about Lemmy, and I feel the quality of the post and comments here are far better, it's going to take time to find and/or develop those niche communities again.

I do however agree, and the ex analogy is spot on, that the last thing I want is for this community to just be a bitch fest about what once was.

Give people a bit of time to vent, it hasn't even been a week since a decades long experience came crashing to a halt through no fault of ours.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it seems most of the posts on the front page are about Reddit or about how proud people are of using Lemmy etc I just want to see some actual content :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It’s classic tribal or “sports team” mentality. Ex-redditors want to see reddit fail just as much as Lemmy succeed.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

It's a huge [email protected] to karma farm about the downfall of reddit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, the official Lemmy App also requires Android 8+. Again, no support for my not so old phone...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is there an official app for Lemmy? Jerboa is popular, but I don't think it's official. Connect for Lemmy supports Android 4.4+.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they'll call you a POS for not being part of the pc master race

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, more like they call you a POS for not buying into the latest and greatest corporate need to sell you the newest hardware at top dollar - I think the last time I saw a tablet for sale it was about $1100 or something stupid like that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where are you shopping? Samsung has several great tablets available in a wide range of prices. The S series has the S6 lite, a great tablet with stylus, for $350. There are cheaper tablets without the stylus for cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Cheap tablets and phones legitimately suck. At this point $350-400 is the new $250.

That being said, I live in Australia - $1100 was just my estimated conversion - I think the full price of it was A$1300. It was at a JB Hi-Fi that I saw, I think the cheapest one I saw was A$600.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Can we all just leave the Reddit chatter to the Reddit or Redditmigration communities at this point please? If not yet, then maybe soon? This ex-partner behavior is just going to turn off new people from joining in the long run.