This is a rant post and I apologize but I had to talk about this. Most subs are coming back online and not saying ANYTHING about the next steps. Only a handful of subs are going indefinite. I checked the front page for the first time today after leaving the a couple hours before the day of the blackout and what do I see? Subs are up, and comments and upvotes are up to the general average before the blackout.
I checked r/gaming to see their recent post (WHICH HAS OVER 68k UPVOTES), and I see a comment with over 500 upvotes saying in a nutshell, “You guys need to calm down, they’re a company and need to make money”.
Along with a couple other comments saying similar things. Are you fucking serious? You can’t even have the fucking balls to say, “This is a company that has consistently screwed over its users and I need to take a stand and quit my addiction”? You’re just gonna sit and do nothing? Fuck you. You’re no fucking better than u/spez. You’re all a bunch of fucking hypocritical liars for shitting on spez and the admins while talking about how you’re “done” with Reddit and you won’t support this.
Go touch grass you fucking addicted cowards. I’m glad I made the switch to Lemmy if it means I don’t have to interact with dumbfucks like you.
You mentioned convenience. A big part of that is absolutely having a mobile client. And with so many freaking clients being developed across iOS and Android for Lemmy, that is going to attract so many users. Imagine a Lemmy client as fleshed out as Apollo for iOS, or Boost for Android. When casual users notice this and Lemmy.world blows up, it’s going to create a wave effect across the entire internet. I do have some hope because of this.
(Of course, Lemmy.world does have some stability issues but I have no doubt they’ll be ironed out)
Exactly this.
This might sound stupid, I just heard an interview with the Apollo app dev and I would love to have him adjust the backend to make it work with lemmy.
In the interview he said he really wants to continue working on it if possible in any way and I’ve heard somewhere that out of convenience the API is basically the same as Reddit, so that would make adjusting it much easier.
The only thing we need is his attention, his motivation, and maybe a little bit of a budget for him. Maybe if we could crowdfund his development this could kickstart something…
The official Reddit app is not as bad as some of you make it out to be. Still a thousand times more userfriendly than here if we’re being honest.
I’ve spent some hours using the official app and god is it laggy. Click a post, see a stuttering post open animation, need to wait for 2s to start scrolling with frame drops to 10fps. Then it smooths out 5s later until it finds a big comment and starts stuttering again. Videos don’t play, every action is delayed.
This is not on some budget phone, I’m on a Google Pixel 7. Been using Relay and other third party Reddit apps for 12 years at this point and I’ve never even seen a single framedrop in those.
And this doesn’t even mention the insane amount of ads inserted into the feed because I filtered those out using Revanced already.
I honestly thought I was the only one having a difficult time. For some reason the Mlem app crashes on me constantly. I like it but it’s basically unusable for me. The mobile site isn’t great for me either. I feel dumb but I’m not that tech savvy and I’m having a rough time trying to get used to Lenny.
I haven’t gone back to Reddit because I do strongly believe in the protest.
I’m trying out the Memmy app and it has less crashes. Might want try it out.
Is that in TestFlight?
Yup!
Are they still allowing invites, you know where I can get in on the testing?
Hey, memmy dev here. here’s the link to the test flight
Yes! Thank you.
Hey, memmy dev here. here’s the link to the test flight
Yes! Thank you.
Hey, memmy dev here. here’s the link to the test flight
Yes! Thank you.
I’m trying out the Memmy app and it has less crashes. Might want try it out.
I uninstalled and reinstalled Mlem and that seems to have fixed it for me.