Anything to make you feel at home 🥰
The best part of this post, is the segue into the new !showerthoughts community
Even the user interface brings back the memory…
And here I am laughing on my speedy private instance. For real, the best part of Lemmy is if your experience is bad you can hop to a different instance and not miss a post
Question about this, is it just a speedier general browsing on other instances as well? Or just your local posts?
Everything is faster. For the most part, your local instance will download posts and comments for any community you (or anyone else on your instance) is subscribed to. So when you log in, you log into your server and browse the content locally (posts from everywhere) while your server in the background constantly is receiving updates through the ActivityPub protocol.
I literally have no delay in using Lemmy in any way.
What about the “all” stream? Is that also preloaded to the server?
The “all” stream would be all of the posts from the combined subs of the users on the instance. So if there’s a community nobody is subscribed to, it won’t appear on all. This is true of all instances. Many smaller ones will employ bots to crawl Lemmy and sub to communities to give the large instance “all” feeling.
That being said, yeah it’s all preloaded onto your local server. There is no difference in speed. Doesn’t matter if it’s active/subed or new/all they all load the same
I’d highly encourage everyone to find smaller instances and leave lemmy.world for the immediate expats. Find something that aligns with your values. Or if you are technically literate enough host your own instance. If you have an old desktop computer you’ve already got everything you need.
I should probably build an instance on my little home server. Is there a guide for that somewhere?
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible
There you go, enjoy
Right on the lemmy website. 🙂
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/administration.html
It can apparently take up a decent amount of space depending on how many communities you subscribe to.
How many communities you subscribed and after two weeks how much data does it represents on your storage ?
On my instance we’ve got about 100 communities subscribed to. Started it first week of June, since then the instance is up to a little over 4 GB of disk space. YMMV depending on instance size.
I do that on my own instance too :D, private and small instances are really the way to go!
The instances are volunteer-ran and make no profit, give them some time to iron everything out
I would just wish there would be a new Reddit view as well. It is just so annoying having to click on the images to zoom in
That’s where apps come in. tons of great ones already. I like memmy on iOS so far.
My phone runs on GNU/Linux (pinephone pro) so there are not many apps available. I have tried liftoff, but could not get it to compile.
Wefwef.app might be the perfect option for you then. It’s a webapp.
Awsome. Thank you so much, that is exacty what I was looking for
I prefer having to click on the image, but I keep wanting to resize it like with RES TT_TT
I have tried to resize like in RES so many times. lol
New reddit crops images that it displays, so you typically had to click on images anyways, though
What are you using? I’m using connect for lemmy there’s an option for card views. Idk if that helps you or not.
Gross
You gotta use lemmy.world for the OG experience 😂
For those of you who, like me, are coming from Apollo you guys can try wefwef.app. It’s great
That looks great, thanks!
I know this night sound like a dumb comment, but it’s kind of worth thinking about.
Since it isn’t an iOS app, they could probably make a version of it which isn’t so iOS inspired, because frankly that layout is confusing to anyone who isn’t used to it.
I know Apple have a way of doing things, and they’re like apps to look a certain way, but if you’re not used to it it’s not intuitive at all.
I just put a webpage link to my Lemmy homepage on my Home Screen. I haven’t found the ability to comment or anything though, and I’m signed in.
Edit- apparently I was signed out. 🤣
Oh yeah, it’s a bit all over the place, eh? Looks quite slick though, might give it a go!
But the point of wefwef is to feel familiar to those who used and are missing Apollo, the most popular iOS app.
There has been a groundswell of Android apps starting up and not a great deal of activity in the iOS-specific space. So, wefwef is welcome for those looking for something that ticks that box.
I keep getting “cant load sever data” with this app. Is this just a lemmy thing or an app thing.
In one of the posts a couple days ago the developer of wefef stated that the app is getting rate limited by lemmy.world servers because so many people are using it. I think they were trying to resolve it but I am still getting the same issue occasionally. It’s just growing pains of the whole ecosystem & totally expected and normal. I’m happy to be an early adopter of all this stuff and watching it grow and mature will be an exciting adventure!
It’s a nice app, but I’m really wondering who came up with that name and why. That’s not how you name something if you want it to be successful.
It’s getting a name change.
I would hope so lol
undefined> wefwef.app
where do you get it?
You pop wefwef.app in the browser which can then be installed as a PWA.
You can also install any Lemmy instance as a PWA as well if you want.
Waiting for sync
The top three instances a currently overcrowded. I recommend checking out a smaller instance (for example https://laguna.chat).
Smaller instances are still able to access to same content. But it is just a different server that processes the content.
This is all I want. Just text, nothing more. Just like reddit.compact version that they took away.
If you’re on one of the bigger instances (lemmy.world for example) use https://lemmyverse.net/ to pick a smaller, less crowded instanceto call home.
I created an account on reddthat.com earlier today, and it’s way less laggy than lemmy.world (my initial instance).
Hopefully in time lemmy gains functionality thatmakis account backup/porting easy so moving instances in nbd.
Still better than the official reddit app.
So true.
A surprisingly low bar
Smoke signals would be better than the official app.
Just not using the app is better than using the app.
I can’t fathom how they bought a good app, put a dev “team” on it for 7 years, and still don’t have half the features some neckbeards in their mom’s basements without access to the backeng still managed to put into their apps.
What a pack of incompetent fucks.
Sounds like they lucked out into an awesome job with no real work required.
I’ve considered switching to carrier pigeons
I know some pensioners in my neighbourhood that’d love to talk to you about that.
A message in a bottle is easier to use. Also, the maintenance cost is negligible, since the system is powered by renewable wave energy. The only downside is the lag, which can vary from a few days to several centuries.
Do I have the proposal for you! RFC2549
All you need are two tin cans joined by string.
Yea I’m having a lot of issues like crashing, and it takes a minute to “send” my post. Is that normal? I’m using “connect for lemmy” on android.
search actually works here.
already better than old reddit.
That’s been a shocker, yeah.
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