Spyke
BossDj
lemm.ee

The best thing I was told when I was a newbie:

Try sorting "all" by Top: last 6 hours.

It works great for my frequency of use. I then use "hot" if I return within an hour or two. Some mornings, I'll scroll Top 6 hours for the main stuff and switch to hot for more pressing news while I'm having my coffee.

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canreply
sh.itjust.works

The next step after Hot is Scaled (similar but boosts less active/smaller communities

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Dharma Curious (he/him)reply
slrpnk.net

I just leave mine on top 6 hours, and it's been plenty for my use, but if scaled can show me smaller communities where I might find new stuff, I'll definitely try that!

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fmstratreply
lemmy.nowsci.com

Only if you spend multiple times a day on Lemmy. I use Top Week, since I don't. Otherwise I miss the important stuff.

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BossDjreply
lemm.ee

Out of curiosity, what do you do day-to-day instead of Lemmy?

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vaguerant
fedia.io

Those things aren't strictly related. Lemmy is open source and there are a bunch of apps. There also used to be a bunch of Reddit apps, but Reddit wasn't open source. The important factor is that the Lemmy software provides an API (application programming interface) which app developers can use to talk to Lemmy instances. API access is free, like it used to be on Reddit.

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Davereply
lemmy.nz

Interesting, I was expecting this to be at the beginning not recently, but it seems it was open source up to 2017 - but I'm now realising that 2017 is fast approaching a decade ago so might not count as recently.

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Fiction
lemm.ee

i’m a newbie help me understand. what are the benefits of some of these other apps versus the Voyager app I’m currently using?

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Lucky_777reply
lemmy.world

OP's site explains some differences. Mostly device based. I personally use Sync and it's just like Reddit! So, the interface curve was almost zero.

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BossDjreply
lemm.ee

Because the creator simply converted his app "Sync for Reddit" to a Lemmy app when Reddit fucked over all third party apps at the first big exodus

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BossDjreply
lemm.ee

I use voyager, too. I like it better than sync for being open source and more frequently updated

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Madbrad200reply
sh.itjust.works

Warning, Sync seems abandoned and some features are broken, e.g read posts don't stay hidden. I'd recommend Boost, Summit, Jerboa, or Thunder

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dawnslayerreply
kbin.earth

Hopefully someone else chimes in but I know that there's one app that allows you to export your Reddit communities here. [Finds Lemmy communities of the same name as the Reddit ones.]

That's nice, right?

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BossDjreply
lemm.ee

Voyager has this option, but I did not use it, so I don't know how well it does.

I search for a community and add the one with the most users or most recent posts. If it isn't active, I find a less broad topic that would encompass that community.

I also spend most of my time on "all" and find active communities that way

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Fictionreply
lemm.ee

yeah, that’s what I’ve been doing so far and this place feels a lot more like how I remember Reddit being 10 years ago. which is a good thing

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Fictionreply
lemm.ee

unfortunately, I got banned, nuked my account, and deleted it all before I came over here. so I’m rebuilding from scratch, but so far so good.

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fmstratreply
lemmy.nowsci.com

Different feature sets, really. I chose Thunder because of all the view customization. I still use Thunder because I did a PR for 2-column tablet support, and no other apps I know of do that.

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