I barely use reddit anymore save for porn and niche subs but after that glorious app I had used for ages finally died a few days ago I felt devastated. it was like losing an old friend. I hope reddit dies an even slower and more painful death

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I have the most extensive list of Lemmy apps, you can include it in your welcome kit: https://lemmy.world/post/465785

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added, ty

Here is where I’m keeping the updated list. https://lemmy.intai.tech/post/30829

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I’m sure this “welcome kit” is meant as a helpful thing but I have to wonder if it is exactly the problem that prevents Lemmy from being adopted.

When someone joins Reddit, they don’t need to read a literal plethora of guides on how to use Reddit. It’s obvious.

What looks like a helpful thing to do is instead going to intimidate and confuse new people.

So ultimately the question is: why isn’t Lemmy obvious to use, and how do we make it so?

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Exactly… I’ve tried to convince one of my friends to use reddit instead of 9gag (yes) and she found it too difficult.

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With time. Reddit is 18 years old I heard. Lemmy few months old

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Lemmy is like 3 years old. But yes, it’s only really gotten attention for a few weeks and development has ramped up considerably in that time.

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you don’t read sidebars do you?

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Thing it though, you don’t really need to read any of it.

The experience is pretty similar for the end user. However the guide is very useful if you want to get to the back end stuff.

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Reddit wasn’t easy to understand either when I joined 13 years ago. I guess discovery is part of the fun.

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Reddit wasn’t easy to understand either when I joined 13 years ago. I guess discovery is part of the fun.

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When someone joins reddit it isnt obvious what to do. A lot of people come from more common linear communication systems like bbs and etc and the whole reddit comment chain can be confusing to follow. It also is extremely confusing about joining communities and what that does to your feed. The thing is reddit has been around for a lot of years and those of us who have used it have forgotten how confusing it was in the beginning.

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I think it’s really the choice of federation. I imagine it’s against the spirit of federation, but is the answer just to direct people to lemmy.world to first sign up? From there, do what you always did on reddit, but check note that you can sub to other communited not on lenny.world? I just migrated a few days ago, but it was that initial choice that was confusing to me and delayed my signing up.

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Could you open a pull request to categorize all this into the awesome list for lemmy?

I see you’ve added the Awesome Instances list, but dbeley’s is more general, e.g:
alternative front-ends, mobile apps, libraries, tools, guides, etc. Thank you!

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i updated the main list ty

will need to start organizing this a bit more.

you can find the maintained copy here: https://lemmy.intai.tech/post/30829

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I think Sync for Lemmy is being fast tracked.

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Six weeks out, last I heard. Can’t wait!

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And that was like a week ago so now its 5-ish! Also: https://syncapps.io/

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Instant purchase

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I’m using Connect for Lemmy. It’s no Sync but it’ll do in the meantime.

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Connect, Thunder and Liftoff are all great alternatives so far.

Connect is barebones now but it is the closest in rendition to Sync.

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I’m using Jerboa. It does the job but looking forward to Sync!

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https://kbin.social/m/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world/t/113154/Sync-for-Lemmy-signup-is-now-open

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You’re in luck: !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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Welcome to the party, pal.

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Come out to the Fediverse, let’s get together, we’ll share a few menes

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Well. Judging by my world feed, the porn is coming.

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We really should have the ability to block entire instances as users.

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Agreed, but they are working to get the federation scaling issues resolved, first.

We’ll have to make do with blocking communities.

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You can turn off NSFW content. I suppose if I’m browsing all then I should expect it.

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While that is reasonable, its really just the porn I want to filter, most people won’t really give you too much trouble for a lot of the non-porn things that get labeled nsfw, some won’t even really register it, but porn always catches peoples eyes.

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Where do you turn off NSFW? I checked the box to allow it when creating my account. Where can I turn it off now?

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Its blocked by default on accounts.

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That’s not good enough. Some NSFW users may want to see that isn’t porn. Being able to block instances like “lemmynsfw” is way more effective.

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I’d wager most people who want to see NSFW don’t want to see it in all. NSFW seems like it’s more of a thing you search for at specific times rather then something you want popping up while you’re browsing for the other kind of entertainment. Not that I’m speaking from experience of course.

Also, as others have mentioned, the more gorey or profanity filled style NSFW isn’t something I’d like to have blocked from all, but it is something I don’t want to autoplay or be uncensored in case I’m actually at work.

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I think on kbin you can. Hopefully it will be added on Lemmy too

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On kbin you can.

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I wouldn’t be surprised if the large “mainstream” Lemmy and KBin instances start degenerating from the NSFW focused instances before too long.

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I hope they don’t. Users should have the power to decide for themselves what content they want to see.

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There’s also lemmynsfw for that kind of thing.

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