I use Voyager for iOS and itβs great βΊοΈ Mlem is also really good.
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
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What makes something in this list "hot"?
Updates that keep you coming back for more. π
Updates on the site or updates on the app?
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.
Only if you spend multiple times a day on Lemmy. I use Top Week, since I don't. Otherwise I miss the important stuff.
Out of curiosity, what do you do day-to-day instead of Lemmy?
Wonder what's on Lemmy.
The next step after Hot is Scaled (similar but boosts less active/smaller communities
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!
Worth browsing All by Scaled at least once or twice a day.
took me a few weeks to get to the same setting, way better.
Doing exactly that. Or "new" in my local instance.
Go into your settings and stick the "hide read posts" option on for improved browsing.
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.
reddit was open source
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.
Good to know, but trying to not confuse the less than techie newbies. X)
But here it can never be taken away :)
iβm a newbie help me understand. what are the benefits of some of these other apps versus the Voyager app Iβm currently using?
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.
Mostly personal preference. :)
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.
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
Sync is not open source tho, just in case someone cares about that.
Thanks for that! Had no idea!
thanks Iβll check it out
I use voyager, too. I like it better than sync for being open source and more frequently updated
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
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?
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
yeah, thatβs what Iβve 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
Got'cha!
unfortunately, I got banned, nuked my account, and deleted it all before I came over here. so Iβm rebuilding from scratch, but so far so good.
Ouch, sorry to hear that.
all good feels like a clean slate.
Hello @fossilesque@mander.xyz ,
Happy cake day! π₯³
Could youl maybe also add this list? https://www.lemmyapps.com/
It might be easier to navigate
Thanks Blaze. π I swapped the links.
Great, thanks!
Happy cake day!
No need thankfully. Unlike old.reddit, Lemmy displays fine and runs quick in Firefox.
I love my browser just fine no thankyou