• @[email protected]
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    2751 year ago

    My time on Reddit died simultaneously with Apollo. I’m doing what I can by not giving that place anymore traffic from me.

    Found out about Lemmy yesterday. While it’s not there with niche interests at this point, it definitely cures the itch.

    You want to stick it to the man? Quit going there altogether people!

      • @[email protected]
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        271 year ago

        My screen time was more than halved when Apollo went down, it’s slowly increasing with wefwef though which is probably bad for me but still fun

      • Norah - She/They
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        231 year ago

        I’m using Memmy for Lemmy and the dev has said they were inspired by Apollo. There’s even a shoutout to Christian on the github page. It’s just had it’s official app store launch, definitely worth giving a try.

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        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          I would say Mlem is also inspired by Apollo, so I would recommended it as well; I keep jumping back and forth between Memmy, Mlem and wefwef.

          Tried Thunder and Liftoff!, but they feel very Material Design-y to me, so using them on iOS feels off. Which is a shame because both are pretty fast.

          Lemmios is also promising, but it’s still on early development so it’s a bit rough around the edges.

    • Kalothar
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      111 year ago

      Which app are using if you don’t mind me asking?

      I recommend Voyager, basically a beat for beat recreation of Apollo for Lemmy.

      https://vger.app/

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      Yeah I feel the same way. I’m on here and it’s working but I also do miss my years and years worth of subs I joined that made my feed perfect to what I liked, especially the smaller ones that I hope make it over here someday. Right now my lemmy feed just mostly feels like meme after meme or some politics post which is not really what I like at all so I may have to spend some time and figure out how to narrow my interests more on here.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        That’s definitely the worst part for me too. But if people make the switch here and the user base grows and over time you curate your feed here, it could eventually be that again.

        I’m just ready to sacrifice that to say “screw you” to Reddit. Finding this platform has just been a pleasant surprise

      • @[email protected]
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        -21 year ago

        I’m lucky that my curated feed was mostly open source coding, AI tech and solar punk so I’ve been able to find even better communities than Reddit had. The less tech adjacent subs will take longer to build but you can see them starting to establish - I guess the best way to help that is to participate in them and to introduce other people to them.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      Welcome! You’ve probably seen it around already, but just in case, you can search at lemmyversenet/communities and may turn up some of those niche communities that are just difficult to find otherwise. Ofc, maybe they don’t exist yet, but always worth a look!

    • Josh
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      51 year ago

      if you are on iOS, use Memmy. it’s really close to Apollo functionality :)

      there’s also many iOS clients in beta right now too