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It's far from perfect, but I'm taking a stand.
Half the reason I used Reddit was to cure boredom. I've decided to find other things to do. The other main reason I loved to check in was to make sure I don't miss big news. So far, Lemmy seems to scratch that itch. It'll take a long time for niche communities to establish, but I'll just deal with that for now. Maybe I'll just go back to some old forums for that purpose.
The mobile browser version is pretty much unusable for me. I select view All, then organize by either Hot or Active, and what I get is an endless stream of posts, but newly made and from two years ago (so, neither Hot not Active). And the page becomes unresponsive because of the endless stream.
The app works better but kept timing out when trying to upvoted stuff. Just updated to see if that fixes it.
So far, I gotta say squabbles is working better for me as a reddit alternative.
I just jumped on and mobile browser working fine for me. I changed to “new” and it’s all recent stuff. But I do think this is in early stages and more content will be generated as more of us make the transition, and I imagine UI of apps and web will continue to improve too.
It's tricky at times, but I'm really liking it after a few days. It's a bit chaotic but in a fun way I think.
If you haven't seen it yet, check out https://browse.feddit.de for a way to search for more communities
Hope you start to enjoy it more :-)
people need to remember that apps like apollo were around for years. iterating and improving to produce an incredible product.
it wasn’t always like that. you’re at the cutting edge. like reddit was 10 years ago.
This stuff takes time
I mean the user base is less than 1% of reddits. So of course you're going to have less posts. You're relying on people for browsing, you either can chose to be content with how much people are posting, or get to posting yourself.
Download Mlem via TestFlight - it really helps!
I keep seeing the same posts more than once
In my experience, it sorts by "active" which keeps showing the same 5 posts. Try sorting by "hot" instead.
Have you tried Mlem? I’m using it on iOS and it’s been pretty stable and close to what I was used to using Apollo prior to this whole fiasco!
The long and short of it is that it is rough around the edges, but it's a good foundation that can get better over time. It definitely needs some UI improvements and better onboarding
Something that improved my experience was changing the sorting from most active to hot. I see much more variety now.
I just love it, but you have to make sure to subscribe to a lot of communities from lots of different instances.
Im also on Android which I think has a better mobile client.
Beehaw is very chatty, join their popular communities. :)
By the way, check your language settings in the profile. I had some issues with the posts that I could not get, because “English” option was somehow unchecked in the languages list…
Agreed. Its all a bit too confusing. I'm sort of understanding it all now after a few hours. I think great apps for android and iOS will definitely help a lot, but also I just really miss apollo :(