• fmstrat
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    14 hours ago

    What makes something in this list “hot”?

  • @BossDj@lemm.ee
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    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.

    • fmstrat
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      14 hours ago

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

      • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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        35 days ago

        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!

    • kokope11i
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      65 days ago

      took me a few weeks to get to the same setting, way better.

    • Madbrad200
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      Go into your settings and stick the “hide read posts” option on for improved browsing.

  • vaguerant
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    155 days ago

    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.

  • @Fiction@lemm.ee
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    115 days ago

    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?

    • fmstrat
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      14 hours ago

      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.

    • @Lucky_777@lemmy.world
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      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.

    • dawnslayer
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      45 days ago

      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?

      • @BossDj@lemm.ee
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        65 days ago

        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

        • @Fiction@lemm.ee
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          45 days ago

          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

      • @Fiction@lemm.ee
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        25 days ago

        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.

  • Sixty
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    65 days ago

    No need thankfully. Unlike old.reddit, Lemmy displays fine and runs quick in Firefox.