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.
The next step after Hot is Scaled (similar but boosts less active/smaller communities
Only if you spend multiple times a day on Lemmy. I use Top Week, since I don’t. Otherwise I miss the important stuff.
Happy cake day!
What makes something in this list “hot”?
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
Good to know, but trying to not confuse the less than techie newbies. X)
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?
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.
thanks I’ll check it out
I use voyager, too. I like it better than sync for being open source and more frequently updated
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, 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
No need thankfully. Unlike old.reddit, Lemmy displays fine and runs quick in Firefox.
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Happy cake day! 🥳
Could youl maybe also add this list? https://www.lemmyapps.com/
It might be easier to navigate
Thanks Blaze. 💓 I swapped the links.
