You guys know you can block ads right?

Anyway I use Boost because it’s familiar, looks nice, and works great. I’ve tried them all, they’re not as good.

They also support their games for over a decade.

Also you can buy the base games and then just pirate the dlc. All dlc can be downloaded off of cs.rin.ru forums. I do this because modding the games through workshop is just worth the price.

Then you run creamapi to unlock the dlc.

No need to buy them.

It doesn’t hide read posts permanently anymore which effectively breaks the browsing experience imo. I switched to Boost and aside from a lack of gestures it’s pretty on par.

block them or pay for the app, problem solved.

Time isn’t free and development takes a lot of it.

Lemmy is definitely rough if you’re into niche communities, true. So was Reddit in its early years though, to be fair.

That’s not true. I’ve got a pretty active feed of subs, you just need to spend time curating a good list

Just like Reddit, you need to curate your feed. Don’t browser all/local, browse your subscriptions. Here’s a list of subs that aren’t political https://lemmy.world/post/16327122 - subscribe to ones that interest you.

Also feel free to liberally block communities. It’s trivial to do.

There’s uh, lots more than 2. It’s similar to how there’s English English and Nigerian English, just dialectical differences - some more major than others.

My absolute favourite is when your password is too long but they don’t tell you that, I guess because they weren’t expecting it. It only causes a hitch when you later try to login and it doesn’t let you …

It’s also worth ensuring you have at least both “Undetermined” and “English” selected as your languages in your settings.

I find Lemmy isn’t super at pushing newer content at the top, and you have to just mix between the different sorts. The content is definitely there. The alternative way to mitigate this is as follows:

• In my settings I have “show read posts” unticked. This ensues posts I interact with (e.g click on, vote on) with disappear from my feed afterwards (upon refresh/reload, of course). I don’t think it clears posts that have appeared in your feed but you haven’t interacted with. This is extremely effective in keeping your feed fresh.
• When browsing on my phone (Boost For Lemmy), I make frequent use of its “hide all read” button to quickly gut anything on my feed that I’ve seen before (no interaction needed).
• You can, of course, just manually hide posts as you go but uh, the above methods are better at automating that process for you.

I used to get really annoyed with stale feeds but upon doing the above it’s pretty much always fresh content.

That said, it won’t hurt to subscribe to more communities!

Sure.

One of the mobile apps has this feature, might be summit or connect. but otherwise no.

If all you need is a plank then a plank suffices

young padawan, the first lesson you ever learn on the internet is never admit your age until it no longer matters

Yes, but its maintaining support for these extentions… for now at least.

p.s. although it’s now out of date, as some instances are no longer around (RIP Lemmy.film), this post is still a pretty useful resource for a broader range of communities than those listed here.

Hey! Just a note: I have updated this post :)

Fair enough, I did read more info this and it seems to be a regional thing. Maybe a VPN might fix it but shrug

It works fine, you just need to download an old version in order to login. It doesn’t let you login in the latest version but you can update it once you are logged in

XManager still works fine for Spotify