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  • Not sure if this is the right place but I need to get off Twitter/X, I would love to use Mastodon but the hurdle feels bigger than Reddit to Lemmy. The Mastodon client feels uncomfortable to me for some reason, and I guess unlike reddit/lemmy where you have a group of people talking about specific topics, I am interested in following specific people on Twitter - a fraction of whom are on Mastodon. I don't want to support Musk or his platform but I'm struggling to find a replacement.

    I guess if he starts charging for it the decision will be made for me 😅

  • Sync for Lemmy - Now Released on Play Store
  • That's what I thought, but not keen on it having ads/subscription model. I'd be happy to pay one off but that isn't available (at least yet). I understand the guy needs to eat, but right now I for me personally there isn't a value add vs. the FOSS clients.

  • Hot Take: The toxic attitude towards Threads (and anything not part of the Fediverse) is driving me away from Lemmy
  • I kind of get what you're saying, but I also think it's a bit naive, presuming you're also only here (as am I) because it all went so wrong with reddit. Do you want to support a platform where there's a corporate running it rather than the community? I think that's why a lot of people are freaking out about Threads, because the wounds are still very fresh/people have seen this play before.

    If you like Threads then great, go for it, but if you are gonna hang out on lemmy where there is a culture strongly against centralisation, you're gonna find people talking smack about the thing you happen to like.

  • Wat gaat feddit.nl met Threads doen?

    Hoi hoi :)

    Ik zie dat threads alvast op lemmy.ml wordt geblokkeerd en ben nieuwsgierig wat hier gaat gebeuren? Heb je al iets besloten?

    Bedankt!

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    The Zuck suck is in full swing.
  • It's a valid question and I understand your point, but it becomes an issue for me when I end up being caught up the a snowball effect and need to use a bad app too. Here in Europe, WhatsApp is an example of something I'd rather not use, but because it's the platform everyone else is on, it's very difficult to avoid. The parallel I see is if Twitter is supplanted not by Mastodon, but by Threads, then that is the place people will gravitate towards and then the privacy friendly version becomes less useful due to lack of users and content.

    Of course it is an option to just not use these apps, but the preferably outcome is that I am able to have the nice experience without sacrificing my privacy.

  • I feel like we should federate with threads.net
  • I'm going to vote this up for the discussion, but I don't agree with your perspective.

    On the surface you are correct that being able to speak to people who are on Threads would, in theory, be nice. The suspicion is that Meta is going for the EEE strategy. Allowing ourselves to be "embraced" would ultimately be damaging for the platform.

    We've just started to move from Reddit to Lemmy and have shown we don't need centralised, corporate-owned channels of communication. I don't think we should stop this direction of travel when it comes to Threads.

  • Best Lemmy client for Android?
  • I'm also using connect. I find the searching for communities to be terrible and a couple of other issues, but the bread and butter of reading posts, comments, commenting is very comfortable. I'd recommend it too right now.

  • How do you deal with passwords? Password manager? Txt file? Do you use biometrics on devices that have them?
  • Would strongly recommend a password manager. I use bitwarden, you can use self host it or not. If you don't like bitwarden there are plenty of free options. Random password generation and sync is going to be a better practice than much else I can think of, so I'd encourage you to go for it! 😬

  • I Can't Wait... But I Can
  • I think over the next few months we are going to see quite the pace of changes in lemmy technically, as new features are introduced. I would be careful with saying you're happy to wait because something stable will be the result. I think it's going to be a case of racing to keep up and, despite the developers best intentions, it will have bugs too. Hopefully over time it will be less blatantly obvious than now with other clients, but don't give up on sync when it launches and is not the sync for reddit experience you're used to! I'm sure he'll get there in the end :)

  • Ik zie geen posts in een externe community

    Hoi,

    Ik zocht binnen feddit.nl naar hulp/support maar vond niets :( ik hoop dat ik hier mag posten.

    Ik wil !lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca abboneren. Met https://feddit.nl/c/lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca zie ik helemaal geen posts, op bijv. https://feddit.de/c/lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca zie ik ze wel. Wat doe ik mis? Lijkt me wel een probleem met de server te zijn, maar ik ben zeker geen expert.

    Alvast bedankt ♥

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