I use a few social media platforms at the same time. I'm used to seeing the same things on each platform. That's how the internet has been for years - you read the same things on the same five sites.

To be fully transparent, Lemmy isn't at the top. I don't post much and I lurk. Sometimes I post a comment here and there.

But this past week, I'm seeing more and more interesting content in the "Everything" section of Lemmy that I didn't see in my other social media feeds. New communities and more interesting convos.

Uncertain if the fediverse has gotten a wave of new posters, some algorithm has changed, or every other social media company is sucking more and more thanks to America Team Police...

Just wanted to share my extremely limited anecdotal non-fact checked viewpoint.

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[–] Concur6053@lemmy.today 55 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

When you say 'everything section' do you mean the 'all' section or a specific community? Sorry if there's an obvious answer, I just joined a few days ago & I'm still learning my way around

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 37 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I'm using Sync (I'm lazy with getting new apps and it hasn't pissed me off yet) and the button is called "Everything". So I guess it's the All section!

[–] Cantaloupe@fedioasis.cc 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

That explains the "sync" logs I've been seeing! Is sync a good user experience?

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

Sync was a fantastic Reddit client (I started using it back in 2016), then during the API debacle the dev turned it into a Lemmy app and frankly it was the best on the market by a wide margin. But then he just vanished, and various things have gradually stopped working as it's not keeping up with the latest Lemmy updates. When upvotes stopped working a few months ago, I bit the bullet and have now moved to Summit, which has the closest user experience to Sync of all the Lemmy apps I've found (although it doesn't have anywhere close to the same level of polish as Sync did).

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 39 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I love Sync but be aware that it is no longer being actively developed. It has some bugs that will never be fixed, and might break entirely in the future.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I've been using "Thunder" and so far it's done a pretty wonderful job of things. Very easy to view and scroll on a phone. A lot of options you can set and customize.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

Swapped to voyager as my main, thunder doesn't let you reply to dms which is annoying every once in a while.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Thunder was still not quite what I was looking for last time I tried it. I am very happy with Summit now, personally.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 17 hours ago

Haven't tried summit. Thunder is pretty close to a clone of what I was using on reddit before the api fiasco they had and I bailed. Relay for reddit.

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Has the developer confirmed he's dropped the project for good, or is he still just MIA? I know he's gone over a year between updates before, so unless he's announced that he's done, there's still a small possibility of an update in the future.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

This is longer than he's ever been MIA for before, this time I think it's about 2 years since the last update, and there are several literally critical bugs. But this is the downside with absentee developers like that, you never know for sure whether it's abandonware or not. But he seems to be actively working on other stuff still so I just don't think Lemmy took off enough in popularity for him to feel like it's worth his time monetarily. Makes sense if this was always more of a business than a passion project, which is the way it appears to be to me.

[–] Tywele@piefed.social 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The least he could do would be to just say that he is done developing the Lemmy app. Just vanishing is a dick move.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 3 points 5 hours ago

Especially when one of the apps payment models is a monthly subscription. I hope most people have cancelled by now, but subscriptions tend to be sticky, which is partly why buisnesses like them so much.

[–] Concur6053@lemmy.today 9 points 20 hours ago

I'm using photon in my mobile browser, but the 'everything' tab as well. Still learning but it's not too steep of a curve. Feels very organic & I love the lack of ads

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 16 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm sure that's what they mean. I scroll with "New/All" and this is a fantastic way to read new stuff you have never heard about BUT the caveat is: this is an enjoyable scroll ONLY after you've developed a good block list of users, instances and communities. Otherwise, you'll get inundated with the few but very vocal and toxic communities that make Lemmy feel like a clone of Reddit/Twitter/etc.

[–] Concur6053@lemmy.today 4 points 20 hours ago

Ok cool, I figured but never hurts to double-check. I agree, the posts from some of those groups are insane, but it's fine once you block them