2y ago

Android Police: Build your communities elsewhere now that most Reddit third-party clients are dead

www.androidpolice.com /best-reddit-alternatives/

Screenshots of Boost for Lemmy included.

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1y ago

The 4 best Reddit alternatives: Top picks to replace your subreddits - Lemmy is listed first!

www.androidpolice.com /best-reddit-alternatives/

62 comments

It's good to see more reddit clients coming to lemmy!

I pretty much only chose Lemmy because of the promise of Boost for Lemmy.
- I look forward to trying Boost, even though I only used it for Reddit briefly, several years ago! On desktop, I like the Lemmy web UI just as well as Old Reddit.
  
  The web ui for lemmy is so good and simple
- I signed up everywhere pretty much but I knew lemmy had to be my home once I knew Sync was coming here.
- Same, I can't wait to get Boost back.
- Have you tried any other clients? Wefwef is pretty good.

If you are using hacker news on mobile. I would recommend Glider. It's a smooth hacker news client. Unfortunately, the dev had his app removed from the play store for reasons but you can access it from its github or fdroid.
- What reasons?
  
  Play Store has strict rules for apps with user generated content. You have to provide ways to block and report users/content to stay on the play store. Glider didn't provide a way an automated way report things by the user as hacker news doesn't provide one. So, google suspended it. Here's the github issue if you are interested: https://github.com/Mosc/Glider/issues/83
- Love the app. Especially love the catch up feature. My only major problem with it is in a thread with lots of comments, tht don't all load at once, and if you try to collapse a comment and scroll down, it goes crazy while it loads all the replies to the comment you collapsed, meaning I have to wait for all the comments to load before I can read anything.
  
  I think these comment limits are temporary until they figure out some issues with the database usage. See https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3306 as an example.
  They have been making good progress on identifying areas for improvement, so these should get fixed eventually.
  
  You can create a feature request on their github. Maybe, the dev considers it one day
- Glider looks great! Thanks for the recommendation!
- Hacki is also a good one
- cool ! I am using Hews, but I might switch to this.

Motherfucker downvoted Star Trek?!? This is war.
- From hell's heart… I stab at thee. For hate's sake… I spit my last breath at thee!
  
  By grabthar's hammer...
  what a savings.

Why is discord mentioned?
- I don't know man. I still don't understand how Discord became so popular in the first place and I will never ever understand how some people are fine with Discord being their only online presence or way of interaction (I'm looking at you, midjourney!) It's a walled garden with a fucking horrible UI and UX. Just look at the screenshot in the article:
  What a steaming pile of dog poop, lol
  
  I take it you don't remember the old internets chatrooms, that's why Discord is popular. It scratches a very specific itch, Live Chat. Social Media scratches a very similar itch, but with a platform that is forum based, not chat based.
  Throw in the old Social Media, like ICQ, MSN Messenger, AOL Messenger, etc. and you begin to see that live chat is absolutely a feature that people want. Sometimes they want a "room" where a bunch of like minded people are, sometimes they want to talk to specific people.
  Social Media as a concept has gone through a lot of iterations.
  
  That picture is incredibly bias...
  It's using light mode, and not dark mode. I think everyone can already see the issue there
  They're on the event page. Keep in mind this is Chat room software . The Chat rooms are the ones with the #.
  Again, it's a chat room/Instant message software. This page doesn't represent the main purpose of the software.
  It's no more a walled garden than Reddit or twitter were. It's just closed source software.
  I do agree it doesn't make sense to make it the new source of reddit communities, because the information is incredibly volatile...like I said earlier, it was made to compete with Chat room/instant messaging software...It's an instant messaging client, not a forum client. The information can be freely deleted, you lose access to it if you leave the server or get banned, and of course if the server is banned or deleted all the information is lost.
  So I do think this is a really unfair take on Discord, but also I think Discord is a terrible replacement for reddit. It was made for conversations, not for discussion.
  
  I tried to make Discord work for a couple niche interests I had. Holy shit is it awful. I genuinely don't understand why people think it's okay. Maybe it's kids who have never experienced forums?
  
  I don't use Discord, so this screenshot is amazing. It somehow manages to combine the clutter of bad '90s UI design with the wastage, eye candy glut, and oversimplification of the last 10 years. A towering achievement in the worst of both worlds.
  
  I don't know any other applications that allow people to instantly join up in voice chat with each other (either through dms or servers) and instantly share their screen/game to their friends. It's primarily a platform for people who are playing games, it's just expanded a lot since then.
  
  I absolutely can't grasp how people use that shit
- A lot of subreddits have discord servers associated with them. Personally I think discord doesn't fill the role of Reddit well, but it does have its place.
  
  Discord is great for tracking specific projects being run by small groups. For example, I use it to track the status of a Radical Heights fan remake, and also to get updates when a specific user creates 4-bit quantization of LLMs and to read chats of ways they are being implemented.

Screenshot of Boost for Lemmy is taken from the their Play Store page. I think it's coming very soon.

Kbin didn't get a mention, bit rough I feel 💔
- Bit of a downer, but it is an Android news site. kbin currently doesn't really merit much of a mention in that context. The PWA is nice, but by its nature barely related to Android, since it also runs on Windows, MacOS and everything else under the sun.