• BossDj@lemm.ee
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    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.

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    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.

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    5 hours ago

    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?

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      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.

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      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?

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        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

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        unfortunately, I got banned, nuked my account, and deleted it all before I came over here. so I’m rebuilding from scratch, but so far so good.