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.
Go into your settings and stick the “hide read posts” option on for improved browsing.
The next step after Hot is Scaled (similar but boosts less active/smaller communities
I love my browser just fine no thankyou
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.
reddit was open source
Interesting, I was expecting this to be at the beginning not recently, but it seems it was open source up to 2017 - but I’m now realising that 2017 is fast approaching a decade ago so might not count as recently.
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?
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.
thanks I’ll check it out
Warning, Sync seems abandoned and some features are broken, e.g read posts don’t stay hidden. I’d recommend Boost, Summit, Jerboa, or Thunder
