A Reddit post promoting the Fediverse that actually gained traction (and Reddit deleted the top comment for promoting Lemmy)

www.reddit.com /r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/

I haven't seen Reddit give so much attention to the Fediverse in a long time. Maybe we can help them and answer some questions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/

https://www.404media.co/decentralized-social-media-is-the-only-alternative-to-the-tech-oligarchy/

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@spaduf@slrpnk.net , could you maybe edit your comment to something like
"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
https://discuss.online/ if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)
https://sopuli.xyz/ if you want a server located in the EU
https://vger.app/ if you want an app
Feel free if you have any questions"
join-lemmy isn't the best for user onboarding: https://lemmy.world/post/24220536?scrollToComments=true
- also what's the best alternative for Mastodon? a lot of people there already tried Mastodon and didn't like it due to UX/UI issues
  I would be good to list Mastodon as well as an alternative, and also listing Mbin might be good too? but then maybe you're putting too many choices lol
  
  I like Sharkey
  
  didn't like it due to UX/UI issues
  That's my biggest beef. But I think maybe it's "ugly like a Mazda truck", as in, it's plain and weird until you get to driving it and then it's just simple and great.
  That's my hope anyway.
  
  Misskey's probably the most polished feeling, though under the hood it's apparently a total mess.
  
  Honestly I think the answer is BlueSky. For all the problems that people have with it, it's going to be much more successful in getting people off the Nazi platforms. What's more X->BlueSky->Mastodon seems easier than X->Mastodon for most people.
  
  Agreed
- Hell yeah, Voyager. 🤘
  
  Hey, question about Voyager, I'm using it, and if I'm on my main feed and hit the back button, it opens a list of subs, and there seems to be nothing I can do to get back to the feed without refreshing it. It's veru frustrating because I keep losing track of the post I was just about to tap on. Do you know anything about this?
  
  If I’m understanding you correctly, you are talking about how the Home feed, All feed, etc does not save your scroll position when you leave them. When you go to the top level of the app.
  I think this is because the app always refreshes the current state/order of the feed when you return to it. I looked around the settings and I don’t see an option for this.
  This sounds like a feature request. It seems like a grace period would do the trick.
  I'd make an issue on GitHub or maybe a post on https://lemmy.world/c/voyagerapp about it.
  One thought tho, have you tried swipe gestures to go back and forth instead of your back button? It's difficult to accidentally go back twice when swiping. In case you've never done it, try swiping from outside the screen in.
  I know it's not for everyone. And apologies if I'm over explaining swiping.
  
  Not just a grace period, but opening the sub selection menu, I can no longer just close it and return to the view I already had. That view can stick around indefinitely if you enter a post and then back out of it, the posts you had before will remain. There will be no refresh. But when you press back one more time and open that menu, the only way back to the home feed is to select it, which will refresh it. The app has the ability to not refresh, but not in that very specific circumstance. Like literally just a button to close the menu would do the trick I think.
  But thanks for the information. This one issue has made me consider switching several times.

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