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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just call them "clips." /s Seriously though, the aesthetic of Kbin is its best feature, but the concept behind the threads seems. I dunno. Weird. Lemmy feels janky and basic, like old Reddit. πŸ’—

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Coming off years of old.reddit.com, Lemmy felt like major bloat :) I'm used to it now though, definitely nothing compared to regular Reddit.

And, yeah, the jank is πŸ’—

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just a heads up, https://old.Lemmy.world now exists! (It should feel much better!)

Also, if you used Apollo for Reddit, Voyager (https://vger.app) exists for Lemmy and it feels right at home!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's also a Voyager frontend hosted on lemmy.world:

m.lemmy.world

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also for Apollo users… wefwef. I added the web app to my Home Screen and it feels like nothings changed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Wefwef and Voyager are the same app, they renamed it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also for Apollo users, the Memmy app is very close!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There is also Arctic by CreatureSurvive being worked on which looks promising. I just want my Apollo experience again. 😭

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pretty cool, but I assume I wouldn't be able to get my Subscribed RSS feed to work over there? There's a login that ask for my username and password :/ No chance I'm actually trying that, does that actually work? I'm on SDFs lemmy, is it asking for those credentials? And, if so, who in the world thought that was a good idea in 2023?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are plenty of userstyles and userscripts inspired by old reddit if you don't want to use mlmym. See [email protected].

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd argue that kbin's UI is no longer a standout feature. Beautiful custom frontends for Lemmy like Alexandrite have been popping up left and right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This looks cool but not my cup of tea. Any other custom frontends we should know about?