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I just checked and my account on lemmy is 3 years old, I was waiting for all of you. At moments lemmy looked like it will take of by it self, but last few months was pretty quiet. I hope this is the push this community needs to succeed.
Reddit got too big for my taste since digg joined in, I don't think this will kill it ( they have the data how many people is using it outiside official apps), but let's make space out of it.
We just need a easy to use, beautiful mobile client and so many people will switch over to it.
Jerboa is pretty good tbh.
I'm using jerboa currently. Albeit very new to the app, but I'm still a bit put off by the lack of options for personization and features. It also desperately needs an in app browser so all the links stop sending me out of the app.
There is definitely potential here, but leaves a lot to be desired.
One can only dream that these canceled 3rd party clients might join some day. Hopefully some will be opensource or they decide to support any other platform.
It would've been great if they just collectively change to something else.
The Tafkars API might be helpful in that: Tafkars: Reddit-API proxy for Lemmy (help wanted). To quote,
While I agree that porting one of these great reddit clients to a new platform like Lemmy is the way to go, I don't see why it should be done by the individual developer instead of treated as a community effort. We'll just end up in the same boat again where he's piggy backing on another project (Lemmy, etc) to build a closed-source business that only he profits from. And while I have no problem with people selling apps they wrote, if none of these developers are going to open source their work so that the community can participate, I'd rather see a longer term effort go into improving FOSS solutions.
All it took was for a few power users, aka content thieves, someone like MrBabyMan who's spent all their conscious energy and time submitting entertaining content from other less user friendly platforms, to convince a majority of users on the internet to pay attention to reddit more.
Simply getting more content, regardless of its quality or dubious origin, only as long as it is interesting or entertaining, will draw more users here. This is probably not what people want, but that's what it will take for Lemmy to take off.
Those memes look organic and sustainably sourced, delightful!