Just wanted to say hello to everyone new joining the instance lately. Seems like reddits ideas of introducing paywalled subreddits got a few more people to think twice about using that site.

I just wanted to encourage new users to install a good mobile client for Lemmy. The web interface is OK but the mobile apps really take Lemmy to another level by being much faster and more user friendly.

I personally like Boost for Lemmy and Sync but there are many others to choose from. More are linked in the sidebar.

After you do that, make sure to subscribe to many communities. You see a list under the Communities tab and you can choose to subscribe with a click.

You can also go here and see all communities in the entire lemmy universe:

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Me and @Buelldozer@lemmy.today are trying to keep the bots and spammers out and it goes pretty well so far.

Hope you like Lemmy more than Reddit, most of us here do… :)

  • @Cris16228
    6•1 month ago

    Hello! Thanks for accepting me. I’ve found Voyager on fdroid and I love it! Sadly, lemmy doesn’t have all the subreddit I’ve followed there and the ones we have are not as active as the reddit counterpart. I wish people will ditch reddit for lemmy though

    • Blaze (he/him)
      3•1 month ago

      Welcome!

      Reddit definitely has more niche subs thanks to the site population.

      Which topics are you interested in? Sometimes it’s a bit harder to find the matching Lemmy community, maybe we can help.

      • @Cris16228
        2•1 month ago

        I’ve found some good communities like gaming, foss and open-source ones but I often checked assholedesign, mildlyinfuriating, technicallythetruth, and similar but the lemmy counterpart are lacking active community or posts I don’t know if r/godot has its own instance, for example. It surely takes time, I hope the paywall bullshit brings more users here