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It has an API so you can use it with an Android client
Yea, as some people have said, the fediverse and the threadiverse feel much more organic.
Also, no tracking by shady companies is a big selling point
The super dumb memes. I love that I can post a something that's stupid even for a shitpost here and get cheered for it.
The idiots have not yet found the platform, so I can enjoy more interesting discussions.
I get to keep using Boost.
It's both a cool concept and an actual functioning community. For now, it also feels a bit like the rubes haven't found it.
Well sorry to break it to you but I'm here now
I always knew you could do it, you just had to try.
No ads
I'm curious, do you use this on mobile or are you talking about a desktop experience?
Personally I find more ads on something like Sync on mobile than I did on Reddit which I can block, but I am now forced to use the Reddit desktop site.
Voyager is where it's at
Yeu, sync has ads because the developers of sync put ads into it.
Vanilla lemmy and jerboa certainly dont.
I can imagine some instance admins considering forking lemmy and putting in ads. At the moment, most instances are run as a hobby (for free) or by contributions (ie donations from members).
The development of lemmy was funded by a VC-type thing for a while, not sure if its still active. Otherwise, its also developed thanksnto contributions
The apps have ads? Bruh
Mobile - Memmy for iPhone
Cheers.
Sync didn't use ro have ads (or maybe I was blocking them successfully) but now it does. So will try something else as fuck ads.
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Duplicate communities with 3 users
I host my own and practically nobody can take it away from me. If I want to switch to Sublinks I can. I can swap the UI if I hate the default one. And it will never have ads or data collection.
It's a completely open platform. I can make my own algorithm. I can fork it. I can make a compatible server from scratch if I want to. It's ours, it's everyone's.
It being a completely open platform means there will definitively be data collection. Some entity will scrape the fediverse for data. It's free, open and unprotected.
Yeah but at least it is data that I explicitly decided to share publicly (including votes and subscriptions, because well, that's how ActivityPub works).
I meant more like, track your IP to give you local ads, analyze your browser cursor behaviour, visit frequency, how long I stay in a thread, etc. All things the official Reddit site and apps do (and probably a big factor as to why they shut down third party apps).
To be fair self hosting Lemmy is doing the opposite of protecting my privacy since my real identity has to be tied to my domain and server providers and my credit card. But at least I'm somewhat in control of the exact information my server distributes on my behalf.
And it's that hidden metadata that's super valuable because it's much more detailed.
I guess the best way that I'd word it is, Lemmy (and the Fediverse at whole) is run by people - not a for-profit company.
Also, having decent mobile apps again is very nice.