For me it was Relay. Absolutely perfect in every way, and the gesture navigation was so intuitive. Currently using jerboa for Lemmy and excited to see where it goes or what other apps become available for it
Yeah, Relay was awesome. Jerboa is kind of similar but missing a few features. I’d really like to sort comments in threads like you can do in the lemmy.world PWA.
The best explanation I’ve seen is that federation is like email. If you have Gmail and send an email to a Hotmail address, a copy of the message is stored on both servers. When the Hotmail address replies, both servers are updated with the Hotmail’s contents. If you reply all to your own message, both servers are updated with Gmail’s contents. If Hotmail ever decided to refuse Gmail messages, Gmail would retain all the previous Hotmail content that had been sent.
Contrast this with Reddit, where they control everything in all communities.
It’s it’s own platform, but there’s other platforms that cross talk and are all one for the end user.
It’s basically reddits within reddits within reddits all communicating with eachother. There is a connect point between them, the individual instances, and they are ran by people willing to do so, they control the flow of communication based on the communities needs, in theory.
Relay is amazing. At this point I couldn’t give a shit if reddit ever goes back to “normal” but I’ll hate giving up Relay. If only there was some way to log in to Lemmy on Relay.
Don’t quote her on this but I think someone is or was working on a wrapper to translate API calls from Reddit to Lemmy. In theory that would make it possible for 3rd party devs like Relay to change the end points to Lemmy. Big if true.
For me it was Relay. Absolutely perfect in every way, and the gesture navigation was so intuitive. Currently using jerboa for Lemmy and excited to see where it goes or what other apps become available for it
Yeah, Relay was awesome. Jerboa is kind of similar but missing a few features. I’d really like to sort comments in threads like you can do in the lemmy.world PWA.
I’m constantly swiping on comments and posts.
I was looking the jerboa page and it called Lemmy a “federated” alternative to Reddit. What does federated mean in this context?
The best explanation I’ve seen is that federation is like email. If you have Gmail and send an email to a Hotmail address, a copy of the message is stored on both servers. When the Hotmail address replies, both servers are updated with the Hotmail’s contents. If you reply all to your own message, both servers are updated with Gmail’s contents. If Hotmail ever decided to refuse Gmail messages, Gmail would retain all the previous Hotmail content that had been sent.
Contrast this with Reddit, where they control everything in all communities.
It’s it’s own platform, but there’s other platforms that cross talk and are all one for the end user.
It’s basically reddits within reddits within reddits all communicating with eachother. There is a connect point between them, the individual instances, and they are ran by people willing to do so, they control the flow of communication based on the communities needs, in theory.
A greedy company can’t block your access.
Relay is amazing. At this point I couldn’t give a shit if reddit ever goes back to “normal” but I’ll hate giving up Relay. If only there was some way to log in to Lemmy on Relay.
Don’t quote her on this but I think someone is or was working on a wrapper to translate API calls from Reddit to Lemmy. In theory that would make it possible for 3rd party devs like Relay to change the end points to Lemmy. Big if true.