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What is so great about Reddit/Lemmy apps?
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this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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I think ultimately it depends on what your use case is. Comparing Apollo to any web version of Reddit, there were already a few use cases which were definitely superior in my view:
Ultimately, as with any tool, the best tool is the one you have on you.
Thank you, this is the type of answer I'm looking for.
The first and last points are hitting me so hard right now, even just one day after Apollo's demise. Being able to scrub through a video or GIF was so incredibly useful. You could pause it by holding your finger still, then move back and forth by swiping left or right, even frame by frame if you wanted. I miss that more than I thought I would.
Also, hiding posts I've already seen (or scrolled past) was another lifesaver. One thing I notice on Lemmy (I'm simultaneously testing Mlem, Memmy and wefwef) is that I keep seeing the same posts over and over. Every few hours I open an app to my home page, and scroll through the same few dozen posts that are popular that day, only seeing something new between every five or six familiar posts. Apollo never showed me the same post twice unless I specifically bookmarked it. Much less wasted time.
i don’t have a solution yet for the media playback. Mainly because I don’t seem to have stumbled upon many gifs / videos on Lemmy yet.
However for the stale posts issue, I’ve found sorting by new or new comments seem to be the best way to get fresh posts. I’ve also put in a feature request for the hide read posts feature to the Wefwef dev. Hopefully they get a chance soon to consider it!
That's a good point! I admit I avoided sorting by "new" on Reddit just because of the sheer amount of garbage that was posted, especially in popular subreddits. But this is a whole new community and that's definitely less of a problem. I'll give it a shot, thanks!
You can already do this from your user settings and it should apply to wefwef IIRC
Although it looks like wefwef doesn't have the user settings section so you would have to set the option from the user settings on your instance to have it apply
Hiding posts is something I sorely miss, I'm on Android btw and testing several apps.