submitted 1 week ago by bluedope@lemm.ee to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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Hi. I created a lemm.ee account and hope for a Reddit alt. I came to Reddit from StumbleUpon and Digg so I’m open to migrating to the next good thing.

I paid for Apollo and loved it. And I’ve found Voyager to be pretty close. So that’s cool.

I was able to migrate my list of subscriptions and find many similar communities and I continue to explore and subscribe to active communities on Lemmy.

But a few questions I can’t find answers to:

Can I create a multireddit in Lemmy/Voyager? Like I want to keep NSFW out of my home feed in case my kids look over my shoulder while I’m casually scrolling, but would like to save some favorite nsfw subs in one place for “future convenience.”
Lots of posts say, “Failed to Load Media.” Is that a common Lemmy thing? Or Voyager? Or my device?
Do I need to subscribe to communities on multiple instances? Like I see there are a lot of Technology communities across various servers. Do those aggregate to one place? Or do I need multiple subscriptions until I find the instance that serves up the best content.

Thanks for your help!

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[-] TIN@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago

I usually look at subscription numbers on the communities to decide which one to post to, I imagine that over time there will be aggregations, splitting, recombinations and bitter factional war...

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 0 points 1 week ago

Subscriber numbers are misleading, because there are highly populated communities that were created during previous migrations, but were abandoned due to lack of content.

It's the weekly and monthly active users numbers that indicate active communities.

And "Smart Sort" on lemmyverse.net is busted because it over prioritizes subscriber count.

[-] TIN@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Interesting, I didn't know that

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 week ago

Alt account all the way
If you're still on iOS, the failed to load media bit is likely webm videos. As far as I know, Voyager uses the stock video viewer, which also has trouble with them (same as opening in safari etc.) Dunno if that's an Apple thing or a Google thing, licensing maybe? Mlem seems to handle them fine, but that is running its own renderer, which I believe Apollo did as well.
There's a lot of overlap between instances. It's messy. Subscribing to multiples will get you duplicates of a lot of posts, but only subscribing to one will miss some things, especially if it's a smaller community. Personally, I subscribe to niche/hobby content for the most part. Anything else I'll just use all/local, and block comms I'm not interested in. (Voyager's keyword filter also helps a lot, but good luck avoiding American politics even with blocks and filters.)