This is why Lemmy won't grow, a lot of instances are forcing their users to create another account on other instances, this was my third account due to the blocking of some instances like this...
I've been here for more than 2 weeks, what happened last 2 days?
EDIT: Wow! Using Thunder with a lemmy.world account is really a problem with that timeouts, my comment was sent 4 times...
It is a reality spez ordered his employees to make propaganda against the protest of the communities and mods who decided to protest, so while some of them were at it, the team of developers made bots to support.
Oh, and btw when you use it, you'll see no buttons to interact with the comments, in Thunder the interactions work by sliding the comments left and right, if you slide to the left you'll see the reply icon and if you slide further you'll see the save icon, if you slide to the right you'll see upvote and downvote.
I'm not sure at all, but maybe this posts can help you, it seems I was wrong about how much storage it could take, and it seems viable (I thought it'd take a lot because I read that instances store all data from the posts from every community their users follow, so that could take a lot of storage depending how many communities from other instances the users follow even if it's only one user, can't remember exactly where did I get that from):
Yeah, that'd be a good solution, but I'd need my own server or to rent one, if I create my own instance on my PC, I'd run out of storage and need my PC on 24/7.
Creating your own instance is free and anyone can do it, but it's not for everyone...
I'm using Jerboa and have been testing Thunder since yesterday, not bad, but still a bit limited, we need to be patient and give the developers some time, there are already like 10 apps and a couple of forks of third party Reddit apps in active development.
I'm generally happy with my migration to Lemmy, it's true that some communities that I was following on Reddit are missing, but little by little alternatives are appearing and that's cool.
It still bothers me a bit how instances can block other instances making the user have to create another account on another instance to see and interact with some communities (lemmy.world has blocked lemmit.online for example, which is an instance whose bot republished Reddit content on the respective community and sometimes there are interesting posts that aren't on Lemmy, a solution would be to simply block that instance from showing posts in "All" and "Local" but allow people to still subscribe to them and see them in their own feed), but I'm glad they usually do it with toxic instances and it's not the norm.
And in general lemmings are less toxic (for now...).
Oh, and thanks to people like you, who had the balls to migrate, things are easier here thanks to all of you.
I think Boost also has ads, but I'll stick with the free ones without ads and donate to the devs, better user experience for me, especially when I'm avoiding Reddit because of the ads (and sponsored posts that distort the content of the communities you are viewing if you don't notice that they are sponsored) and overall bad user experience (Infinity was good for all this) and the API changes and anti-user decision making, obviously.
For Android you can try Thunder: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder
Or the official Jerboa app.
I just installed Thunder yesterday so I'm still testing it and so far I'm liking it.
I come from using Infinity for Reddit and for now there isn't an app that is similar, but there are 3 apps under development, 2 of them based on Infinity's appearance and a fork of Infinity (called Infinity for everything).
Check Thunder: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder
And Beyond: https://lemmy.world/post/355285
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