I absolutely loved Reddit. Deleted my posts & left after the Spez api farce (Joey on Android you were a good soldier). I occasionally go back there anonymously to check niche subs (using Redlib).

Reddit is essentially shite now:

• Endless bots
• Same crap re-posted repeatedly (describe your cat I’ll draw it, 12 shitty manga characters - pick one to fight on your team, this is my cat the last thing you ate is its name etc etc etc
• The exact same jokes repeated endlessly
• Reply after reply quoting the next few words of a song lyric
• Topic replies tend to go way off the rails within 2 posts

Fediverse seems to be a more knowledgeable/mature crowd. Some great information disseminated. Ive seen some wonderful actual discussions between people with differing points of view asking for further clarification then discussing further. You never see that on Reddit.

Sure, we could do with a ton more posts & the niche communities continue to struggle but I’d much rather visit Lemmy 2 or 3 times a week than Reddit every day.

Voyager on Android. I subscribe to as much as I could find that I was interested in. These show in “Home” feed.

I look through the “All” feed to see whats going on & subscribe to anything relevant, then switch back to “Home” for my individual feed.

Amirite?

Some of my favourite mobile centric uses (I’m a FOSS leaning Android):

• I like to try to ensure most things are available offline: maps, notes, passwords (manager also holds “emergency” documents), media, ebooks, podcasts etc
• OsmAnd has offline Wiki articles, this is awesome when travelling
• OsmAnd can be great for finding POI’s such as food outlets, toilets etc when travelling (I since extensively mapped my own locality to help visitors by way of thanks)
• Using stuff I self host synced to various devices: Nextcloud, Joplin, Paperless-ngx, Immich, Jellyfin & a bunch of others
• whoBIRD is great especially when travelling
• If WiFi/data is unavailable when travelling away from home, hook the phone up to TV with a hub, HDMI, keyboard with track pad & it becomes a full media system

• Randomly removes email addresses I use every day from the auto-complete forcing me to type them literally in full for weeks until it remembers them again.
• A colleagues name starts “tom…” but it ALWAYS auto-completes with another colleague “tim…”. Every single time.
• Search sucks. Not sure if this particular complaint is just our company setup but for some reason it hides stuff older than a given date “on the server” which means you have to remember exactly where stuff is & open the folder before it displays the contents rendering search pointless. Absolutely hopeless