Hi! I joined Lemmy.zip in search of an European / non-US alternative to r/. I heard about Lemmy via one of the several Buy European / European alternatives community posts. While signing up for the .world instance it urges you to have a look at less generic instances that might match your interest. That’s when I found you. I game from time to time, work in IT (architecture) and have a broad personal interest in understanding the ‘How’ behind technology. Lemmy.zip sounds like a good match!

While getting settled and trying all the different web apps I have observed:

  • All the different front-ends (a. /m. /t.) require a new login, this feels a bit strange while you are on the same domain.
  • The mobile m.lemmy.zip (photon), while looking pretty has a few issues:
    • The setting to blur NSFW thumbnails does not work, they show unblurred. Other apps (e.g. Tesseract) do blur.
    • Scrolling through the feed on Firefox (Android) is very jerky with a lot of ‘hickups’ going back up for a fraction of a second while scrolling down.
  • While I’m not opposed to seeing content in posts that could be considered NSFW, I’m not particularly looking for it or communities focussed on it. Turning(/leaving) visibility on however floods the ‘all’ feed with (bot)posts from porn-related communities. Is there a way to leave NSFW visibility on, without seeing those communities recommended in the feed?

So far I prefer t.lemmy.zip for mobile (Firefox) and a.lemmy.zip for desktop (Zen browser).

  • felsiqEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Depending on what you’re looking to see NSFW-wise, blocking lemmynsfw(?) as an instance will keep most of the sexual stuff out of your all feed while letting you keep nsfw on for other stuff.

    • PropheticusOPEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Thanks for that tip. Not looking for per se, but I just don’t want overly restrictive filtering on what is considered NSFW (a bit of skin, gore, medical cases). I’m not going to browse Lemmy on a work device anyway.