It’s not about the NSFW (for the most part), I really miss the ability to filter out topics, keywords, communities, or users in general.
On reddit I had a highly curated feed free of the most common karma farmers, the most obnoxious political discussions, things I found disgusting or otherwise didn’t care for, and so on.
Was very good for my mental health during the trump presidency, I’m not even an American and it was impossible to avoid the latest outrage over the dumb shit he did and said on a daily basis.
It’s just that I really don’t care about what happens in my area within this context, I can just go outside to know what’s going on. And if I want to talk to local people I don’t do it on here either, so I prefer more international communities than just my town except it’s online
This app has made the switch from reddit / Apollo painless and it works great so far. Many thanks for that!
One thing I am struggling a bit with is I can’t seem to find a way to filter out communities.
I used to love browsing the all feed and don’t mind the porn, but I was just shown about half a dozen different furry cocks engaged in various gay activities all from the same community, during my short morning scroll.
That’s a bit much, Apollo used to have a function to filter out keywords, subs or users and I really am missing that option.
One thing I don’t miss is the "culture"… I hope this shift into the fediverse frees comment sections of the endless same dumb low effort puns, and even worse puns in the replies. Or fucking award speeches in comment edits, the same shitty jokes that nobody likes but somehow still perpetuate…
I already installed it yesterday, good suggestion.
It looks and feels 99% like Apollo, only that it’s a bit sluggish here and there (though that’s probably just a matter of time until optimized).
For anyone missing their Apollo app this is the thing to get.
As a recent refugee, if there was a carbon copy of reddit owned by some sort of non profit organization or funded by public money I would most definitely use that. Provided of course the monetization crap and ads were removed and I can have my Apollo app back.
Nothing wrong with this new federated direction we are taking now, but what made reddit shitty is corporate greed and an infantile moron as decisionmaker, not that it was centralized.
Would you feel better if they were communists and chose something completely neutral instead, like .io?
That’s such an arbitrary thing to be concerned about