I remember posting this question just after the Reddit exodus so went back to look at my stats from back then. According to the post I’d been on Lemmy for 12 days and had subscribed to:

• 121 Lemmy communities
• 42 Kbin magazines
• 163 total

That was just on this account though, and I have two accounts with fairly different feeds. So let’s say I was probably on a total of around 180-200 then across both accounts, and have been adding them at a slow but steady rate

That gives us a scientifically sound estimate of my current total subscriptions: a lot.

I can only speak for how it shows up on Mastodon, but over there any hashtags we try and add here just show up as plain text and don’t show in the actual tag feed, so it does nothing for discoverability.

Actually will, cheers for the recommendation!

Somehow genuinely had no idea Gojira were French so, TIL!

Also wtf South Africa.

Might not be the kind of arts and crafts you’re talking about but I mod both !knitting@lemmy.world and !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works, plus there’s !crochet@lemmy.ca , !sewing@lemmy.world and plenty more that would be happy to have you!

Yep you’d expect it to climb significantly once .world upgrades. Basically this update messes with the baseline stat a lot so no reason to celebrate, but also no reason to really be fussed either way as long as we’ve got plenty people here to talk to 👍

Pretty sure most people just use their Mastodon app. I’ve heard decent things about Fedilab as well, haven’t tried that one myself but I hear it has PeerTube support.

The PT devs have just announced they’ll be working on a proper app in 2024 so 🤞

Figure out what sort of thing you’d like to see, check out the related hashtag feeds. You can follow tags as a good way to get started and follow individual people as and when they pop up with something cool.

I have a really out of the loop question that will probably make me sound like a troll, but really I’m just old and out of the loop:

What exactly are the unique features of Tumblr? as far as I recall it was just a blogging site with support for specific post formats, right? Did it get more complicated than that?

I’m currently up to 11, might be developing a problem lol

It could possibly be a lightning bolt?

Hah, I feel that! No worries just thought I’d ask in case you’d heard anything :D

Huh, interesting! We’re definitely still on 0.18.5 here but I expect having to cater to both versions at once is probably causing all kinds of obscure bugs. Good to know it normally works ok, though :D

That’s why I picked it too. Hoping Raccoon can fill the gap with a bit more development time 🤞

Short version, as far as we can tell it’s not being actively maintained at the moment, and the soon-to-drop new Lemmy version is going to break it.

It is disappointing. But at least we have a lot of options!

Was kind of hoping people might reply to this thread with more actual reasoning for their faves, from the pov of us all enjoying Liftoff and wanting to find the next best thing. But it’s pretty much just turned into a list of all the apps, whoops!

Yeah I definitely like it visually a lot more than most others too. Do you know if they’re looking at adding multi-community type features?

Maybe it’s something wrong with my account. For example I’m logged in, I go to browse All or Local, and bam! Full of communities I already have blocked. And trying to block them again through Boost itself seems to do nothing either. It’s weird.

Yeah I fiddled with it a fair bit when it first came out, there’s nothing hugely wrong with it it just doesn’t “feel” right, you know? I think given that I was a RiF and then Liftoff user, maybe my brain craves a bit of jank lol

Oh interesting, last time I did a proper trawl was when everything was on fire and the devs were almost begging people to stop using Jerboa so they could concentrate on Lemmy core. Will have to check out the changes since my knowledge is clearly out of date, cheers.