You might already be aware, but Lemmy can send you an email every time someone replies to your comments.

Just go to Settings in Lemmy and make sure the ‘Send notifications to Email’ box is checked. Assuming you have notifications turned on with your email app, then you can be notified in a timely fashion.

I know it’s not as good as in-app notifications but it’s a workaround that is good enough for me.

Well I honestly don’t understand your take lol. Tell me if I’m misunderstanding something, but you seem to be holding two contradictory views at the same time.

On one hand, you are saying that it doesn’t matter what the app is called. You point out that we previously used a site called ‘Reddit’ and that didn’t have anything to do if we used it or not. You insulted the people who care about the app name by suggesting that they might be 12 year olds who were worried what their friends might think……

And yet, at the same time, you also very strongly hold the view that the app name can’t be a boring/bland name. You went off on a rant about how anyone who does like a so-called “boring” name (well, boring according to you) must be “simple-minded and devoid of all fantasy and joy” and that these people must live sad lives…… But this contradicts your first point about how the name of the app doesn’t matter.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but you seem to be criticising others for caring about the app name whilst simultaneously also caring about the app name yourself. So the next time you argue that an app name sounds too generic and boring, someone might reply “Are you twelve, and worried about what your friends will think about you when you’re using an app with a boring name? Who would give a f***?”

I’m also new to Lemmy (I signed up during the two-day Reddit blackout), but I’m already getting the sense that Lemmy is a classier place than Reddit :)

I just hope that Lemmy will continue to grow, but without picking up the toxicity found in Reddit (and other social media platforms).

Fair enough.

And yes, I agree that the quality of the app itself is more important than the app’s name.

Yeah, it’s most likely caused by Google profiling OP and showing what it thinks OP wants to see.

Out of interest, I just entered “Reddit vs” into DuckDuckGo (which is a search engine that doesn’t profile its users, and it gets most of its search results from Bing). I got the following search suggestions:

• reddit vs quora
• reddit vs twitter
• reddit vs discord
• reddit vs anime
• reddit vs facebook

I can’t believe that anime made the list but Lemmy didn’t lol

Is this link broken or is it just a problem with my phone/app? (I’m using wefwef)

I was looking forward to seeing news about Reddit taking a hit on Google’s rankings but when I click the link it takes me to an unrelated story with the following headline: “Right time to bring UCC, Opposition should refrain from communal politics: Senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi”

Am I the only one having this problem?

I respectfully disagree with you on the memorability of the name.

I would respectfully suggest that if someone hears the name of this app for the first time, and then had to mention it a week later, they might think “oh what was that silly name of the Lemmy app? Was is wepwep? wiffwaff?”… whereas I would find Voyager to be more memorable, and there isn’t confusion as to how it is spelled.

That being said, there is one area where I concede that wefwef would be a better name than Voyager, and that is SEO (search engine optimisation). If you type “wefwef” into Google (well I prefer to use DuckDuckGo lol), then you’ll find the web app on the first page, whereas searching “Voyager” will give you lots of Star Trek stuff to scroll past.

So if I were making the case for the name wefwef, I would argue the SEO aspect rather than the memorability aspect.

I think wefwef is a silly name and I’m surprised that so many people in the comment section like it, because I find the name to be cringeworthy (sorry).

But of course, I will still continue to use this app regardless of what it’s called, just like I still use DuckDuckGo as my search engine, despite it having a ridiculous name lol.