I made a lemmy client that swipes like tinder (thehumannetwork.app)

submitted 2 months ago by miyaheemiyahoo@lemmy.world to c/lemmyapps@lemmy.world

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I kept getting annoyed with lemmy clients being confusing, hard to navigate, or just plain ugly. So I did my best to create a web app that now I use every day. It kind of works like Tinder, you swipe right to up vote, left to down vote, and swipe down to just mark as read. I actually designed it that way because I did a hell of a lot of research on different theories as to how we should treat voting sites like Lemmy or Reddit. I realized that the endless feed actually caused me to engage less. Mostly because I wouldn’t really take the time to consider each post. Coincidentally I actually feel more engaged because of this swipe interaction that Tinder uses, making a decision for each post. Marking as read or swiping down means “it’s not my cup of tea, but it’s allowed”. Swipe left is “this is not okay/spam”. And swipe right is “I think this needs more attention”. Anyways, thought I would share the public link, as per usual, you can log into whatever instance you have. I also gave it a slightly esoteric name and a cool logo based on cave art of human hands. (And also hid a bonus matrix rain theme in the settings).

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[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 points 2 months ago

Browsing anonymously doesn't work because I can't swipe up without an account?

[-] miyaheemiyahoo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Hm…let me see what I can do about that

[-] miyaheemiyahoo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I changed the anon browsing to have a “next” button instead of sending a mark as read command. That work on your end?

[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 2 months ago

yea but still can't swipe up

[-] miyaheemiyahoo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Mark as read is swipe down, not up

[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 2 months ago

oh lol

I feel like either direction should work, because the animation makes it look like it should work

this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2026

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