I tried one called Lemmur that I downloaded off F-Droid, however, it can not find this instance (lemmy.world). I want one that’s open-source, and preferably from F-Droid (because screw Google). Which one do you guys use?
Using Liftoff right now. Jerboa was also pretty functional. Thunder seemed promising but buggy. Lemmur is abandoned and got forked for Liftoff.
Liftoff feels like the best user experience to me so far
Likewise.
I’m also using Liftoff and the experience has been quite good so far
Is there any way for Liftoff to allow you to comment on instances that aren’t your home instance? Last time I tried it it asked me to log into the instance I wanted to comment on.
If this works, yes.
Check if you have some random instances added in ypur account settings that you are not logged into.
Liftoff is going well enough for me as well. Still miss RiF.
Connect for Lemmy works well for me.
I’m also using connect. I find the searching for communities to be terrible and a couple of other issues, but the bread and butter of reading posts, comments, commenting is very comfortable. I’d recommend it too right now.
Comfortable is the best way to describe it. I think it’s very similar in function and design to sync, which makes it very easy to use while waiting for Sync for Lemmy
Also used sync, maybe that’s why it feels nice to me too
Yeah, searching/ subscribing is a pain. I also would like a feature to be able to copy just a link on long press like there was with RiF. I really, badly miss RiF.
I didn’t realize how amazing that feature was until I tried other 3rd party apps. RIF was very solid, only wish it had swipe gestures for navigating.
I’m actually finding the experience in Chrome browser to be pretty good.
Definately waiting on Sync though.
Connect has some good features, like subscription Favorites, Filters (excluding posts containing filter words), Sort defaults for comments and posts, Text size for comments and posts, and Comment dividers. The developer is active and responsive on the https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect community. The app is available on Google Play, and is not currently Open Source.
Agree. As someone coming from Sync, Connect is the most familiar, intuitive app I’ve tried. It’s a solid start
Honestly, using https://wefwef.app as a web app is hard to beat right now. It works very smoothly, and I finally understand why all the iOS users mourn the loss of Apollo so hard. Granted, using an iOS-esque interface on an Android device is a bit odd, but the gestures and the layout are just chef’s kiss.
The biggest issue with it is that it’s getting hammered on the primary domain, so I’ll probably move to self-host it sooner than later.
Once the PR for more permissive CORS support gets merged and lands in the popular servers there will no longer be a need for wefwef and other apps like it to proxy requests on behalf of users. I’m personally waiting to properly release my WIP client until then, as I really don’t want to take on the burden and responsibility of proxying user data. If you’re a developer you can check my current progress here, and here’s a short video I recorded that is already very out of date.
I’m on lemm.ee using wefwef and had zero problems in the past few days since I started using it. I think most of the problems come from the instance that hosts your account rather than the frontend of wefwef.
Yes, also wefwef has been having a lot of issues specifically with lemmy.world. I have accounts on three other Lemmy instances and have only had issues there.
Things have gotten significantly better over the past day though. Looks like that big lemmy.world update pushed this morning has helped quite a bit.
I’ve also seen others hopping on other instances of wefwef out there.
I have an instance of WefWef just for my Lemmy instance. https://app.thelemmy.club
That way I can give my users WefWef without having to put any more load on their main server
Connect has an android style interface and the swipe gestures like Apollo / wefwef. It’s pretty good for now until Sync for Lemmy comes out.
I keep having to remind myself that I haven’t gone back in time two weeks and I’m not using Apollo.
Using liftoff until sync is out
Part of me feels bad for all of the homegrown Lemmy apps. They won’t compare to the reconfigured Reddit apps.
Not entirely true, while I’m a huge fan of Boost and Sync, I’d say that the more options the better.
Different apps for different tastes, just need to remember when Sync made a huge overhaul of the interface, I love the new one, while others couldn’t stand it. So LJ made an option to restore the old look of the app.
I’m assuming it’s not a simple port. They’ll probably be buggy at first.
Is liftoff homegrown?
I’ll use any app that remains FOSS so that likely rules out most reddit apps.
Similar but I’m using liftoff until Boost comes out.
And I’m on Liftoff waiting for Infinity.
Is there a Lemmy fork in the works? As I understand, the developer is going to stick with Reddit and make the app subscription-based.
My bad. I meant Slide. It’s what I used before moving to Infinity.
I also begrudgingly migrated to Infinity after finally coming to terms with the fact that no one was going to pick up development on Slide for Reddit. I was genuinely surprised to see that someone is working on a Slide for Lemmy.
Liftoff is great! I am loving it myself
Connect, it seems fairly well made, has some swipe actions that let you vote up/down and save. Lets you switch between instances fairly easily. It’s still getting updated too so it seems like its only getting better.
I’m also using this one. It seems okay but as soon as Boost for lemmy is released I’ll jump on that.
I can’t figure out how to collapse comment threads tho…
Long press on the center, to open/close a comment thread.
Long press
So, I’m not sure why I would switch instances (I’m very new). Do I need new account on that instance then? I’ve heard about different front pages or something. I’m still confused.
I downloaded Connect on your recommendation though. Thanks!
I’m very new too but my understanding is that each instance can have it’s own specific content. But, you can see all content from any instance if you sort by “all.” If you sort by “local” then you will only get posts from the instance that you’re logged in to. If you go to subscribed then you’ll just get stuff you’ve subscribed to in that instance. Could be wrong tho lol
This link will help explain migrating from Reddit and what instances are and how they work independently and simultaneously at the same time. You don’t have to create an account for every instance. You can follow another instance as a guest, you just won’t be able to interact with any comments or upvoting/downvoting. Think of them as separate websites under the same platform that can all coexist independently but still interact with each other. But this helped me out a bunch! https://github.com/amirzaidi/lemmy
Hi, sorry for the late response. You don’t need an account on another instance unless you want to interact with people on that instance and you want to use that specific account. I believe you can also use another account on a seperate instance as long as the two instances are federated with each other.
People tend to have multiple accounts on multiple instances because some instances arent federated with each other and thus you don’t get the full experience. Take for example Beehaw and lemmy.world. If you have an account with Beehaw the only way to see lemmy.world posts is to have a lemmy.world account or an account on an instance that is federated with world or vice versa.
Another more obvious reason is that since instances are generally privately hosted servers it’d be wiser to have accounts on multiple different instances as opposed to one because things happen and server outages are possible.
I was an avid user of Relay, and unfortunately I haven’t found anything that mirrors its layout and functionality, so I decided to build it myself. Here’s the Github repo and a short recording of the UI which is already out of date. I’ll be releasing it once the permissive CORS PR gets merged and lands in major servers.
This looks great! Really miss Relay. Will start following your progress!
Can’t wait man. I miss Relay too.
One of the few things I could never get over after switching to apple was losing out on relay. No offense to anyone that uses other apps on Android, part of the reason android is so great is the variety but relay to me was the best by far without any doubt. I used apollo on iOS and it’s good, I’m actually switching back to Android right now because I I just prefer it to iOS so it doesn’t matter anymore because I’m looking at Lemmy apps for Android mow, and I’ll probably try out wefwef on Android since I like it on iphone but man once you put this out… I don’t see how I could use anything else if this is even close to relay, that UI just speaks to me
@vinnythegooch9 that’s interesting, I feel the same way but in reverse. I came back to iOS for Apollo, but Relay was my favorite on Android. What do you prefer about Relay?
Don’t get me wrong, apollo is great. And I am going back to android for other OS reasons, I just like it more. I used it my whole “smartphone life” but wanted to try out ios since I saw a deal on an iphone and don’t use my phone a ton anymore (I used to install custom rims and just sitch devices in general all the time). I decided to switch back to Android after a little under a year with iOS for smaller reasons like customisability, the Google ecosystem all my shit is in, etc… But to answer your question, some of the things I love about relay that no other app does is the built in browser that functions by just swiping down the bar, I used it a lot to go back and forth between an article some content and the actual reddit comments, I also really like the aesthetic of how it separates posts and comments, the swipe gestures are pretty standard, probably some other things I can’t remember but it’s probably just a personal feel.
I love about relay that no other app does is the built in browser that functions by just swiping down the bar
This is also something I loved, but unfortunately not something I’ll be able to reproduce in a PWA.
I am considering doing some kind of native wrapper that allows me to run two separate webviews so that I could do this and distribute it as an APK on the Play Store. I should already be able to distribute the standard PWA version on app stores.
(Sorry iOS users I don’t have any Apple devices and I’m not going to pay them $100 for the privilege of providing their minority platform value with a free open source app)
Good luck! Just the fact that someone is trying it is encouraging
@vinnythegooch9 Same here with iOS. And that makes sense. Shame Reddit had to ruin it for everyone.
Relay was the best. It will be missed
Boost for Lemmy will be out soon, just using the website/not using anything until then. Boost was the best Reddit app by far. And yeah, like others said, Sync is coming too.
Wefwef
Definitely enjoying wefwef, haven’t opened Jerboa in a while now
Absolutely this.
I’ve used Jerboa and it was decent, but really lacked consistency or a ui that worked.
Wefwef and connect are my two favorites at the moment.
The iOS theme feels weird to use on Android though, I would love a Material Design 3 version of it. I already looked into creating one, but it’s a lot or work
Jerboa is pretty good. Probably the smoothest I’ve tried. Liftoff is pretty good as well.
I’m waiting for Sync to come out for Lemmy and I’ll jump back on that.
I was on Jerboa for a few days when I first came over, then jumped to thunder and Liftoff. The new update for Jerboa is awesome and I’m using it exclusively until Boost or Sync.
Same thing here. Except tonight, (around 8PM GMT-3) I wasn’t able to reply to comments from within Jerboa.
Using Jerboa and waiting for sync for Lemmy to come out.
not a native app, but wefwef.app is 🔥
I was using jerboa earlier but wefwef looks way better than that. It feels a little slow on the animations for my phone though.
Wef wef is pretty great, very impressive for a non native app
Finally gave it a quick run through… The choices for buttons and swiping are bass ackwards
You can change the tap/swipe behavior in settings.
Jerboa is by far the most feature-rich and least glitchy that I have used.
I’ve only used Jerboa so I can’t compare BUT it reminds me a lot of RIF which is what I’ve used for the last like 7+ years?
Yea it’s definitely the closest to RIF so far
Hmm I had a lot of trouble with jeroba, liftoff is working well for me at the moment though.
I had a lot of issues with Jerboa being buggy and randomly crashing personally, but that could’ve just been my experience. I switched to Connect for Lemmy and haven’t had any issues (and it looks better imo)
For me jerboa was the most buggy one I tried. I am using connect now and waiting for sync because that was my Reddit app.
I chose Jerboa because back at Reddit I was using an app called Joey. Just wanted to be consistent
Sony Xperia 1 III. Aside from server issues in the first few days this month with Lemmy the Jerboa app has been working well. Seems fairly close enough ish to RiF for me. Really probably has a lot more going on than RiF ever did. Some mild stuff to get used to but overall a good experience. Was happy to see the ability to change the post sizes to smaller so I can see more at a given time.
Yeah, Lemmy in general was buggy the first week of the mass migration from Reddit, but they seem to have that mostly resolved.
Latest version of Jerboa with a smaller instance is very smooth
I absolutely agree. Find a small instance federated with the big Lemmy communities (Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.world, beehaw.org, etc…) + material theme on Jerboa is honestly better than any Reddit client (and the main app obviously 😆).
Where can I find some small but stable instances?
lemm.ee is good
I used one that was close to my VPNs exit location, lemmings.world.
Connect for Lemmy is my go to. The dev just released an update too with a ton more features. It’s working great and I like it more than WefWef.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect
Connect dev here. Glad you’re enjoying it!
Can we get this on fdroid?
Totally agree, atleast we can download apk somewhere outside of Play Store.
Hello, fellow Canadian from lemmy.ca ! 😀
We’ve spoken on here a couple of times before. But you’re probably getting inundated with users to keep track of everyone. 🙂
Ah haha! As soon as user tagging lands this will all be easier to keep track of.
You’re doing an amazing job. I really like what you’ve done in the short amount of time!
For me it already has everything I need I think. Now the content on Lemmy as a whole needs to pick up.
Maybe some quality features to consider:
- True AMOLED mode (currently it is only parts of the interface)
- Adding an image and video viewer for opening those that are hosted on typical hosting platforms would be absolutely tremendous (everything else gets opened in my external browser)
- When going back into the comment section of a post the app goes to the position where I left if you know what I mean
Thanks for sharing. I do like WefWef and the fact it feels like a full app despite only being a Web app.
Jerboa’s been working pretty good lately.
