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?
Wefwef app was struggling last week. Today, it’s been very solid. Sticking with it moving forward
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.
Liftoff is great! I am loving it myself
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.
We know sync and boost will be paid I’m wondering will anyone pay for it when there are so many FOSS apps now!
I will, because none of the apps or web apps right now are optimized for tablets/foldables, so really looking forward to Sync supporting this at launch! (ljdawson already confirmed this btw).
Besides, Sync (for Reddit) had a lot of advanced features that set it apart from others, such as being able to save message drafts, built-in kamojis, advanced markdown formatting controls, post/content filters and so on, I reckon we’ll get to see these in Sync for Lemmy as well, if not at launch then surely down the line.
I’m using Jerboa for the moment, of the couple I tried is the one that performs the best and it looks good.
I’m waiting for Boost though since I used it for reddit for the entirety of my time there, I’m a loyal user.
I’m using jerboa, lift and connect. Each had positives and negatives. What’s really needed, imo, is a way to centrally log in to all of the instances you have accounts on from one place and have it work on all apps. A single sign on.
Grabbing a new app and logging in to multiple lemmy servers is a pain in the ass.
Been using Liftoff, but will definitely switch when Boost for Lemmy comes out.
Liftoff works best for me. Looks good, feels good. Tried a few and it just snapped.
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.
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
This looks great! Really miss Relay. Will start following your progress!
Can’t wait man. I miss Relay too.
I liked Liftoff the best as a dedicated client, but ended up on Wefwef. It just seems to work more consistently.
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That’s 100% fair. It’s very iOS-y, and I’m not a huge fan of that either. It has just been much more consistent in terms of loading stuff and letting me comment. I think Liftoff looks better overall. And I think it’s much better at managing multiple accounts, when it works.
I’ve been using a few, but so far I’ve found Connect to be the smoothest and more to my liking. I was a long time Sync user, so I’ll be picking that up once it eventually launches.
I’ve been using Jerboa and Liftoff, as the combination of both has what I’m looking for (Liftoff has an option to see feeds from other instances without having to log in), but most of the time I use Jerboa
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Enjoying liftoff so far, only issue is you can’t get back to your comments from your profile
Like if you look at your comments on your profile and wish to see them in context of the post they were made on, tapping on the comment will just collapse the ‘thread’ in your profile page lol. Kinda weird but using the menu to open it in browser gets around it for now. Aside from that, super smooth UI and performance aside from the occasional 502/3 hiccup.
Thank you! I thought I was going insane. And thanks for the workaround.
I’m using jerboa right now. Got it from fdroid and it works really well!
I think we are still in the phase where there is so much movement this answer might become outdated rather quickly.
For what it’s worth I have installed: connect, liftoff, thunder, jebora and werwef (web app). But there are more I haven’t tried yet
Currently writing from connect, which is my favorite.
As reference for Reddit clients I used to used relay (on my phone) and slide (on my tablet)
Same. Tried Jerboa for some time, but ended up with Connect.
As a fellow Relay user you may be interested in the client I’m working on. I wanted the Relay client for Lemmy but nothing out there mirrors its layout, 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.
Thanks i’ll check it out for sure. Even if the UI recording is already out of date it already shows a feature i really liked about relay on mobile:
The feature that you swipe right->left to reveal the options (up/down vote, save, share and so on) is something i really liked about relay. And at least until now i haven’t really adjusted/grown to like the way most other apps including connect seem to handle it. Which is having a quick action based on how far you drag the post towards the left.
That was the number one thing for me as well. I despise the whole swipe 20px to upvote, 40 to downvote, etc. I want clear and obvious UI elements optimized for one handed use, which means little to nothing I have to reach to the top of the phone for
