(single quotes around best for subjectivity) I’m trying to get all of my Android using friends and family into the Fediverse.
I’m an iOS user, so I have no idea about Android apps.
Connect is great on phones, and Infinity is very customizable and works well on tablets. Both have very active developer support.
Sync followed by Liftoff
Sync followed by Jerboa, for me.
@admin tell me I’m not the only person in the world who thought ‘Lemmy???’ What on earth does it mean nowadays?
you just replied to the post they’ve made on Lemmy.
Lemmy is to reddit as Mastadon is to Twitter
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Not open source
That’s not a requirement for everyone. And I don’t mind paying someone for their efforts.
It kind of is, in this community.
To win over friends and family, an app being FOSS doesn’t matter as much as its UI/UX.
This is a FOSS-specific community.
It’s so much better than sync. I might try Boost once it’s released, but connect just works really well
Same to all of this!
https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/
Every of the “Hot” app there is a solid choice, but it will probably depend on their personal preferences
Wow so many
I had a look on F-Droid and it seems that Jerboa and Lemmur are your best options.
My understanding is that Lemmur is effectively abandoned and won’t work
Someone forked it, so it should rise from the ashes like a phoenix
it already has, the fork is named Liftoff and many people seem to like it.
Oh, sorry. I’ve done a bit more looking, though, and Thunder looks quite good as well.
Give Liftoff a look!
I like Thunder and Infinity
I have been using Thunder for a few weeks and it works very well. It has the best compact interface for me, close to the RedReader experience.
I’m using both Liftoff and Jerboa. I can’t decide which is better, so I’m interested in others people love.
I prefer Liftoff, mainly because I am plagued by a well-known bug in jerboa that makes writing comments a big pain. However, since infinity got semi usable (it still has a bunch of references to reddit in its ui and the messages/replies page is broken) I have only used liftoff to check for replies. I am just used to infinity from years of reddit usage lol
I started Reddit almost 2 years ago, and used Infinity. I avoided all social media since MyPage but finally gave in for Reddit. It was Toxic, then it went to hell in a handbasket like Twitter.
I have the same problem. I have Liftoff set for one if my Profiles, and Jerboa for the other one.
when I wanted a lemmy app, searching f-droid only pulled up Jerboa, and I remain happy with it.
Jeroba
I really really wanted to use Jerboa. I love Jerboas and I love FOSS.
But I tried sync today and it’s just better.
Really disappointed at the pricing model but I’m just ad blocking it in protest of the insane pricing.
As an app though, I’d happily buy it for a reasonable price given the quality.
Man, I really think you should either saddle up, don’t block ads, or use a free, non-ad-supported alternative.
Sync is made by a single dev who uses it as his main source of income. It’s not made by a corporation. Taking the fruits of someone’s labor, that they have priced to make it worth their time, feels kinda shitty to me.
If you really feel it’s so much better than the alternatives that you won’t even use them, then pay what the person making it feels they need to keep making it.
Voyager recently got added to F-Droid but can also be used as PWA from a web browser but personally I’m currently waiting until Infinity for Lemmy actually will get it’s first stable release
Infinity is not too bad right now, I am replying from it right now. My only real issue with it is that I can’t see whether people have responded to my posts/comments.
I can see replies to my comments and posts in infinity. The main issue is now that private messages aren’t implemented. Depending on the speed of developement, it will soon land
As in, you are notified of replies?
I can see them in inbox, and in case of notifications, they only appear when the client is in foreground.
Huh. For me, the inbox is broken
Strange, I have had notifications show up when I’m not in the app
I am presently using infinity from izzyondroid repository (is that the right name?) and it’s good. However, some features are missing, such as blocking communities (at least I couldn’t find the feature).
I’m not sure if its open source, so technically not FOSS, but Connect is by far my favorite UI and UX wise.
Not FOSS at least for now, but still very nice, love the customizations and the video player is a nice feature.
I’ve only tried Liftoff, but I’m liking it so far.
Sync for lemmy now. Boost for lemmy when it comes out. Jerboa is nice too.
This is the FOSS community and neither Sync nor Boost are open source.
But Lemmy is, so it’s still a relevant answer, no?
If I asked “What word processors can Libre Office Writer collaborate with?”, would Microsoft Word be an off-topic answer?
