❤️🔥 🎇 It’s finally here! And it will live on my home screen just like Apollo used to do. 🔥 ❤️🔥
Just spreading this news in case you’re like me and late to the good news :)
Im excited about all the apps but to be honest i hate the names of most of them. Mlem, wefwef, memmy. Idk the overly cute name makes me think of dudes who owo in people’s DMs
I love the WefWef app but hate every time I have to type that ridiculous name out. There’s absolutely zero chance I will ever say that horrible name aloud to people either.
Apollo was an awesome name. WW, opposite.
Voice your opinion at [email protected]. The dev has already considered renaming as the current one was picked arbitrarily and partly because it’s easy to type with one hand 🤔
Lol I started using liftoff on android for that exact reason. Idk what’s so appealing about baby talk for app devs that they name stuff like that
Imagine being so insecure that you won’t use an app because the name isn’t manly enough. (Although to be fair i am also using liftoff atm because it was the open source app that worked the best last time I tried them all)
Lol nobody said anything about being it not being manly. I said it sounds like baby talk. It’s childish and sounds silly. It’s more telling that you read baby talk and immediately thought about how unmanly something is.
I’m going back and forth between Jerboa, LiftOff and Thunder.
I’ll have to checkout thunder. I haven’t heard tried that one yet. There’s so many apps being made right now!
Thank you for this!
Downloaded it and I think it‘s really neat! Improved my experience instantly!
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One more step in the right direction.
A giant leap for the fediverse. :)
Now I just need to learn how to use Lemmy
You better start believein’ in using Lemmy…
You’re doing it.
For the love of god man, CHARGE THAT PHONE!
angry android noises
I’m sure android has alternatives already. I always feel like iOS gets the popular apps later than android. :(
I never head of memmy. Don’t worry Android has lots of good Lemmy apps
Right?! Lol
I’m happy to report there are several android apps getting daily updates at the moment.
We’ve got a bajillion of them, and unlike iOS, you didn’t need to wait for it to hit the Apple Store.
iOS allows you to install beta apps via TestFlight. And we have a bunch already not including wefwef.
Which technically doesn’t even get installed because it’s one of these new fancy no-download apps!
Won’t go back to android for their vulnerabilities and Google’s spyware and I won’t be goin back to Reddit
staying in a closed sourced platform is more vulnerable. though I’m running a custom android rom
This
Not at all true.
how? justify your reasoning? being on apple who have one of the largest user base, you are more vulnerable for cyberattacks. you said you left google because of Google spying on you. how come apple won’t do that?
Oy vey, no man…
Android is the most heavily used OS in the world. The best thing I’m gonna recommend instead of listing all the reasons is to point you to lists of Android vulnerabilities (public info because OSINT is life) vs iOS vulns over time.
Apple may spy on us! But nothing near as severe as google has in the past (and we’re caught for) like when google chrome was listening in on user microphones. Never heard of such a scandal with Apple before.
And for the record I think Apple is over priced and a cult 🤠
Try: jerboa, liftoff, Summit, Thunder, wefwef,
Sync is coming next month too.
And you can install any of them right now without waiting for them to be approved on the store.
Of the ones I mentioned only thunder isn’t in the play store yet.
You rock! Thanks!!
Lemmotif is also looking good but is newer and less feature rich last I checked. There’s probably a couple newer ones that’s I’m forgetting.
Oh, Artemis is coming soon and also supports kbin which is rare as their api isn’t finished yet.
Don’t forget Connect.
Really good
Ironically I posted the comment from connect…
I’m currently waiting for some of these to make it to Fdroid, it’s just jerboa on there so far (which I like!)
Some are on izzydroid if you’re willing to add a repo.
Liftoff is there too. I like Jerboa but I felt there were too many bugs/crashes just now. Liftoff isn’t the best looking but its the most dependable imo.
I’m excited for boost because that was my favourite Reddit client.
Liftoff is pretty good so far. You can use obtanium to install it from GitHub releases and keep it up to date, I find it just as convenient as F-droid.
Thanks for both recommendations, I’ve read about obtainium before but never needed to use it. It’s good!
So far I like liftoff as well. Nice to have several good options (already!)
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boost for reddit dev looks like they released a boost for lemmy
It’s been announced that it’s coming, but it’s not released yet. I’m not sure if there’s an expected release date
Thanks so much!!
I prefer WefWef but still: this can only be a good thing for Lemmy. Glad this is out!
Only reason I’m not on Wefwef anymore is because of the lack of haptics. Getting haptic feedback on votes and swipes is just too good, imo.
True. That’s the same reason I switched to memmy
Wefwef feels like Apollo in a stable beta version: it doesn’t have everything I’m used to (blocking communities from the main feed is a big one) but everything is in the right place. Pity I only got it after Apollo went down, since I can’t get my data from Apollo now.
I’m just trying Lemmy (writing this comment on it) and it’s still rather light but thankfully speedier than on a browser.
I figure I’ll bounce between them for a bit and see which one starts to gain more usage and features. But yes, it’s good that there are more options available.
Quick question- what specifically were you looking to export from Apollo over to WefWef? I tried exporting the .json file from Apollo over to WefWef following the instructions and it basically was just a list of my subscribed communities and allowed me to search for similar communities on here (most of which were pretty niche and therefor not on here yet. Totally understandable.) Is there something else I’m missing?
That’s what I was looking for, yeah. Part of it was that I was subscribed to language learning communities (and memes in the target language: the shared language of memes provides a lot of context!) which can be named a large variety of things, so I’d be back at square one and searching for things manually.
It’s not the worst thing to be back to basics, because it forces me to explore and learn about the Fediverse, but there’s always going to be that nagging “did I get everything out of the old apartment” feeling as I drop off the key.
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I love wefwef but I actually prefer this now!
Same
WefWef UI is great, just wish it wasn’t a web app
Honestly it’s hard to tell. Even on my old iPhone X it’s pretty seamless. I wish Apple and Android would give PWA apps more feature support overall tbh.
It’s hard to tell until suddenly your phone is out of battery.
Oh PWAs take more battery?
It’s definitely not as responsive and has a slightly laggy feel to it. I mean it looks and runs great for a webapp. But it just isn’t as good as a native app.
It’s the push notifications I’m missing most
Memmy is just a webapp with extra steps though.
It’s literally not lol
It is react native, meaning it uses the same basic web technologies as wefwef. It’s just bundled up and distributed through the app stores rather than through your browser. I am not complaining though both WefWef and Memmy are absolutely awesome.
It’s not like electron or something. Sure metro works similarly to webpack, but it’s not the same basic web technologies as wefwef. RN runs on threads on your device, a main thread, js thread and shadow thread. The js thread talks to the main thread through a bridge. React Native allows us to work and interface with native APIs with the device, while PWAs does not do that. PWAs don’t do that on your phone, it’s just like running on Safari really. While the code itself isn’t “native” we end up with native components through the bridge. (If all of RN was just a webview then it would be more like how you’re describing.)
The way RN works is fundamentally different than React, despite the syntax looking similar and RN being written in JS. It’s not like its just React bundled up into a mobile app. I often wish they hadn’t named it React Native for this reason, and for having to look up stuff and just getting React answers all the time lol. I am one of the Memmy devs and I am a React developer professionally. FYI this is not in any way a diss at wefwef for not being native, its super super impressive what they’ve done, I’m sure I could learn a lot about React from their code. Also sorry about the disjointed thoughts, I’m sure I repeated some stuff here or there lol. Hope this clarified a bit how RN works though.
Thanks for the great and detailed reply! Tbh I really thought React Native was just using the webview… super embarassing for a dev of 12 years.
Glad it was helpful!
The extra step is that it doesn’t run through Safari.
There was a really annoying issue with wefwef for me - Swiping back to the Home Screen would result in a brief couple seconds of lag before I could scroll again. Apart from that I’d agree that is was great.
But this Memmy app is a lot better in that regard 👌
Interestingly enough, I am actually also getting this intermittently on Memmy after just switching.
Ah that’s annoying! Can’t be near as bad as I haven’t seen it myself.
Hope it’s something that can be resolved.
It’s so frustrating, because this is an iOS bug, and not an inherent problem with wefwef. Hoping they can find a workaround though!
I had the same experience with wefwef which led me to try out Memmy. Memmy is much more seamless and feels more like a fully functional app.
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I bounce back and forth between WefWef and Memmy and I think they are both great in their own way.
Wefwef is fast but it’s a web app, not a native one. It feels snappy and fast though.
If I’m on the TestFlight is it important to switch?
Edit: question answered
The TestFlight version will be the beta testing version for all the upcoming official App Store version for updates. If you keep the TestFlight version you will be a bug finder for improvements to the final app.
Thanks!
You’re welcome
TestFlight will still receive new betas, if you don’t want to beta test new releases, just want to have latest stable release download the one from the store. Both will work just fine so you can stay on TestFlight one if you want to.
Thanks!
TestFlight will get updates faster
Thanks!
No link?
App link here, since OP didn’t deliver 😉 : https://apps.apple.com/us/app/memmy-for-lemmy/id6450204299
Sorry didn’t include a link since it’s on the app store. Thanks for providing one.
Unfortunately, searching for apps in the app store is not easy. I tried searching for “memmy” and didn’t find it. I had to use the full name.
Fantastic app, really puts Reddit to shame. Maybe if they didn’t spend all their efforts trying to add trackers and shit they would have a decent app
Memmy is fantastic and exactly what Lemmy needs to become more popular. Using Lemmy.world etc on a browser on iOS just didn’t want to work for me, the login button wouldn’t work on any browser.
It’s good there’s this app which will hopefully work better. I haven’t tried it yet, but if for some reason you still log on mobile browser I found that if I completely delete the auto fill email/PW then manually tell it to fill again, I can login with no problem.
Browsed through safari before and I would be logged out randomly, too. Not sure why it’s not smooth on browsers though.
What’s better wefwef or memmy?
That’s subjective. Wefwef is trying to clone Apollo for Reddit. It’s cross platform since it’s a PWA. Memmy is iOS only and seems to have more settings right now. If you’re used to Apollo give wefwef a shot!
Wefwef is trying to clone Apollo for Reddit.
Well the first sentence of memmys github description says that it’s “an Apollo-inspired iOS and Android client” so I’d say they’re doing the same^^
Key difference in what i said: as of now, wefwef is more of a CLONE of Apollo. Everything is almost the same. Memmy is heavily inspired by, but looks and behaves differently in some ways. My opinion is wefwef looks more like a native iOS app. Neither is bad, and maybe I’m biased as I’m contributing to wefwef, but it’s all preference anyways :)
Memmy is a React/Expo app so it’s cross platform as well, the dev just hasn’t configured an Android build pipeline for it. Both have the same janky scrolling issues which is common across React apps.
Very true, hopefully Memmy exports to Android soon! Ps: your username made me think I found a bug to fix in our inbox code lol!
heh, working as intended then.
I’m using wefwef and I switched back and forth between wefwef, memmy and mlem.
Here are some things I considered:- Inline images are shown in posts(instead of linked to at the end): mlem, wefwef
- Opening images and zooming them: memmy, wefwef
- saving images: memmy (Edit: wefwef too since on of the latest updates)
- Adjustable text size: memmy, wefwef
- compact view is actually compact: wefwef, mlem (Edit: memmy too since the latest update)
- jumping to comments from your inbox: wefwef , Memmy(kind of, shows comment chain of that specific post, but not highlights the comment and has no way of switching to all comments from there)
- edit comments: wefwef, memmy
As you can see, wefwef is present in all of these ^^ jumping to comment is a pretty big one for me, aswell as the inline images
I’m using both. On paper I like Memmy more, but it’s missing a couple of features present in Wefwef:
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Landscape mode.
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A way to display inline pics. If you’re a Memmy user wondering why sometimes you see comments without text or anything, that’s why. You’re not seeing a pic.
But if Memmy had these two things, I don’t think I’d be using Wefwef much.
memmy devs already confirmed on github that they won’t add inline pics as we see them on wefwef, mlem or browser. Instead they’ll try to add a link that says “show image” at the place where the image is supposed to be. Better than the situation now but still bad imho.
That’s btw how wefwef handles pics in comments, mlem also shows the full pic here.Yep, that’d be alright to do it like this. It’s not knowing there’s a pic that’s the problem.
Edit: just noticed it was added in the latest Testflight update. Nice!
Is that different from the actual app store version? Because there I still don’t see it.
btw I had to use wefwef to find your comment because memmy can only bring me to the thread but not to the specific comment^^The AppStore version will always be lagging behind by a few updates, I’m afraid. It takes time for Apple to validate a new AppStore build, unlike TestFlight builds.
Shame, I uninstalled the testflight version after their comment that they won’t display inline pics like the other apps and now the beta is full^^
How did they do it with the latest update? Is it a link which opens an image in a new window or is it sort of a spoiler tag view?It looks like this! And apparently this update should show up on the AppStore in the next 24h ;-)
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Fantastic app, makes me feel right at home.
I feel right at home on Memmy. I’ll be sticking around for sure. Now if only my subreddit equivalents will pick up steam :/
the best app i tried for ios yet!
How do you reply to comments? It seems there’s no button for it in memmy :(
Swipe left
Omg thank you so much! I won’t have to alternate to safari now.
No problem! Thanks for the post, I’ve been waiting for memmy!
Swipe left on the comment you want to reply to.
Thank you so much! Tried it and it works.
![For this who aren’t aware, Memmy for lemmy is now available in the app store [iOS]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1898f260-6f07-4d40-a84b-730c2a20e802.jpeg){kind=link}
