I think most, if not all the major 3rd party app devs are working on something for Lemmy now. Reddit has not only devalued themselves, but made the Fediverse 100% more accessable. I’m a Boost user so this is awesome news. There are so many Lemmy apps in the pipeline. I’ve tried Connect Jeroba and Thunder. At this point they’re all newish, and pretty much the same. Hopefully all this app competition will lead to new innovation. Lemmy users are the winners here. We’re witnessing the dawn of the Lemmy app wars.
Yea I love the ui of Boost, I just can’t get used to these other clients. It’s going to be way more easier to navigate lemmy.
Great news. I’m probably more likely to use Sync, but seeing not one but two well regarded Android Reddit apps migrate to Lemmy is just bloody awesome.
Same. I used Boost for a while until I found Sync. I imagine the same will happen here.
Really missing Relay :(
The developer has just announced that Relay will continue to function and will switch to a subscription model, so there probably won’t be a Relay for Lemmy, unfortunately :(
Me too.
Relay was the best. There were so many great simple features that a surprising number of Lemmy apps are missing
Thunder feels pretty close. Turn on compact mode + thumbnails on the right and it’s visually almost identical to how I had Relay set up. It even has the short swipe to upvote, long swipe to downvote actions.
Thunder opens articles in Samsung Internet Browser of all things. I can’t figure out how to change it to Firefox or Chrome. Otherwise I like it OK, although I wish I could turn off the animations
I’m not missing Relay’s trackers in the paid app.
Relay is my top preference.
I hope Relay for Lemmy becomes a thing. My fav for years.
Same, love Relay. I ditched the official long ago because of their tracking pixels. My pihole was having a heart attack.
Sync literally went off the play store about an hour ago :(
Edit: Looks like Sync for Lemmy is happening! https://syncapps.io/
don’t forget about infinity too
Is Sync migrating too?
Yes, it’s going to be called Sync for Lemmy and preregistration opened two days ago. It most likely will still be some weeks before it becomes available. Ljdawson stated the target is 6 weeks, so that would be somewhere in the middle of August.
I’m so excited
This makes me so happy! I’ve been maining boost for almost six years now and was so bummed when the dev announced he wasn’t going to be working on a Lemmy app. Looks like he changed his mind!
This damn near brought a tear to my eye. I no longer miss reddit at all.
I am thrilled, Boost has been the best Reddit experience for me since I stopped loving Bsconreader. I don’t even remember what my problem with it was, I think it was crashing or… something, haha.
Boost ended up being a UI I preferred significantly, and I never looked back! This is gonna be FANTASTIC, where do I throw my money?!
Yessss I had all but given up hope. There is a god.
Register for the download if you will use it, this will show support to Mayayo!
Android users desperately need a better app for browsing Lemmy than Jerboa. Boost and Sync may just be that app.
Liftoff is the best one so far IMO.
Liftoff has been a bit slow for me today, but I imagine they’re getting a massive amount of traffic that wasn’t necessarily in the plans. Or maybe that’s just Lemmy in general.
It’s not as good as my old reddit app, but I’m liking Jerboa
What app did you use? Boost was great on android
Wow… I just uninstalled Boost after midnight. Looks like it will be back soon :)
Great news! I loved boost for reddit.
I still can’t believe spez did this. And continues to do this. What a prick
Actually if this causes decentralized social media to get more popular we should be thankful lol
Maybe, But it was nice to have a platform with all kinds of people and all kinds of topics in 1 place. I will miss that aspect of reddit
if lemmy.world gets a large enough userbase, it might become just like that
True, we’ll see what the future holds.
I really like Lemmy so far even though it isn’t perfect yet. Adding a 3rd party app will make using this even easier.
I’m using Connect for Lemmy currently and it seems to be working okay. Just takes some getting used to, of course.
Another former booster using Connect. Not bad for being such an early stage product.
Same here. I actually really like the swipe gestures, I think it’s one of the only things that Boost is missing.
As of the last update. It has surpassed Jerboa for me. So my ranking for best app at present is connect, jerboa and liftoff.
Jerboa is butter smooth if you are using an instance that is updated to 18. But unusable if you are in an instance that is still in version 17 (beehaw)
I’ve still yet to try jerboa for the reasons you mentioned, but otherwise agree with your ranking.
I’m not too invested in any of them since I expect to switch to boost once it gets here.
Yeah, im on boost on reddit. And curiously it’s july 2 and it’s still working. Did mayayo ever sya that he will pay pay for the api costs?
I fucking knew it, in one of the last updates in the menu it went from “find subreddit” to “find community”
Are there any good iOS apps coming?
I’m using wefwef and Memmy for now… wefwef is an Apollo clone
Just installed wefwef and it’s great! Really off putting name tbh but looks exactly like Apollo
Yeah there is no name that’s good but there is an entire marketing time behind Reddit… those are one men projects where marketing is def not their strength but it’s ok for now
I already see a post from the dev on their community asking how to rename the app so I guess this feedback is coming from a lot of people. Currently “Voyager” is winning and that would be step in the right direction imo.
I am here because of boost
Between Boost and Sync, Lemmy is emerging as a promising option because there’s going to be multiple strong 3rd party apps to engage with.
Literally my two favorite (former) Reddit clients by a wide margin. This makes me happy.
It’s a good thing too, because the native feed on my mobile browser is a pain to try to deal with.
I can’t wait for LiF.
They should name it RIF for Lemmy (Reddit Is Fucked)
