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
I’m also using Liftoff and the experience has been quite good so far
Liftoff is going well enough for me as well. Still miss RiF.
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.
Check if you have some random instances added in ypur account settings that you are not logged into.
Connect for Lemmy works well for me.
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.
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’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.
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 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
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’ll use any app that remains FOSS so that likely rules out most reddit apps.
I’m assuming it’s not a simple port. They’ll probably be buggy at first.
Similar but I’m using liftoff until Boost comes out.
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.
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 can’t figure out how to collapse comment threads tho…
Long press on the center, to open/close a comment thread.
Long press
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.
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.
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
not a native app, but wefwef.app is 🔥
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.
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.
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.
Jerboa’s been working pretty good lately.
Jerboa is the best I’ve used so far, though hopefully Boost will be even better when that’s released!
Boost for Reddit was an absolute top tier application.
I’m thinking about going for liftoff but it wants you to have an account on each server / instance. It doesn’t get the idea of how federation is supposed to work
I have the iOS version, you only need to sign in on one instance, but you can also view other instances without logging in, which i think is a good idea. For example you can add beehaw, which is not viewable on lemmy.world
Even though Wefwef works really well, I’m so comfortable with Boost after using it for years for Reddit that I’m super excited to get that user experience back on Lemmy!
Just started using Connect and it’s great! I moved from RiF and it’s pretty similar. My one request is a way to easily switch to the next/previous parent comment like you can do in RiF
I second connect. It’s quite good.
Third vote for connect. Tried jerboa, thought it was hideous. Went out of my way to try Thunder, not enough features. Connect is just right.
4th
5th
6th and also adding that Connect has been getting updates every couple of days, improving UI and performance.
I’d hope the actual app doesn’t look like the screenshots… doesn’t give a good first impression of attention to detail when the app preview in the screenshots are quite visibly squashed to fit the vertical height of the device frame they’ve placed them in to.
The screenshots are horrible and I almost did not download it because of them. I’m not a big fan of cards and so I use list mode. I did the same in RiF and I was able to make Connect look pretty similar.
Edit connect part message so it bring us to the app so we can try it
Done.
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Connect is great
Using Connect until Sync for Lemmy is released. Long time sync user…
same but for boost
Started with Jerboa, switched to connect.
