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?
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.
I can’t figure out how to collapse comment threads tho…
Long press on the center, to open/close a comment thread.
Long press
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.
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.
Connect for Lemmy works well for me.
I’m also using connect. I find the searching for communities to be terrible and a couple of other issues, but the bread and butter of reading posts, comments, commenting is very comfortable. I’d recommend it too right now.
Comfortable is the best way to describe it. I think it’s very similar in function and design to sync, which makes it very easy to use while waiting for Sync for Lemmy
Yeah, searching/ subscribing is a pain. I also would like a feature to be able to copy just a link on long press like there was with RiF. I really, badly miss RiF.
I didn’t realize how amazing that feature was until I tried other 3rd party apps. RIF was very solid, only wish it had swipe gestures for navigating.
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
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
Thanks for sharing. I do like WefWef and the fact it feels like a full app despite only being a Web app.
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
Likewise.
I’m also using Liftoff and the experience has been quite good so far
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.
If this works, yes.
Check if you have some random instances added in ypur account settings that you are not logged into.
Liftoff is going well enough for me as well. Still miss RiF.
not a native app, but wefwef.app is 🔥
I was using jerboa earlier but wefwef looks way better than that. It feels a little slow on the animations for my phone though.
Wef wef is pretty great, very impressive for a non native app
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.
Boost when it gets available. In the meantime, Jerboa.
That’s a weird way to spell "Sync"😂
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’ve only used Jerboa so I can’t compare BUT it reminds me a lot of RIF which is what I’ve used for the last like 7+ years?
Yea it’s definitely the closest to RIF so far
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.
I chose Jerboa because back at Reddit I was using an app called Joey. Just wanted to be consistent
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.
Yeah, Lemmy in general was buggy the first week of the mass migration from Reddit, but they seem to have that mostly resolved.
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.
Is liftoff homegrown?
I’m assuming it’s not a simple port. They’ll probably be buggy at first.
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.
Liftoff so far has been the only one that let me log in and also works consistently. I haven’t tried connect but I can vouch for liftoff at least. I’ll probably be trying sync for lemmy whenever it comes out though since I loved sync for reddit.
Jerboa has gotten pretty stable since the exodus, I also have Thunder and Liftoff installed, but mostly switching between Jerboa and Thunder.
I like those two last ones because they kinda have a Sync feeling to them, will definitely buy Sync once it’s ready!
Wefwef
Definitely enjoying wefwef, haven’t opened Jerboa in a while now
Absolutely this.
I’ve used Jerboa and it was decent, but really lacked consistency or a ui that worked.
Wefwef and connect are my two favorites at the moment.
The iOS theme feels weird to use on Android though, I would love a Material Design 3 version of it. I already looked into creating one, but it’s a lot or work
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.
tysm
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!
