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Does anyone else use the android app Connect for Lemmy? It reminds me of Infinity for Reddit. If you use it, do you like it better than Jerboa? I also found another new Lemmy app called Liftoff.

Connect for Lemmy: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect

Liftoff: https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Anyone else just using whatever is FOSS feom f-droid?

Of course the more apps the merrier, but personally open code = a more trustworthy use for me

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Jerboa was the first showing up on F-Droid and so far it's great: minimalistic, responsive, lightweight (only 2MB or so). Don't know why so many people are developing apps and not simply joining efforts. Makes me think they're doing it for the purpose of doing it, and because they're happy to work on an app and get their software engineering brain occupied by their own little project. But what will happen once this sentiment passes? Who's gonna maintain these apps? What we need is one robust app everyone is working on together.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I say let them be, there are (or soon were) many different third-party apps for Reddit as well and each has their own niche of users for whom it works just right. Jerboa has plenty of devs working on it, and if in doubt I'll always prefer having a choice between different apps. Let the free FOSS market decide!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All the apps except connect are open source. I've tried jeroba, thunder and liftoff so far and liftoff has been the most robust.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I think Connect looks nicer so I've been using it - very excited for Sync for Lemmy though

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looks cool but if it's not on F-Droid I ain't using it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

A man/woman of principles

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Connect seems cool, but I was using Infinity because it was open source. This one doesn't seem open source (correct me if I'm wrong) so I'll stick with Liftoff or Jerboa for now

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for the recommendation of Liftoff! I really didn't like Jerboa but liftoff seems like a nice app.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Just tried and it's much more impressive than Jerboa. No laggy scrolling, UI and UX are nicer. Feels more like RiF.

Only (minor) nitpicks I have are:

  • ~~dark theme could be darker~~
  • I'd prefer the comment form shows as a popup/overlay (like RiF does) so you can kind of glance at the context while commenting
  • list view items need more padding and less margin
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jerboa is absolutely not laggy on my side. Find it super responsive and lightweight instead. it's only 2MB

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm guessing what they're referring to is that it waits to fetch the next page of the timeline until relatively "late". There's a definite hitch in scrolling for me when it's fetching more posts.

That said, I'm perfectly satisfied with Jerboa.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I am missing the comment collupse option on all apps except gerboa. Hope they fix it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's there with a long press. I missed it too at first.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Thunder has been the most featured for me so far. It does collapse by time, and i am also able to subscribe to communities from new instances following the [email protected] formatting.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Using it to make this answer, and loving it Jerboa just keeps crashing instantly for me (android 12, Fairphone 4). Not sure why. But connect has just worked out of the box.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I tried it and didn't think it was much different from any other Lemmy app right now. Seems like they are only trying to differentiate with visuals at the moment.

Some things I would like to see in future apps and versions of existing apps.

  • Integration of the Lemmy community browser or something similar. Basic search takes too long and you need to know what your looking for
  • Ability to view top communities posts from the community browser in a separate view alongside "local" and "All" and "subscribed" and could even stand in as a user's subscribed view before they have customized it to their own liking
  • Ability to "force pull" comments and posts from a particular remote community. Or at least compare the number of comments a post has locally to the number it has on its remote instance and present some kind of indicator if they differ.
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Using Connect because Jerboa just kept crashing on me at startup. Never got to test it out. Problems do exist in Connect, as e.g. I could not comment on this post in the app. Will check out Thunder and Lift off as well, so thanks for the suggestions!

Edit: I literally just found out that you have to hit the huge plus-button at the bottom right to add a comment.. I always thought it was for creating a new post 🤦‍♂️

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting, I'm waiting for Sync for Lemmy, is this one open source?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

No, I dont think it is unfortunately. Another commenter said it was full of trackers, although I have not verified that. I didn't realize that when I made the post

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm glad to see apps being made for Lemmy, but being open source for me is a must.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This app looks really good. It looks almost exactly how I have my kbin account set up with scripts in a browser, and the gestures are very nice. - I hope it adds kbin support or one of the kbin apps ends up looking like this or better.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jerboa has been crashing on me lately so I've been using Connect while it gets fixed. No complaints so far.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Have you tried thunder? Super slick UI, if minimalism is your thing, but also WIP.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wow, this is actually awesome. I've been using Jerboa for a couple of weeks now, but Thunder feels much more inline with what a was hoping for. Good lookin out man.

Edit: precompiled APK download link so I don't have to do it myself is very appreciated.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Oh wow I haven't heard of this! Just downloaded it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Same here, Jerboa won't even open on my phone without crashing. :/ Connect for Lemmy has all the basic functionality down, so it's okay to use.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Feels and looks good for my instance 'lemmy.fmhy.ml' on the web mode. Gestures and actions come second nature almost like, I like it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Upvoting this post from Connect for Lemmy. Actually I think I still prefer Jerboa. Unfortunately it has stopped working since I updated my instance to 0.18 so this will have to do for now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah I prefer the look and feel of Jerboa. It's working fine for me now but I have experienced some glitches in the past.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've yet to find an app as good as just using the browser

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

You might like this then, a userscript I made, works on Firefox Android (or probably anything that supports installing userscripts) https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcher

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The community for the app:

I'm also happily using it, it's the only app which works on my old phone, haha :D

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Worth noting that the Jerboa app pushed a major update today and it's massively improved. Definitely suggest giving it another try after today, it feels like an entirely new app.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Using it right now, and I'm enjoying it so far. I was using jerboa before, but it crashed everytime I clicked on a link for a post or community on another instance, and when I tried to add this account (on programming.dev instance) it would crash instantly.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Aurora Store is working for you? I always get the Oops, This Account is rate limited no matter how much new sessions I request. The main screen seems to be loading though so idk.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Good... Good... Let the app wars begin.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Just downloaded it, exactly what I needed. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I use it and it's a lot less buggy than Jerboa. I also like the UI a bit better.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm missing the ability to collapse threads, but otherwise it's very sleek Edit: nevermind you just need to hold the top comment for one second

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use it, but some things are lacking. I find the mobile site better at the moment

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm currently keeping a close eye on both Thunder and Liftoff.

Both have been really nice and interesting so far :) I would recommend trying both out and see of one fits your needs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thunder looks close to what I'd like interface wise.

"Everything else has too much chrome" - Diehard RIF user

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you install the mobile site as a web app to your home screen? Otherwise it gets lost in a million tabs in my browser.

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