I’m trying to stop using Reddit, but it having an app I know about makes it have quite an advantage.
I know there’s a few apps out there I can use to browse Lemmy, but I’m not sure about their names and the different features they offer.
The developer of Sync for reddit is creating a lemmy app. Can’t wait to try it, as Sync was my favorite reddit app.
These are the apps I’m using rn. So far i like thunder, connect and liftoff.
out of all those you are testing which one would you say has the closest UI to reddit is fun?
Can you link lemming? That’s the only one i can’t see to find
Hi, I’m the developer of Lemming. You can find it here: lemmy.world/c/lemming_app.
Thank a bunch. I really like how material looks on your app
Thunder has a really weird swipe mechanic to voting that doesn’t seem to work very reliability for me unfortunately currently.
What do you mean?
You swipe the comment to the right and a thing pops up. It’s unclear when it is downvoting or upvoting because what it then does doesn’t seem to match the one you selected.
I’m the developer of Summit. Unfortunately I don’t see anyone mention Summit but I would suggest giving it a try as well.
I think I’ve been a bit slower to implement certain features compared to the other apps, but the app is heavily focused on scalability and performance. Give it a try just in case you might like it. Play store link: Summit for Lemmy
Is it open source?
Unfortunately the app is not open source :(
Is that something you would be open to working towards? Since the growth of Lemmy is attributed to Reddit becoming “closed”, I think many users might see it as a dealbreaker or be less inclined to use a closed-source app.
My feelings towards this might change in the future. However for the time being, my enjoyment of the project hinges on the project being closed source. Ie. open sourcing the project will likely lead to me stepping away from the project. So even if this significantly impacts the number of users, I would still prefer to keep it closed source. I’d rather have a fun side project I made than to create a popular project that I do not contribute to. It is unfortunate but it is what it is.
I found Summit about 2 hours ago and love it! Thanks for your hard work.
I like this one, but I don’t see where to edit my profile at all. Hopefully it will remember my filter preferences in future releases. Overall, good job!
Thank you for your feedback. This feature is currently not in the app at the moment but I can add this feature to the roadmap. If you could explain your use case for filtering that would also help a lot with how I will choose to implement this.
So when I tap the icon it automatically always shows “all” communities and “active” I would like it to know me, and my preference to stay at “local” and “hot”…
One of these is supported but the other isn’t. Currently you can select a “home” community by tapping the triple dots (top right) of a community (eg. when ur on “local”) and tap “Set as home page”.
If you are a fellow reddit refugee, the Sync for Lemmy is coming soon.
I’m new but Jerboa works like a charm on my Samsung, very fast and responsive.
My only complain is it’s a little too easy to click on the sub instead of the title, other than that Jerboa has been great.
It’s bit buggy, sometimes I press to open a sub and I need it used the internal browser and sometimes it takes me there within the app. No idea why it has two options.
Since the most recent update it closes wben I bookmark something and keeps saying to log into my instance.
My current problem with jerboa is that it keeps pestering me to update server to a newer version without giving me a clue how to do it.
You can’t. System admin needs to, and they posted that they can’t yet because the new version doesn’t support captcha yet. They’re expecting a fix but have to wait.
I’m using Jerboa, Connect and Summit. I really like Jerboa, but rn is buggy as lemmy.world is still at 0.17.4 while Jerboa only support 0.18. I’m still trying out Summit and Connect, only time will say!
I tried them all (Jerboa, Thunder, Liftoff, Lemmynade) and I like Jerboa the most. The layout is clean, compact and it works really well.
I was a Slide user on Reddit so I’m waiting for it to be available for Lemmy!
Did you try Connect for Lemmy yet?
Yes I did, I still prefer Jerboa’s post layout.
Isn’t Slide discontinued? Or do you mean Sync?
I meant Slide!
I’m currently using Liftoff since lemmy.world isnt on 0.18 yet and therefore doesn’t work with Jerboa.
lemmy.world is waiting for 0.18.1 because 0.18 removed captcha as a consequence of a change away from websocket, i think. they announced they arent going to update until its added back in, which the lemmy developers promised to do.
I think Jerboa still wasn’t updated in F-Droid, so you should be fine if you get it from there. F-Droid also allows you to downgrade of you need to.
Jerboa, works better than any other app atm
At this exact moment might be a little buggy - Jerboa updated to support Lemmy v0.18.x only and Lemmy.world remains at 0.17.4 for a bit.
Is there any word on when lemmy.world will be updated to 0.18? I really hate scrolling through the feed, because of the auto-refresh. And I saw that auto-refresh was removed in 0.18.
I am using https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect
Looks pretty good to me, it can make text larger so yeah. Like 10 minutes in rn though lol
currently using Jerboa, but waiting on Sync for Lemmy to be available! !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world to follow progress.
I’m clicking that link and it says 404 something
I belive that’s actually what you’d paste in the search box in your local instance to view the community from your instance, not a link to the community itself.
This link should take you to that community within its local instance: https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy
Jerboa. Haven’t had any issuesEdit for more info: I’m running Jerboa on my Samsung 21+; created account in browser, then added account in Jerboa app.Edit2: Switched to just using Lemmy.world through browser on phone. Jerboa had too many issues when they added 2FA
Doesn’t work with lemmy.world yet as the version is too low.
Has been working for me. I’m able to add communities from other instances as well.
I’ve tried jeroba, liftoff and thunder. My experience with jeroba is mostly negative. It’s not good enough to be a full replacement for using a web browser and with the new update it crashes on my older, not bleeding edge phone. It can’t even open lemmy links people post half the time.
Thundar is ok. I’m not a fan of its interface but at least you can actually browse communities you aren’t subscribed to.
The third one I’ve tried is Liftoff and it’s the best one I’ve seen so far. It’s about the same in terms of quality as Boost for reddit. You can explore new communities in other instances, have more than one active account logged in to be able to simultaneously use different instances and best of all there’s a search.
Connect is great for me so far…lftoff wouldnt accept my login details and Jerboa only returns a server error message
I’m using Liftoff as of this morning when Jerboa started crashing every few minutes. So far, so good.
+1 for liftoff! Still supports older and newer versions of lemmy, unlike jerboa.
I’ve been using it today… Just found the oled setting and aaaahhhhhh
I thought the everything feed is a pretty cool idea
This might sound crazy, but i am just using the website via Firefox on my phone. Jerboa wasnt doing it for me, and someone recommended just using the website… I prefer it over jerboa. I imagine with all the development going on, there will be something better showing up, but until it does, I’m just going old school.
