I’ve seen the app Apollo as the center of the reddit protest (it was mentioned and cited more than any other app in relevant posts). I’ve also seen many Lemmy clients in development taking inspiration from it.
As a lifetime Android user I’ve never been able to use it, and I’ve never gotten a proper answer to “why not just use the official app?” What made it different from the official application and other unofficial clients that consequently made it so popular among Redditors?
Its got a sleek and easy to use UI, is jam packed with features like customisable gestures, no ads, a great media player and (I think) lots of accessibility features.
It’s also wonderful that the dev loved his app and continually updated it
Good news. You can instal Wefwef and get the Apollo experience on android now. Give it a try and see how awesome it’s been for us iOS users
I can’t seem to find wefwef in the play store.
Is it there or does one need to side load it.I’m dumb. You gotta go to
the GitHub and go to the app in the webhttps://wefwef.app and “install” it.It seems to think my account on Lemmy.world doesn’t exist and won’t load posts.
It’s a PWA: https://wefwef.app
Ah thanks. Took me a moment to realize that.
Using wefwef on lemmy.world currently does not work, ruud says he broke something. It just gives a problem fetching posts error for me.
You might want to try it again. A lot of Reddit alternatives have been struggling to keep up with the influx of new users.
You may also need to verify your email address. I had issues getting logged in when I created my account but I was using Mlem at the time.
With all of that said, I’m using wefwef right now.
Yes it seems to be working well now with my Lemmy.world account, thanks!
I know your asking about Apollo but I’m going to be the idiot who chimes in even though I used Reddit is fun. I used RiF because the native app was annoying and slow, I also didn’t want to see full screen images as I scrolled. RiF would give me a clean list of the topics from my favorite subs but not load full screen images so I could scroll through faster looking for the subjects I wanted to read/see at that moment. I just felt like I could find more of the topics I wanted faster than with the native app which also didn’t exist when I started using RiF. I’m using liftoff now and I’m annoyed at the images loading but I imagine there will be something that’s “cleaner” (by my standard) or a way to customize liftoff.
Try swapping on the Compact view in settings. That might be more what you’re looking for
