• cowleggies@reddthat.comEnglish
    441·
    2 years ago

    Highly recommend checking out wefwef - closest option to an Apollo clone as I’ve seen so far in terms of UI and functionality, and doesn’t even need to be installed. Memmy is a very good second place option, but I’ve been using wefwef since I heard about it yesterday and ZI think it’s better.

    • iso@lemmy.com.trEnglish
      111·
      2 years ago

      It’s good but laggy. Swiping doesn’t feels native unfortunately.

      • cowleggies@reddthat.comEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Are you using it as an installed PWA? I’m not having any issues with animations or scrolling. I have run into a few weird UI bugs with slide up menus within communities, but that’s about it.

        • gkd@lemmy.ml
          20·
          2 years ago

          As the Memmy dev I can also highly recommend wefwef. Great product for such a short lifespan.

            • gkd@lemmy.ml
              2·
              2 years ago

              Going outbound or inbound? Outbound the requests are super basic, inbound they are pretty large. There’s a lot of limitations on that.

              For example to get basic user info you have to receive a bunch of other information that you’re not going to bother using. Hopefully in time this will get changed, because there’s no reason to be receiving so much data whenever you really only need a few bytes.

        • EliasChao@lemmy.oneEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I do have installed as a PWA, and although I’m really liking it visually, it’s a bit buggy. I’d like to know if the bugginess is because of its beta status or the fact that it’s not native.

          If it’s the latter, it’d be unfortunate since it’s making my switch to Lemmy so much smoother as I feel like I’m using Apollo, which I’m very used to.

          • cowleggies@reddthat.comEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            It’s probably a bit of both - wefwef has been around for literally just days at this point I believe, so I have high hopes it will continue to improve.

            Beyond that, there are a lot of people who feel Apollo is/was the best user experience for Reddit, and there will be a LOT of devs trying to emulate that - one way or another, we’re going to get a high-quality Apollo replacement eventually.

            • EliasChao@lemmy.oneEnglish
              3·
              2 years ago

              Thats’s fair, most, if not all, of these apps has just started development, and it’s pretty impressive what they’ve accomplished so far.

              Right now I feel like when Mastodon started to grow exponentially last year, all of a sudden there were a ton of new pretty good clients. I can see something similar happening here.

              I gotta say tho that although using wefwef is helping me getting used to not open Apollo, I think it would be really great if it grows to become its own thing once the platform matures.

    • FrayDabson@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      I started with Mlem and wasn’t a huge fan and was primarily using Memmy. But I decided to try mlem again as it’s been a while and it looks much better! Might be my new daily driver. I’ll give wefwef a try too.

    • Fredselfish @lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Using it right now. So far it’s nice. But I have like 7 plus the browser. See which becomes my default in time. I am just so used to RIF it’s going take an adjustment.

  • Feweroptions
    14·
    2 years ago

    I started using jerboa cause of a random suggestion, how does everyone feel about it? I noticed it doesnt collect user data and I think it said it encrypts stuff, which I like for privacy

    • Matthew@programming.dev
      7·
      2 years ago

      I’ve only started using it, but I’m liking it alright. That being said, I’m going to use Sync as soon as it’s available.

    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
      71·
      2 years ago

      I had to switch to connect for Lemmy, as jerboa was bugging out and not showing me anything on my feed from outside my local instance.

      Waiting for sync for Lemmy but it’s roughly 6 weeks away from release according to developer.

      • imperator
        1·
        2 years ago

        Same, I do wish connect had quick buttons to move between connects. You can collapse a comment section by holding down the parent comment, but I haven’t found a way to navigate quickly.

    • Mark@lemmy.ca
      4·
      2 years ago

      I am still getting used to it coming from RIF but it’s growing on me.

    • BurtsBS@reddthat.com
      4·
      2 years ago

      After being here for 5 minutes. After not knowing how to login 6 minutes ago.

      I’ve already forgot reddit exists.

    • dingus@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Jerboa was one of the first legit apps out there for Android. But then it killed itself and became a horribly buggy, crashing mess. It doesn’t seem to crash as much anymore, but scrolling is very laggy and glitchy still for me. Wouldn’t recommend it at the moment, sadly, but I appreciate it as a pioneer.

    • MrQuantumOFF@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’m using liftoff and I like it more, because it remembers that I only want posts from the communities that I’m subscribed to.

      • wander1236
        2·
        2 years ago

        This is a setting in most of the clients, including Jerboa

    • kilkil2
      1·
      2 years ago

      I would’ve liked to try it, but it crashes on app launch :/ using Connect For Lemmy instead

    • thumbman@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’ve really enjoyed Jerbora! It does crash some, but it felt very natural to me and curating a good sub page has made me really love scrolling.

    • therealmdubbs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’m using it. I like it better than connect which is the only other one on the play store right now. There are more but you have to install them off github. I’ll just wait till they make it to play store to try those out.

    • Invader753@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 years ago

      I couldn’t login two weeks and had to do it on thed web page. I can’t download images in comment sections :(

    • 🍹Early to RISA 🧉
      1·
      2 years ago

      It’s good. I like the feel of it.

      The one annoying bug right now is that post sorting gets stuck to your account’s default settings, but that’s not too bad.

    • Aardonyx@lemmy.one
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’m using it. I came from Relay. I like Jerboa because it has two features I really liked in Relay, colour-coded threads for readability, and swiping to get back from a comment section to the main feed. I’m not too fussy other than that (dark mode and small font also appreciated though). It works well for me in general, I can switch between my accounts easily which I like, though there was a bit where my instances weren’t up-to-date enough for the app and notifications have been a bit on/off, but that’s teething problems. It also sometimes forgets my preference for defaulting to all > today, it puts it back on active.

  • brb@lemmy.ml
    10·
    2 years ago

    Memmy has seriously improved over the past two weeks, it’s development has been extremely fast and I’m very impressed with my limited casual use so far.

  • ThePaSch@feddit.de
    10·
    2 years ago

    Any prior RIF users with some advice for which app to switch to for Lemmy that’s the most similar?

    • Rossel
      5·
      2 years ago

      The developer of Sync is porting it to Lemmy. The initial release should happen in the next 6 weeks.

      • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 years ago

        The only thing I’d change about Connect is the visability of comment interaction buttons but other than that with a few tweaks to font sizes and stuff it’s a fairly similar experience to RIF.

      • Sushii
        3·
        2 years ago

        I’m using it and it is the closest thing to apollo on my phone. just added to home screen!

      • Onyxonblack @lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        Tried a few of these apps so far. Connect is really nice! It seems really snappy, and got it mostly working just like how I’d had RIF setup before.

  • Falcon Hoof@lemmy.ml
    9·
    2 years ago

    I just changed the connect for lemmy icon to the Rif icon because it just felt weird without it lol

  • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml
    8·
    2 years ago

    Apollo is more like the wife who was murdered by Reddit, now watching you from heaven, hoping that you find a new social media platform to make you happy.

  • june@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 years ago

    It’s wild seeing the difference in number of votes and comments today compared to the last week or so since I signed up.

    • june@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 years ago

      Wefwef is a web app that is a near carbon copy of Apollo. It’s how I’m browsing and it’s great. Much better than the web interface.

      • fuckstick@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        I’ve got that bookmarked and it is great, but I’ve been using Memmy for now. It does the slide for up/down votes (or whatever they’re called here) but a slightly different UI

      • Mac@lemmy.world
        0·
        2 years ago

        I have 6 downloaded so I can try them all. Lmao

        Jerboa
        Connect
        Liftoff
        Lemmur
        Thunder
        Wefwef

        • dingus@lemmy.world
          0·
          2 years ago

          Which Reddit client are you coming from? Which Lemmy app are you enjoying the most right now? I’m an Android user coming from RIF. So far I have the most experience with Wefwef and Jerboa, and Wefwef is winning by leaps and bounds. I haven’t tried too much of the rest, but I’m curious of your opinion on them if you’ve tried them all!

          • Mac@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 years ago

            I’m from RIF. I still haven’t tried the other ones because I’ve been doing other stuff. Lol

              • Mac@lemmy.world
                0·
                1 year ago

                Connect was my favorite until i realized its absolutely riddled with trackers. RIP. Currently trying Wefwef but ill probably come back to Jerboa.

                Excited to try Boost when it releases.

                • dingus@lemmy.world
                  0·
                  1 year ago

                  I saw some post about the trackers but I didn’t really understand what that meant. Can you explain?

  • BornVolcano@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    Image Transcription: Meme

    [‘Distracted Boyfriend’ - A stock photo image of a man walking side by side with a woman in a blue shirt, holding hands, as a different woman in a red shirt walks past. The man appears to be whistling at the woman walking past, showing clear interest in her looks, while the woman he is walking with looks at him. The face of the woman next to him is replaced by the app icon for the app “Apollo for Reddit”, while the woman he is looking at has her face replaced by the app icon for “Memmy for Lemmy”]

    ^I’m a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

  • dancenumber@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    I just need to figure out how to add more “subreddits” or whatever they are called and how to switch between them but other than that this app feels great so far. Fuck Spez. Currently using Memmy