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    1 year ago

    Memmy seems like a solid choice, very active development. It has been offered to Apple review last week and should appear in the appstore soon.

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    1 year ago

    Not a native app, but i’m using the wefwef web app, and it’s pretty awesome and getting multiple updates a day.

    It’s a web based clone of Apollo

    https://wefwef.app/

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      1 year ago

      Wefwef looks nice and I really want to like it but I keep tapping the back button and getting sent all the way back to my communities list, and therefore losing my spot in the scroll. It’s getting old really fast.

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        1 year ago

        Me too - it has weird quirks that at this stage may be turning potential users away.

        To be fair though, it’s something that’s been put together very quickly. I think it’s had 2 updates even just in the last 24hrs, to resolve some of these teething problems (and accidentally introducing more). I’m happy to stick with it and be patient; it’s still in beta and would be unreasonable to expect a fully functional product at this point.

        Some frustrations will also be coming from the decentralised nature of Lemmy. I’ve noticed issues with using my lemmy.world account or looking for content on lemmy.world from a different instance, and this isn’t really a fault of wefwef or anyone to be honest (as .world is really struggling with excess load atm). It’s early days, it’s going to be rough, we just need to be patient and mindful.

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        1 year ago

        It’s a PWA which means you can install it on any phone

    • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Wefwef is now Voyager and has native apps for iOS and android as well as web app (WEP) and yes it’s still the best option imo

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            1 year ago

            Yeah the biggest problem with web is a general lack predictability with the platform. Different screen sizes, browsers, versions, etc etc. Hard to build for all of those without some concessions but I like the progressive web app approach with wefwef (which I just ‘installed’ and this is rad!)

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      1 year ago

      I like using liftoff, especially the everything feed since I have multiple lemmy accounts

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      1 year ago

      I’m another Liftoff user!

      I’ve also tried Jerboa, Connect for Lemmy and wefwef, but lately I’m using Liftoff a lot.

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      1 year ago

      Is there a way to search for other communities in other instances without having to add those instances on Liftoff? For example, I’m on sh.itjust.works and want to search for /c/Canada on lemmy.ca. The only way to do that is to first add lemmy.ca and then I can search.

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      1 year ago

      Is there a way to copy the posted link to an article straight from the feed in Liftoff? When I hit “copy link” it copies the link to the post on lemmy. I do not want this.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been using Sync for a couple of hours and already uninstalled Liftoff and Connect hahaha. Don’t get me wrong they’re both great, but Sync is that much better

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      1 year ago

      It’s unbelievably polished for a first release. Not 100% feature complete mind you, but it’s mind blowing the dev pull this off.

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      1 year ago

      I’m so happy it’s here, made the transition so easy with the effort they made to make the experience so similar to browsing reddit.

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      1 year ago

      Sync and Boost are indeed outstanding, just like they were on Reddit. My two favourites, no doubt about it

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      1 year ago

      I left Reddit when they killed RIF. In Lemmy, I wanted something similar and tried Jerboa and Connect. Those apps didn’t really feel like RIF no matter how much I customized it. Sync really is the definitive replacement for the RIF experience. I gotten my version to look and feel like it exactly.

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      1 year ago

      Sync is the reason I’m here, and the reason why my Reddit account is practically dead. For me, Sync was Reddit, and without it I have no reason to stay.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve got it installed as a PWA (Firefox Android). It’s great but is there any way to get it to open links in my proper browser rather than the web view type thing?

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      1 year ago

      Just installed it. It looks like Apple’s UI, which gives it a kind of uncanny valley on my Android phone. Will use alongside Liftoff until I like one better, thanks for mentioning it!

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        1 year ago

        Update: I won’t be staying on Wefwef because it keeps causing Firefox Nightly to crash and not saving my spot when I switch apps, and I’m not willing to get the Firefox stable release again because the way it reloads pages every time you switch apps drives me mad.

        Also, it seems to cache images so that you can open them immediately upon tapping, rather than having to wait for the image to load after your explicit tap for it to do so. I really liked this at first, but it comes at the cost of taking around eight full seconds to load everything, as compared to one or two seconds with Liftoff and Connect.

        I do wish Liftoff and Connect had the compact view with image/link previews that Jerboa and Wefwef have, though.

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          I installed wefwef via chrome (wich i don’t use, but it’s preinstalled on my Phone) and this way it works fine, very fine.

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            1 year ago

            After listening to you, I now use wefwef (on Chrome) almost exclusively because of the compact home view. There are no issues with slow initial loading time or glitching out upon switching apps. Thanks!!

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          After having used it for a few hours, I like Wefwef’s Apple design, or at least I like it better than Material You. Material makes me so uncomfortable with its wide spacing and white rounded content tiles. I could get used to this dark mode Apple design style, though it feels strange at first.

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        I don’t mind it, it feels pretty clean. Probably helps that I haven’t touched an iPhone since 2015 or so, so I’m not terribly familiar with Apple’s design language anyway.

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          1 year ago

          It does feel clean. I don’t mind it either now, it just was weird at first because it felt like I was on a friend’s phone.

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      1 year ago

      I also like wefwef the most, so far. But is there a way to hide the posts that i have watched, so that i don’t see 90% of the same content everytime i open lemmy?

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      1 year ago

      Where are you guys installing this from? Obtanium says it can’t find a suitable release. And it’s not on Play Store or F-Droid.

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          Thanks, I did that using Chrome. Is there a way to auto update it? I do like how smooth it scrolls! Even compared to Jerboa.

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            1 year ago

            It shows you a banner when an update is available and you can tap a button to install it. Not sure if there’s a more automated way.

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    1 year ago

    for Android I think Connect for Lemmy is the best around. also, it gets literally better day to day since the dev is following the app’s community and fixes bugs, implements things from there super rapidly.

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      1 year ago

      By far the best interface on android so far. Looking forward to Sync for Lemmy and Boost for Lemmy as well.

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      1 year ago

      Using it right now. Very nice interface, especially comment field

      I love the formatting tools

      that are placed at the bottom

      And enable easy text fancification

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      I agree. So far it’s the best one I’ve used on Android. It has things like settings for font sizes.

      UPDATE: I find myself using Liftoff more now. I couldn’t exactly tell you why. The only things it’s missing is an option to make the comment font larger.

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      I can’t say much because it’s the only app I tried so far and I joined Lemmy 30 min ago.

      But I like it pretty much. Small cards (inversed lists), high refresh rate option (disable by default I suppose to save battery when scrolling), etc.

      Maybe I’d change the expand/collapse from hold to single tap. (It’s something I’m starting to like to do). oh this option is already there. Some reverse option for the comments. Awesome.

      But the app can’t be faster. Running it on a Pixel 5.

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          Ah I see. I don’t have access to that store. And connect is not on f-droid store because ot’s closed source. I wonder why using a closed source lemmy app if we have open ones.

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              It is becoming each day more critical to choose open source over closed source. It’s a matter of security, privacy and concentration of power

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    For me personally, Jerboa is the best Android Lemmy app that I’ve tried, and I have tried several of them. I’ll just be glad when Sync for Lemmy is released.

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      I have tried Jerboa, and have just tried liftoff. I prefer the UI of Jerboa and it’s in fdroid also!

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      Tried Sync, Liftoff, Connect and Lemmotif (I think that’s all the free ones on the playstore as of August '23), and I am always preferring Jerboa.

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      1 year ago

      Is it just me or is there no mod tools or chat messages in connect?

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      So I just got here to Lemmy, and only briefly have checked out some of the apps, but Connect is my favorite so far. It looks good and let’s me hide posts.

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      Why is my text white in a white comment box? I can’t see all my typos until I post.

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      I love eternity! Although it’s probably because I was so used to infinity beforehand.

      I tried jerboa and liftoff as well and they were fine, but eternity just has that familiar feel

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    for me liftoff is the least buggy and runs smoother than thunder or jerboa

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        There is a search on bottom. Search a name then switch to community tab. Or just select it from posts.

        Only thing, it cant search more than one instance at once (I think). Otherwise best app imo

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    It was previously my least favorite android option, but Jerboa is coming together nicely.

    I also have Thunder and liftoff installed. I bounce between all 3.

    I’ll most likely be jumping to Boost if/when that comes out because I’m just so used to it.

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      Also really liking liftoff. Tried a bunch of others and it honestly just works so much better than the others. Waiting for boost for lemmy though.

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      I also ended up using liftoff for now, but only today I realised that it apparently does not do notifications??

      Please tell me I am wrong.

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        They plan on adding notifications in the near future, in case you were still curious