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
Which of these apps allows me to hide posts? At this point that is the only feature I care about.
I have not looked at that feature yet.
Here is a nice chart comparing Lemmy apps https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/73564
https://wefwef.app is the most polished one I have seen.
Looks cool but if it’s not on F-Droid I ain’t using it.
Thanks for linking these interesting projects.
Is your phone 100% un-Googled?
A man/woman of principles
I accidentally posted this twice. https://beehaw.org/post/777706
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
Thanks for the recommendation of Liftoff! I really didn’t like Jerboa but liftoff seems like a nice app.
The lack of picture downloading got me fucked up lol. I’m interested to see jerbora development and liftoff. Will almost certainly jump ship to sync if its anywhere near the quality of the reddit version
Yeah, just discovered that, woof.
That is a very good point. I just found it by accident a few minutes ago and didn’t even realize that.
Jerboa has been crashing on me lately so I’ve been using Connect while it gets fixed. No complaints so far.
Have you tried thunder? Super slick UI, if minimalism is your thing, but also WIP.
Very nice, it has the swipe like funcion.
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.
Releases are available on their Github page.
Oh wow I haven’t heard of this! Just downloaded it.
Looks super nice, but won’t let me log in to my instance.
Darn. I had to give it a second try but its working now for me.
Thunder is hot! It is making me want to actually try developing in Flutter, which seems to be the “new hotness.”
Oh wow, this one’s awesome. Thanks!
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.
Good… Good… Let the app wars begin.
Interesting, I’m waiting for Sync for Lemmy, is this one open source?
I’m glad to see apps being made for Lemmy, but being open source for me is a must.
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
Where is this post? I tried connect and it works fine, the guy made it in a week, it’s impressive
Here is the post: https://beehaw.org/comment/449643
I cannot verify if that comment is true or not, or how they found out the information.
I tried to reply and ask, but for some reason my comment will not post! I have tried using the website and several Lemmy apps.
If I had to take a guess: he’s opening posts that use the internal browser, and sites he’s browsing are the ones i initiating those connections. The app opening the webview doesn’t have much in the way to prevent that.
Don’t open external links if you don’t know what that entails.
That comment seems to be an attempt at disinformation. I have not detected any of those trackers. You should also run your own checks just to be sure.
Same for me, strange
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Thanks. I wonder where that other commenter got their info.
Connect dev here, we use 0 trackers of any kind beyond what the Play store tracks by default.
If I had to take a guess: he’s opening posts that use the internal browser, and sites he’s browsing are the ones i initiating those connections. The app opening the webview doesn’t have much in the way to prevent that.
Don’t open external links if you don’t know what that entails.
I think this is the answer.
That screenshot is from the DuckDuckGo app when set up to blocking trackers, that means that while it was running it tried to connect to known tracker addresses and the DDG app stopped it and logged the attempts.
We would need somebody else that uses DDG as blocker too to install this app and run it for a bit and see if they can replicate this result
I think Connect looks nicer so I’ve been using it - very excited for Sync for Lemmy though
It’s awesome. I can tell I’ll be anxious for each release to watch it mature.
I am missing the comment collapse option on all apps except gerboa. Hope they fix it.
on Jerboa it was long press but they fixed it in recent releases. now just press once on the comment and it collapses. i was missing that but now the UX is great
Liftoff has it. Press and hold
It’s there with a long press. I missed it too at first.
Thank you so much!! This has been driving me crazy. idk why “long press” just never occurs to me as an option!
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 !community@instance.tld formatting.
Check out liftoff too
I saw the announcement for that one, but I figured I’d leave off testing more for a little bit they mostly seem to be behind jerboa. Does liftoff support subscribing from instances your instance hasn’t seen before already?
It has been the most polished experience so far for me, probably because they had the lemmur code base to begin with. As for adding communities, I’m not sure. The community search works like in Jerboa but I haven’t tried it with new communities not indexed yet.
Just tried it out, but couldn’t login since they don’t have 2FA support yet. I don’t think any of them really do yet, but if you logged in before setting it up the current apps still work. They got a PR for it so I guess I’ll wait till that merges to try it out.
I’ve been using Connect for the last few days and so far really enjoy it. it’s still missing a few features but I really like the UI.
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
Jerboa is absolutely not laggy on my side. Find it super responsive and lightweight instead. it’s only 2MB
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.
true, i do have that same hitch that you describe when it’s fetching more posts. but that’s not too big of an issue for me either. i guess adding a bit of pre-fetching would solve it.
Probably depends on your connection and how fast your instance is
Hmm, I don’t know then. The scrolling is anything but smooth for me.
dark theme could be darker
Try the “Amoled” theme in the settings (remember to click save at the bottom of the page, I initially missed that). It’s a much darker theme on my phone.
Ah! That’s perfect, thanks!
The rate these are coming out are astounding.
Absolutely. I’ve since found another one I like even more: https://wefwef.app
That’s an interesting one, appears to be a PWA.
They all look cool, hopefully they add support for kbin in the future.
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
Same here, installed what was available in F-Droid.
Will check again in a few months, as I assume different flavors will be created.
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.
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!
The UI of this app honestly makes be feel a bit braindead at times, the process of finding the drop down necessary to even log in made be feel like I unlocked an easter egg in a point and click adventure game. It could use some more thought considering the backend of it is otherwise very well put together.
haha upvoting because your rant made me laugh
All the apps except connect are open source. I’ve tried jeroba, thunder and liftoff so far and liftoff has been the most robust.
Liftoff is great, has a lot of potential too. Devs in their Matrix room are cool.
Yeah. I love the fact that it can aggregate feeds from multiple accounts. It is also the client that has been giving the least amount of timeouts for me.
