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.
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
Might have the same situation as me. I created an account there that got nuked (probably thought to have been a bot). They store a JWT for authentication; clearing your cookies fixes the problem.
If you are a fellow reddit refugee, the Sync for Lemmy is coming soon.
These are the apps I’m using rn. So far i like thunder and summit.
out of all those you are testing which one would you say has the closest UI to reddit is fun?
I’ve only tried Jerboa and Thunder, but Thunder’s compact layout is actually like RiF. It’s more like Sync than RiF though. Honestly impressed by how good it is. I tried cloning and tweaking Jerboa’s UI to my liking but Thunder just werks for now.
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.
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.
If you swipe slightly right it’ll upvote, and a swipe further right will downvote; if you do it slowly you can see the animation and color to the left of the post changes. Right now the way it’s coded there’s some lag between your swipe and the vote count changing, which the dev said he hopes to address soon!
There was also some talk of toggleable voting arrows as an alternative to swiping, but I don’t know the timeline on that right now :)
Liftoff has been my favorite so far!
So I am using lift off but how do you upvote posts from other instances ? It says unable to upvote coz youre not signed into lemmy.ml. Is there a way to upvote post from other instances?
I am pretty sure that you can upvote most of the stuff on instances you don’t have an account for. However some instances require you to apply for an account rather than just singing up (eg Beehaw was like that for me). An admin has to manually click a button for you to become a member. In those cases you can not just upvote or comment on one of those instances without an account. I think it’s to prevent a flood of bots on some of the instances. Not entirely sure if I got it right, though!
Would be nice to upvote and comment on post from other instance.
The developer of Sync for reddit is creating a lemmy app. Can’t wait to try it, as Sync was my favorite reddit app.
I really recommend you to try them out and see for youself. Each of them has their own power. Especially now that there’s a flow of interest this way, a lot of them have gone nuclear and pushing new versions by the hour (not kidding).
Yeah, Jerboa is good and battle tested but Liftoff is good, Thunder is good, each in their own unique way. I love that.
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.
Is it libre software?
I’m not sure what “libre software” is but if you are asking if it is free then yes, at the moment the app is 100% free with no ads. If you asking if it’s open source then no, it is not open source.
Libre software is used as a synonim for free (as in freedom) software, which is open source software with some nuances. Do you plan to open source it?
Unfortunately I am not planning on open sourcing the app. Summit is a fun side project for me. I think open sourcing the project would no longer make it a fun side project so I am keeping it closed source for my own selfish enjoyment.
Wouldn’t it be more fun if multiple people help you out and it may still be maintained if you stop working on it?
Darn, I didn’t want to debate this on a Monday morning. I’ll give a tl;dr about my thoughts to avoid a debate:
First of all I 100% support open source software (I even donate monthly to some projects), but I also think every developer should have the right to choose to open source or close source their own software.
Second, I write code full time as my job 8 hours a day for the past decade. Summit is a fun hobby for me. If I made Summit open source, it would end up more in the job territory. Why would I want to make a fun project into a job?
If you love debating and want to discuss further feel free to slide into my DMs.
I mostly use open-source software for the last few years but I would still support closed-source software if it’s by an individual developer.
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”…
I just came from Reddit to ckeck lemmy out, looks quite promising. I am tring out different apps at the moment but summit looks and feels fast and responsive.
Do you by any cance release it on the F-droid appstore?
Unfortunately I cannot release this on Fdroid because the app is not open source :(
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Do you have it on fdroid ?
Unfortunately the app is not open source. :(
Ah that’s sad. Won’t be using anything thats not open source when it comes to installing it on my device.
I am using Summit and I am thrilled about the update to allow us to comment. that was all I was missing. I am a happy user!
Wow very nice
I’m replying on Connect for Lemmy. I just looked at your app and it’s super dope but I’ve got to say the one thing that throws me off is the button for the link is on the far side from my finger. I also like swiping to reply and vote and nonsense like that and your app doesn’t have it.
Take your time however and implement things well and I’ll keep it in mind. My favorite app for Reddit was Relay I think I will be looking for an app until I get something similar or exactly the same.
List mode ftw
Thank you for your feedback! Regarding “button for the link” could you clarify what this is? Are you talking about the link to the community the post was from?
Sorry, I didn’t see this reply until now. I mean the button for whatever the post is linking to. Pictures, other communities, or external links. I’m right handed and the button is on the left. This makes it a big reach for my thumb to reach across my screen and I’m less likely to click on things or use your app because of it. I know it’s a small complaint but it’s all about feel, especially when it comes to apps, that’s why reddit had so many!
I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is my last update included a lot of new customizations including changing the direction of the content. See this demo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8mIVZflUHhU.
The bad news is I submitted this update ~1.5 days ago to Google Play. The app is still in review. I have no idea what is going on since usually updates are reviewed within 1-4 hours. I hope the update will be available soon. You can take a look at my community at https://lemmy.world/c/summit to see updates about this.
I found Summit about 2 hours ago and love it! Thanks for your hard work.
Np! I’m glad you like it!
Ok… this one is my favorite now, thank you!
Great App! Props to you! = )
Thanks!
Tried it. Looks like it has a lot of promise, but I couldn’t view any comments on posts. I realize it’s early release but that makes it pretty unusable for now.
Thank you for reporting this issue. I have never encountered this myself. I know this is a lot of work but if you have some free time and you are willing to help I would love to try to troubleshoot the issue with you. If you’re open to it send me a DM on Lemmy, or create a post about this on https://lemmy.world/c/summit.
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.
Jerboa was doing fine for me until Jerboa got updated beyond the Lemmy instances I’ve been browsing (which aren’t updating because the new Lemmy release removes the captcha, which then prevents new sign ups). Now Jerboa says the biggest Lemmy instance is below the minimum version Jerboa supports, and refuses to open the instance. Helluva bump in the road…
Yeah, that’s a lemmy.world problem, however i get your meaning. I figure that are going to be growing pains over the next few months. This is one of em!
I’m using Lemmy.world with Jerboa right now… Is it not working for others?
Edit: Looks like I’m not running the latest version. Since it breaks my instance I turned off auto update for now, gonna move to Sync when it releases anyway.
I downgraded for this reason.
For me, the web client keeps re-rendering itself for apparently no reason. It’s a very janky experience.
Yeah me too, the browser works just fine for me.
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
Unreal! This is just like Infinity for Reddit. Thank you so much
Any chance someone could ELI2 how to install this (on Android)? I’ve only installed stuff from the Play Store before.
Open this link via your mobile browser: https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff/releases
Scroll down till you see assets and a list of links. You’ll want one of the Android apks, but tbh I’m not sure which, as it depends on your device. In my case (and maybe yours), it was the first link, e.g. liftoff-v0.9.13-arm64v8a-android.apk.
After downloading it should prompt you to open the download, and on doing so it will probably ask for permission to install unknown apps or apps from non-Play Store sources (such as your browser). Give it the okay and it should begin installing.
If you’re a little concerned about leaving that permission open, go into settings and search, “Install unknown apps” and scroll down to your browser (which should show itself as set to allow or the like after doing this), tap that and it will display another screen where you can disallow installing apps from it.
P.S for anyone reading this, it’s now on the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.liftoffapp.liftoff
Thanks. Was using the mobile browser on my phone and this I much better
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Wasn’t able to log into lemmy.world instance because of a server version mismatch or something. But connect for Lemmy worked fine.
I think there was an update or something that caused problems for Lemmy.world
I just downloaded the app and signed in via Lemmy.ml, and so far I have no complaints! This is great.
Doesn’t work with lemmy.world yet as the version is too low.
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Jerboa has been working great for me on my Samsung Galaxy. A few minor bugs but overall gives me that RIF feel, and works great on my shitty rural internet connection. I did have to make an account through my browser and then log into Jerboa, but that wasn’t too bad.
Currently I use ‘Jerboa for Lemmy’ It has yet to fail me but that is the usual default app. If anyone has any information of a better app I am willing to try another :3
Unfortunately it is currently broken with lemmy.world. For those of us that are already signed in it seems to work ok, but new users will need to use something else at the moment. Connect for Lemmy is a good alternative on Android.
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Ah that I did not know bout, it did take me a while to get it working with the app, alot of stubbornness to work with world. Jerboa overall does have its moments of lag and would like to replace :c Will check out connect if it does not lag as much as Jerboa. Always good to have sources of other apps then one and only app.
Connect looks pretty slick, but I’m actually pretty happy with Jerboa and will probably stick with it. I was helping someone get setup on Lemmy last night though and ran into the server error for the first time. I ended up setting her up with Connect and was impressed with how polished it looks, but honestly the simple layout and interface of Jerboa is just fine for me. I definitely agree about the value of having a variety of options, and expect there will be more to come soon!
I just signed up with another instance. Is there a particular reason everyone wants to use lemmy.world? I went with sh.itjust.works… will I run into any issues?
I haven’t heard of any incompatibility issues with shitjustworks specifically, but I really don’t know. I chose Lemmy.world to be on the fastest growing server with the most activity, but really if it’s a federated server it shouldn’t matter too much.
I initially chose it because (I think) it didn’t require me to wait to get approved. Or I just forgot about that again. Another reason was because of the post lemmy.ml asking people to join elsewhere because there were so many new people it got difficult for their server to handle and lemmy.world was the next I saw.
I did make multiple accounts (on different instances) though to have a sort of backup just in case something happens, as unlikely as that may seem.
There is also a fork: https://lemmy.ml/post/1498929
I use LemmyWorld and it started working for me again with a notification to ask your instance admin to update from 17 to 18.
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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
+1 for liftoff. Much faster and polished than jerboa
Jerboa if you’re on Android but it has a login issue that makes it unable to connect to instances that are still running the 0.17.4 version of the backend (and among them is lemmy.world). You’d have to wait for those instances to update to the 0.18.1 when it comes out before you can use Jerboa reliably.
Meanwhile, you can just open the web UI in your mobile browser and it will work just fine.
You can also use the previous version of Jerboa.
this is a great answer actually, the 0.0.34 is still very good
I had to uninstall 0.35 before it would let me install 0.34, but otherwise that is an excellent solution.
The Connect for Lemmy Android app works pretty well too.
Got a link? Not seeing it in F-Driod nor the (ugh) Play Store.
- Edit Nvm. It was right under an ad, I’m so hardwired to just ignore ads.
Sorry, no F-Droid link, but here’s the Play store link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect
Doesn’t work at all for me on a Fold 4. Crashes as soon as I attempt to open the app
I’m sorry to hear that. I don’t know what to recommend for a Fold. I use Pixel phones and have been fortunate with compatibility with Jerboa and Connect, but it’s hit and miss. I’ve seen a lot of other users complain about issues with Jerboa even before the server version issue, but it’s been working great for me.
I’m on a Fold 4 using Jerboa and it’s pretty decent.
Although I’m all in on Sync as soon as it’s available.
I’ve found Connect for Lemmy to be a great successor to Reddit is Fun
I found it a good Joey successor lol
I’m digging it from a long time rif user.
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?
Both Slide and Sync for reddit are discontinued, however, both are now being developed for lemmy.
I meant Slide!
Where can I find Lemmynade?
It seems to be called Liftoff now.
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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.
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.
