• followthewhiterabbit@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    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

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        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!

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        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.

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      All the apps except connect are open source. I’ve tried jeroba, thunder and liftoff so far and liftoff has been the most robust.

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          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.

    • keardap@lemmy.selfhost.quest
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      Same here, installed what was available in F-Droid.

      Will check again in a few months, as I assume different flavors will be created.