I’m currently using Sync even though it’s closed source because it was still a really well-made app, but it seems to be abandonware now. Jerboa is great and it’s actively developed, but IMO it’s also the ugliest one.

Can you recommend any of the other FOSS ones, especially one that handles our glorious emotes well?

  • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    Eternity.

    It doesn’t make the emojis easy to use but I have a system. I ended up leaving reddit because they weren’t going to let us use Infinity anymore, which I used exclusively for years. So, it was only natural for me to pick up Eternity once they ported it over here. I even have a similar theme. Sometimes I forget I’m on a completely different platform. It feels completely seamless.

    • 21Gramsci [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      I’m also a big fan of Infinity, I actually still use it by building it from source with a custom API token. My issue with Eternity though is that it seems abandoned, the repo hasn’t been updated in over 5 months. I’m trying to move away from Sync precisely because it is abandonware…

      • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        9 days ago

        Hmm. Well, I’m not a techie or anything but I wouldn’t consider it abandoned yet.

        5 months doesn’t seem like too long a time for me. They took a year to release the first update after the initial release so maybe that’s just their timeframe. It still works for me. If they don’t release by 2026 then I’ll probably have to migrate again, which will be disappointing.

        • 21Gramsci [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          2·
          9 days ago

          The problem is seemingly it’s been 5 months since anybody’s touched the code, not just 5 months since the last release. There are issues that have been open for weeks or months without any of the devs even replying to them. It’s not a great look, at least… The core Lemmy project is still in pretty active development, clients need to keep up with that. I know they’re hobby projects and the devs have no obligation to work on it, but I can’t really trust an app that might break for good at the next Lemmy release.

          • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            1·
            9 days ago

            Oh, I see what you’re saying. Yeah, I didn’t know about any of that. I don’t even know where to see that stuff.

            Man, I really hope they keep it going eventually but I’ll just sink with the ship as long as possible, personally. Probably eventually jump to Jerboa to support the native app.