More up to date and more detailed information at: https://beehaw.org/post/683217

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/71764

The amount of apps being developed for iOS / Android is getting really crazy now and new apps keep popping up every day. Updated list below:

  • Artemis (iOS, Android, kbin, lemmy): link
  • Memmy (iOS, lemmy): link
  • Mlem (iOS, lemmy): link
  • Morpha (iOS, lemmy): link
  • Thunder (iOS, Android, lemmy): link
  • Beyond (iOS, Android, lemmy): link
  • Limbo (iOS, Android, lemmy): link
  • Jerboa (Android, lemmy): link
  • Slide (Android, lemmy): link
  • Sync (Android, lemmy): link
  • Unnamed (kbin): link

Most apps on the list are lemmy apps, meaning they don’t work with kbin. Artemis is specifically designed to work with kbin, not sure if or when any of the other ones will go in that direction or become interoperable as there are some challenges with the kbin API at the moment. Having said that, a new API is in the works (https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/357) so things should get better with time. Some of the apps are in very early stage of development so it may happen that they adjust OS availability and platform support.

See info in table format with more details:
https://beehaw.org/post/697419

  • fancygoose@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’m glad that we have so many talented developers interested in kbin/Lemmy! Keep up the great work!

  • chaseEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Wow, how exciting! Thank you for all of the links. I’m looking forward to giving each of them a try.

  • Coeus@coeus.sbsEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’ve tried a couple for Lemmy so far and Jerboa is the one I keep going back to. I’m excited to see new developments on everything though.

    • delmain@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I’ve been using Jerboa but I’ve run into so many things that just don’t work. It’ll randomly crash when trying to open community links, I can’t consistently get back to previous comments that I’ve made (to view replies, etc), and a handful of other things.

      I’m not angry, cuz I understand that this app is relatively new and the platform as a whole is having a lot of growing pains, but I just wanted to say that I have definitely had some issues with this app.

      • Coeus@coeus.sbsEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I’m sorry that you’re having those issues. I haven’t noticed any of those things. I do wish you luck in finding the right app for you.

        • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Searching for some communities on other instances also seems broken on Jerboa. I had to go to the lemmy.zip site and follow a certain one from lemmy.world from there.

  • Kernel@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The superior app experience may end up finally tipping the scale on my perpetual indecision between Lemmy vs Kbin.

  • rwhitisissle@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Hot take: I think lemmy is better as desktop only, as it encourages a greater degree of depth in terms of conversation. Mobile apps are basically just there purely for monetization by the developers, and they encourage users to engage with their communities superficially (upvote, post an emoji, doomscroll, repeat forever).

    • failcookie@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Not wrong. But I like to casually lurk on my phone and either (1) pass the time with non-sense or (2) read up on what’s going on so I can at least stay in the know. I use my desktop more so for actually responding and conversing.

      • rwhitisissle@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I think it’s one of those things where on a micro level, it’s conceptually fine, and a lot of people say that’s how they want to use it. But I’ve seen reddit basically get destroyed from pivoting away from the desktop experience to focus on catering to predominately mobile users. The consequence of this is that you have shorter comments overall in threads, less incentive to reply to people who are actually trying to have real discussions, shorter lifetimes on how long people engage with a particular post, and, at the risk of being ageist, a younger userbase with a natural interest in shortform engagement and more superficially appealing content. Right now on lemmy communities like Beehaw, a solid post can have days worth of discussion in the comment section. On reddit, if you’re commenting after 8 hours, that train’s left the station. Part of that is, of course, a consequence of user volume, but the fact that mobile is the de facto standard tool for accessing the site magnifies all the problems I mentioned to pathological extremes.

  • Drew Belloc@programming.devEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’ve been using Jerboa for a feel days and i liked, but sometimes it crashes when i click a link, i also wanna to build my own qt desktop app on the weekends, if everything goes as planed i may upload to github later. I will also take a look on those other apps later

  • fiah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Excited to use sync with Lemmy, it’s been my main Reddit app for the better part of a decade

    • 𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙚@feddit.winEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Same here, what a polished experience. I’m glad I found Lemmy… otherwise I’d be settling for using the garbage official Reddit app.