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
They all look cool, hopefully they add support for kbin in the future.
Aurora Store is working for you? I always get the
Oops, This Account is rate limitedno matter how much new sessions I request. The main screen seems to be loading though so idk.You can try to clear the cache, then it works sometimes.
You now have to log in with a Google user for it to work
That’s sad, because the anonimity was the reason I was using it. Well, it was expectable with Google being Google.
There is also the workaround to search an app in your browser and then open the link to the Google store page witg Aurora. No need to login with Google (at least that’s how it is working for me right now)
Just trying it right now, great app
Upvoting this post from Connect for Lemmy. Actually I think I still prefer Jerboa. Unfortunately it has stopped working since I updated my instance to 0.18 so this will have to do for now.
Yeah I prefer the look and feel of Jerboa. It’s working fine for me now but I have experienced some glitches in the past.
Exactly the same error I received as well, which led me to find Connect
Connect is pretty good. Stil missing some important features, like block, and the instance name is missing from usernames and communities, which is a pretty major oversight, but other than that it’s solid and being developped surprisingly fast.
If I am logged into Lemmy.ml, can I reply in other instances’ posts like in any one of beehaw’s?
Looks like you can.
Thanks for confirming. I am new here and thought others can’t see my comments haha.
It’s awesome. I can tell I’ll be anxious for each release to watch it mature.
Just downloaded it, exactly what I needed. Thanks!
I tried it and didn’t think it was much different from any other Lemmy app right now. Seems like they are only trying to differentiate with visuals at the moment.
Some things I would like to see in future apps and versions of existing apps.
- Integration of the Lemmy community browser or something similar. Basic search takes too long and you need to know what your looking for
- Ability to view top communities posts from the community browser in a separate view alongside “local” and “All” and “subscribed” and could even stand in as a user’s subscribed view before they have customized it to their own liking
- Ability to “force pull” comments and posts from a particular remote community. Or at least compare the number of comments a post has locally to the number it has on its remote instance and present some kind of indicator if they differ.
These are all great suggestions. Is there an official place different app developers could look for these types of feature requests? That would be nice.
I feel like they should be looking here if they want to make an app that the community will appreciate.they should spend some time talking to people in the technology subs and maybe even do some polls.
Connect dev here! I’m watching this thread! 👀
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.
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
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.
Same here, installed what was available in F-Droid.
Will check again in a few months, as I assume different flavors will be created.
We are trying to keep an updated list of apps over on the Android community.
Much better! Feels more similar to the old app I was using for reddit.
Love the icon, super cute :)
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.
Wow. This app is really nice at first glance. I like the gesture to swipe left on a comment to upvote. Reminds me of Sync for Reddit!
