Sync for Lemmy (android)
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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I've been using Sync for a couple of hours and already uninstalled Liftoff and Connect hahaha. Don't get me wrong they're both great, but Sync is that much better
Same, already paid for year's subscription too. I used Sync for reddit and trust the developer to make a quality app.
Same
Sync and Boost are indeed outstanding, just like they were on Reddit. My two favourites, no doubt about it
Loves me some Boost. Boost is the moost.
Not a native app, but iβm using the wefwef web app, and itβs pretty awesome and getting multiple updates a day.
Itβs a web based clone of Apollo
Wefwef looks nice and I really want to like it but I keep tapping the back button and getting sent all the way back to my communities list, and therefore losing my spot in the scroll. It's getting old really fast.
Little update for anyone stumbling across this: itβs now called Voyager (https://vger.app) and is also available as a native app (web wrapper, but still):
- iOS: App Store Link
- Android: Google Play Store
Jerboa seems great to me
Android: Eternity (A Lemmy client for Android, forked from the Infinity for Reddit project.) https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.toldi.infinityforlemmy/
Idk, i use Eternity (Infinity Fork).
I love eternity! Although it's probably because I was so used to infinity beforehand.
I tried jerboa and liftoff as well and they were fine, but eternity just has that familiar feel
Could we get a new pinned comment for this. Some of this is our of date now and it would be nice to discuss.
Apps, interfaces, browser extensions, scripts
We could - but we're still getting comments here. Why not continue to use this thread and sort by new?
Also - this topic doesn't even really belong in Asklemmy per the rules. If anything, I'm more inclined to unpin it and return to dealing with posts as needed.
I agree with unpinning entirely, it's an odd fit
Boost
New Lemmy user here. I have two points of improvement Iβd like to note, but am not sure where the actual βresponsibilityβ lies.
- It would be great to be able to mass-block communities from lists, rather than tiresomely do them one -at-a-time from βAllβ.
It would also be useful to see the list for subscribing, as I donβt know whatβs out there until I see it. Sometimes I canβt think of something to search for until I see it.
Perhaps this lies more with individual apps/ clients rather than the Lemmy ecosystem�
- May I suggest that communities entirely consisting of bots re-posting Reddit links is, uh, unhelpful?
Anyone?
Android user here, I'm quite happy with Connect for Lemmy
The official community is at /c/lemmyconnect
Liftoff, at least It was the best for me at the time when sync came out. I tried everything back then, but I should do it again
https://wefwef.app is amazing. PWA and hence cross-platform.
I've got it installed as a PWA (Firefox Android). It's great but is there any way to get it to open links in my proper browser rather than the web view type thing?
Where are you guys installing this from? Obtanium says it can't find a suitable release. And it's not on Play Store or F-Droid.
I'm equally and technically impressed by both Memmy and Avelon, cosmetically impressed more by Avelon (Memmy is also gorgeous), and emotionally more attached to Memmy since it was the first true native Apollo-like Lemmy adaptation and dev is super on-the-ball. Not that Avelon's is not I just can't speak to it since I haven't felt the need in my admittedly-lesser use of it compared to Memmy.
Both amazing apps and you really can't go wrong with either. I do really like Avelon's forced collapsing of all top-level comments' child comments which makes it easier to navigate the various apects people are commenting on at the top level and work your way down to more specific discssion based on your filtering of which top level comments address that which is of immediate interest to the specific readers' needs or preferred line of inquiry
I like Jerboa for android and Voyager for iOS
'Connect' seems to be quite good.
2 months later and there's still not a satisfying answer. I would have hoped 1 or 2 apps would have risen to the top by now, but it's still just a scattershot of people suggesting like 8-10 different ones. There's no consensus.
I don't want to download an app and get all set up only for development on it to suddenly halt. Then I'd either have to switch again, or be stuck with one that's forever missing features.
Too many new apps popped up in too short of time. Some of them are bound to fail or be abandoned. Some of them are likely to have been hacked together by amateurs and contain gaping security or functionality flaws.
Does anyone have a suggestion with more substance than "I like this app because it's the one I downloaded"?
Android user here. Liftoff is unmatched in terms of its visual presentation.
Are you trying to restart the lemmy app war? We finally just rid ourselves of the constant memes.
They're all good in their own ways, but I'm starting to wonder if lemmy is actually still alive, I see a lot of bot transfered posts from reddit which is cool but of course there's no real interaction with them
I can understand why you'd be concerned about lemmy falling victim to dead internet theory but I can assure you that we are all totally real and definitely not super advanced AI trying to steal your personal data.
Yes I agree, fellow human
Infinity for Reddit was my favourite Reddit client, and now that Infinity has a Lemmy fork I use it exclusively.
Isnt infinity severely bugged RN ?
Not less than Jerboa from my experience, very few crushes... There is a bug that if you refresh a thread twice in a row it crashes, but other than that easily avoidable big it hasn't crashed for me once in either 0.0.6 or 0.0.8.
So far thunder has been the best client
My problem with it is than when leaving the app for a split second it doesn't remember where I was the last time. This is especially frustrating when commenting. Infinity doesn't have this problem. Actually it's the only app that doesn't have this problem (except maybe sync)
Also I've always always used Infinity so I'm pretty used to it although I have no problems adjusting to other apps.
Infinity is now eternity a new version is out !!
Ah. Forgot that even though I use it rn
I have tried Thunder as well, but I just like the GUI of Infinity.