I searched up “Lemmy” on the PlayStore and noticed that Reddit appears right before the last lemmy client in that search X3 do u guys know if there r any other lemmy clients worth trying? I randomly felt like trying all I could find and for now I’ll stay on Jerboa and the Web UI but I use Voyager too now, mainly for DMs
Edit: I apparently wasn’t clear enough but I was asking for OTHER clients that aren’t on this list X3 but feel free to share why u use an app in this list if u want anyway :3
I use thunder because I contributed 5 whole lines to its source code 😎
:O Wow u made Thunder into what it is today?! X3
What did you contribute to it?
5 lines
why do people use boost? heard it has ads in it. not to mention it collects and shares data. it baffles me why anyone would use it over something like voyager. (also its a proprietary app for a FOSS project)
I use it, it’s great. No ads since I paid for it. Of course it collects and shares data, by definition as it’s a client to third parties platforms.
many other lemmy clients don’t collect and share data like boost does, bud.
I used to use boost for reddit so I was excited it was coming for Lemmy until I saw all the anti privacy aspects of it.
By the time it and sync finally launched. There were so many great foss apps for Lemmy that it made no sense to use one that tracked me.
The tracking disclaimer is the standard message you get when an app uses Google ads. Pay for it and there are no ads, and by extension no tracking.
Then you don’t understand the fediverse my friend. These “clients” are monetizing something that’s free.
Nah it’s fine for people to make money off of their work, i even support sopuli.xyz continuity
No man I get the point of paid apps. I don’t think it should collect and sell data. That’s the poison pill with this whole deal.
It’s my understanding that Boost don’t serve ads, and doesn’t track data, if you pay for it.
The point is it doesn’t, it serves ads if you don’t pay. It doesn’t sell data, just uses google adsense to serve ads.
The other point where it collects and shares data with third parties is when connecting to third party servers (lemmy). That’s it…
Google adsense collects data.
I think you’re missing the point intentionally
Free software != free of charge.
Nothing about free software says you need to give it away for no cost, nor that anyone can’t do it. You can charge $100 for a simple calculator program that is under the GPL for its code. Nothing is there to prevent you from assembling the code and making it yourself, or from the buyer from copying and sharing the program. It’s just way way easier to show off the program for free as in price and freedom for most programmers.
It’s why the people who made Debian/Slackware/Ubuntu discs could charge money for an otherwise free product. Because the programmers openly allow this.
And programming is itself labor, just a lot of free software devs don’t worry too much about getting paid for it.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
Except for one special situation, the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) has no requirements about how much you can charge for distributing a copy of free software. You can charge nothing, a penny, a dollar, or a billion dollars. It’s up to you, and the marketplace, so don’t complain to us if nobody wants to pay a billion dollars for a copy.
The one exception is in the case where binaries are distributed without the corresponding complete source code. Those who do this are required by the GNU GPL to provide source code on subsequent request. Without a limit on the fee for the source code, they would be able set a fee too large for anyone to pay—such as a billion dollars—and thus pretend to release source code while in truth concealing it. So in this case we have to limit the fee for source in order to ensure the user’s freedom. In ordinary situations, however, there is no such justification for limiting distribution fees, so we do not limit them.
Sometimes companies whose activities cross the line stated in the GNU GPL plead for permission, saying that they “won’t charge money for the GNU software” or such like. That won’t get them anywhere with us. Free software is about freedom, and enforcing the GPL is defending freedom. When we defend users’ freedom, we are not distracted by side issues such as how much of a distribution fee is charged. Freedom is the issue, the whole issue, and the only issue.
by definition as it’s a client to third parties platforms
It doesn’t have to collect data at all. Voyager and many other clients do not.
Oh yeah, the notice on the app store is for the ads, which gets deactivated once you pay for the app. But other than that using a service of a third party means sending information to that service even if not called that by an app store.
I paid for it
the fact you pay for something that is utilizing FOSS software is crazy. its not like they are even hosting their own instance. they’re just profiting off of open source devs.
They’re paying for the use of the Boost app that the developer themselves created though? If they were charging for a Lemmy server I’d understand the point but they’re paying for a client that they don’t have to pay for. If it brings more people over to Lemmy then we all benefit really.
I also paid for Boost because the UI beat out all the other clients that I tried, replacing Connect which was my favourite at the time. It felt the most like Relay that I used to use on Reddit.
It’s the anti privacy/ ads i really have issues with. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with paying a developer.
Boost is the best app I’ve used. I’m not a fan of voyager
What aren’t you a fan of on voyager?
(I’m aware the android UI needs work, it’s on the list.) 🙂
Will I’m on android so perhaps that’s it
Yea that’s kinda silly to me too :\ oh well, I guess those users just find it perfect for them and they dont mind the tracking or paying for it
imagine using propriatary apps with tracking to use the foss decentralised social media ;w; these ppl blackpill me so much
Loving all these “its great after i spent like $25 on it” comments lmfao. Connect is 10/10 no ads
I like it because of the clear read function, if there’re other apps with something similar that’d be neat
Do you remember RIF? And that time reddit forced all the third party apps to change their names by adding “for Reddit” at the end? So RIF changed the name to “RIF is fun for Reddit”, that is “Reddit if Fun is Fun for Reddit”. Good times.
RIF is short for RIF is fun, not Reddit is fun because at a different point in time, Reddit didn’t want other clients to have the word reddit in their name.
RIF is fun is fun for Reddit, then?
Still better than DC comics’ Detective Comics.
Omg I didnt know about the “for Reddit” thing, that’s hilarous X3
At some point there was like twenty of ‘for Reddits’ on Google Play. Before, you know, the dark times.
I was using Eternity for a while, mostly because I used Infinity on Reddit and it’s a fork of that. But it’s still not feature complete and it hasn’t been updated in ages, so I’m on Voyager now.
Im still using eternity untill this day although dev seems very slow progress in git compared to other apps but i can assure this apps rocks
Tbh why i used this apps in first place bc it can open redgif videos inside the apps not redirect it to browser appsOh that sucks :< Was it abandoned or something? It at least didn’t seem broken when I tried it but I didn’t check when it had been updated or anything
It’s mostly working, but there’s some minor stuff that doesn’t work well.
No idea if it’s abandoned, or if it’s just going through a slump, or if I’m just impatient.
Progress is slow but they didn’t abandoned it You can check the repo.
What features are you missing from Eternity? It seems fairly stable and feature complete in my experience.
Minor things, mostly. Like, animated gifs don’t animate in comments, video links don’t always work, etc
50 million downloads? Is lemmy really that popular?
No, it’s 50 000. It says mil, which means thousand in Portuguese (and in Spanish and Italian, if I’m not mistaken?) imo it’s confusing, because Google likes using 50mil when it’s 50 000 and using 50M when it’s 50 000 000.
nono THOUSAND X3 I’m Spanish and it confuses me too all the time LOL X3
was shocked to see boost and sync at 50 million downloads, but mil is just thousand in the language you were using haha
LMAO Srry about that X3 it confuses me too all the time cuz I usually have apps in English unless their main language is Spanish (so, always X3) but a few r in Spanish either cuz they wont let me change the language of just that app or I forgot to check if they do :p
It’s kinda depressing I’m not even in the list…
Well whatever, I still use my app daily
What app is it?? :o That’s why I made this post, to find more lemmy clients, but so far out of the 150+ comments only one has told me of a client I didn’t know of and I can’t install it for some reason LOL X3
Fun fact: Eternity for Reddit was named after it’s update schedule
LMAO so I’ve heard ye X3 Tho jokes aside I’m guessing it was called Eternity cuz the original reddit app may be gone but the community is eternal or something like that?
Boost
Oh wait, I was surprised so many people were mentioning Boost and Sync and then noticed they seem to be the most downloaded by far, duh X3
Tested Raccoon and its basically like Jerboah but worse with too big UI, missing features and bugs.
Jerboah forever! Its the most stable Lemmy client and also full featured.
I dunno, Raccoon seemed cool to me :3 It did feel similar to other apps but in a good way, but it’s super laggy on my phone for some reason, apparently other people here dont have that issue but someone did have a different problem so I guess we all get a different bug at random LOL X3
Thanks, I’ll look into it: does it happen only in some screens (e.g. community detail or comment detail or settings) or in general the whole UI is lagging?
Oh hi Raccoon guy! :3 I think it was certain UI elements that took like a second to load, like if I tap the three lines to open the sidebar where I can log-in and stuff or the little icon at the other side to sort posts or the all/local buttons inside the sidebar, that’s all I could try rn without logging in but I think it also happened when going in and out of DMs
My only problem with Raccoon is that I can’t make post titles large and the comment text normal. Everything is either too big or too small because there’s only like 1 setting for all the text.
I really wish the dude who started Liftoff would give us an update or something. It’s pretty damn perfect but it won’t work with 0.19+ of Lemmy currently and it still has an issue where it repeats posts all the time.
Be nice if RIF became LIF. I liked RIF.
Hi and thanks for trying it out! I have been working on content font sizes (there were some rendering problems I realized) but I’m curious about having different dimensions for different parts of the content (currently there are two options, one for the menus/buttons of the app, the other for posts and comments). What more fine-grained control do you think would be useful?
What more fine-grained control do you think would be useful?
Post titles, body text, comment text, and usernames would be ideal.
Seems legit! Thanks for answering so quickly I can definitely work on it! let’s see if in future releases it improves. ty! 🙏
Done here, this week’s development release will contain the new feature! Thanks again for the report.
That dev is now doing Three Cheers for Tildes
You mean the RIF developer, right? If Tildes wasn’t invite-only, I might have been on there instead of Lemmy.
Yes RIF. Tildes and 3 cheers is still pretty nascent.
What features are missing that you would like to see? Apart from the text size, what are the other bugs you found? I just ask you to take a couple of minutes to answer, I think the project is very poorly maintained but no one’s voice has ever been ignored.
Lots of dialogs where a bit messed up, for example the answer or the report one. Not sure. It was mainly that text boxes appeared on wrong places, too low or high and the rest was black.
Not sure tbh, cannot give a good report sorry.
Missing:
- view absolute ratings like jerboah (not only the final score, like 100+ 200- instead of just 100-)
Ok the drop downs I see. thanks! As for the vote format, you can choose the “separate” option to split positive and negative votes:
Cool!
I use Eternity because Jerboa’s scrolling was fucked up for me for months.
Tried Eternity, was a blessing for Reddit but I dont think I need it for Lemmy
I’m a huge Boost fan.
That’s what I used in Reddit! :D
btw I recommend not sorting by Top or Old in this post X3
PROTECT THE RULECASE!
INRULEIIIIIING!!!
I just realized I haven’t been on reddit since sync closed down.
Yea kinda funny how I thought I would still want to use Reddit after moving to Lemmy but I just never opened the app and ended up removing it :p Same as with Windows when I moved to Linux years ago! X3
I think it’s been like 8 months since the mass migration thing? maybe nine?
I think I check Facebook more than reddit these days, am I still cool?
Oh well X3 yes u can still be cool :>
Can only recommend b Boost, I used it for Reddit and it’s pretty nice for Lemmy as well. (Still missing the ‘mark read on scroll’ feature though)
Yeah that was neat on Reddit :3 I think it’s also missing the ability to sort by New Comments? either that or hiding votes, I think that was one of the reasons that I chose Jerboa over it for X3
Comment sorting works on my end, hiding votes I haven’t looked into.
(don’t quote me on this, but I’m pretty sure the mark read on scroll is in the works)
nono I meant sorting posts by New Comments, so when there’s a new comment in that post it gets pushed to the top like bumping in forum sites that dont have voting :3
Ahhh ok, yeah, it doesn’t do that, although I’m fine with it highlighting new comments.
ooo like making those comments a different color or giving them a little icon so u see which ones weren’t there before last time u were in that post? Jerboa just tells u how many new comments there r in a post but doesn’t highlight them :< that would be neat! :3
It tells you how many new comments there are and highlights them with a lighter background than the rest
yeye that’s what I meant, I wish Jerboa had that :<
Update: there now is read on scroll!
Play Store? Boooo
jk
Boooo indeed :< But I’ve been looking into Obtainium and it sounds awesome :3
I am partial to Neo Store. Got used to it and now I’m hooked.
Yeah I got recommended that too and it looks great :3
You can also try droidify if you want an easier one click install like play store
I searched it up and apparently it’s an F-Droid client? I already have F-Droid but tbf I do think it’s kinda ugly X3 but Droid-ify does look so good! ty for the suggestion :3
F-droid is a service. They get submissions for building apps, some people gather the needed stuff and the app is build on their servers.
Meanwhile app developers 90% of the time build their apps themselves, with their own signing key.
The F-Droid app is outdated, use “F-droid basic” as weird as that sounds. That is build against modern libraries.
But I use that app now only for searching for apps. You can add repos and you get new apps shown easily, then I open the app page and down under “source code” with a long press I copy the source code.
That you can enter in obtainium and it downloads the official release of the Dev instead. Turn off everything automatic update/download in F-Droid.
You can get every app through obtainum, also from external repos, but there you need the app ID and the repo URL which is hell of a pain, I use F-Droid basic here too.
Obtainium is not ready at all, especially as it has no feed for the repos. But it works.
Ohhh yeah the app does seem ugly and buggy sometimes but I guessed it just had a small team or whatevs X3 thank u for all those tips! :D
What app? F-Droid basic has the best UI of all I think, just the search button is kinda random.
Obtainium is okay but overcomplex without a reason, its core has a lot of potential though and with a feed and one-click installs it would be really good.
Nono I mean the regular F-Droid app, I haven’t tried the basic one yet
