I tried one called Lemmur that I downloaded off F-Droid, however, it can not find this instance (lemmy.world). I want one that’s open-source, and preferably from F-Droid (because screw Google). Which one do you guys use?
Connect, it seems fairly well made, has some swipe actions that let you vote up/down and save. Lets you switch between instances fairly easily. It’s still getting updated too so it seems like its only getting better.
I’m also using this one. It seems okay but as soon as Boost for lemmy is released I’ll jump on that.
So, I’m not sure why I would switch instances (I’m very new). Do I need new account on that instance then? I’ve heard about different front pages or something. I’m still confused.
I downloaded Connect on your recommendation though. Thanks!
I’m very new too but my understanding is that each instance can have it’s own specific content. But, you can see all content from any instance if you sort by “all.” If you sort by “local” then you will only get posts from the instance that you’re logged in to. If you go to subscribed then you’ll just get stuff you’ve subscribed to in that instance. Could be wrong tho lol
This link will help explain migrating from Reddit and what instances are and how they work independently and simultaneously at the same time. You don’t have to create an account for every instance. You can follow another instance as a guest, you just won’t be able to interact with any comments or upvoting/downvoting. Think of them as separate websites under the same platform that can all coexist independently but still interact with each other. But this helped me out a bunch! https://github.com/amirzaidi/lemmy
Hi, sorry for the late response. You don’t need an account on another instance unless you want to interact with people on that instance and you want to use that specific account. I believe you can also use another account on a seperate instance as long as the two instances are federated with each other.
People tend to have multiple accounts on multiple instances because some instances arent federated with each other and thus you don’t get the full experience. Take for example Beehaw and lemmy.world. If you have an account with Beehaw the only way to see lemmy.world posts is to have a lemmy.world account or an account on an instance that is federated with world or vice versa.
Another more obvious reason is that since instances are generally privately hosted servers it’d be wiser to have accounts on multiple different instances as opposed to one because things happen and server outages are possible.
I can’t figure out how to collapse comment threads tho…
Long press on the center, to open/close a comment thread.
Long press
Boost for Lemmy will be out soon, just using the website/not using anything until then. Boost was the best Reddit app by far. And yeah, like others said, Sync is coming too.
Using Jerboa and waiting for sync for Lemmy to come out.
not a native app, but wefwef.app is 🔥
I was using jerboa earlier but wefwef looks way better than that. It feels a little slow on the animations for my phone though.
Wef wef is pretty great, very impressive for a non native app
Finally gave it a quick run through… The choices for buttons and swiping are bass ackwards
You can change the tap/swipe behavior in settings.
Boost when it gets available. In the meantime, Jerboa.
That’s a weird way to spell "Sync"😂
Jerboa is by far the most feature-rich and least glitchy that I have used.
Hmm I had a lot of trouble with jeroba, liftoff is working well for me at the moment though.
I’ve only used Jerboa so I can’t compare BUT it reminds me a lot of RIF which is what I’ve used for the last like 7+ years?
Yea it’s definitely the closest to RIF so far
I had a lot of issues with Jerboa being buggy and randomly crashing personally, but that could’ve just been my experience. I switched to Connect for Lemmy and haven’t had any issues (and it looks better imo)
For me jerboa was the most buggy one I tried. I am using connect now and waiting for sync because that was my Reddit app.
I chose Jerboa because back at Reddit I was using an app called Joey. Just wanted to be consistent
Sony Xperia 1 III. Aside from server issues in the first few days this month with Lemmy the Jerboa app has been working well. Seems fairly close enough ish to RiF for me. Really probably has a lot more going on than RiF ever did. Some mild stuff to get used to but overall a good experience. Was happy to see the ability to change the post sizes to smaller so I can see more at a given time.
Yeah, Lemmy in general was buggy the first week of the mass migration from Reddit, but they seem to have that mostly resolved.
Liftoff so far has been the only one that let me log in and also works consistently. I haven’t tried connect but I can vouch for liftoff at least. I’ll probably be trying sync for lemmy whenever it comes out though since I loved sync for reddit.
Jerboa has gotten pretty stable since the exodus, I also have Thunder and Liftoff installed, but mostly switching between Jerboa and Thunder.
I like those two last ones because they kinda have a Sync feeling to them, will definitely buy Sync once it’s ready!
Just started using Connect and it’s great! I moved from RiF and it’s pretty similar. My one request is a way to easily switch to the next/previous parent comment like you can do in RiF
I second connect. It’s quite good.
Third vote for connect. Tried jerboa, thought it was hideous. Went out of my way to try Thunder, not enough features. Connect is just right.
4th
5th
6th and also adding that Connect has been getting updates every couple of days, improving UI and performance.
I’d hope the actual app doesn’t look like the screenshots… doesn’t give a good first impression of attention to detail when the app preview in the screenshots are quite visibly squashed to fit the vertical height of the device frame they’ve placed them in to.
The screenshots are horrible and I almost did not download it because of them. I’m not a big fan of cards and so I use list mode. I did the same in RiF and I was able to make Connect look pretty similar.
Edit connect part message so it bring us to the app so we can try it
Done.
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I’m currently on Jerboa but I’m going to switch to boost as soon as it’s available
Connect for Lemmy works well for me.
I’m also using connect. I find the searching for communities to be terrible and a couple of other issues, but the bread and butter of reading posts, comments, commenting is very comfortable. I’d recommend it too right now.
Comfortable is the best way to describe it. I think it’s very similar in function and design to sync, which makes it very easy to use while waiting for Sync for Lemmy
Yeah, searching/ subscribing is a pain. I also would like a feature to be able to copy just a link on long press like there was with RiF. I really, badly miss RiF.
I didn’t realize how amazing that feature was until I tried other 3rd party apps. RIF was very solid, only wish it had swipe gestures for navigating.
Connect has some good features, like subscription Favorites, Filters (excluding posts containing filter words), Sort defaults for comments and posts, Text size for comments and posts, and Comment dividers. The developer is active and responsive on the https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect community. The app is available on Google Play, and is not currently Open Source.
Agree. As someone coming from Sync, Connect is the most familiar, intuitive app I’ve tried. It’s a solid start
Using Liftoff right now. Jerboa was also pretty functional. Thunder seemed promising but buggy. Lemmur is abandoned and got forked for Liftoff.
Liftoff feels like the best user experience to me so far
Likewise.
I’m also using Liftoff and the experience has been quite good so far
Is there any way for Liftoff to allow you to comment on instances that aren’t your home instance? Last time I tried it it asked me to log into the instance I wanted to comment on.
If this works, yes.
Liftoff is going well enough for me as well. Still miss RiF.
Enjoying Liftoff as of now. eagerly awaiting Sync for Lemmy
Connect is really great.
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I’ve been using Connect and just found “Hide read” and “Mark as read on scroll past” in the settings. Those were the last bugbears I had. Loving it so far
Agreed. I’m really enjoying Connect and wefwef is pretty great for a web based app, too.
Agreed… connect for Android is great app. Or you can just use the web app
Jerboa is my favorite right now, but I’ll be buying Sync as soon as it’s available.
