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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

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Shameless plug (sorry) but I'm working on one too! It's a web app that works on both desktop and mobile: https://slemmy.libdb.so.

It is a free-time kind of project (I work on it after my actual working hours), so it might not grow at the same pace as other newer apps, but I'm trying!

Source code is at https://libdb.so/slemmy, AGPLv3 license.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

!remindeme

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Oh...

That's right...

Who ran that bot anyway?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Somebody get the StabBot guy, too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It is real nice to see how lemmy/kbin, and activitypub in general, progressing. It kinda.. gives me a bit of hope for the future? Either way, am happy :D

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So many developers working on apps for Lemmy. I hope there are just as many dedicated individuals interested in improving Lemmy's source itself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

lol I'm in the Slide screenshot, hi mom!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

celebrity of the century!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The slide for Lemmy makes me sooo happy. My mouth is hanging open and I'm just... I cannot freaking wait!! Thank you 🙏

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget Summit! They released an Android beta yesterday.

Community and Play Store link

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I just installed it. It looks rather good so far!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Genuinely did not expect to see Slide on here, now I'm all excited.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve been using Mlem and Memmy. I started out liking Mlem more, but Memmy has really been cranking out new versions lately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Same here and today the Mlem app has disappeared from my TestFlight list. Another thing worth noting is that Memmy works on my iPad mini. Mlem doesn’t. At least not correctly.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same here. I think Memmy has improved drastically over the last week or so. Well done to the dev(s?), it’s become my daily driver.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Thank you! Bookmarking right now.

Mlem is no longer on testflight, they just announced a change in leadership, so hopefully it continues with development. Seems like it will, given their announcement: https://beehaw.org/post/693759

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Such an exciting time for the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Gratitude to anyone working on any of these apps. I mean, that is very cool of you to do. We appreciate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hold on a sec. Slide is actually happening?! I've literally wished for it a day or two ago, expecting nothing!

This just made my day :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Right?!? I didn't think anyone else loved Slide. I'm so damned excited!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m working on a native iOS app called Olympus too(‘: it’s built with all the new SDKs Apple gave us for iOS 17 (meaning only those on the iOS 17 beta will be able to use it). I should have a TestFlight link up by Monday, doing some final smoke testing this weekend before I let all you users try and break it

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Would love a testflight link once it's up, I'm on iOS 17 Dev Beta.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not only are we gonna get an app..... But we're also gonna get OPTIONS!? Go team!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is very exciting! I'm looking forward to the growth of the Threadiverse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Pixelfed dev Daniel is also building one for kbin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Reddit posts on lemmy via RSS, multiple clients blooming, nodes welcoming the exodus, the fediverse is thriving. Might be the one thing we can show spez some gratitude for!

[–] drew_belloc 2 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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. Obviously, I'm biased and have a strong interest in quality of posts and the discussions attached to them over the sheer quantity of new material hitting your feed. And, of course, part of that is 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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's awesome! These are a LOT of options :-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Memmy has been working very well for me. Lots of updates very quickly and feeling good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My only complaint with both mlem and Memmy is that neither of them show when you’ve got a reply to a comment. In the desktop site you can see the number of notifications in the bell on the top right but I can’t find them in either app. It also doesn’t look like it’s possible to vote on comments in either as well. But they’re making great progress and I keep checking back every now and again

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