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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Really wish Christian would bring Apollo to Lemmy in the same fashion

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe he's not saying anything but then will drop a fully polished app out of nowhere like that Beyoncé album

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My god I wish. But I will say, congrats to Mlem and to Memmy, for pushing out two apollo-esque apps in the spirit of it all

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Working on Mlem has been super fun and educational!

FOSS ftw

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In one interview he said he was exhausted from this ordeal and that he just doesn't have the energy to rewrite Apollo to Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

And he deserves a long vacation after all the shit that has happened to him. I'd even understand if he'd go low profile from this point on.

The character assassination Steve Huffman unleashed on him would make a lesser man just want to disappear (online).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Memmy is already shaping up as a great client. Already very full featured. And with how fast the dev is updating, it’ll be awesome.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is a list of Apps coming to Lemmy:

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/71764

Plenty for iOS to chose from, Christian’s legacy continues. Memmy and Mlem both feel pretty close to Apollo - and are both directly inspired by it.

These apps are in early beta. They have constant updates (daily for Memmy and weekly for Mlem), so you can kind of see them being built in real time. If you’re patient with the developers, you’ll get that Apollo experience very soon. It’s like 80% of the way there.

Liftoff is pretty cool too, though it’s a different design approach.

(I’m using Memmy now, actually.)

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

Great summary!

Memmy mafia represent!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

At least we'll have Memmy and Artemis

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hope instances are preparing for the 2nd wave of Reddit migrants on June 30th

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I think many of them have probably been gearing up for it.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

SyncForLemmy sub is unavailable outside the app!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that made me chuckle. Reddit is really trying to make sure I move on completely.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I like how they imply viewing it in the app suddenly makes the subreddit safe. They use the same trick in NSFW subreddits to get people to install thier app.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is fantastic. Sync was the best and I tried multiple apps but kept coming back.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I always used baconreader because I'm after really compact and full function with options. I don't want giant image cards because I'm ten million years old (I'm not, I just like the outcome of having to design around simplicity and efficiency).

However, an actual app? Made by a popular, experienced, and successful app dev? I will 100% pay for and use that even though it's not my preferred design philosophy.

Lemmy and kbin are... alright as they are, but chrome is such a pos for multitasking and I would really love some clarity and consistency to the ux design across different instances and more and better options.

What I really want, ideally, is baconreader to make a universal fediverse app - but the likelihood of anybody making a universal app and that's good is very low, let alone my favorite 3rd party reddit app dev that's already said they don't plan on it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Try Jerboa if you're on Android. It's made by the Lemmy devs and has had an explosion of activity and growth since Rexxit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jerboa is ok. It certainly isn't perfect but it's getting there. I've always liked baconreader too.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Liftoff is look good too

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Jerboa is fine, but it's not as good as some of the Reddit apps.

Anyway it's great to see developers of Reddit apps releasing apps for Lemmy, because UI wise it's so close that they will probably be able to reuse most of their code. We'll get all the maturity of these apps on day 1 of the release, and competition between the apps will be healthy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

There's usually options for "list" view instead of "card" view.

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

Sync was completely customizable. You wouldn't believe how compact I made mine.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Ljdawson is a fucking legend

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Lemmy is cool and all so far... Hopefully the other communities make it over here.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

If you want a particular community you can create it!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Be the change you want to see and create it. People will come

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Create them! We won't judge you!

...don't judge mine

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

If anyone wants to support him he has a patreon.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kbin support wow :0

Just take my money already 😩

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No confirmation that it will be there at launch but great news that he's committed to supporting it!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

It almost certainly won't be at launch, as the kbin API is not ready yet. Artemis, another upcoming kbin/Lemmy double-act app, is currently relying on a web scraper and self-hosted shim API to access kbin content, with the goal being to switch to the real API once it's available.

Basically, it's a lot of extra work to support kbin right now, but in the future it should be about as easy as Lemmy. I'll be interested to see if any other Lemmy apps pick up kbin support as a result, but even just a couple is more than I expected so soon.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck yeah. I'm a grown ass man, and I feel like a child at Christmas Eve.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Honestly this feels like reddit in the old days hahaha

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Stupid question, but what's the difference between kbin and lemmy? I thought kbin was a lemmy instance.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kbin is a different software.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

But kbin is compatible with Lemmy, as it's also federated via ActivtyPub. Kbin also supports microblogging and can see content in Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It also includes microblogging so it's like a mix of lemmy and mastadon (and federates with both)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

From an end user point of view, there's not much difference other than the UI (and because of differing APIs, different third party apps too). It's fully interoperable with Lemmy (and Mastodon).

Behind the scenes on the server, though, it's a completely different piece of software.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

That’s not a stupid question.

But it was just talked about in a giant thread the other day.

Do search engines even index this shit?

When I Google stuff, I can’t find anything here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Think of it as GMail and Yahoo! Mail. It's still emails at the end of the day but the UI looks different and their servers are definitely different.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will be buying the pro version as soon as I can!!!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I might buy pro on all 3: Mlem Memmy and Artemis, just to help skyrocket them on the App Store. Fuck spez

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

This is awesome. The kbin support is gonna go over really well too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Very excited for kbin support!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
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