I wish Christian Selig would build Apollo into a Lemmy client
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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Whatever he decides to focus on next (after some deserved time off!), I think it’s safe to say that he’ll have the communities support ❤️
Open your internet browser. Go to wefwef.app. This is Apollo for Lemmy.
It doesn’t have all the fleshed out features Apollo did. Yes it looks extremely similar but there was a wealth of features included in it.
It’s being actively developed right now. If you're into software development it’s fun watching it being built on GitHub.
Apollo wasn’t built into what it was overnight. It took years. I know wefwef isn’t Apollo but it feels similar and is on its way to becoming feature-rich like Apollo once was.
Exactly. It's also impressive how fast the development is, especially when the project founder was still doing all of it by himself. Within something like a week, he built my favorite lemmy experience.
I wish the instances themselves had good web interfaces. It might attract way more users.
Oh for sure! Not trying to take anything away from the amazing development that WefWef continues to show!
Yep, and while it’s extremely impressive for a web app, it’s still not quite as smooth as a native one.
I’m using Memmy on ios and it’s a great experience.
Agreed but personally with wefwef the transition has had much less of a sting. It feels basically the same but just like Reddit is having a slow week
I doubt a slow responsiveness has to do with wefwef.
Your account appears to be registered to lemmy.world. Might that be the reason why the past week was slow?
I mean that Lemmy feels like Reddit on a slow content week, not anything against wefwef. Wefwef is fantastic and gets even better every 12 hours or so; Lemmy still needs a lot more users/content before it feels like actual Reddit
I mean that Lemmy feels like Reddit on a slow content week
Check. That's true.
Forgive me for being uneducated but whats the difference between the lemmy domains? Would I have to make another account registered to a different domain for other content?
Which, by the way, is also a great way to verify certain people. If a Lemmy account is registered on a server with a domain that is owned by a large broadcast company for example, it's easy to check whether the user of that account is who that person claims to be.
The municipality of Amsterdam set up their own Mastodon server registered to amsterdam.nl, so it's clear their Mastodon posts are genuinely from the municipality without any external verification schedule. If the mayor would want to post herself, she could simply get an account on that server and everybody knows it's genuinely her.
From a functionality perspective there is no difference. I'm registered to a Dutch server with this account and can comment on all OPs that are visible to me.
The administrator of a server (domain or instance) can block other servers (domains or instances) however. So if Meta not only starts it's own Twitter-like platform, but also it's own Reddit-like platform, it could be that administrators block access to the Meta server.
The best example for Mastodon (which uses the same federation protocol as Lemmy) is the Truth Social platform on which former president Trump publishes his posts. The administrators of Truth Social blocked access to all other servers on the fediverse, so Truth Social doesn't federate at all. And I presume administrators of many other servers block access to Truth Social.
So from that aspect, you might think through on what server you register. Might the administrator block access to certain servers? Do you want that or not? etc.
But you can also take location into consideration with regard to legal questions. I personally do not want to register on a server in certain countries if for example the GDPR is not enforceable.
Thanks for the detailed explanation!!
Just try wefwef.app and you'll be happy again. Edit: https://wefwef.app
Holy shit this is a gamechanger
Mlem new team is killing it though!
The Memmy team is killing it too! It's definitely my favorite so far, and I put it where my third party Reddit app was on my home screen.
Sent from Memmy
I’m testing 5 different iOS apps right now and Memmy is my favorite so far too! That said, I do like all the other clients and I think they aren’t far behind either. Props to all the devs putting in the work!
I tested a bunch of them too, and I also ended up getting access to Artemis for kbin, but I ended up leaving the Mlem TestFlight to give someone else a chance to try it, since I like Memmy. I'm sure Mlem will turn out to be an amazing app as well!
Thunder and Liftoff are interesting because they're kind of like Android apps, but I like them too
That’s true! This comment was made from Mlem ☺️
Definitely not on the level of Apollo yet but it’s honestly already better then most other apps. Hopefully with a few more months of time they can get the little things right
I like Mlem but the fact that I can’t search at all really sucks. For now I’ll be using memmy until Mlem gets more features
I can’t reply to anyone in my inbox on Mlem. Is there an easy way?
Memmy is helping me cope.
Memmy is so good. And the rate of progress is staggering. The lead dev/repo owner is very nice as well
Memmy is filling the hole pretty well. And I like the icon look. It’s a little mouse.
I’m posting for Memmy now. It’s great but I’m not a fan of the logo nor the logo’s color scheme.
It does indeed. Can't wait for Sync for Lemmy, and more users on the platform.
Same.
Connect For Lemmy and WefWef are helping me get by since they have similar gesture support.
Connect for Lemmy is pretty good so far. It's also getting daily updates the past few days. Big respect.
Yeah. The small userbase is what's keeping me from committing to Lemmy. Maybe we can get some GPT-enabled bots in here to flesh it out some, lol.
I just opened the Apollo app again yesterday and didn’t realize there was a goodbye song as well. Hit me in the feels again 😩
That old logo is so nostalgic
I got Apollo quite late into its lifespan so the newer one I'm definitely more attached to. Wanna do a little drawing of Apollo (prob the more recent icon) as a late tribute, as well - been meaning to learn how to draw and this would be the perfect motivation, might start next week when I've got time.
Pouring one out for RIF as well...
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