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The Apollo dev banned and removed all my comments suggesting Lemmy as an alternative to reddit. (lemmy.ml)
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I usually don't get too salty about these things, but that seemed uncalled for, especially since I'm on their side.

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[–] skepticalifornia@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe a stupid question from a Newb here such as myself, but are there currently any good 3rd party clients for Android and iOS that support Lemmy? I’ve been looking around here using the browser and this platform has promise, but being able to use clients like Apollo, Sync for Reddit, etc, would really make it more useful in my opinion.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The official list is an https://join-lemmy.org/apps , but the main iOS one (remmel) is currently abandoned, so we're updating that page soon.

There's a new iOS app being developed by @davidbures@mstdn.social called Mlem.

I made an android one, called Jerboa.

[–] cityboundforest@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You made Jerboa? Nice! It's what I use to browse Lemmy/Beehaw/etc

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I did! Glad you like it!

[–] Barbarian@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Great work! Just joined Lemmy today, and downloaded Jerboa from F-Droid (currently replying to you using your app, no less). Checking my profile seems to be broken, but otherwise seems to be working great.

EDIT: Actually, seems to be working now. Maybe the profile breaks if it has no content?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks, glad you like it!

If it does crash or something's amiss, make an issue on the issue tracker if you would: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues

[–] karce@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just as an FYI I started used Jerboa yesterday and it is working well now but it was very hard to find where to login at first. Most of the UI is disabled without logging in but I couldn't find out where to do that for like 10 minutes of searching the UI. I can see that being a pain point for new users.

[–] Kovari@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

My personal experience, I'm so used to Boost that even using the website on mobile is so similar that I don't even find an app necessary. It's so similar in every way; though I don't browse on PC so I can't say how it's different...

[–] EnglishMobster@sunny.garden 5 points 2 years ago

One neat thing is that because Lemmy uses the ActivityPub protocol, it interfaces with other Fediverse things like Mastodon.

Speaking of which - hello from Mastodon!

[–] skepticalifornia@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the reply and information! I stumbled on that page after I made my comment - trying out Jerboa - looks good and I will take a look at Mlem. Took me a few minutes to figure out how to login using Jerboa, but once I did that it’s working well aside from a few crashes, but I imagine the system is under a lot of load with all the new accounts coming over from Reddit.

[–] Jekyll@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

Jerboa

That is a pretty decent client. I come from Relay for Reddit, and at first glance like it a lot. Feels home.

[–] Daryl76679@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The PWA on IOS works decently enough for my needs.