It's a Lemmy client for iOS. It's in TestFlight/Beta right now. I'd call it more of an alpha at this stage, but it's getting there. The developer is adding stuff every day. It has a lot of potential.

One interesting thing about the Lemmy/federated ecosystem that I will have to get my head around is that every comment I make is copied to who knows how many other sites, some of which I may not even be able to make an account for (like Frendica, apparently)... so I don't know how controlling one's comments and posts and privacy works. Like, if there was a way to just post to one instance only, that would be what I would like to do sometimes. You know? I don't necessarily want my comments and information popping up on some nefarious instance or whatever, and getting caught up in something that I never had anything to do with, or whatever, you know? It's just kind of... unsettling at the moment. Until I get a better handle on that, I'm going to be REAL careful what I share on this platform.

[–] anders@rytter.me 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@GuyDudeman I see. I don't know how this works on Lemmy (yeah I'm using Friendica on my own instance), but I know that Mastodon has a feature where you can choose privacy settings. This is also possible via Friendica, but the per-post setting is not available via the web interface but only available via the Mastodon API so that means using a Mastodon client such as Fedilab. If you choose a post/comment to be private, it will only be sent to the people who are part of the thread/people you tag in it.

[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh interesting. It's definitely going to be interesting over the next few years to see how all of this shakes out.

[–] anders@rytter.me 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@GuyDudeman Indeed. And a correction to what I said earlier. Friendica has a permission tab for new posts.

[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh that's interesting. I wish I could join Friendica but it doesn't seem like there's a way to sign up.

[–] anders@rytter.me 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@GuyDudeman venera.social is open for signups.

[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! I signed up. Not sure of my way around just yet, and the server is loading super slow, but I'll get it. Appreciate you!

[–] anders@rytter.me 3 points 1 year ago

@GuyDudeman The UI of Friendica is not so user-friendly, unfortunately. But it has a lots of features! That's why I like it. I'm a developer type of person so bad UI doesn't hurt my eyes as much as for some people 😄

And yeah. Friendica can be slow, unfortunately. It's developed in PHP which is a slow language/framework. Which also means that one Friendica instance likely can't handle as many users with the same resources as the other systems such as Mastodon, Calckey etc.

A bonus with Friendica: you can interact with people on Diaspora, which isn't possible from Mastodon or the others :)

You're welcome!

[–] pitninja@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was your test a success? 😂

[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes! Seems to work! Looks like upvoting and commenting work in mlem. Downvoting doesn't work.

[–] veroxii@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't be so negative

[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Haha! Downvoting works now. :)