I searched up “Lemmy” on the PlayStore and noticed that Reddit appears right before the last lemmy client in that search X3 do u guys know if there r any other lemmy clients worth trying? I randomly felt like trying all I could find and for now I’ll stay on Jerboa and the Web UI but I use Voyager too now, mainly for DMs
Edit: I apparently wasn’t clear enough but I was asking for OTHER clients that aren’t on this list X3 but feel free to share why u use an app in this list if u want anyway :3
Arctic is my jam.
ooo looks neat! but iOS-only apparently? :<
Yeah, sorry lol. I’ve heard Voyager on Android is good but I’d probably download Raccoon for the app icon lmao.
No probs :3 ye these two r the only ones I found that made DMs look like chatrooms which is neat and they’re just great clients of course :3
I use sync and I used it when it was a reddit app. It was funny to join Lemmy while hating on sync was trendy.
I think I remember people talking about Sync a lot but didn’t pay attention to that, why were they hating on it? I tried it yesterday and it seems pretty cool and has some neat features :3
I think a big part of the hate came from the fact that the developer was charging for a premium version. Lemmy is all about open source, power to the people kind of things, so I imagine this rubbed people up the wrong way. Plus it was a fairly popular reddit app, and people were hating on the reddit refugees as well.
ohhh I see, yeah I remember something like that, ty! :3
I use sync too but I wish the developer actually seemed to give a fuck. Seems he took all the initial money and bounced. I know he comes and goes but people pay for this app and it should be maintained properly.
Which is why even though I left Reddit because of Sync I didn’t buy it again at the now much higher price. I got used to Jerboa before Sync was ready, and it’s almost as good (for my use anyways) and free.
Way back when it released I said that the dev was charging so much upfront that he probably doesn’t expect lemmy to take off. He even responded to my comment saying he was going all in. I guess I was right in the end.
He left for months at a time with Reddit too, always citing some personal troubles. When he quit his full time job to work on Sync and still disappeared, my trust was very shaken.
I’m on sync… What are the issues? Also I think the team works on his sporadically, it’s not a main thing, more like a hobby thing.
There is no team and there is a bug tracker to see the list.
I’ve only ever used Jeroba. It’s what I picked first and I like how it’s fairly simple and straightforward. I used Now For Reddit before the APIpocalypse and really liked that interface even if (or perhaps because) gif support never happened for that app. I’m open to trying something else though, especially if one has an easy crosspost feature.
Well this post’s comments have some neat suggestions! :D (tho that’s not what I was asking for, everyone is talking about the clients I already know X3 but that’s fine :3) So u could try those out and see if u like them :3
Also gif support didn’t occurr to me, I wanted to have a gif as my banner but it didn’t work at all, maybe that’s a Jerboa issue? And I can’t remember if gifs work in posts but I think u need to tap them to open them in fullscreen and then they start moving
Gif support isn’t a problem on Jeroba, that was just an issue with the Reddit app I was using.
Oh okie my bad X3 Also I keep seeing people saying “Jeroba” instead of “Jerboa”, is that an auto-correction thing or a common confusion? cuz I think I remember the same happening with a Reddit client LOL X3
Oops, I got auto corrected, but I think it’s common confusion too.
I use Jerboa because it’s lightweight and i have an outdated phone.
oh app weight and compatibility with older devices never occurred to me for some reason, that’s neat :3
I was using Eternity for a while, mostly because I used Infinity on Reddit and it’s a fork of that. But it’s still not feature complete and it hasn’t been updated in ages, so I’m on Voyager now.
Im still using eternity untill this day although dev seems very slow progress in git compared to other apps but i can assure this apps rocks
Tbh why i used this apps in first place bc it can open redgif videos inside the apps not redirect it to browser appsOh that sucks :< Was it abandoned or something? It at least didn’t seem broken when I tried it but I didn’t check when it had been updated or anything
It’s mostly working, but there’s some minor stuff that doesn’t work well.
No idea if it’s abandoned, or if it’s just going through a slump, or if I’m just impatient.
What features are you missing from Eternity? It seems fairly stable and feature complete in my experience.
Minor things, mostly. Like, animated gifs don’t animate in comments, video links don’t always work, etc
Been pretty happy with Connect coming from RiF
Same for me.
RiF was one of the clients that just died when the API thing happened right? I remember people being sad about that :< Oh well, glad u found a new home in Connect and Lemmy! :>
I think it’s funny that Connect is in third place with a 5.0 rating and 10 million downloads, and yet nobody talks about it the way they do Jerboa and Sync and Voyager.
It’s a great, simple client. No ads. Totally free.
ye LOL X3 I guess there’s just less Connect users here for whatever reason, also maybe there’s more people talking about Jerboa and Voyager cuz I mentioned them in the post’s content
GRRRR >:C
Do you remember RIF? And that time reddit forced all the third party apps to change their names by adding “for Reddit” at the end? So RIF changed the name to “RIF is fun for Reddit”, that is “Reddit if Fun is Fun for Reddit”. Good times.
RIF is short for RIF is fun, not Reddit is fun because at a different point in time, Reddit didn’t want other clients to have the word reddit in their name.
RIF is fun is fun for Reddit, then?
Still better than DC comics’ Detective Comics.
Omg I didnt know about the “for Reddit” thing, that’s hilarous X3
At some point there was like twenty of ‘for Reddits’ on Google Play. Before, you know, the dark times.
I tried searching for keepass2android yesterday and none of the results on the Play Store were the app. There was one old icons pack, the rest was just something else.
Is that app shadow banned or something? I can open the app page if I follow a direct link
huh that’s weird, maybe it’s just not very popular and u get other more popular results that technically fit ur search? That has happened to me before when looking for not-very-well-known apps but I find them after scrolling down a bit
Yeah, I thought so, too. Then I opened a list of apps by that author:
There’s no app ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Suppose it’s some regional bullshit, but maybe also something else
yeah that might be it! I think I do remember that happening to me too
Please use fdroid, search for apps there, copy the source URL and use it with obtainium
Started using fdroid last week 😅 but hey, keepass2android is not found there, too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Installed Obtainium, will set it up
Why not use KeepassDX? Its better afaik
I do now, it’s just that I didn’t know about current state of affairs and last was choosing a manager more than seven years ago
I ran into this exactly, but it turned out to be device compatibility. I could never find it in the play store on the (x86) Chromebook, while it always showed up as you’d expect on the arm android.
If the developer unpublished the app, it won’t show up in search results, but the direct link will still work for you if you previously installed it.
Maybe that’s it, although ey publishes updates, so I thought it’s not the case
You can still update unpublished apps.
I understand, it’s just that I thought that the only reason to unpublish would be abandoning an app. I was too pessimistic in that regard
Its sad that apps build on foss services which pushes ad and tracking have more downloads than better foss apps
Yeah I hate when that happens… I used Boost for Reddit cuz I don’t remember why but I liked it way more than the others and oh well, it’s Reddit anyway X3 But using it for Lemmy felt silly now that I had an excuse to move to a more privacy-friendly alternative
I switched between all of them for months, but I end with Raccoon. It’s simply the best.
This is my first post with Raccoon. Sleek little thing. 👽
Will testdrive it for a while.
Yeah Raccoon seemed so cool! :D but everything I pressed took like a second to open and that was so annoying, did u ever have that problem?
Nope, everything is smooth here. Pixel 7a with grapheneOS.
ooo GrapheneOS is one of those things that I want but never actually look into it X3 Anyway, must be an issue with my phone then
Is racoon open source ?
Yes, just check their github:
Are they ads and tracking free ? Couldn’t find anything about it on their github page
I use Voyager because it was the one with the latest update on F-Droid.
I do that a lot X3 but I couldn’t install Voyager from F-Droid, it gave me a 404 error? :<
Jerboah is also very recently updated.
Btw fdroid just builds the apps. It is often better to use the APKs from the release pages of github etc. so that you only need to trust the devs. It is also way better for security as FDroid uses the same signing key for every single app.
Obtainium works okay for that, you enter the URL and it finds a lot of sources. It is completely overcomplicated though.
I’m not sure I agree on the trust thing. I prefer to trust a single source of curated apps, rather than many individual developers. I like to imagine that f-droid would remove a malicious update before it gets to my phone.
Nobody reads the source code of those apps. Thats basically an audit, and it may happen sometimes, but it is not a requirement for F-Droid.
They do some general tests, but the “antifeatures” are either by the officially stated permissions or by opt-in in the F-Droid submission. Creators/packagers often state the reason for the antifeature in the README, which means they are the person placing the tag, or know the process.
Google Play has sometimes good, sometimes bad requirements too. Those APKs are signed by developers, but the final product also by Google afaik, its some mix.
You need to trust the devs anyways, thats the point.
I’m a huge Boost fan.
That’s what I used in Reddit! :D
btw I recommend not sorting by Top or Old in this post X3
Can only recommend b Boost, I used it for Reddit and it’s pretty nice for Lemmy as well. (Still missing the ‘mark read on scroll’ feature though)
Yeah that was neat on Reddit :3 I think it’s also missing the ability to sort by New Comments? either that or hiding votes, I think that was one of the reasons that I chose Jerboa over it for X3
Comment sorting works on my end, hiding votes I haven’t looked into.
(don’t quote me on this, but I’m pretty sure the mark read on scroll is in the works)
nono I meant sorting posts by New Comments, so when there’s a new comment in that post it gets pushed to the top like bumping in forum sites that dont have voting :3
Ahhh ok, yeah, it doesn’t do that, although I’m fine with it highlighting new comments.
ooo like making those comments a different color or giving them a little icon so u see which ones weren’t there before last time u were in that post? Jerboa just tells u how many new comments there r in a post but doesn’t highlight them :< that would be neat! :3
It tells you how many new comments there are and highlights them with a lighter background than the rest
yeye that’s what I meant, I wish Jerboa had that :<
Update: there now is read on scroll!
I use thunder because I contributed 5 whole lines to its source code 😎
:O Wow u made Thunder into what it is today?! X3
What did you contribute to it?
5 lines
