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[–] subspaceinterferents@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Loves me some Boost. Boost is the moost.

[–] revs@feddit.uk 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not a native app, but i’m using the wefwef web app, and it’s pretty awesome and getting multiple updates a day.

It’s a web based clone of Apollo

https://wefwef.app/

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Wefwef looks nice and I really want to like it but I keep tapping the back button and getting sent all the way back to my communities list, and therefore losing my spot in the scroll. It's getting old really fast.

[–] Phantom52347@lemmy.one 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Senuf@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Sync and Boost are indeed outstanding, just like they were on Reddit. My two favourites, no doubt about it

[–] Dwalin@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been using Sync for a couple of hours and already uninstalled Liftoff and Connect hahaha. Don't get me wrong they're both great, but Sync is that much better

[–] Michal@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same, already paid for year's subscription too. I used Sync for reddit and trust the developer to make a quality app.

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

Android: Eternity (A Lemmy client for Android, forked from the Infinity for Reddit project.) https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.toldi.infinityforlemmy/

[–] kzhe@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Jerboa seems great to me

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago

New Lemmy user here. I have two points of improvement I’d like to note, but am not sure where the actual ‘responsibility’ lies.

  1. It would be great to be able to mass-block communities from lists, rather than tiresomely do them one -at-a-time from ‘All’.

It would also be useful to see the list for subscribing, as I don’t know what’s out there until I see it. Sometimes I can’t think of something to search for until I see it.

Perhaps this lies more with individual apps/ clients rather than the Lemmy ecosystem…?

  1. May I suggest that communities entirely consisting of bots re-posting Reddit links is, uh, unhelpful?

Anyone?

[–] nicgentile@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Idk, i use Eternity (Infinity Fork).

[–] shadysus@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Could we get a new pinned comment for this. Some of this is our of date now and it would be nice to discuss.

Apps, interfaces, browser extensions, scripts

[–] hsl@wayfarershaven.eu 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We could - but we're still getting comments here. Why not continue to use this thread and sort by new?

Also - this topic doesn't even really belong in Asklemmy per the rules. If anything, I'm more inclined to unpin it and return to dealing with posts as needed.

[–] shadysus@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I agree with unpinning entirely, it's an odd fit

[–] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's a comprehensive list of Lemmy apps being curated here.

Right now I'm using Liftoff on Android.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Android user here, I'm quite happy with Connect for Lemmy

The official community is at /c/lemmyconnect

[–] rambos@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Liftoff, at least It was the best for me at the time when sync came out. I tried everything back then, but I should do it again

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Really liking thunder, now that it can view profiles and edit comments.

[–] lukasfr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

I like Jerboa for android and Voyager for iOS

[–] Arayvenn@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Android user here. Liftoff is unmatched in terms of its visual presentation.

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

'Connect' seems to be quite good.

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

2 months later and there's still not a satisfying answer. I would have hoped 1 or 2 apps would have risen to the top by now, but it's still just a scattershot of people suggesting like 8-10 different ones. There's no consensus.

I don't want to download an app and get all set up only for development on it to suddenly halt. Then I'd either have to switch again, or be stuck with one that's forever missing features.

Too many new apps popped up in too short of time. Some of them are bound to fail or be abandoned. Some of them are likely to have been hacked together by amateurs and contain gaping security or functionality flaws.

Does anyone have a suggestion with more substance than "I like this app because it's the one I downloaded"?

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm equally and technically impressed by both Memmy and Avelon, cosmetically impressed more by Avelon (Memmy is also gorgeous), and emotionally more attached to Memmy since it was the first true native Apollo-like Lemmy adaptation and dev is super on-the-ball. Not that Avelon's is not I just can't speak to it since I haven't felt the need in my admittedly-lesser use of it compared to Memmy.

Both amazing apps and you really can't go wrong with either. I do really like Avelon's forced collapsing of all top-level comments' child comments which makes it easier to navigate the various apects people are commenting on at the top level and work your way down to more specific discssion based on your filtering of which top level comments address that which is of immediate interest to the specific readers' needs or preferred line of inquiry

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

Are you trying to restart the lemmy app war? We finally just rid ourselves of the constant memes.

[–] Pechente@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://wefwef.app is amazing. PWA and hence cross-platform.

[–] Amex@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago

Where are you guys installing this from? Obtanium says it can't find a suitable release. And it's not on Play Store or F-Droid.