1y ago

Trying out these apps is actually fun. Takes me back to the days I was searching for the perfect Reddit app

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Crazy to see how quickly a handful of talented developers have managed to build several feature-rich Lemmy apps in such a short amount of time. Really drives home the point that the reddit's official app—with it's 80 person dev team—must just suck on purpose.
- It’s not really the devs that are to blame, but the management team.

I’m on wefwef as an Apollo replacement. Enjoying it!
- They even now have a part where you can export your Apollo JSON data to look for subreddits like the ones you followed. I unsubscribed from all my subreddits, but good for others.
  
  Yeah, wish I had seen that prior to nuking my Reddit account and Apollo install from orbit. Oh well, get to just rediscover everything organically now

I stumbled upon Wefwef by accident right after setting up an account here and really like it.
Straight forward, easy to use and similar in appearance to Apollo and the older Reddit client.
- Exactly what happened to me. I haven’t even tried anything else because I don’t feel like there’s a need.
  It performs better than most native apps. These developers are rockstars.
- Also is a great way to browse on the desktop. I have it open on the sidebar for Edge most of the day at work and do the same on SigmaOS while at home

A+ folder name
Personally, I'm waitin for the Lemmy version of Sync to come out, but good luck in your search

I don't see the point of squabbles. It's just going to turn into reddit if it catches on. The fediverse at least has decentralization built in and is more flexible if someone becomes a jerk.
- There are people that prefers a more straightforward reddit alternative, and Squabbles has been the most promising candidate so far. Not all wants to learn how all these fediverse stuff works.
  Personally, I prefer Lemmy than Squabbles but it doesn’t hurt to contribute to more than 1 alternative to that shithole of a site.
- yeah even their privacy policy already references an eventual buyout/acquisition so it's all gonna come down to profit driven motives eventually

Thanks to this thread, I discovered wefwef. It’s amazing what people can create in such a short amount of time! I legit feel like I’m using Apollo again.

Currently trying LiftOff via testflight and it’s not bad… given the state of development. I must say I do also enjoy this “dev” state after Rexxit. Thanks for the screenshot. Looks like I have some other apps to try as well.

Crazy to see how quickly a handful of talented developers have managed to build several feature-rich Lemmy apps in such a short amount of time. Really drives home the point that the reddit's official app—with it's 80 person dev team—must just suck on purpose.
- Different priorities. One focuses on delivering more ads and monetizable features, while the others focus on making users happy enough to spend money on subscriptions.

Which is the best one in your opinion?
- Not OP, but currently using WefWef, and imo it feels the best!
  
  It’s like Apollo right? But I feel that sometimes it stutters. Or maybe just just lemmy
- I am using liftoff and loving it so far .

Any Lemmy apps that remember your comment sort option? I vastly prefer "Top" to "Hot", but neither Jerboa nor Wefwef seem to have a way to change the default.
- As of like a day ago, Memmy lets you change the sort order for comments. There’s no way to set the default yet, but I’m sure that will come at some point.
- I have no idea who thought "Hot" was a good default sort for comments anyway. The sane default is obviously Top.

Mine looks similar, though I haven’t got any squabbles. Gotta try a bunch and see what sticks! Two favourite apps at the moment are Memmy and Liftoff

Heh, that folder name gave me a good chuckle.
Memmy feels great to use so far. Their speed of development is amazing.
- Memmy and Mlem are my current favs. Memmy’s development has been insane.

How come when I search for these in the App Store nothing comes up? Are they early access only?
- Everything with a yellow dot to the left of the name is a beta. You’ll need to use TestFlight to access them.
  Get TestFlight from the App Store

None of these are in my app store. None of the test flight apps request links have worked.
- Make sure you have Test Flight installed first
  
  It is installed, but developers either aren’t sending out test codes or have no way to request one. I’m on wefwef thanks the comments to a separate post I made about this.
- wefwef.app is a PWA (progressive web app). Just save the site to your Home Screen and it’ll act like an app but be run by your default browser

How did you get the actual lemmy.world app? I’m using liftoff for limmy.world, unless I’m doing something wrong and I’m sure I am. Lol

I’ve tried mlem, memmy and wefwef so far, I like wefwef for its similarities to Apollo

This reminds me of when Google’s rss aggregator (google reader?) went down. It spurred a wealth of new development in that field that was great for users. The whole Reddit debacle is having a similar effect and I am loving it!

I also have like 6 installed. It’s helpful right now because posting and commenting frequently hangs forever on submit. The only way you can know your comment got posted is to switch to another app and check!

For me, at the moment, It's wefwef. Mlem, thunder and liftoff! Are also good, but wefwef works for me the Best.

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