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It will be good feature wise, but privacy?
Yeah seems pretty shady to me, I'll wait for a FOSS client for Lemmy. Maybe Infinity will come in clutch and make Infinity for Lemmy.
Shameless plug for Liftoff which is FOSS
https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff
Really active contributors
I have no issues with anyone plugging Liftoff on any android app discussion. Best app I've found so-far!
Jerboa is FOSS. Get it on github!
It is great, but we need lemmy.world to update the server.
Very buggy at the moment.
I heard that Lemmy has a Reddit API Proxy, and should be fairly easy to fix a Reddit App to connect to Lemmy.
So far the maintainer seems to want to make it a subscription app for reddit. Hope they'll change their mind, it was my favorite app.
There are several FOSS clients already in F-Droid. I'm trying out Jerboa, Thunder, and Liftoff. Lemmur is also on F-Droid but it's abandoned and doesn't seem to work well.
Looks kinda dodgy, but also, so what. Boost was my only way of browsing reddit, I don't care if it knows where I am.
You may want to give Infinity for Reddit a try. Its UI look similar to Boost for Reddit without all the shady privacy issues; plus it's FOSS.
I hate to break this to you, but both are going to be dead tomorrow.
And that's why today is my last day on Reddit. Once Infinity for Reddit stops working, I'm done with Reddit.
Yes, I was an Infinity user myself, great app. Now I have "Stealth for Reddit", which is a Privacy Focus Client for reddit, still work because it uses an experimental feature to get information from "old.reddit".
I see where you coming from, but financial info? Really?
I don't know about this, was "Boost for Reddit" open source?
Boost was not open source, I think it ask for that because of the 1 time payment for removal of ads.
Edit: I think jerboa at the moment gives me almost the same itch boost have, If only it can open link through its internal browser it would be the perfect app for me. Liftoff had this but seem to crash for me every time when I'm logged in which is unfortunate.
Yes, Liftoff hasn't been a great experience imo.
Mostly for 2 reasons:
I am confident a good client will come out, now all developers are try hard to attract as many users as they can.
We will see. 😊
EDIT: OK, 1 time payment to remove ads, but do they really need to keep sensitive information?
I had a another look, when clicking the details there it looks like it is taking purchase history for the financial information. It mentions about analytics purposes. I guess its just for keeping tabs the number of purchase for the app. That makes me think perhaps at some point the app (boost for reddit) was designed to track a subscription like system but nesr the end they just decided to just go with one time purchase, and it got a carried over with this new app. Then again I'm not familiar that much with app development if it really need that permission to keep tabs for purchases.
May share, not read. Share your location, financial info and others.
That's probably due to the ad provider for the free version.
You should be able to disable any tracker so...
Thanks for turning attention to those. I got curious and looked at the ones for Boost for reddit and they seem about the same. A bit funny to see that the settings for the app only show Notifications as a granted permission (and no other possible ones). Can anyone familiar with Android app development chime in with some details?
I'd appreciate if the dev could explain the need for these perms. I'm sure it's something innocuous, but it'd be relieving to hear why they're there.
If you click on the See Details button those will make more sense. It seems to be all for an ad supported version like Boost was for Reddit. So purchasing the app should stop using these permissions.
I'm pretty sure it only says your data cannot be deleted because lemmy is decentralized. Meaning anything you post is not in the hands of one entity like Reddit was. So you can't just request to delete you information, because it exists on multiple instances that are in the hands of multiple people. I don't think this has anything to do with the developer of Boost.
Please correct me if I'm wrong though