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❤️‍🔥 🎇 It’s finally here! And it will live on my home screen just like Apollo used to do. 🔥 ❤️‍🔥

Just spreading this news in case you’re like me and late to the good news :)

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[–] bighi 122 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] Frostwolf 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry didn’t include a link since it’s on the app store. Thanks for providing one.

[–] bighi 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, searching for apps in the app store is not easy. I tried searching for "memmy" and didn't find it. I had to use the full name.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I think the Apple App Store mostly sorts by popularity and they use reviews, some mixture of the quantity and star rating, to decide that popularity amount.

Anyway, ignoring the obnoxious Apple-inserted banner ad (🙄) typing in “lemmy” or “memmy” bring up the correct app for me now. I had the .ipa sideloaded previously, but yesterday typing in lemmy brought up some other completely unrelated (not lemmy) app came up and memmy I think didn’t work at all. Seems ok now though since most people will go to the App Store and type lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)

OP you’re on an iPhone. Next time crop the photo in the Photos app to remove the ad for PUBG…

[–] onparole 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I thought my Lemmy app was displaying ads and almost deleted it.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any phone should be able to do this. The first thing my Android does after taking a screen shot is ask me if I want to crop.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One more step in the right direction.

[–] Frostwolf 30 points 1 year ago

A giant leap for the fediverse. :)

[–] An_Ugly_Bastard 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now I just need to learn how to use Lemmy

[–] Bingohas 8 points 1 year ago

You better start believein’ in using Lemmy…

You’re doing it.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I prefer WefWef but still: this can only be a good thing for Lemmy. Glad this is out!

[–] Pyon 35 points 1 year ago (8 children)

WefWef UI is great, just wish it wasn’t a web app

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly it’s hard to tell. Even on my old iPhone X it’s pretty seamless. I wish Apple and Android would give PWA apps more feature support overall tbh.

[–] ryno364 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s definitely not as responsive and has a slightly laggy feel to it. I mean it looks and runs great for a webapp. But it just isn’t as good as a native app.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s hard to tell until suddenly your phone is out of battery.

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[–] Stewartiee 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There was a really annoying issue with wefwef for me - Swiping back to the Home Screen would result in a brief couple seconds of lag before I could scroll again. Apart from that I’d agree that is was great.

But this Memmy app is a lot better in that regard 👌

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[–] Xylinna 18 points 1 year ago

I bounce back and forth between WefWef and Memmy and I think they are both great in their own way.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wefwef feels like Apollo in a stable beta version: it doesn’t have everything I’m used to (blocking communities from the main feed is a big one) but everything is in the right place. Pity I only got it after Apollo went down, since I can’t get my data from Apollo now.

I’m just trying Lemmy (writing this comment on it) and it’s still rather light but thankfully speedier than on a browser.

I figure I’ll bounce between them for a bit and see which one starts to gain more usage and features. But yes, it’s good that there are more options available.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love wefwef but I actually prefer this now!

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[–] Frostwolf 7 points 1 year ago

Wefwef is fast but it’s a web app, not a native one. It feels snappy and fast though.

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[–] Limeey 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For those unaware, you swipe to access voting/reply on comments, swipe from left to right on a comment to get to the up/down vote and swipe right to left to reply.

On your inbox, you can mark replies “read” by far swiping right to left.

You can also swipe to go back to your feed back swiping left to right starting from the edge of the post.

Lastly you can access settings by clicking the “gear” icon in your profile screen (top right)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (8 children)
[–] livingina 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Try: Jerboa, Liftoff, Connect, Summit, Thunder, wefwef, etc.

Sync is coming next month too.

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[–] zaph 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

boost for reddit dev looks like they released a boost for lemmy

[–] surli 11 points 1 year ago

It's been announced that it's coming, but it's not released yet. I'm not sure if there's an expected release date

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[–] deweydecibel 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

We've got a bajillion of them, and unlike iOS, you didn't need to wait for it to hit the Apple Store.

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[–] KaleDaddy 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Im excited about all the apps but to be honest i hate the names of most of them. Mlem, wefwef, memmy. Idk the overly cute name makes me think of dudes who owo in people's DMs

[–] Tygr 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love the WefWef app but hate every time I have to type that ridiculous name out. There’s absolutely zero chance I will ever say that horrible name aloud to people either.

Apollo was an awesome name. WW, opposite.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

The dev did so much work in the last few weeks. It's amazing how quickly this app became good.

[–] VanillaDrink 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Me viewing this post on Memmy

[–] teft 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very clean. I like it a lot.

[–] Frostwolf 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know. Reminds me so much of apollo. I’m on cloud 9 right now :)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

the best app i tried for ios yet!

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[–] febra 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why does the app need to collect the Device ID and link it to me?

[–] afoutopatisa 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Memmy is fantastic and exactly what Lemmy needs to become more popular. Using Lemmy.world etc on a browser on iOS just didn’t want to work for me, the login button wouldn’t work on any browser.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The GitHub mentions Android support. How do we get this?

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[–] d4rknusw1ld 7 points 1 year ago

Loving the app competition. Mlem is coming along really nice as well. I truly wish Lemmy takes over Reddit.

[–] glorious_albus 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

In case someone from Android wanders in looking for suggestions, I would highly recommend liftoff. I've been using it for a couple of days and it's really fluid and responsive.

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