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[+] kadu 81 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I was a loyal RIF user, and unfortunately it doesn't look like that's getting a lemmy version. I'll try any new lemmy app that pops up, but I think there's a good chance i stick with jerboa.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I bought RIF years ago, for context, and so far I'm liking Liftoff over Jerboa. For one it's getting more frequent updates, but overall of the two Liftoff feels closer to what I'm used to interface-wise.

That said they're both good apps.

[–] SpaceNoodle 10 points 1 year ago

I like the Liftoff interface, but its content density is poor, and its arbitrary choice of federation source magically prevents me from commenting on the majority of posts, not to mention the duplicate posts. Not to mention the duplicate posts. Not to mention the duplicate posts. Not to mention the duplicate posts.

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

I worry that the RIF dev is backing the wrong horse. They decided to build an app for Squabbles or something.

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

They're using Tildes and Lemmy. Maybe they like Tildes more or think it has more of a need for another app than Lemmy does. Not a competition, really.

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[–] Digester 4 points 1 year ago

I'm liking Jerboa more than I initially did. It need improvements of course but things will eventually come along. What all third party apps desperately need is adding functions for moderators. Everytime I have to log in to the browser version of my instance just to pin or delete spam comments. Not very convenient.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Jerboa has done the job for sure. I will switch to Sync right away but Jerboa will stick around depending on what shape Sync is in.

So nice to have choices!

[–] SpaceNoodle 7 points 1 year ago

On Jerboa right now. It's had some major growing pains, and they're ongoing; that's being said, it's improving rapidly.

I love the diversity of 3P apps.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I've tried most of the ones everyone is talking about but none of them have compared to Jerboa imo. I think people are too quick to look for alternatives. I'll still probably hop to Boost once it's out, just because that's what I used for reddit and I'm used to it. But Jerboa is pretty good.

[–] Cris_Color 5 points 1 year ago

Agreed, sync was my favorite reddit app but honestly I'm really enjoying jerboa, and love that its open source. I wish the sync Dev lots of success though, his reddit app was worth every penny and he always did right by his users

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Don't forget Connect

The developer has been incredibly responsive to community feedback and there have been almost daily updates.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Connect is ridiculously stable and feature-complete for how new it is. Definitely deserves to be mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yep, I've been using it for about a week and it's the better app for Android. Kudos for Connect.

[–] Sgp1986 3 points 1 year ago

Am I the only one that's been having issues? I keep getting errors or comments not loading. I tried liftoff a bit ago and haven't had any issues on it so far

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We just like rockets, okay?

No but honestly, if Boost is going to be anything like it was then it's just a no brainer. He had by far the most customizable 3rd party app.

He was also always very responsive, I have had a few conversations with him over the years and he's added features and fixed bugs on different devices I was using at so I'm glad he's going to be continuing. My main hope is that the kbin API comes out so he can add support for it. I love Firefox but I miss my AMOLED themes with boost.

Oh man, and if there's per instance themeing!

[–] Obstinatrician 4 points 1 year ago

There is a pre registration for Boost for Lemmy

[–] HeyJoe 4 points 1 year ago

Currently using liftoff but I am also waiting for the boost release. It was the only app I have used for reddit in the last 5 years. Looked really nice and I never found any issues outside maybe 1 outage which I think was caused by reddit.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Liftoff is quite good - I don't think I'll move off of it. Jerboa is also great, but it currently has an issue while typing that makes commenting way too much effort.

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

I like Liftoff enough that I've stopped looking at every new thing that is coming out.

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

Makes me sad I moved to iOS late last year, but very happy to know Sync is coming to Lemmy!

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

Get Memmy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Been using it on TestFlight since I moved over. Fantastic app so far!

[–] Dick 3 points 1 year ago

Memmy is good. Very good and it gets updates almost every day it seems.

[–] DrSuSE 8 points 1 year ago

I'm using Jerboa now, but waiting for Boost.

I have tried them all, I think, and found things to be frustrating (though certainly understanding the rapid development phase we're in).

I was using Connect and liked it, but struggled to search for Communities vs within Communities when I wanted one or the other.

Many other apps did a poor job (in my opinion) of visually presenting data.

Some it was just weird navigation behavior that felt completely unintuitive.

Anyway, they all had pros and cons and I'm sure will get better and better.

For now, Jerboa seems like the best "waiting room" app for me.

[–] Never_Sm1le 6 points 1 year ago

Currently using Thunder and love it

[–] vidsid 6 points 1 year ago

Coming from RIF, I feel pretty much at home in Liftoff.

[–] rekliner 5 points 1 year ago

It should be noted that wefwef is relaunching and putting bug fixes into its new incarnation as Voyager.

[–] ironchips 5 points 1 year ago

Was using Boost for Reddit, but been pleasantly surprised by Jerboa. Personally, like the app 👍

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Excited for Sync and Boost, but damn, Thunder looks even more interesting... It's actually the smoothest Flutter app I've used so far

[–] Devgard 5 points 1 year ago

now using Connect and it really is a great app! Some quirks here and there but not too shabby.

[–] ShadowZone 5 points 1 year ago

Still on Jerboa. It does the things I need it to do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sync cannot come to Lemmy fast enough, sorry. Been using it for enough years that I will automatically trust it over everything else and I'm so used to it feature-wise that it's not even worth giving other apps a shot when I know it's in the pipeline.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tried a bunch of apps and settled on Sync and ended up using it for years. Really solid app and agree about trusting it. I'm on kbin now but that may change once it's released.

[–] kratoz29 4 points 1 year ago

Don't play with my feelings, I thought that they were already released.

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

I've been using sync for years but I have missed Apollo. It'll be tough.

[–] Dick_Justice 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are you using now? I never used Apollo but I've been using wefwef and from what I understand it's practically a clone of Apollo.

[–] RembrandtQEinstein 4 points 1 year ago

It really is almost exactly the same. I've been using a combo of wefwef and memmy

[–] newguy208 4 points 1 year ago

I am using Connect right now. Quite Buggy but the devs are very quick to respond and they started spamming bug fixes after fixes over the past week.

[–] mrginger 4 points 1 year ago

Writing this from Memmy right now. Can't recommend it enough.

[–] Mojeezy 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will any of these allow me to block entire instances (ex. Block the nswf instance from the “All” feed)?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Connect just added that (today, iirc).

(settings -> block settings)

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[–] jcb2016 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So many choices. I love it!

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

Looking forward to Sync. Any of these apps have a tablet interface yet? I tried few of them and they didn't have a tablet UI.

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[–] G0FuckThyself 3 points 1 year ago

Waiting for boost for lemmy, in the mean time I use wefwef pwa

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