I've always wondered why no one ever talks about Infinity. I tried every 3rd party reddit app and I always thought Infinity was superior. Mostly because of the sheer amount of customization it allows me to do.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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Jerboa is a native-android client for Lemmy, built using the native android framework, Jetpack Compose.
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It truly is the best reddit client. I wish it would get a lemmy transition.
I'm hoping for a transition from Boost! for Reddit, personally. That was the client I enjoyed using.
My problem is that I'm also using kbin, and kbin's API is disabled so it makes more sense for everyone to make a Lemmy app instead. Don't know if they'll bother to implement kbin support once it's up and running.
I used Infinity when I was on Android. The developer said that he's gotta job-hunt (as someone pointed out, the fact that people prefer the app written by a single person who is now looking for a junior developer job over the official one that Reddit had a whole team to work on is a bit embarrassing) and doesn't have plans to add Fediverse support, but also that it's open source.
https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit
I imagine that if someone wants to do so badly enough, they could add Fediverse support.
Infinity was/is great.
Unfortunately the dev doesn't seem interested in making an app for lemmy...
Infinity is the 💩. I hope the devs port it to work with Lemmy
I tried both infinity and boost and I prefer boost
I put Jerboa in Relay's old spot on my homescreen
I had to uninstall infinity to get over it. But, I miss it so much
you can still keep on using infinity with your own api key, I did it. but I don't know if there's any point since reddit is going down by the looks of it
If you use your own API key, won't the api still be restricted? For example, NSFW posts
I want the smart people to make Infinity work with Lemmy. That would be rad af
Fun fact infinity was made by one university student. And yet it is still infinity better than the official reddit app
Yep. As much as I love Lemmy, Jerboa has it's growing pains rn. Apparently someone is working on an API to make old reddit apps compatible with the lemmy API
Translation layers really are the future of computing. Rosetta, Wine, Ruffle, and now a Reddit to Lemmy
Same. Dev hasn't said anything in that direction, though.
That said, Jerboa looks like its developing well. Other apps, like Sync, will follow and add to the existing options.
The infrastructure is getting better and better week to week atm.
If it was open source and the dev was interested, I'd lend a hand. Jerboa is, so I'm helping there.
I just want a stable lemmy app, and once that exists, I'll probably stop working on it. But for now, it's a fun diversion and feels impactful.
I replaced my RIF icon on my phone home screen with Jerboa. It's amazing how often I find myself instinctively hitting the app for a quick dopamine hit!
Same. Now I'm just holding out hope for Lemmy is Fun.
I'd use jerboa but it just crashes all the time. Hangs, deletes comments and just isn't up to scratch yet. So far tildes and kbin have been best die me. I jump around on all the Lemmy's but can't get my head around how to follow some subs.
Just trying to recreate my reddit feeds.
The issue isn't Jerboa but rather the server you're on is dying from too many users. Next Lemmy version (which hopefully will come out before the end of the month) is expected to fix a lot of problems
But it is also a Jerboa problem. Jerboa should handle network/instance stability better and it doesn't. It's getting better, but it's still very much focused on adding features instead of improving stability.
So if you see crashes, even if it's totally an issue with your instance, please still report it. I work on the app and try to fix that kind of thing, and it's a lot easier with a bug report that says what specifically you were doing.
You dropped this 👑
Looking forward to it. I'm on different Lemmy's though. Is that right ?
Yup, all the Lemmy servers use the same version (minus some semantics). If you played Minecraft before, you can imagine it like that - Mojang (people behind Minecraft) release a new version, and all the servers update to it
Unfortunately never played it. I do.not understand the instances and different Lemmy's. Makes sense they all use the server. Probably would be good idea to have them separated as we know centralized can be corrupted.
I use kbin as well. Does that pull from Lemmy ? Kbin and Lemmy world seem to work far better than the jerboa app. I'm just pinging around them. Have tried tildes too but it's invite only.
Go make an account on sh.itjust.works. It's been pretty reliable with no issues for me.
Same. Been pretty solid so far.
Agreed. I'm very happy. And the cool domain name is funny.
good community too :3
I second this :-)
Can't wait to be able to sign into Kbin.social on it.
Is that planned? Find it weird how on Mastodon I can find my lemmy account but not vice versa
I was sad replacing my BaconReader with Lemmy on all my devices. I loved BaconReader.
I still go over now and then, but every time I do I unsub from something. I don't plan on deleting my account, but I plan on only being subbed to r/baconreader, a sports sub, and the sub from the guy in Ireland who posts pictures of his cows.
Yeah. Same for the Kbin PWA, though I do hope the dev behind Infinity considers pursuing support for Lemmy (plus Kbin would be nice too)
Nice pfp :) rip hello internet ;-;
I've been really impressed with the kbin PWA. I thought the experience would suck, but I've been adapting just fine. I used Slide on Android.
It's definitely not as good as some of the apps, but the usability is very good on mobile.
I ended up uninstalling infinity! I definitely recommend it
You uninstalled it... but you're recommending it? That's atypical behaviour 😅
It's sad not to open Boost daily (~even though its still working, I don't feel like opening an app that is about to die~). But I'm glad Jerboa is there to fill the gap.
I can never get Jerboa to let me sign in on Android. Whenever I try to enter my instance, it tells me it doesn't recognize it. (There is a drop down menu above your username and pw.) Is Infinity a decent alternative?
Infinity is a reddit app
Oops. Thanks. I guess I will have to keep looking for something that will work.
It became easy to not open Infinity once I read they were going to start charging a subscription (something I don't fault them for, per se), and I uninstalled it.
Lucky you're not on lemmy.world.. ^^ I had to switch to liftoff after jerboa 0.35 and the choice of enforcing lemmy v0.18 while it wasn't even out. We're now locked out of jerboa for an undetermined time.
Same