this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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Liftoff!

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A mobile client for Lemmy running on iOS and Android

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Jerboa just changed its display name so it shows "for lemmy" in the play store but not when it's installed.

Something to consider.

[–] AnonLordo 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

2 weeks ago we had Jerboa, now I can't count em anymore. Enourmous growth and development on Lemmy. However, I recommend wefwef.app for thy lazy types

Edit: not to be disrespectful, I also donated to Zach for Liftoff. Development goes on like crazy here.

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

Wefwef is really good thanks for the recommendation :)

[–] tsac 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My only issue has been constant "failed to load post" messages. Really sucks the fun out of it.

[–] AnonLordo 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tsac 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I just read the post about the rate limiting. I'm still getting used to all of this so didn't think to check for a community specifically for it.

[–] AnonLordo 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you can, selfhost. Wefwef is a lightweight.

[–] tsac 1 points 1 year ago

Just did but it appears PWA doesn't work out of the box when doing so. Looking into fixing that now.

[–] ToNIX 3 points 1 year ago

I agree, I tried them all on Android and kept going back to Jerboa... until I found wefwef. What an amazing app!

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

I agree. It's currently impossible to find directly through the app store. I found it through a post on lemmy.world and am glad I found it. Jerboa is kinda buggy and hard to use right now.

[–] Qwazpoi 3 points 1 year ago

I downloaded from GitHub after it didn't show up when I typed "Liftoff lemmy" in the play store.

I'm not sure what has changed, but it's now popping up as the 3rd result on the play store when I repeat the search.

[–] zachatrocity 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah we added this in the upcoming release. Should be tonight

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

Agreed. The only reason I found Liftoff was because of this post (List of lemmy apps): https://lemmy.ml/post/1466515

It still doesn't show up for me on when I'm on Google Play.

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

Does the Play Store not support tags or keywords for search?! I would hope the author could just tag the app "lemmy" and it would show up if searching for "lemmy". Shouldn't have to put everything in the name of the app. FFS, Google... maybe worse than Reddit's search. (And if abuse of tags is a problem, punish the people abusing it.)

[–] Ryan213 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone mentioned earlier this week: "liftoff fediverse -reddit" as your search. Dumb/inconvenient but works.

[–] S_204 1 points 1 year ago

Jerboa wasn't stable for me once. Liftoff seems solid. What's good about wefwef?

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

I am seeing a couple apps for lemme but nothing for kbin yet. Does anyone know if one is in the works?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The kbin API is still not ready so apps can't be done for it yet, but since demand has grown so much it is in the works

[–] PropaGandalf 2 points 1 year ago

God forbid! These long and unnecessarily clunky can stay away from me.

[–] ekZepp 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Cosmonaut_Collin 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I searched "liftoff lemmy" and found it immediately.

[–] MariaShima 5 points 1 year ago

But the point would be for people who are looking for a Lemmy app and are just searching "Lemmy" and checking out whatever shows up there.

[–] dzonc 0 points 1 year ago

Comment spam sorry but you asked

[–] dzonc 0 points 1 year ago

Description will suffice tbh