❤️🔥 🎇 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 :)
No link?
App link here, since OP didn’t deliver 😉 : https://apps.apple.com/us/app/memmy-for-lemmy/id6450204299
Sorry didn’t include a link since it’s on the app store. Thanks for providing one.
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.
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.
Fantastic app, really puts Reddit to shame. Maybe if they didn’t spend all their efforts trying to add trackers and shit they would have a decent app
OP you’re on an iPhone. Next time crop the photo in the Photos app to remove the ad for PUBG…
I thought my Lemmy app was displaying ads and almost deleted it.
I also though that, but I’m on wefwef so that didn’t make any sense
Wtf is a wefwef
That made me chuckle. Wefwef is one of the popular apps for browsing Lemmy
The old name for Voyager
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.
Hell, at least on my Motorola, you can set it so triggering a screenshot gives you a transparent, resizable selection box so you only capture the part of the screen you want to capture without having to crop afterwards.
I wonder how much Tencent will pay per post like this
I wonder what they’d pay for the Reddit equivalent
One more step in the right direction.
A giant leap for the fediverse. :)
Now I just need to learn how to use Lemmy
You better start believein’ in using Lemmy…
You’re doing it.
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)
Thank you! I wish the app made this clearer. But I’ll be referring to this comment until I develop some muscle memory.
The only gesture it still needs is swiping a comment right to left to collapse the entire comment thread
angry android noises
Try: Jerboa, Liftoff, Connect, Summit, Thunder, wefwef, etc.
Sync is coming next month too.
And you can install any of them right now without waiting for them to be approved on the store.
Of the ones I mentioned only thunder isn’t in the play store yet.
You rock! Thanks!!
Lemmotif is also looking good but is newer and less feature rich last I checked. There’s probably a couple newer ones that’s I’m forgetting.
Oh, Artemis is coming soon and also supports kbin which is rare as their api isn’t finished yet.
Don’t forget Connect.
Really good
Ironically I posted the comment from connect…
I’m currently waiting for some of these to make it to Fdroid, it’s just jerboa on there so far (which I like!)
I’m excited for boost because that was my favourite Reddit client.
Liftoff is pretty good so far. You can use obtanium to install it from GitHub releases and keep it up to date, I find it just as convenient as F-droid.
Thanks for both recommendations, I’ve read about obtainium before but never needed to use it. It’s good!
So far I like liftoff as well. Nice to have several good options (already!)
Some are on izzydroid if you’re willing to add a repo.
Liftoff is there too. I like Jerboa but I felt there were too many bugs/crashes just now. Liftoff isn’t the best looking but its the most dependable imo.
boost for reddit dev looks like they released a boost for lemmy
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
Thanks so much!!
We’ve got a bajillion of them, and unlike iOS, you didn’t need to wait for it to hit the Apple Store.
iOS allows you to install beta apps via TestFlight. And we have a bunch already not including wefwef.
Which technically doesn’t even get installed because it’s one of these new fancy no-download apps!
Won’t go back to android for their vulnerabilities and Google’s spyware and I won’t be goin back to Reddit
staying in a closed sourced platform is more vulnerable. though I’m running a custom android rom
This
Not at all true.
how? justify your reasoning? being on apple who have one of the largest user base, you are more vulnerable for cyberattacks. you said you left google because of Google spying on you. how come apple won’t do that?
Oy vey, no man…
Android is the most heavily used OS in the world. The best thing I’m gonna recommend instead of listing all the reasons is to point you to lists of Android vulnerabilities (public info because OSINT is life) vs iOS vulns over time.
Apple may spy on us! But nothing near as severe as google has in the past (and we’re caught for) like when google chrome was listening in on user microphones. Never heard of such a scandal with Apple before.
And for the record I think Apple is over priced and a cult 🤠
I’m sure android has alternatives already. I always feel like iOS gets the popular apps later than android. :(
I never head of memmy. Don’t worry Android has lots of good Lemmy apps
I’m happy to report there are several android apps getting daily updates at the moment.
Right?! Lol
I’m using jerboa and it’s pretty decent. It’s got bugs, but I’m assuming it’s still up and coming. Overall I’m pleased :)
The dev did so much work in the last few weeks. It’s amazing how quickly this app became good.
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
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.
Voice your opinion at !wefwef@lemmy.world. The dev has already considered renaming as the current one was picked arbitrarily and partly because it’s easy to type with one hand 🤔
Lol I started using liftoff on android for that exact reason. Idk what’s so appealing about baby talk for app devs that they name stuff like that
I’m going back and forth between Jerboa, LiftOff and Thunder.
I’ll have to checkout thunder. I haven’t heard tried that one yet. There’s so many apps being made right now!
Imagine being so insecure that you won’t use an app because the name isn’t manly enough. (Although to be fair i am also using liftoff atm because it was the open source app that worked the best last time I tried them all)
Lol nobody said anything about being it not being manly. I said it sounds like baby talk. It’s childish and sounds silly. It’s more telling that you read baby talk and immediately thought about how unmanly something is.
Me viewing this post on Memmy
Very clean. I like it a lot.
I know. Reminds me so much of apollo. I’m on cloud 9 right now :)
Exactly! My fingers have missed Apollo these last few weeks. Memmy feels SO familiar!
Is this open source?
Thanks a lot. I’ll be looking into contributing to the app too
Why does the app need to collect the Device ID and link it to me?
push notifications
Can’t be. I have multiple apps with push notifications that don’t collect/link it.
TIL: The labels are kind of self imposed by interpreting apple guidelines.
Thanks for the link :)
Most based and respectful conversation you guys are legends
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.
Browsed through safari before and I would be logged out randomly, too. Not sure why it’s not smooth on browsers though.
It’s good there’s this app which will hopefully work better. I haven’t tried it yet, but if for some reason you still log on mobile browser I found that if I completely delete the auto fill email/PW then manually tell it to fill again, I can login with no problem.
The GitHub mentions Android support. How do we get this?
well it’s a React app (booo), so all the author (or anyone willing to make a PR) needs to do is update the build pipeline to compile an APK and create a GitHub release for it if they don’t want a Play Store presence.
Please we need to know 😩
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.
I have also been using it the past week or so. Works pretty well and UI is good and intuitive.
Exactly.
Considering the app in only a few weeks old at most, I’m surprised at how polished it is.It can only get better from here.It’s a fork of lemmur, which has been around for quite a long time but whose development was stopped earlier this year because its developers didn’t want to be associated with tankies.
Ah okay. I assumed it was quite new because it was in beta. My bad.
What’s a tankie?
Yeah the fork is really new so I get why it seems that way. A tankie is a person who is a left wing authoritarian, to the point that they support Russia (I guess because of udssr history?) and china. Lemmy’s main developers fall under that spectrum and one of the largest lemmy instances before the whole reddit api thing went down was lemmygrad.ml, where you get banned if you dare criticise the CCP. Thankfully most instances are deferedated from it.
Huh
I knew none of that. Thanks!
Loving the app competition. Mlem is coming along really nice as well. I truly wish Lemmy takes over Reddit.