Does anyone else use the android app Connect for Lemmy? It reminds me of Infinity for Reddit. If you use it, do you like it better than Jerboa? I also found another new Lemmy app called Liftoff.
Connect for Lemmy: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect
Anyone else just using whatever is FOSS feom f-droid?
Of course the more apps the merrier, but personally open code = a more trustworthy use for me
Jerboa was the first showing up on F-Droid and so far it’s great: minimalistic, responsive, lightweight (only 2MB or so). Don’t know why so many people are developing apps and not simply joining efforts. Makes me think they’re doing it for the purpose of doing it, and because they’re happy to work on an app and get their software engineering brain occupied by their own little project. But what will happen once this sentiment passes? Who’s gonna maintain these apps? What we need is one robust app everyone is working on together.
I say let them be, there are (or soon were) many different third-party apps for Reddit as well and each has their own niche of users for whom it works just right. Jerboa has plenty of devs working on it, and if in doubt I’ll always prefer having a choice between different apps. Let the free FOSS market decide!
The UI of this app honestly makes be feel a bit braindead at times, the process of finding the drop down necessary to even log in made be feel like I unlocked an easter egg in a point and click adventure game. It could use some more thought considering the backend of it is otherwise very well put together.
All the apps except connect are open source. I’ve tried jeroba, thunder and liftoff so far and liftoff has been the most robust.
Liftoff is great, has a lot of potential too. Devs in their Matrix room are cool.
I think Connect looks nicer so I’ve been using it - very excited for Sync for Lemmy though
Looks cool but if it’s not on F-Droid I ain’t using it.
Just tried and it’s much more impressive than Jerboa. No laggy scrolling, UI and UX are nicer. Feels more like RiF.
Only (minor) nitpicks I have are:
dark theme could be darker- I’d prefer the comment form shows as a popup/overlay (like RiF does) so you can kind of glance at the context while commenting
- list view items need more padding and less margin
Jerboa is absolutely not laggy on my side. Find it super responsive and lightweight instead. it’s only 2MB
I’m guessing what they’re referring to is that it waits to fetch the next page of the timeline until relatively “late”. There’s a definite hitch in scrolling for me when it’s fetching more posts.
That said, I’m perfectly satisfied with Jerboa.
dark theme could be darker
Try the “Amoled” theme in the settings (remember to click save at the bottom of the page, I initially missed that). It’s a much darker theme on my phone.
I am missing the comment collapse option on all apps except gerboa. Hope they fix it.
Thunder has been the most featured for me so far. It does collapse by time, and i am also able to subscribe to communities from new instances following the !community@instance.tld formatting.
I saw the announcement for that one, but I figured I’d leave off testing more for a little bit they mostly seem to be behind jerboa. Does liftoff support subscribing from instances your instance hasn’t seen before already?
