Seems like lemmy is getting all the love and kbin only got the add to home screen on ios and android. any updates that i’m not aware of?
The Artemis app will be out soon, it looks pretty great already if you ask me
do you know if… we can get in on the beta. The lack of a back button on the web-app-thingy is killing me.
https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp Been in the works for a while
So far, there is an unnamed app in progress from the developer of Pixelfed, and another app called Artemis, which is currently in private Beta.
Apps talk to services via an API. Lemmy has an API, the one for kbin is still being figured out and isn’t enabled.
This is the only reason why kbin doesn’t have apps for it yet.
I think there was a kbin API and Ernest pulled it because he wanted to improve it. I think time will show that was a smart move. App developers need the API to be stable & unchanging; kbin can likely see how the Lemmy API is used by Apps, learn and improve from this.
We do know a new improved API is in the pipeline, and I agree with z2k, Apps will follow soon after.
Lemmy is also a lot older than kbin - kbin is only a month or two old, iirc, and it’s still technically in beta. I’m sure once an API of out for it, we’ll start seeing a lot of apps popping up. It just takes time - we’ve only just in the last few months seen a boom in quality Mastodon apps.
I’d say that in about six months, we’ll be spoiled for choice.
