I’m trying to stop using Reddit, but it having an app I know about makes it have quite an advantage.

I know there’s a few apps out there I can use to browse Lemmy, but I’m not sure about their names and the different features they offer.

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    I’m the developer of Summit. Unfortunately I don’t see anyone mention Summit but I would suggest giving it a try as well.

    I think I’ve been a bit slower to implement certain features compared to the other apps, but the app is heavily focused on scalability and performance. Give it a try just in case you might like it. Play store link: Summit for Lemmy

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          Is that something you would be open to working towards? Since the growth of Lemmy is attributed to Reddit becoming “closed”, I think many users might see it as a dealbreaker or be less inclined to use a closed-source app.

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            My feelings towards this might change in the future. However for the time being, my enjoyment of the project hinges on the project being closed source. Ie. open sourcing the project will likely lead to me stepping away from the project. So even if this significantly impacts the number of users, I would still prefer to keep it closed source. I’d rather have a fun side project I made than to create a popular project that I do not contribute to. It is unfortunate but it is what it is.

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      I just came from Reddit to ckeck lemmy out, looks quite promising. I am tring out different apps at the moment but summit looks and feels fast and responsive.

      Do you by any cance release it on the F-droid appstore?

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      Didn’t find this when I was looking for lemmy apps at google play store. I downloaded it now and it’s the first one that actually works on my phone. Thanks.

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      Tried it. Looks like it has a lot of promise, but I couldn’t view any comments on posts. I realize it’s early release but that makes it pretty unusable for now.

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        Thank you for reporting this issue. I have never encountered this myself. I know this is a lot of work but if you have some free time and you are willing to help I would love to try to troubleshoot the issue with you. If you’re open to it send me a DM on Lemmy, or create a post about this on https://lemmy.world/c/summit.

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      I’m replying on Connect for Lemmy. I just looked at your app and it’s super dope but I’ve got to say the one thing that throws me off is the button for the link is on the far side from my finger. I also like swiping to reply and vote and nonsense like that and your app doesn’t have it.

      Take your time however and implement things well and I’ll keep it in mind. My favorite app for Reddit was Relay I think I will be looking for an app until I get something similar or exactly the same.

      List mode ftw

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        Thank you for your feedback! Regarding “button for the link” could you clarify what this is? Are you talking about the link to the community the post was from?

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          Sorry, I didn’t see this reply until now. I mean the button for whatever the post is linking to. Pictures, other communities, or external links. I’m right handed and the button is on the left. This makes it a big reach for my thumb to reach across my screen and I’m less likely to click on things or use your app because of it. I know it’s a small complaint but it’s all about feel, especially when it comes to apps, that’s why reddit had so many!

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            I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is my last update included a lot of new customizations including changing the direction of the content. See this demo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8mIVZflUHhU.

            The bad news is I submitted this update ~1.5 days ago to Google Play. The app is still in review. I have no idea what is going on since usually updates are reviewed within 1-4 hours. I hope the update will be available soon. You can take a look at my community at https://lemmy.world/c/summit to see updates about this.

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        I’m not sure what “libre software” is but if you are asking if it is free then yes, at the moment the app is 100% free with no ads. If you asking if it’s open source then no, it is not open source.

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          Libre software is used as a synonim for free (as in freedom) software, which is open source software with some nuances. Do you plan to open source it?

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            Unfortunately I am not planning on open sourcing the app. Summit is a fun side project for me. I think open sourcing the project would no longer make it a fun side project so I am keeping it closed source for my own selfish enjoyment.

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              Wouldn’t it be more fun if multiple people help you out and it may still be maintained if you stop working on it?

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                Darn, I didn’t want to debate this on a Monday morning. I’ll give a tl;dr about my thoughts to avoid a debate:

                First of all I 100% support open source software (I even donate monthly to some projects), but I also think every developer should have the right to choose to open source or close source their own software.

                Second, I write code full time as my job 8 hours a day for the past decade. Summit is a fun hobby for me. If I made Summit open source, it would end up more in the job territory. Why would I want to make a fun project into a job?

                If you love debating and want to discuss further feel free to slide into my DMs.

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                  I mostly use open-source software for the last few years but I would still support closed-source software if it’s by an individual developer.

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      I like this one, but I don’t see where to edit my profile at all. Hopefully it will remember my filter preferences in future releases. Overall, good job!

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        Thank you for your feedback. This feature is currently not in the app at the moment but I can add this feature to the roadmap. If you could explain your use case for filtering that would also help a lot with how I will choose to implement this.

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      out of all those you are testing which one would you say has the closest UI to reddit is fun?

    • 𝐘Ⓞz҉@lemmy.world
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      So I am using lift off but how do you upvote posts from other instances ? It says unable to upvote coz youre not signed into lemmy.ml. Is there a way to upvote post from other instances?

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        I am pretty sure that you can upvote most of the stuff on instances you don’t have an account for. However some instances require you to apply for an account rather than just singing up (eg Beehaw was like that for me). An admin has to manually click a button for you to become a member. In those cases you can not just upvote or comment on one of those instances without an account. I think it’s to prevent a flood of bots on some of the instances. Not entirely sure if I got it right, though!

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    I’m new but Jerboa works like a charm on my Samsung, very fast and responsive.

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      My only complain is it’s a little too easy to click on the sub instead of the title, other than that Jerboa has been great.

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      It’s bit buggy, sometimes I press to open a sub and I need it used the internal browser and sometimes it takes me there within the app. No idea why it has two options.

      Since the most recent update it closes wben I bookmark something and keeps saying to log into my instance.

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        Because not all the instance links has been added to Jerboa. It’s reported on github and hopefully will be fixed soon.

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      My current problem with jerboa is that it keeps pestering me to update server to a newer version without giving me a clue how to do it.

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        You can’t. System admin needs to, and they posted that they can’t yet because the new version doesn’t support captcha yet. They’re expecting a fix but have to wait.

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    This might sound crazy, but i am just using the website via Firefox on my phone. Jerboa wasnt doing it for me, and someone recommended just using the website… I prefer it over jerboa. I imagine with all the development going on, there will be something better showing up, but until it does, I’m just going old school.

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      Jerboa was doing fine for me until Jerboa got updated beyond the Lemmy instances I’ve been browsing (which aren’t updating because the new Lemmy release removes the captcha, which then prevents new sign ups). Now Jerboa says the biggest Lemmy instance is below the minimum version Jerboa supports, and refuses to open the instance. Helluva bump in the road…

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        Yeah, that’s a lemmy.world problem, however i get your meaning. I figure that are going to be growing pains over the next few months. This is one of em!

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      For me, the web client keeps re-rendering itself for apparently no reason. It’s a very janky experience.

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    Jerboa - a bit buggy still, and sometimes posts take a while to load, but its features are fantastic.

    Connect - I love this app, and I tried to switch to it, but being unable to disable “swipe to upvote” is a dealbreaker for me.

    Liftoff - I just switched to this. It’s very polished and responsive, and accomodates my preferred way of scrolling and interacting with communities.

    Lemmotif - pure minimalist doomscrolling. It doesn’t even let you log in to vote, comment, or post. Blazingly fast, and I love it. Uninstalled.

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    I’ve tried jeroba, liftoff and thunder. My experience with jeroba is mostly negative. It’s not good enough to be a full replacement for using a web browser and with the new update it crashes on my older, not bleeding edge phone. It can’t even open lemmy links people post half the time.

    Thundar is ok. I’m not a fan of its interface but at least you can actually browse communities you aren’t subscribed to.

    The third one I’ve tried is Liftoff and it’s the best one I’ve seen so far. It’s about the same in terms of quality as Boost for reddit. You can explore new communities in other instances, have more than one active account logged in to be able to simultaneously use different instances and best of all there’s a search.

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      Connect is great for me so far…lftoff wouldnt accept my login details and Jerboa only returns a server error message

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    I’m currently switching between Liftoff, Thunder, and Jerboa, altho Jerboa refuses to let me sign in, 'cause server version BS.

    Liftoff has a nice UI IMO, and I like Thunder’s navigation, so I’ll prolly end up using one of the 2. Notably, Liftoff is more feature-complete than Thunder, so… Depends on what you want I guess.

    Well that got out of hand quickly.

    Have a nice day!

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      Liftoff for some reason won’t let me upvote posts from other instances. Very odd because it tells me I would literally need to make an account on every instance to upvote posts.

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        I had this issue until I manually selected my logged-in instance from the dropdown list at the top of the main screen.

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        Same hear, it seems that every app has a fair share of bugs, and the only way to determine which is best for you is to test them and see what you can live with.

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        Also for @[email protected]

        In the Settings -> General page there is a ‘Show EVERYTHING feed’ toggle which could explain why you’re getting that problem. That gives an option in the drop down at the top of the main feed page to view All from Everything which means it combines the All feeds from each instance you have in Accounts in the Settings (by default it has a few of the big instances added I think). It’s basically like you’re going to each site beehaw.org, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, etc. even if you don’t an account there.

        To avoid running into the issue of not being able to upvote you can remove the instances you don’t have accounts on, or just not use the Everything feed (turn it off, or select the instance you want to view from in the drop-down). And in case it’s not clear, if you view All from just your one instance you’ll still see posts from everywhere else but you are seeing it from the place you have an account so you’ll be able to upvote/comment.

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    I actually just switched from Jerboa to Connect based on this thread, and I’m loving it. Much nicer UI and easier to use. I think I’ll stay with this until Sync is ready!

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    Currently I use ‘Jerboa for Lemmy’ It has yet to fail me but that is the usual default app. If anyone has any information of a better app I am willing to try another :3

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      Unfortunately it is currently broken with lemmy.world. For those of us that are already signed in it seems to work ok, but new users will need to use something else at the moment. Connect for Lemmy is a good alternative on Android.

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        Ah that I did not know bout, it did take me a while to get it working with the app, alot of stubbornness to work with world. Jerboa overall does have its moments of lag and would like to replace :c Will check out connect if it does not lag as much as Jerboa. Always good to have sources of other apps then one and only app.

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        This is because Lemmy.world hasn’t updated to 0.18 yet. The admin said captcha doesn’t work on 0.18.0 so he’s waiting till 0.18.1.

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        I just signed up with another instance. Is there a particular reason everyone wants to use lemmy.world? I went with sh.itjust.works… will I run into any issues?

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          I haven’t heard of any incompatibility issues with shitjustworks specifically, but I really don’t know. I chose Lemmy.world to be on the fastest growing server with the most activity, but really if it’s a federated server it shouldn’t matter too much.

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          I initially chose it because (I think) it didn’t require me to wait to get approved. Or I just forgot about that again. Another reason was because of the post lemmy.ml asking people to join elsewhere because there were so many new people it got difficult for their server to handle and lemmy.world was the next I saw.

          I did make multiple accounts (on different instances) though to have a sort of backup just in case something happens, as unlikely as that may seem.

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        I use LemmyWorld and it started working for me again with a notification to ask your instance admin to update from 17 to 18.

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          I am receiving that error from time to time as well and it is otherwise functional, but new users will not be able to sign in on Jerboa until 18.1 comes out.

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    The developer of Sync for reddit is creating a lemmy app. Can’t wait to try it, as Sync was my favorite reddit app.

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      This is a big reason for me moving over. I love Sync and can’t wait to keep using it.