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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

Liftoff: https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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

haha upvoting because your rent made me laugh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All the apps except connect are open source. I've tried jeroba, thunder and liftoff so far and liftoff has been the most robust.

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

Liftoff is great, has a lot of potential too. Devs in their Matrix room are cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I love the fact that it can aggregate feeds from multiple accounts. It is also the client that has been giving the least amount of timeouts for me.

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

Same here, installed what was available in F-Droid.

Will check again in a few months, as I assume different flavors will be created.