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Lemmy Client Question (lemmy.world)
submitted 22 hours ago by rubenstorm@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I am testing the following Lemmy Clients, and I don't know yet what is the best for me.

  • Summit
  • Blorp
  • Jerboa
  • Thunder

I do need your help to decide. Summit I didn't find it in f-droid, I installed it from the play store. Is Summit open source?

This l wrote with Summit

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[–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

There's some history behind it. First the author didn't want to have it open source, iirc due to some bad experiences with having their source code open? Don't remember exactly. The repo you linked existed for bug reporting basically. Then later on this changed and the source code got released. I still don't know if the author is interested in getting public contributions to the codebase.

Regardless, the author makes some very pleasant software, and is super responsive at fixing issues/implementing feature requests. Hats entirely off to them.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Thank you. A few corrections/clarifications here:

  1. https://github.com/idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy was created because some users wanted an alternative to Google Play Store and so I made that repo to publish APKs back when Summit was closed source. This also has synergy with Obtanium. The repository is still actively used today. New releases are automatically built and published to that repository as APKs.
  2. Bug reports should be made to !summit@lemmy.world. I rarely check the Github for issues (sorry).
  3. One of the reasons why it was closed source was because I didn't want to accept contributions. That has not changed, and likely will never change unless I retire the project. Especially now when vibe code is rampant.
[–] rubenstorm@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

If you have it FOSS the community can check it and you gain more trust.

Summit is in my closer circle of apps am looking at maybe using. Why don't you put it on f-droid as play store alternative?