I hope instances are preparing for the 2nd wave of Reddit migrants on June 30th
Really wish Christian would bring Apollo to Lemmy in the same fashion
Maybe he's not saying anything but then will drop a fully polished app out of nowhere like that Beyoncé album
My god I wish. But I will say, congrats to Mlem and to Memmy, for pushing out two apollo-esque apps in the spirit of it all
Working on Mlem has been super fun and educational!
FOSS ftw
In one interview he said he was exhausted from this ordeal and that he just doesn't have the energy to rewrite Apollo to Lemmy.
And he deserves a long vacation after all the shit that has happened to him. I'd even understand if he'd go low profile from this point on.
The character assassination Steve Huffman unleashed on him would make a lesser man just want to disappear (online).
Memmy is already shaping up as a great client. Already very full featured. And with how fast the dev is updating, it’ll be awesome.
Here is a list of Apps coming to Lemmy:
https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/71764
Plenty for iOS to chose from, Christian’s legacy continues. Memmy and Mlem both feel pretty close to Apollo - and are both directly inspired by it.
These apps are in early beta. They have constant updates (daily for Memmy and weekly for Mlem), so you can kind of see them being built in real time. If you’re patient with the developers, you’ll get that Apollo experience very soon. It’s like 80% of the way there.
Liftoff is pretty cool too, though it’s a different design approach.
(I’m using Memmy now, actually.)
Great summary!
Memmy mafia represent!
At least we'll have Memmy and Artemis
SyncForLemmy sub is unavailable outside the app!
Yeah, that made me chuckle. Reddit is really trying to make sure I move on completely.
I like how they imply viewing it in the app suddenly makes the subreddit safe. They use the same trick in NSFW subreddits to get people to install thier app.
This is fantastic. Sync was the best and I tried multiple apps but kept coming back.
I always used baconreader because I'm after really compact and full function with options. I don't want giant image cards because I'm ten million years old (I'm not, I just like the outcome of having to design around simplicity and efficiency).
However, an actual app? Made by a popular, experienced, and successful app dev? I will 100% pay for and use that even though it's not my preferred design philosophy.
Lemmy and kbin are... alright as they are, but chrome is such a pos for multitasking and I would really love some clarity and consistency to the ux design across different instances and more and better options.
What I really want, ideally, is baconreader to make a universal fediverse app - but the likelihood of anybody making a universal app and that's good is very low, let alone my favorite 3rd party reddit app dev that's already said they don't plan on it.
Try Jerboa if you're on Android. It's made by the Lemmy devs and has had an explosion of activity and growth since Rexxit.
Jerboa is ok. It certainly isn't perfect but it's getting there. I've always liked baconreader too.
Jerboa is fine, but it's not as good as some of the Reddit apps.
Anyway it's great to see developers of Reddit apps releasing apps for Lemmy, because UI wise it's so close that they will probably be able to reuse most of their code. We'll get all the maturity of these apps on day 1 of the release, and competition between the apps will be healthy.
Liftoff is look good too
There's usually options for "list" view instead of "card" view.
Sync was completely customizable. You wouldn't believe how compact I made mine.
Ljdawson is a fucking legend
Lemmy is cool and all so far... Hopefully the other communities make it over here.
If you want a particular community you can create it!
Be the change you want to see and create it. People will come
Create them! We won't judge you!
...don't judge mine
I created a sublemmy for PhotoshopRequest. Please spread the word as it'll help. Thanks! You may check it here
I think we should stick to calling them communities. That is an apt description of what they are and I don't see the point in trying desperately to replicate everything reddit.
I agree
Yeah plus it makes sense given the /c/
Fuck yeah. I'm a grown ass man, and I feel like a child at Christmas Eve.
Honestly this feels like reddit in the old days hahaha
Kbin support wow :0
Just take my money already 😩
No confirmation that it will be there at launch but great news that he's committed to supporting it!
It almost certainly won't be at launch, as the kbin API is not ready yet. Artemis, another upcoming kbin/Lemmy double-act app, is currently relying on a web scraper and self-hosted shim API to access kbin content, with the goal being to switch to the real API once it's available.
Basically, it's a lot of extra work to support kbin right now, but in the future it should be about as easy as Lemmy. I'll be interested to see if any other Lemmy apps pick up kbin support as a result, but even just a couple is more than I expected so soon.
Stupid question, but what's the difference between kbin and lemmy? I thought kbin was a lemmy instance.
Kbin is a different software.
Ah, thank you
But kbin is compatible with Lemmy, as it's also federated via ActivtyPub. Kbin also supports microblogging and can see content in Mastodon.
It also includes microblogging so it's like a mix of lemmy and mastadon (and federates with both)
From an end user point of view, there's not much difference other than the UI (and because of differing APIs, different third party apps too). It's fully interoperable with Lemmy (and Mastodon).
Behind the scenes on the server, though, it's a completely different piece of software.
Think of it as GMail and Yahoo! Mail. It's still emails at the end of the day but the UI looks different and their servers are definitely different.
That’s not a stupid question.
But it was just talked about in a giant thread the other day.
Do search engines even index this shit?
When I Google stuff, I can’t find anything here.
Will be buying the pro version as soon as I can!!!
I might buy pro on all 3: Mlem Memmy and Artemis, just to help skyrocket them on the App Store. Fuck spez
This is awesome. The kbin support is gonna go over really well too.
Fantastic!