I searched up “Lemmy” on the PlayStore and noticed that Reddit appears right before the last lemmy client in that search X3 do u guys know if there r any other lemmy clients worth trying? I randomly felt like trying all I could find and for now I’ll stay on Jerboa and the Web UI but I use Voyager too now, mainly for DMs
Edit: I apparently wasn’t clear enough but I was asking for OTHER clients that aren’t on this list X3 but feel free to share why u use an app in this list if u want anyway :3
why do people use boost? heard it has ads in it. not to mention it collects and shares data. it baffles me why anyone would use it over something like voyager. (also its a proprietary app for a FOSS project)
I use it, it’s great. No ads since I paid for it. Of course it collects and shares data, by definition as it’s a client to third parties platforms.
many other lemmy clients don’t collect and share data like boost does, bud.
I used to use boost for reddit so I was excited it was coming for Lemmy until I saw all the anti privacy aspects of it.
By the time it and sync finally launched. There were so many great foss apps for Lemmy that it made no sense to use one that tracked me.
The tracking disclaimer is the standard message you get when an app uses Google ads. Pay for it and there are no ads, and by extension no tracking.
Then you don’t understand the fediverse my friend. These “clients” are monetizing something that’s free.
Nah it’s fine for people to make money off of their work, i even support sopuli.xyz continuity
No man I get the point of paid apps. I don’t think it should collect and sell data. That’s the poison pill with this whole deal.
It’s my understanding that Boost don’t serve ads, and doesn’t track data, if you pay for it.
The point is it doesn’t, it serves ads if you don’t pay. It doesn’t sell data, just uses google adsense to serve ads.
The other point where it collects and shares data with third parties is when connecting to third party servers (lemmy). That’s it…
Google adsense collects data.
I think you’re missing the point intentionally
Free software != free of charge.
Nothing about free software says you need to give it away for no cost, nor that anyone can’t do it. You can charge $100 for a simple calculator program that is under the GPL for its code. Nothing is there to prevent you from assembling the code and making it yourself, or from the buyer from copying and sharing the program. It’s just way way easier to show off the program for free as in price and freedom for most programmers.
It’s why the people who made Debian/Slackware/Ubuntu discs could charge money for an otherwise free product. Because the programmers openly allow this.
And programming is itself labor, just a lot of free software devs don’t worry too much about getting paid for it.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
Except for one special situation, the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) has no requirements about how much you can charge for distributing a copy of free software. You can charge nothing, a penny, a dollar, or a billion dollars. It’s up to you, and the marketplace, so don’t complain to us if nobody wants to pay a billion dollars for a copy.
The one exception is in the case where binaries are distributed without the corresponding complete source code. Those who do this are required by the GNU GPL to provide source code on subsequent request. Without a limit on the fee for the source code, they would be able set a fee too large for anyone to pay—such as a billion dollars—and thus pretend to release source code while in truth concealing it. So in this case we have to limit the fee for source in order to ensure the user’s freedom. In ordinary situations, however, there is no such justification for limiting distribution fees, so we do not limit them.
Sometimes companies whose activities cross the line stated in the GNU GPL plead for permission, saying that they “won’t charge money for the GNU software” or such like. That won’t get them anywhere with us. Free software is about freedom, and enforcing the GPL is defending freedom. When we defend users’ freedom, we are not distracted by side issues such as how much of a distribution fee is charged. Freedom is the issue, the whole issue, and the only issue.
by definition as it’s a client to third parties platforms
It doesn’t have to collect data at all. Voyager and many other clients do not.
Oh yeah, the notice on the app store is for the ads, which gets deactivated once you pay for the app. But other than that using a service of a third party means sending information to that service even if not called that by an app store.
I paid for it
the fact you pay for something that is utilizing FOSS software is crazy. its not like they are even hosting their own instance. they’re just profiting off of open source devs.
They’re paying for the use of the Boost app that the developer themselves created though? If they were charging for a Lemmy server I’d understand the point but they’re paying for a client that they don’t have to pay for. If it brings more people over to Lemmy then we all benefit really.
I also paid for Boost because the UI beat out all the other clients that I tried, replacing Connect which was my favourite at the time. It felt the most like Relay that I used to use on Reddit.
It’s the anti privacy/ ads i really have issues with. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with paying a developer.
Boost is the best app I’ve used. I’m not a fan of voyager
I like it because of the clear read function, if there’re other apps with something similar that’d be neat
imagine using propriatary apps with tracking to use the foss decentralised social media ;w; these ppl blackpill me so much
Yea that’s kinda silly to me too :\ oh well, I guess those users just find it perfect for them and they dont mind the tracking or paying for it
I use thunder because I contributed 5 whole lines to its source code 😎
:O Wow u made Thunder into what it is today?! X3
What did you contribute to it?
5 lines
50 million downloads? Is lemmy really that popular?
No, it’s 50 000. It says mil, which means thousand in Portuguese (and in Spanish and Italian, if I’m not mistaken?) imo it’s confusing, because Google likes using 50mil when it’s 50 000 and using 50M when it’s 50 000 000.
nono THOUSAND X3 I’m Spanish and it confuses me too all the time LOL X3
It’s kinda depressing I’m not even in the list…
Well whatever, I still use my app daily
What app is it?? :o That’s why I made this post, to find more lemmy clients, but so far out of the 150+ comments only one has told me of a client I didn’t know of and I can’t install it for some reason LOL X3
i use thunder and eternity, eternity’s my fav bc of the ui customisability an seperating downloads into folders per community. but also thunder just cuz it looked cool an it works :3
Thunder has an awesome sharing feature.
Eternity is my backup.
Oh right! That downloads feature sounds so neat tho I very rarely download anything from lemmy but I bet it’s great for people that download their fave memes or whatevs :3 and yeah cool+works r the main things I look for too X3
I use Jerboa because it’s lightweight and i have an outdated phone.
oh app weight and compatibility with older devices never occurred to me for some reason, that’s neat :3
was shocked to see boost and sync at 50 million downloads, but mil is just thousand in the language you were using haha
LMAO Srry about that X3 it confuses me too all the time cuz I usually have apps in English unless their main language is Spanish (so, always X3) but a few r in Spanish either cuz they wont let me change the language of just that app or I forgot to check if they do :p
PROTECT THE RULECASE!
INRULEIIIIIING!!!
I just realized I haven’t been on reddit since sync closed down.
Yea kinda funny how I thought I would still want to use Reddit after moving to Lemmy but I just never opened the app and ended up removing it :p Same as with Windows when I moved to Linux years ago! X3
I think it’s been like 8 months since the mass migration thing? maybe nine?
I think I check Facebook more than reddit these days, am I still cool?
Oh well X3 yes u can still be cool :>
Boost
Oh wait, I was surprised so many people were mentioning Boost and Sync and then noticed they seem to be the most downloaded by far, duh X3
Tested Raccoon and its basically like Jerboah but worse with too big UI, missing features and bugs.
Jerboah forever! Its the most stable Lemmy client and also full featured.
I dunno, Raccoon seemed cool to me :3 It did feel similar to other apps but in a good way, but it’s super laggy on my phone for some reason, apparently other people here dont have that issue but someone did have a different problem so I guess we all get a different bug at random LOL X3
Thanks, I’ll look into it: does it happen only in some screens (e.g. community detail or comment detail or settings) or in general the whole UI is lagging?
Oh hi Raccoon guy! :3 I think it was certain UI elements that took like a second to load, like if I tap the three lines to open the sidebar where I can log-in and stuff or the little icon at the other side to sort posts or the all/local buttons inside the sidebar, that’s all I could try rn without logging in but I think it also happened when going in and out of DMs
My only problem with Raccoon is that I can’t make post titles large and the comment text normal. Everything is either too big or too small because there’s only like 1 setting for all the text.
I really wish the dude who started Liftoff would give us an update or something. It’s pretty damn perfect but it won’t work with 0.19+ of Lemmy currently and it still has an issue where it repeats posts all the time.
Be nice if RIF became LIF. I liked RIF.
Hi and thanks for trying it out! I have been working on content font sizes (there were some rendering problems I realized) but I’m curious about having different dimensions for different parts of the content (currently there are two options, one for the menus/buttons of the app, the other for posts and comments). What more fine-grained control do you think would be useful?
What more fine-grained control do you think would be useful?
Post titles, body text, comment text, and usernames would be ideal.
Seems legit! Thanks for answering so quickly I can definitely work on it! let’s see if in future releases it improves. ty! 🙏
Done here, this week’s development release will contain the new feature! Thanks again for the report.
That dev is now doing Three Cheers for Tildes
You mean the RIF developer, right? If Tildes wasn’t invite-only, I might have been on there instead of Lemmy.
Yes RIF. Tildes and 3 cheers is still pretty nascent.
What features are missing that you would like to see? Apart from the text size, what are the other bugs you found? I just ask you to take a couple of minutes to answer, I think the project is very poorly maintained but no one’s voice has ever been ignored.
Lots of dialogs where a bit messed up, for example the answer or the report one. Not sure. It was mainly that text boxes appeared on wrong places, too low or high and the rest was black.
Not sure tbh, cannot give a good report sorry.
Missing:
- view absolute ratings like jerboah (not only the final score, like 100+ 200- instead of just 100-)
Ok the drop downs I see. thanks! As for the vote format, you can choose the “separate” option to split positive and negative votes:
Cool!
I use Eternity because Jerboa’s scrolling was fucked up for me for months.
Tried Eternity, was a blessing for Reddit but I dont think I need it for Lemmy
Fun fact: Eternity for Reddit was named after it’s update schedule
LMAO so I’ve heard ye X3 Tho jokes aside I’m guessing it was called Eternity cuz the original reddit app may be gone but the community is eternal or something like that?
I’m a huge Boost fan.
That’s what I used in Reddit! :D
btw I recommend not sorting by Top or Old in this post X3
Do you remember RIF? And that time reddit forced all the third party apps to change their names by adding “for Reddit” at the end? So RIF changed the name to “RIF is fun for Reddit”, that is “Reddit if Fun is Fun for Reddit”. Good times.
RIF is short for RIF is fun, not Reddit is fun because at a different point in time, Reddit didn’t want other clients to have the word reddit in their name.
RIF is fun is fun for Reddit, then?
Still better than DC comics’ Detective Comics.
Omg I didnt know about the “for Reddit” thing, that’s hilarous X3
At some point there was like twenty of ‘for Reddits’ on Google Play. Before, you know, the dark times.
I use sync and I used it when it was a reddit app. It was funny to join Lemmy while hating on sync was trendy.
I think I remember people talking about Sync a lot but didn’t pay attention to that, why were they hating on it? I tried it yesterday and it seems pretty cool and has some neat features :3
I think a big part of the hate came from the fact that the developer was charging for a premium version. Lemmy is all about open source, power to the people kind of things, so I imagine this rubbed people up the wrong way. Plus it was a fairly popular reddit app, and people were hating on the reddit refugees as well.
ohhh I see, yeah I remember something like that, ty! :3
I use sync too but I wish the developer actually seemed to give a fuck. Seems he took all the initial money and bounced. I know he comes and goes but people pay for this app and it should be maintained properly.
I’m on sync… What are the issues? Also I think the team works on his sporadically, it’s not a main thing, more like a hobby thing.
Way back when it released I said that the dev was charging so much upfront that he probably doesn’t expect lemmy to take off. He even responded to my comment saying he was going all in. I guess I was right in the end.
He left for months at a time with Reddit too, always citing some personal troubles. When he quit his full time job to work on Sync and still disappeared, my trust was very shaken.
