I know there are a ton of iOS apps for Lemmy. But what are they missing? What experiences would you like? It could be quality of life or big and ambitious features Many of you often have really good ideas and feedback, I’m looking forward to responses.
Voyager is cool, we have home, all and local. I would like a news sort option or at least be able to put any post with a news story link in its own category.
It can also be viewed as an Apollo replacement if you fled Reddit like I did.
If it had a split screen view on iPad, posts on a side bar and content on the main screen, I would be so happy.
Shameless plug for my megathread which has lemmy apps for every platform including linux and mac also contains tools and everything listed is full foss with no ads or tracking
And for people open to non FOSS apps, such as Boost or Sync, there is !lemmyapps@sh.itjust.works
My community allows non foss apps too the link i posted is to just a megathread i keep . If anyone wants to create a non foss megathread in my community they are welcome to do so and encouraged . Its just that i don’t wanna do it i was updating the foss one last night without sleeping can’t take up anymore work .
Don’t spread misinfo it was an idea to make the sub foss only which the users rejected and i threw it out the window too.
but it’s okay if you support floss only apps, it’s also ok there is more than one community
That’s it i don’t the community is for every kind of apps the megathread i as a pearson keeps up is the one with only foss requirement . And i have posted the megathread in several community
I would say Eternity (based on Infinity) but reread and saw you’re on ios. If you want to escape the Apple-like design then you don’t have much of a choice.
Arctic for Lemmy is the best one I have tried for iOS so far.
Something thats missing is the ability for mixed sort types. For example. Sort by Hot and every 4th posts be a New Comments post. With the ability to customize this to your preference
I like Thunder but it doesn’t pass the formatting test.
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Uk… It’s clean and all… But it just feels very soulless. Idk how to describe it properly, sorry.
Hmm, i do not see that in the App store, is it still in TestFlight?
Jerboa is an Android app.
Wanted to have deleted that post, overlooked “ios”
Most lemmy apps do not embed videos/gifs and have to open them on the in-app browser. The only ones I know that can do it are Arctic and Avelon, of which the latter put scrubbing behind a paid subscription. So Arctic is one of my top lemmy apps, even though Thunder is my favorite for general browsing.
Another minor issue for me is almost every app tries to look like Apollo, so they end up all looking the same. It’s one of the reasons I like Thunder because it looks a little different.
How could it be the perfect lemmy app when it only runs on iOS or respectively only runs on Android?
Because cross-platform apps inevitably feel out of step with the OS they run on. Native apps can use system components and behaviors and will almost always run better because they don’t need to be wrapped in a cross-platform framework. Admittedly a platform-locked app isn’t going to be a universally perfect Lemmy app, but it can certainly be a platform-specific perfect Lemmy app.
With no disrespect to Voyager, its devs, or its users, this is why I can’t use that app despite its impressive feature set and high level of polish–the ui feels fundamentally wrong on iOS, and the fact that it’s a very direct Apollo clone but not written in native swift makes it feel like a knockoff.
Well, it could launch on one platform first, doesn’t mean it’s only going to be for one platform.
Most of them can’t do the basic formatting of Lemmy, so in my mind, they are basically useless.
**Bold**
Bold*Italic*
Italic^Superscript^Normal~Subscript~
SuperscriptNormalSubscript~~Strike-through~~
Strike-through::: spoiler spoiler Soiled :::spoiler
Soiled
Voyager supports all of these apart from spoilers.
Voyager added support for spoilers since the comment I’m responding to.
Just in case anyone wanders in here and is considering Voyager.
You’d think they would have worked on the spoiler one first, slightly more important than making your text look interesting.
They seem to be having some difficulties but it is being worked on: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/9
I think it’s because spoiler tags in lemmy have been custom-made for some reason, whereas all the other stuff is standard markdown. Voyager is a web app, so it can maybe only render whatever the engine it relies on can render.
Edit: Turns out I’m 2 for 2 on making incorrect statements in this comment.
I’m pretty sure spoiler tags are just not part of the markdown specification. This would mean it’s probably easy enough for an application developer to just take the raw comment and pass it to what I assume would be a markdown rendering library (haven’t done app dev much), but spoiler tags won’t work without some additional work.
spoiler
Soiled
Arctic had all these covered. It’s not perfect but my fave so far
Raccoon managed everything but the sub/superscript. Not too shabby!
Those all work on Sync
Jerboa supports all of themI was wrong .Doesn’t do super/subscript for me…
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On my client (Jerboa), all of these worked except for
^Superscript^Normal~Subscript~, honestly I don’t know why it doesn’t support this very specific formatting thing.Thunder failed the formatting test. Still like it though.
I wonder if it works differently on iOS, because it displayed all of those properly for me except for the super/subscript on Android.
The perfect Lemmy App is Firefox (and a close second is Safari).
Apps break the promise of the world wide web of an open platform where you are in control of how data enters and leaves your machine. This was the promise of Netscape all the way up to Firefox.
Google and Apple want to close down the open web and replace it with apps, because you cannot control your app experience beyond what they want you to be able to control. To stop data leaving your device, instead of being able to rely on your browser settings, you instead are required to become a Network Technician to be able to block the data at the Network level. Most people do not have this skill set and thus are left unable to be in control of their own data.
The only “apps” that can be trusted are Free Open Source Software and even those you’re better off with something that needs no access to the internet if you’re worried about your data.
Google wants to add “Web attestation” so that they can block you from using websites if your browser isn’t set up the way Google likes it. There’s a reason that proposal was shitcanned and rightly called out for what it was.
Change your web browser to Firefox (Mozilla isn’t the best, but Firefox is the only independent browser with its own renderer) and if you want Lemmy to look different, you’re totally able to set up Firefox to show it how you want it. It’s time to take the web back people and to stop using the tools that giant corporations want you to use because it allows them to more easily exfiltrate your data and serve you ads. (If you’re on macOS or iOS just keep using Safari, they’re the only other independent browser. iOS enforces Firefox to use WebKit instead of Gecko to render, so it’s a moot point)
Please, for the love of all that is Holy people, this is a big deal, and we will lose the last vestiges of an open internet if the entire fucking planet says goodbye to the worldwide web with “apps” as a replacement.
EDIT: I’m still gonna upvote everyone else in the thread because y’alls opinions are valid, too.
Although you are right, apps, in my opinion, smooth over the rough edges of a website, and do so in a way that easy for the average plebeian to access. Sure, I could figure out how to make lemmy.world look and act how I want, I just don’t have the time, knowledge or patience to do so. So I use Memmy.
But you are completely correct.
I have an app for my fucking toothbrush. Not everything needs an app.
A toothbrush and a decentralized social platform may have different needs
Lemmy is great in Firefox mobile. It’s how I use the site. The only reason I keep a Lemmy app installed is for quick shares.
You’re quite right. If the website works well on a mobile, you don’t need an app. However a lot of the fediverse is built in such a way that it really sucks in a mobile browser.
Here are the stats: which fediverse platform works best in a mobile web browser.
Piefed looks really promising!
piefed has quickly become my main threadiverse driver. its really nice
