This is exactly why I never pick iphones, because a good chunk of the time you miss out on all the niche things you can do on a smartphone.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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I never pic up an iPhone because Mac discontinued support for my $6000 editing computer within two years when they scrapped the mac towers and went laptop only.
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It's nice that we can have all these choices for 3rd party clients that won't end up getting screwed over due to a central authority.
As a fellow iOS user, Memmy is pretty sweet for a version 0.0 beta app.
Really enjoying Memmy too! Dev seems to be moving at a quick pace. The app is already functional and getting better each day
Yea it’s definitely a good start!
Would you like a more 'Material' lemmy app on iOS??
No
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You already have like 3 apps. We have jerboa. Jerboa.
Actually, a new Android client called Thunder has entered Alpha. It's SEVERELY lacking in features as of now, though.
I like Flutter based apps, so that makes me happy. I saw it a couple of days ago and while it is lacking in features, it does feel nice to use and looks much better than Jerboa IMO.
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And Jerboa probably won't be updated for a while with the devs so busy working on Lemmy.
Happy for Android users, but for those that don’t know, on iOS, we have three apps in beta we can download, and all three are very good with the current state they are in. I suggest giving anyone of them a try.
Memmy Join the Memmy App beta - TestFlight - Apple https://testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD
Mlem Join the Mlem beta - Testing Apps with TestFlight https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc
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Time to join us Android bros
The official community is on Lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy
There's also a subreddit r/syncforlemmy
I dare say he'll be wanting to get out a functional app before implementing things like support for Kbin. Bjt it's worth requesting it as the more who, perhaps the more priority it will get.
Please let that also be a Lemmy instance, Lemmy needs horizontal distributed scaling.
This is how I've been thinking Lemmy can scale. Sync can host their own instance funded by premium subscribers. In other cases, a group of friends with common local interests can host an instance with their local channels plus caching posts on other instances, and peoppe could connect to that or lemmy.world for free and see the same content.
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just a PSA, remember you can still use Lemmy as a PWA ("install" lemmy.world from safari as a shortcut)
I mean sync had and iOS version so it’s not out of the realm of possibility.
The iOS version was handled by a different developer altogether. LJ has never done work for iOS himself.
Praise be.
Been using sync (paid) for over 10 years, will instantly buy a Lemmy version
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Any idea if there's a chance that the app will be open-source?
Just waiting for Christian to announce he's rewriting Apollo....
Man the ad for lemmy if he announced it with a pop up on Apollo reddit opening
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After everything that happened, let the man enjoy his forced vacation for like a year before going back into the fray.
Same! I hope he’s considering it… Lemmy + Apollo would make it 1000x more attractive for Reddit users to enjoy Reddit without the management team’s constant fuckery.
I have been using Limbo which feels pretty good. https://testflight.apple.com/join/e6ZEbxuR
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Mlem, Memmy, Artemis, and others will be coming along shortly
What about Sync for kbin?
They're federated so it shouldn't really matter that much?
I guess we could do KiF once the API is read/write...
IIRC, there are some slight differences in API so Jerboa doesn't work on Kbin. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Kinda; Jerboa can see and interact with Kbin posts, but you can't sign into a Kbin account with Jerboa.
KBin doesn't have a full API currently too, you can only read posts and comments with it. It is being worked on however.
Meanwhile I‘m just using the Safari Shortcut on the Home Screen. Works just as good as an app. If you‘re in beta test mood you can check out MLEM. It’s available through the Test Flight App.
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