Go to her mastodon. You can request to be a beta tester.
Go to her mastodon. You can request to be a beta tester.
Just signed up - thanks for the tip!
Unlike Apollo, will this be Free Software though?
Apollo did have a free tier and then a few paid tiers.
iirc, (I bought it many years ago), they had a one time Pro purchase that removed any ads and unlocked theming and such, and then the Ultimate which was a subscription to cover server costs of push notifications (although it did eventually end up having more features locked behind it).
While I personally did not go for the Ultimate subscription (didn’t really need the push notifications), I gladly paid for the Pro as it was well worth it IMO.
I think they meant Free as in Open Source
It's not exactly the same. The Free Software movement is about user freedom. Open Source is a term used by corporations to avoid mentioning that users should have rights.
Yes, I meant freedom and not price: https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM
We want to be able to make sure the app doesn't do anything malicious (like spy on us) and be able to change it to fit out needs. Like we can with Lemmy.
Artemis is a great name for the app by the way.
The sister of Apollo :). Except I hope this one will be Free Software?
Money = good things cost money to make
I hope the developer offers a way to pay to help out (like RiF having "golden platinum")
I didn't mean price, but freedom. If you are not familiar with the Free Software movement: https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM
Lemmy unlike Reddit is Free Software. This means we can know what the app does (we can make sure it doesn't spy on you for example) and are able to change it to fit our needs.
Yeah, it looks great, but this is such a nice touch.
Oh shit I'm in the screenshot!!
Im a Lemmy dude but this app looks awesome. Good job
I gotta go call my mom!!!
I'll be speaking this way about Relay on android.
I think I downloaded Relay in 2014 or 2015 when I was needing good mobile mod tools and it was the winner for me. Love that app!
RIF user since the beginning. I hope to see them work on something for kbin Lemmy but I'm still excited about an Apollo clone.
I think he might just be burnt out and stressed right now. Being accused of making threats, being lied about publicly, and having something you worked really hard on have to shut down because the people lying about you wouldn’t be reasonable has all got to take a toll.
Yeeeees
Please also take inspiration from Reddit Sync Pro!!! I would love an app that is taking the best features from both apps!
That looks great! iOS and Android? Can’t wait to try ut!
You just made my night! Thank you!!
I'm in the majority, but I don't even care if an app gets made (obviously I support it though). I used Apollo on Reddit, because Reddit's mobile design was complete shit. However, Kbin and Lemmy actually look great in a mobile browser, so I really have no need for a separate app.
On iOS, the Lemmy web experience is temperamental at best and unnavigable at worst. Although you can put bookmark/icon on an iOS home page, there is no navigation option so that once you've linked into a thread there's no way to get back to where you were. Even in a (safari-underpinned) browser the website seems to be very finnicky with back and forth navigation into and out of content. To be fair, this is an iOS problem, not a Lemmy/kbin problem, but it still increases friction for the mobile user.
An iOS app will also introduce a lot of native functionality for navigation, that a web app simply can’t support (swipe features, custom themes, quick multi account swapping, etc)
I agree the Web browser is very similar, but IMO a dedicated app is going to be a much quicker and smoother experience.
Sounds awesome! I'm commenting, so I can find this thread later. I can't figure out how to bookmark it.
You can push a star icon which I’m assuming makes it a favourite or something so you can find the post again. Haven’t figured out where you can find it again. But tbh haven’t really looked for it yet either.
Haha same! I think it looks and sounds awesome too so far. But I can't figure out how to bookmark either.
Same
Needs an option to move the arrows to the right-hand side so I can scroll with my thumb and tap the arrows with the same thumb. Also, needs a light mode, quick account changing, and community muting for when browsing All.
Ive been thinking about customizations like that while working on it. I want localization, so everything already has right to left support. I can use that piping to help w moving arrows.
Also, youll be able to double tap to vote ;)
(Community muting is a must for sure)
One thing I hated about Apollo was swiping gestures. I don’t use them and they get in the way so many times. Sometimes, I didn’t even know that I upvoted/downvoted a post unknowingly! I can’t disable it coz I’m a freeloade so I have no complaints.
I just want to suggest that it would be nice if you give users an option to disable the gestures if the app has them.
I never used Apollo since I've always been an Android user, so I don't know what features will be inspired from it, so I wanted to ask whether there would be in-app browser support for links so it doesn't open other apps? And will there be plans for gesture navigation support like the Relay and Joey apps?
I used Relay for a couple years way back. You betcha I’m gonna get as much as I can in smooth gesture interactions 👌
And yea, it uses an in-app browser. Will expose config for those who want that off, also.
Also, I heard a lot of great things bout Joey, so I gotta get my hands on it 👀
Joey was the best app, in my opinion. The big image previews (and full size by long press and holding for images and gifs) and marking read by scrolling past are two of the standout features
There is a light mode as well, I suggest joining the Discord server. Hariette is accepting ideas and feedback there.
Excellent suggestions. I would have the same ones
If you use kbin on mobile and want this right now swap the layout to compact.
I'm viewing this kbin magazine(?) through an identity hosted on lemmy.world (and just double checked that I can post on these kbin-hosted communities through Jerboa), i'm new to this whole federated thing but isn't that supposed to be the point? I thought the protocol that kbin and other instances use was a standard with certain compliance and the whole "cross-federation" thing meant that as long as your "home" and the place you're browsing are buddy-buddy, you can sign in to whatever to look at whatever (and if you wanted your "home" to literally be a raspberry pi in your closet, it can be).
So you're currently signed in to the lemmy.world instance. I am signed in to the kbin.social instance. I don't want to recreate my account over on a Lemmy instance just so I can use the Jerboa app or any of the other alternatives.
You are able to post and see posts from kbin due to federation, but you would not be able to log in to a kbin instance on the Jerboa app.
The Artemis App (the app in the OP) will allow users to sign in with EITHER a Lemmy instance or a kbin instance
Ah, I didn't realize that you couldn't sign into a generic app like Jerboa (that's not tied to lemmy.world specifically) with a kbin identity. Makes sense! Glad that that's a thing that future post-reddit apps will be able to iron out.
While Lemmy servers and Kbin servers can and do interact with each other (and with servers based on other kind of platforms of the Fediverse) because both software use the ActibityPub protocol, they're, well, different software. And Jerboa only support servers based on the Lemmy software. Just like how Tusky works for Mastodon but not for Misskey.
It's taking shape, exciting times!
Neat. I’m in that discord and very exited
Can we help the project?
Now, let's wait for the Android one.......
Developing as x-plat codebase. And we have an equal split of beta testers across platform. So wanna prioritize em equally!
in the coming weeks there will be some waves of rollouts to testers. Hopefully we’ll go public not far from there :)
Thank you so much!
Native apps? Because I sure hope so.
Pleeeeassse don’t require iOS 16 like another Lemmy app is doing…
Very excited for this
Yes! Can’t wait.
Looks great! Looking forward to being able to minimize already-read comment threads again!
Can not wait!
Well since no one is monetizing kbin yet, of course it's free. As to long term hosting costs, I'm hoping we go Wikipedia style and use donations.
Maybe the official one?
I'm gonna assume scraping
I think it looks great! I’ve been keeping up with them, but the name is great, too.
I’m happy to have an Apollo clone. Apollo was such a masterfully done app.
Never used Apollo, but great news to have multiple ways to interact.
About the app being proprietary or open source it shouldn't matter. The foundation is federated community, the ways to interact can be federated too. Mix of open source and proprietary.
This is great, be able to access both Kbin and Lemmy from one app would be so much easier.
I know it's early days yet to asking about features but just wondered if you plan to have a built-in image/video/gif player so thay you don't have to external sites to view content?
You love to see it - keep up the great work and would love to use it once it’s available!
That looks good! Can't wait to try it out as soon as it hits test flight!
That looks amazing. I never had the chance to use Apollo cause I'm an android user, in looking forward to it.
Is this the kbin link? https://readit.buzz/u/hariette@tech.lgbt For some reason it's not working. I'm trying to see if it's opensource
@bumbly You missed an @ symbol before the username. Yes, that means the link has two @ signs.
Well, for me the link is https://kbin.social/u/@hariette@tech.lgbt, but you get the gist.
This looks amazing, but is it IOS only? :/
Yeah lol, it got cut off on mobile 😅
thanks for using Leebra!
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As a longtime Apollo user, I would love to know when this hits Test Flight!
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