Infinity For Lemmy update just dropped. dev is really active in the community
3 years ago by GlowHuddy to c/opensource
I JUST realised that the app icon is NOT a mole with red glasses looking up from a hole in the ground. Huh.
Lol you are right!
Oh
...holy crap, same. This makes me uncomfortable.
First comment from Infinity for Lemmy!
Infinity was my app of choice for like 2ish years, it still works with Reddit atm but when I moved to Lemmy the only real app was Jerboa, and man it was not the same
I delt with it tho, in the hopes that one day Infinity would be for Lemmy
And omg ITS BACK BAYBE
I am way too stocked over a Lemmy app, but man Infinity is lightning fast, super smooth, and beyond customizable! So I won't be needing Jerboa or Liftoff anymore
I am home!
Worth noting it is not affiliated with the original dev. This guy forked it and took the name.
meh, it's a bit shit if the original dev wants to make his own Lemmy app.
Pretty sure the original developer of Infinity is one of the few people who will try to follow Reddit's new API rules and charge a subscription fee to cover it. At least that was the case a few months ago. Not sure what's currently happening.
He didn't and this is the whole point of open source.
He said he would not
And filled it with ads. Gutted.
Same here! This is the beauty of open source software!!! Nothing is required from the original dev for the community to take the software and repurpose it for something else.
I'm the same as you, it immediately feels familiar and intuitive. For a while there learning a new app while also learning how lemmy worked was like learning a new language, haha
Just downloaded and holy crap, this thing is smooth as butter. Already more functional than that $115 closed-source alternative. Instant switch for me.
It has that many features since it's a fork of Infinity for Reddit which was/still is the most feature rich Reddit client
No. Infinity for Lemmy is a fork of Infinity for Reddit. Sorry for the misunderstanding
@bluetoque @newIdentity time to download 🙂
Is $115 an exaggeration? Not trying to start an argument, just curious.
The Sync dev is currently charging $20 USD to remove ads, or $100 for a lifetime subscription to "Ultra" which includes some additional features. I have to say, the app is really nice, but the dev is out of his mind.
Wow yeah $100 is steep. I’m not even sure if I would have paid $100 for Apollo for Reddit in its prime…
Your passive-aggressiveness is very off-putting.
With that being said, it's not FREE to use if I'm getting ads, I'm just paying with something other than money. I'll continue to use one of the many alternatives.
F-Droid when?
I've been using Obtainium instead and loaded Infinity through it this morning. You can also have it pull from f-droid repos instead of GitHub if you want when that hits
Edit: Currently the app is in prerelease so you'll need to toggle that option. Once they have a full release you can toggle it back off.
All you should need to do is set the App Source URL to https://codeberg.org/... and then toggle on Include prereleases. Once they get a full release out you can toggle it off
Thank you for this. Impressive. Running infinity for lemmy now.
Crap... Obtanium is a 32bit only app. It won't work on pixels :(
Not sure what you're referring to, but I'm using it on a Pixel 7 without issue.
Just download the ARM64-V8 version.
Also. I use it on my Pixel 4a with Android 13.
I am too, and new to Infinity overall. I was patiently awaiting Sync but became sadly disappointed with how aggressive it was monetized. Infinity does what I need:
searching for posts over all communities (*and instances!)
inline find function for the comments
preview before commenting
I am simple. Infinity is fast. Go. Lemmy. Go.
Is it usable?
It's usable. Every important feature has been implemented.
It's just that it isn't stable and still has some bugs. It's my main client already
Thank you!
So first impression after installing Android apk from
It has that smooth fast scrolling feeling and lots of options. Feels very promising. :)
And for some reason, it feels like it's loading comments much faster than other clients.
We are now officially spoiled for choice with tons of high quality clients.
It's Bazsalanszky and they've got a community setup on lemdro.id (which hosts /r/android's !android@lemdro.id).
Pretty sure the original did so this should to
Yeah, and it's Incredible! I'm typing this from Infinity for Lemmy. It's great!
This totally made my week! So glad to have Infinity back 😌 Thanks a lot for the effort gone into this Mr. Dev 😘
My sentiments exactly!
Happy for Infinity users. Legacy Reddit third party app users are feasting in the past couple of days with those apps moving over to Lemmy.
Ok, don't use it then.
Don't judge how people use Lemmy.
I've been using the app for the past day+ and I only get an ad every 25 posts and none everywhere else, even comments. I prefer foss, been using linux since 2018, but I don't see why every dev should have to contribute if they don't want to. At the end of the day, it means more active users on lemmy. What every person puts on their phone is up to them. (I also might switch to infinity now that it's out too.)
That's because it literally just came out. I don't know how else to break it to you.
They'll stop talking about it by next week.
Shame on a single developer to want to be compensated for the work he's put into an app. How dare he try to make a living! How dare he go against your will! If you don't like it then move on. Publicly shaming a non-issue, lol.
Also, if you're so upset with an app "infested with ads" but you are savvy enough to be in the know about third party fediverse apps, maybe you should look into a whole home ad blocker.
Ostracizing someone for trying to make a living. What the hell is wrong with you?
For what it is worth, I won't be paying $100 for Sync Ultra either. But I'm not going around accusing a dev of hiring paid actors to promote his app that already has multiple posts on the front page of the fediverse.
You are not just "being critical" you're accusing them of being malicious and I am calling you out on that specifically.
Not on fdroid yet, it is available on their codeberg repo. https://codeberg.org/...
Here's an album: https://imgur.com/a/hGpPp8h
LIGHT THEME ALERT!
Put your sunglasses on, folks! 😎
Oh wow, I had looked into the settings but somehow I missed the theming options! 🙈
This is the default theme out of the box :)
The default theme is your device theme.
Either you're using a really old android version or you're using your phone in light mode
It looks literally same as Infinity for reddit.
You enter Lemmy instance URL, username and password to log in
"Popular" tab replaced by "Local", I assume local to Lemmy instance you're logged into
"r/subreddit" replaced by "community@lemmy.instance"
"u/username" replaced by "username@lemmy.instance"
Just imported my old theme and I'm so GD happy right now.
It does. You have to select "include prereleases" cause its not in 1.0 yet
It does.
It's an alpha so you have to enable the "include preview versions" toggle
Using the url field works for me but only until 0.0.6 Edit: Latest release probably have issues with my dumb redmi phone
The version of the 0.0.7 release seems messed up. Obtainium doesn't seem to successfully update and when I install the 0.0.7 apk manually, inside the app it still shows 0.0.6.
Obtainium has a setting just for issues like this.
Click on Infinity for Reddit in the app >click edit button bottom left > change Version Detection option to Use Release Date As Version
This worked, thanks!
The developer didn't update the version string for 0.0.7. Known issue.
Very Nice!!! It would be an instant switch... if the login would work.
Works for me!
I get the error "Kann Benutzer-Info nicht abrufen" or in english: "Cannot fetch user info"
yup that worked. Thanks!
Folks don't forget to donate
I can't decide. I have used Infinity for years on Reddit. Been using connect and liftoff for Lemmy.
In some ways it feels so warm and familiar to be on Lemmy in infinity, but in some ways, I'm thinking, it's Lemmy, not Reddit, it shouldn't feel like Reddit.
I'm very torn
This is interesting, is there anyway to "automate" this on Android.
I don't want to seem lazy, but I got this idea from iOS where you can have different kinds of Home Screens depending on different scenarios/schedules.
Ah, the app I've been waiting for! Infinity was great for Reddit, and I was glad to hear it was making the move to Lemmy. This is probably gonna replace Jerboa as my Lemmy app.
"Kept you waiting, huh?"
Such a great app. I used Infinity before so I'm glad someone made a Lemmy version
Is this only for iOS so far? Not seeing it on f-droid or play store.
Oh thanks for the tip! I didn't even realize there was a codeberg link in the post.
Yeah there is a apk link you can just download and run also.
This will install the app without any app store.
I'm kinda picky about installing stuff on my phone (especially from untrustworthy sources like Google Play), and I like the additional vetting F-droid package maintainers do. Does "IzzyOnDroid" do similar vetting, or is it just grabbing whatever from upstream and distributing it without human intervention?
I'm searching F-droid for it but not seeing Liftoff. I tried searching both via the app itself and via https://duckduckgo.com/...
Weird! Well, I technically use Droidify so maybe that's the reason? Either way, I also recommend Droidify to F-Droid because of security issues so try Droidify and then also try Liftoff if you'd like.
@GlowHuddy Infinity for Lemmy is really good.
I used Infinity for Reddit, so I was happy to hear it was being ported to Lemmy. It's a pretty good app.
Infinity app is great!
Bulk Crap Uninstaller app is great!
Jerboa app is great!
Nice. Can't wait to get it through the play store.
Just sideload. Else the dev has to pay like $100 a year
@newIdentity @SnowBunting I thought $100 annual was Apple? Last I saw my play developer account was a one time of $20 or 30
Oh. Yeah that might be true. I Avent actually looked that up
Hey. Seemingly the app won't let me log into an instance I've tried lemme.ee, sh.itjust.works, and lemmy.zip. Any ideas?
Editing to add that this app looks really nice! I think my only complaint is that collapsed comments are bright green, unless I'm missing the option to change that
Edit: I am dumb and did not think to scroll further lol oops
Edit: I successfully logged in using username rather than password. That said, the app crashes every time I try to view my profile
Make sure you didn't add a space at the end
Also the app only crashes when you try to view your profile from the bottom navigation bar. It works fine if you want to view it from the sidebar
Yes it's a little buggy for now, but it's still in development
I did check the space. It just didn't seem to want to let me log in via email but like I said, username worked fine! As to the crashing I hadn't tried from not the bottom navigation bar, so thank you for that. I was mostly just documenting the issue in case other people et encountered it
You can change that color in the settings.
No problem :)
This is perfect. My absolute favorite app for Reddit. I'm 100 percent Lemmy now.
Yay! My first comment from Infinity! Been using Jerboa so far but great to have multiple options!
Go to releases on codeberg
I installed obtainium and added the codeberg url as a new app. I clicked on allowing pre-releases, and allowed obtainium to install apps. It sees there's an upgrade (0.0.7) as I'm currently on 0.0.6. however, when I click to update, it doesn't do anything, keeps showing the same version.
Any tips on what I could be doing wrong?
I'm devastated. It's been filled with ads. They took the original devs work, forked it, then filled out with damn ads.
It's not on fdroid any more is it? The lemmy version?
Dunno. It was beta when I originally downloaded it, but I believe I've gotten an update since then. I'd assumed it came through f-droid.
I just checked, and it's still there. v0.0.8, released 2023-08-08.
Can someone share a screenshot or two?
Very cool, thanks!
I had no idea Sync cost this much.
Love it!
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The original used to be my favourite reddit client, so I'm really happy to see there's a semi-fuctional lemmy fork.
So this means another lemmy app for me to install. I'm still switching between apps
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