Thanks for the app. Alternatives/forks?

3 years ago by wr90 to c/jerboa

Thanks for the app! Just starting with lemmy. Are there any alternatives etc.? I liked the Infinity reddit app particularly.

Generator 14 points 3 years ago

For now lemmy or the website on browser are the best option, but there's some in development like Thunder
https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder
https://lemmy.world/c/thunder_app

Other Reddit developers (RedReader, Infinity) said they are willing to make their apps work with Lemmy, but will take some time

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sboulema 1 point 3 years ago

Looks promising!

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OsrsNeedsF2P 1 point 3 years ago

Thunder looks cool, surprised I haven't seen it before

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SethranKada 6 points 3 years ago

Lemmy is really new, so I'm pretty sure Jerboa is the only app currently.

That said, development is ongoing, and I heard someone was developing a reddit api-like toolfor lemmy, so the old reddit apps will work with lemmy. I don't know how true that is though, unfortunately. It would be awesome if true.

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wr90 5 points 3 years ago

Yeah. Reusing infinity seems cool.

Thanks. Thought lemmy was around for pretty long. How it compares to mastodon which i heard was around for years? Or that would be a different beast..

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OsrsNeedsF2P 2 points 3 years ago

I've been registered on Lemmy for ~2 years now. It went from this place where a few people chatted, to getting federation, then integrating with Mastodon, then they started working on an Android app, things were really chill.

Then last month it got 100x more popular, and it feels like a third of all Lemmy development happened this month too

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cnnrduncan 5 points 3 years ago

There are a handful of alternatives but they're nowhere near as mature or feature complete as Jerboa, and most are a few days/weeks old at most! There's also an old app that was abandoned a while ago and probably doesn't work anymore.

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sugar_in_your_tea 5 points 3 years ago

I've thought about building a cross platform app to work on desktop and mobile (mostly to work on PinePhone and Steam Deck), but then I decided I probably don't have time to really deliver it so I'm working on Jerboa.

Once that gets mostly usable, I might build my own. IDK, I guess we'll see. If anyone is interested in working on it, maybe I'll get motivated to give it a go. The plan would be React Native or Flutter (haven't decided which), I'm down with either, though my preference is React Native.

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Ivyymmy 3 points 3 years ago

I also come from using Infinity, I'd love if it were ported to Lemmy or forked. It's FOSS, so I'm surprised there aren't any yet.

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badbrainstorm 2 points 3 years ago

There is one on FDroid called Lemmur, last updated 10 months ago, but I've yet to get it to load any instances of Lemmy

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sockenklaus 2 points 3 years ago

I'm pretty sure you won't have any luck with Lemmur since it's been discontinued and there are still API breaking changes being made to Lemmy. So an app last updated 10 months ago will have a hard time communicating with any Lemmy instance.

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Sigmatank 2 points 3 years ago

I think everything for Lemmy is still VERY early stage. I'm sure if/when the community grows that will come

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Zaphodquixote 2 points 3 years ago

Not yet. Several in the works, if you scroll around a bit.

If you don't like jerboa, I've found that hermit works fairly well compared to a regular browser. You can create pseudoapps for a given instance, and have whatever full features the web version has with a little less lag and no real downside. However, it also doesn't add anything useful beyond that, and jerboa is being worked on fairly fast right now.

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eatham 1 point 3 years ago

The only one I know of is
!thunder_app@lemmy.world, but its super basic (like a week old) and not ready at all

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