That's fair, but it's asking a little much of users to start direct dowloading apks or whatever to get their leftist shitposting app and if I wanted to try that hard for anything but an adblocker it wouldn't be an Android in the first place.

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BetterDev 16 points a day ago

OK you're allowed to just not do that.

The rest of us who are willing to put some effort in will likely not notice your absence.

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DragonTypeWyvern 5 points 20 hours ago

Sure, it'll be just one person lol

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luciferofastora 13 points a day ago

asking a little much of users to start direct dowloading apks or whatever to get their leftist shitposting app

I mean, if you're serious about ideology, you probably won't mind taking a few extra steps for it. If the status quo pisses you off, why not do something that's ultimately still free and only takes a little more time?

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WhyJiffie 7 points 11 hours ago

but it's asking a little much of users to start direct dowloading apks or whatever

you don't need to be manually downloading apks. get a proper app store, like f-droid, and install jerboa that way.

I don't get it though. uploading apps to the play store has already required devs to prove their identity for quite a long time.

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LH0ezVT 1 point 10 hours ago

The difference is, they want to remove side loading.

That means all apps need to go through play store. No more f-droid on certified android devices. You need to be on play store, or your app is not installable.

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JakenVeina 25 points 2 days ago

Where are you getting that jerboa is ending support? There's nothing of the sort on github or on /c/jerboa. I've no doubt they're not gonna register a google developer account, but that"s really got nothing to do with development of the app.

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DragonTypeWyvern 30 points 2 days ago

The notification sent to users through the app itself.

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JakenVeina 11 points 2 days ago

I use the app and have received no such notification.

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DragonTypeWyvern 5 points a day ago

Another user posted an image of it if you're curious to see what you probably just clicked through.

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JakenVeina 4 points 18 hours ago

No, I saw that one. It says nothing about jerboa ending support, just that you won't be able to run it on "certified" devices. I.E. I'll have to go through the "allow uncertified apps" nonsense, and install it from somewhere other than Google Play. Presumably it's available on F-Droid.

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Stamau123 24 points a day ago

Sad, jerboa was my first experience with lemmy, but soon after switched to Voyager

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HulkSmashBurgers 5 points a day ago

Jerboa was my first lemmy app, which had it's quirks I think. Then I switched to Infinity, and finally Voyager. Voyager is the best app I've used.

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Luffy879 22 points 2 days ago

Github page of jerboa says nothing about this

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Dozzi92 14 points 2 days ago

Jerboa the app had a pop-up not too long ago basically saying the end was near.

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Luffy879 23 points 2 days ago

You mean that Google is restricting sideloading?

That has nothing to do with the Development of Jerboa. They can just as much develop an app according to Androids standard as they could before. The only change is that phones running googles rootkit won't be able to install it.

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InFerNo 6 points a day ago

I use it daily and haven't seen a popup

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kinther 7 points a day ago

I still use jerboa. Got the pop-up a few times. I will keep using it until the bitter end

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starman2112 4 points a day ago

Ditto. Imo it's the most similar to RIF out of all the Lemmy apps, and just like RIF, I'll use it until it stops working entirely

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Dozzi92 2 points a day ago

What kinda phone do you have? Other comments suggest it's for Google rootkit, and so I wonder if the message went out to folks who aren't using an Android phone.

I am also so far from a developer so I have no idea.

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ddplf 21 points 2 days ago

I've been using Boost for r*ddit years ago and I'm still using Boost for Lemmy today. Shit's too good.

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Demdaru 3 points 2 days ago

Boost for mobile, Alexandrite for browser, I'm good.

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trxxruraxvr 18 points 2 days ago

I have no clue what this is about

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FlordaMan 25 points 2 days ago

Jerboa is a lemmy client. “Browser users” are people who use lemmy trough a browser.

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trxxruraxvr 3 points a day ago

Right. I'll be a browser user till the end then. I have no need for apps that will use extra storage on my device without offering a significantly better experience.

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FlordaMan 4 points a day ago

I don’t know if that’s an iphone thing, but for me browser versions are almost always inferior to apps (less smooth, more prone to random bursts of laggy behavior, longer startup). So I just use voyager.

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sol6_vi 17 points 15 hours ago

Voyager is great, +1 for those who haven't tried it. Works great with my self hosted instance.

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Tiral 2 points 12 hours ago

Same, I really don't even use all the features it has already.

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TheLeadenSea 15 points 2 days ago

vger.app?

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Mastersmacks 15 points a day ago

Come on over to boost or Voyager

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Ghis 9 points a day ago

Voyager is sick

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cows_are_underrated 2 points 13 hours ago

No. You can pull Jerboa from my dead hands.

I tried boost out, when it was relatively New and it was so completely bugged out, that it wasnt usuable at all. Voyager is working, but I absolutely dislike the UI. It is way too cluttered for my personal taste.

Jerboa is just perfect IMO. It may be minimalistic, but I Mike it that way.

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duckythescientist 2 points 3 hours ago

I was mostly using Jerboa for a long time, but I've somewhat recently switched to Boost as I was tired of Jerboa breaking reasonably often. I've found I like Boost better.

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Mastersmacks 1 point 5 hours ago

I mean it's personal taste I guess

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Shellofbiomatter 14 points 2 days ago

Damn, I'm still going to use it until it stops working completely, but whats the next best alternative?

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Babalugats 14 points 2 days ago

https://lemmyapps.com/

After trying a few others, I've stopped at interstellar.. I like it a lot. But I'm also going to try Summit.

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hakase 7 points 2 days ago

I've been using Summit for the past six months or so and have enjoyed it.

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Babalugats 1 point 2 days ago

I think I tried Thunder, raccoon, Jerboa, voyager and one or two others. I liked racoon but was having issues with it. once I changed to Interstellar there was a small learning curve to get used to, but I really like it now. summit and connect have been mentioned, as has boost. But thinking about it, if I'm happy with interstellar, I may as well stay with it.

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hanrahan 3 points a day ago

went from Interstellar to Summit (posting from it now). I also use Boost

Summit is good.

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Zwiebel 1 point 2 days ago

Lmao my app isnt even listed

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Babalugats 3 points 2 days ago

Which is yours?

Maybe they add them when they are made aware of them..🤷

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Zwiebel 1 point a day ago

Eternity

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communist 8 points 2 days ago

Thunder is my preference

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bravesirrbn 7 points 2 days ago

I switched to Interstellar and it's pretty good

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Shellofbiomatter 4 points 2 days ago

Thanks, I'll take a look at it an set it up as a backup.

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Edges 5 points 2 days ago

I like interstellar but it lags too much. I've mostly switched to summit

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Shellofbiomatter 3 points 2 days ago

I'll download that as well then. Thank you.

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InFerNo 4 points a day ago

The inevitable fork that will be created.

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explodicle 1 point 13 hours ago

"Here at Google think every project would be safer if they went through an Identity Guy, whose job it is to rubber stamp commits by the entire set of people you were already trusting. He also gets threats. Don't worry, if they commit an obfuscated backdoor, Identity Guy will miss it and then interfere later instead."

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JigglySackles 4 points a day ago

I've been using voyager as my backup

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MrVilliam 12 points a day ago

I have Connect, and Voyager as a backup. I prefer Connect. It sounds like a few people here dig Summit; is it better than Connect, and if so, how?

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capt_wolf 4 points a day ago

I've tried almost all of them, Connect had the nicer feel and I was able to customize it similar to BaconReader. The dev is quick to respond and push fixes too.

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Jean_le_Flambeur 11 points 2 days ago

Eternity is really nice

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Evil_Shrubbery 4 points 2 days ago

There are a few of us!!
Best UI by far imho (and a few smol features that benefit my daily use others don't offer or requires more clicks).

We didn't get the normal installing ("side-loading" & displeasing the oligarchy) pop-up but it still affects us.

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Nora 3 points a day ago

I'm a big fan of Eternity too, it just feels the best I can't explain it.

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dadarobot 10 points 2 days ago

blorp

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GaumBeist 10 points a day ago

What do the apps have that the browser doesn't?

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DragonTypeWyvern 6 points a day ago

Personally I just think it looks a lot better, and I prefer the infinite scroll. There are some things the browser version does better, like accessing the modlogs and such. I guess, metaphorically, those are your clothes "sorting piles" on the floor.

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spicehoarder 3 points 15 hours ago

I like Boost because it seems to work really well in low connectivity areas.

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thethunderwolf 0 points 11 hours ago

isnt boost spyware

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spicehoarder 3 points 11 hours ago

This is the first I'm hearing of this, I'm gonna need some sources.

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thethunderwolf 2 points 10 hours ago

https://lemmyverse.link/...

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Kuma 10 points a day ago

For ppl who use the browser and do not like apps, try your instances ui sub domains (if they have any), on Lemmy world do we have multiple, the one I like is https://photon.lemmy.world/

otherwise: I am using the app Voyager if reading on my phone which has been good to me but it is pretty much a wrapped PWA app

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Xylight 4 points a day ago

I would use phtn.app because it lets you log into any instance, and it's also up-to-date. The lemmy.world version is over a year old

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RaoulDook 9 points 12 hours ago

Nah, the google monopolists can fuck off right into their own dumpster fire shitholes. I won't use any app that requires their privacy infringements. Freedom is the only way.

(Written from my desktop PC's browser)

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BigBananaDealer 8 points a day ago

idk what im gonna do without jerboa. fuck google

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stardustpathsofglory 4 points 9 hours ago

There is also Jerboa in the F-Droid store

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aggelalex 2 points a day ago

There's thunder for lemmy

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