Highly recommend checking out wefwef - closest option to an Apollo clone as I've seen so far in terms of UI and functionality, and doesn't even need to be installed. Memmy is a very good second place option, but I've been using wefwef since I heard about it yesterday and ZI think it's better.
It's good but laggy. Swiping doesn't feels native unfortunately.
Seems to go in and out periodically. Right now running smooth for me
Yeah, sadly always noticeable in comparison with native apps
I started with Mlem and wasn’t a huge fan and was primarily using Memmy. But I decided to try mlem again as it’s been a while and it looks much better! Might be my new daily driver. I’ll give wefwef a try too.
I've never seen web apps as advantage personally. I'd much rather have a local install.
Agreed in most scenarios, but wefwef is arguably the best PWA I’ve ever used - it’s nice right now as an option to get something into user’s hands quickly without waiting for App Store approval. Would love to see it become a native app eventually.
Using it right now. So far it's nice. But I have like 7 plus the browser. See which becomes my default in time. I am just so used to RIF it's going take an adjustment.
None are quite similar enough to RIF for me, but guess we'll see if any pop up in time!
There’s a rate limit issue happening with wefwef right now but there are alternatives website you can use like w.opnxng.com
Same app just a different host.
If you're on an iPhone, https://wefwef.app is pretty much the best and easiest way to get up and running. Way more options on Android right now, though.
It's also really solid on Android. It's the first time, for me at least, that a web app has felt more solid than any legit apps.
I like wefwef, except the name is terrible and hard to type in a phone. So far, the only UI problem I have with it is it’s too easy to accidentally downvote when trying to upvote by swiping right.
Also, I just noticed, the upvote/downvote colours are reversed. It’s going to take time to get used to blue being upvote and red being downvote.
Save the web to home screen it will than act like an app.
Yeah, the vote colors are a little wonky. But the rest of the app is still nice!
I also occasionally have a problem with it where the screen just stops scrolling, but if I give it a couple seconds it starts working again.
Editing to add: it’s been surprisingly good otherwise, though. I really like it.
Image Transcription: Meme
['Distracted Boyfriend' - A stock photo image of a man walking side by side with a woman in a blue shirt, holding hands, as a different woman in a red shirt walks past. The man appears to be whistling at the woman walking past, showing clear interest in her looks, while the woman he is walking with looks at him. The face of the woman next to him is replaced by the app icon for the app "Apollo for Reddit", while the woman he is looking at has her face replaced by the app icon for "Memmy for Lemmy"]
^I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^
Apollo is more like the wife who was murdered by Reddit, now watching you from heaven, hoping that you find a new social media platform to make you happy.
Great news, My favourite Reddit app Boost is officially making the migration to Lemmy.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy
I'm so happy about that.
Congrats! I hope there will be an IOS app for lemmy soon because this website feels a bit clunky (but in a good way).
I love Memmy, but that icon looks like a clown tick.
We already are looking at adding community icons. 🤘
I wonder if Christian can reuse Apollo as a Lemmy client and keep the project going
He addressed that a bit ago. That kind of undertaking would be pretty big, since the data structure on the back end is so much different. It’s not out of the question, but not something he wants to do right now.
Wefwef is a web app that is a near carbon copy of Apollo. It’s how I’m browsing and it’s great. Much better than the web interface.
I’ve got that bookmarked and it is great, but I’ve been using Memmy for now. It does the slide for up/down votes (or whatever they’re called here) but a slightly different UI
Actually he could be I think rn he needs a break tbf
I think he’s mentioned he doesn’t really have an interest in that right now. But I wish so too.
I’ve got like 4 downloaded right now
I’ve got 5
- Mlem
- Memmy
- WefWef
- Thunder
- Liftoff
Based Thunder Enjoyer
I've got
- Thunder
- Jerboa
- PWA (when everything else fails)
Any prior RIF users with some advice for which app to switch to for Lemmy that's the most similar?
Connect for Lemmy, so far so good
I'm using Connect for Lemmy and so far it's fairly good.
The only thing I'd change about Connect is the visability of comment interaction buttons but other than that with a few tweaks to font sizes and stuff it's a fairly similar experience to RIF.
As a former RIF user, I personally like Liftoff, which you can get in the Play Store, but other popular options are Jerboa, Thunder, Connect for Lemmy, wefwef, and Summit.
Honestly ... I'm just using the website. With Firefox you can make any webpage into a homescreen app by chosing "Install" from Settings.
Connect and Liftoff are able to give a similar RIF UI. I was really liking Liftoff until I just now noticed why it was so "quiet" despite trying to chat a storm: it has no inbox and no notifications. Connect does, though. But it has less options for customizing the layout...
I want something that takes the best of both and smushes them together. 😩
LiftOff and Thunder are also good. My favorite is still Jerboa though
I am enjoying memmy
The dev has done very well for such early releases.
Same
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This is just a comment to have myself counted as part of the reddit migration
Same
I started using jerboa cause of a random suggestion, how does everyone feel about it? I noticed it doesnt collect user data and I think it said it encrypts stuff, which I like for privacy
jerboa crashes on me everytime. now i use connect for lemmy. I also like the interface more for it
I've only started using it, but I'm liking it alright. That being said, I'm going to use Sync as soon as it's available.
I am still getting used to it coming from RIF but it's growing on me.
Same doesn't seem bad, just not what I'm used to.
Same doesn't seem bad, just not what I'm used to.
After being here for 5 minutes. After not knowing how to login 6 minutes ago.
I've already forgot reddit exists.
What's Reddit?
Reddit? Never heard that before
Jerboa used to work but it crashes for me now. I even tried uninstalling and making sure a version compatible with my server was installed (cleared app data and cache too), but nope, It's borked for me.
I use Connect for Lemmy now. Once Boost is out I'll most likely switch
I had to switch to connect for Lemmy, as jerboa was bugging out and not showing me anything on my feed from outside my local instance.
Waiting for sync for Lemmy but it's roughly 6 weeks away from release according to developer.
I would've liked to try it, but it crashes on app launch :/ using Connect For Lemmy instead
I have been getting "timeout" errors, which are a sign that none of my votes or comments for the couple minutes before the first error notice have actually landed. Happened a few times today and past couple days, although I can't tell if this is from an app bug or an overloaded instance server.
Jerboa was one of the first legit apps out there for Android. But then it killed itself and became a horribly buggy, crashing mess. It doesn't seem to crash as much anymore, but scrolling is very laggy and glitchy still for me. Wouldn't recommend it at the moment, sadly, but I appreciate it as a pioneer.
I couldn't login two weeks and had to do it on thed web page. I can't download images in comment sections :(
I'm using it. I like it better than connect which is the only other one on the play store right now. There are more but you have to install them off github. I'll just wait till they make it to play store to try those out.
I'm using liftoff and I like it more, because it remembers that I only want posts from the communities that I'm subscribed to.
I know I'm going to have too many Lemmy apps on my devices. Ugh. LOL
5 and counting 😅
Yeah, it's not too bad here. Got a dope username and gonna go on a spree searching up some cool new communities. There will always be enough people relaying all the reddit content, so why bother ig
Same for the username hehehe
I was so happy when I found my normal username was available here on Lemmy. It's a shallow reason to like the app, but it's part of what really sold it to me and made me check it out further, and so far, I'm really happy I did.
I deleted my original Reddit username a long time ago and always regretted it. DriftingDeep is back, baby!
I always wanted something better than my reddit username so I went with something unique! Hopefully the marijuanaenthusiasts page gets more users soon.
I think usernames are specific to the instance, so any time in the future a person can start up their own instance and get user@myinstance, but your username at lemmy.world is yours.
I think that's a wondrously extensible way of extending the username space.
I'm keeping Apollo on my phone for the memories 😢
Same with Infinity😅
Infinity for Everything (Threadiverse) is under development.
I deleted rif because I absolutely will click on it just by habbit
I just changed the connect for lemmy icon to the Rif icon because it just felt weird without it.
I will keep sync on my phone because everytime I accidentally open it, I will remember why I dislike reddit and vow never to go back.
Queue the habitual "open Apollo" to waste time to be met with a disabled screen :(
Same, but that “forever” notification icon. Argh.
This is starting to feel like Digg v5.0.
I'd never used digg, but still gave an update, lol.
memmy is fucking lit. i love watching it evolve in real time with us :)
the apollo - memmy pipeline is real
Apollo walked so Memmy can run
Replacing my addiction I had to apollo
Lol that's why I'm here too
Memmy has seriously improved over the past two weeks, it’s development has been extremely fast and I’m very impressed with my limited casual use so far.
Agreed! Watching it get better and better with literal updates multiple times a day has been crazy. It’s definately my front runner right now.
Started with Jerboa until the 0.18.0 issue, switched to Thunder which was buggier than I liked. But now that Liftoff is finally on F-Droid it feels like I've found the definitive Android client. Well until Artemis that is.
Liftoff is my favorite so far. It's the closest to Infinity for Reddit, which is where I'm migrating from.
Same!
Same with me. Infinity was great, all Liftoff is missing is a comment search option at the moment
Is it on fdroid? I just installed the apk
Pretty sure it got added super recently because it definitely wasn't on there like yesterday
I didn't see it on fdroid but it looks like it's on the play store early release. I tried from GitHub but was having issues with my phone and loading the apk
It’s wild seeing the difference in number of votes and comments today compared to the last week or so since I signed up.
FYI, Memmy was JUST submitted to the AppStore at 8am yesterday. It’s waiting on review. 🤞
Actually it's reddit I'm looking away from. Not Apollo. Memmy is good. In a better state than mlem I'd say.
Oh for sure. Mlem, even when it was the only real option, was pretty flawed and I found myself regularly just going to Lemmy through my browser instead.
So now with options like Memmy and WefWef it’s not even a comparison.
Memmy is excellent
Yup, you and a lot of other people, probably why it's being hugged to death at the moment.
Which clients do you guys actually recommand?
For noncommittals I'd recommend wefwef (dev is considering renaming)
Then if you want an app there several.
I've just installed Connect and so far I like it more than Jeroba. There's also Sync coming SoonTM so that would probably be good
There is also Thunder, and personally I'm torn between it and wefwef.
I learned about Connect from this post. It felt like Relay with it's gestures, which is nice.
For Android I'm using Liftoff and it just works so far. I'm really happy for it being an app in alpha. Still missing many features by Reddit app had, of course
Hi guys, what's the most similar lemmy app compared to RiF?
Wefwef is really slick, but keep in mind that all apps are still early in development.
I checked out Wefwef and the format looks pretty good! I'm excited to see where it will end up.
Wefwef is one of the smoothest ones I've used so far! Lacks some features, but seems to be a lot more stable and usable than some others. I also like how simple the UI is, like how RIF had a sort of "bare bones" look to it. I've heard Liftoff is gaining traction tho as well.
This is why I'm not in a huge rush to move away from Jerboa. If there's a clear frontrunner, I may switch, but I'm not switching every time there's a two day outage while waiting on patches. They're all gonna hit speed bumps as the userbase grows until everything settles out.
It’s basically a clone of Apollo. So def a winner.
I'm currently using Connect for Lemmy from the Play Store. Not the same feel as RiF but it is very simplistic in nature yet still feature-rich, which counts in my book!
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Is that a little ogre? How do you paste a little ogre?
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I don't know how, but I've done it too...
it’s an emoji
Yeah, life is good, Connect is fine and keeps on constantly getting better. Also, Boost and Sync are on the horizon. In the end it's a pity that I will use only one of those apps.
Connect is pretty great for Android.
I FEEL COMPLETE ONCE AGAIN!
Does every Lemmy app need to try and mimic Apollo? I personally liked narwhal the most and would like something more in line with that. Narwhal handles links and content better than Apollo or any of the Lemmy apps I’ve used so far. I also don’t need my front page to be so big, even in compact mode. Just give me the text without a huge ass picture/link image to the side of the title.
Testing Memmy right now. Seems to get a lot of basics right. Would be nice if you could use it to just read without logging in though.
I recognize most of what's been mentioned but having difficulty finding the links on github? But maybe assume not all are FOSS?
I there anywhere with those apps and their respective links (fdroid, play store, github)?
I wish I could hide posts, couldn’t find any apps that have that like Apollo had as a swipe option
On PC at least, go to your account settings and you can toggle 'Show read posts'. Untick this, and anything upvoted or looked at (looked at the comments, aka opened up) Will go away upon refresh.
This behaviour will carry over to the apps on refresh. It's quite aggressive though, so if you comment on something and want to check back on the activity you better bookmark it. But if you're like me , you only mostly care about replies to your comment :P
Is there a client/app for iPhone?
I just need to figure out how to add more “subreddits” or whatever they are called and how to switch between them but other than that this app feels great so far. Fuck Spez. Currently using Memmy
I want to use Liftoff, but it doesn't work with vlemmy.net
Memmy has had an amazing development cycle. Big thing that Thunder has that Memmy doesn’t is swipe access to my communities. Really like swiping in from the left in Thunder and having that list. Memmy you need to click the star and it’s a bit of a reach while one handed.
I just changed the connect for lemmy icon to the Rif icon because it just felt weird without it lol
I FEEL COMPLETE ONCE AGAIN!
I FEEL COMPLETE ONCE AGAIN!
liftoff for me!
Its not as polished as Apollo but years of development will do that for you.
I noticed at one point in the side swipe upvote the down vote and upvote waw pointing down just the color was changing
I’m really enjoying Memmy so far.
I was a fan of RedReader, the dev seems want to add lemmy support, so let's hope for that. So far jeroba and summit... Both are nice, actually. So i might stick to them.
Red reader has some great accessibility tools I just found out. I hope they make a lemmy client!
I'm enjoying Summit. It's still in beta but seems smooth. I'm a long time RIF user. I think this app is the closest I've come to the feel of RIF so far
This is so hawt right now!
Shoutout to Memmy for supporting IOS 15, couldn't browse Lemmy on my old ass iPhone 7 without it
Does wefwef not support iOS15? Its just a web app so id have expected it to run fine.
What app is that on the left
there’s less content but I find the content to be of higher quality. at least on what I’d consider the frontpage
I started with Jeroba a few weeks ago and it was serviceable. After the server updates and rollbacks and all that jazz I decided to try Liftoff. It's a decent app but I am so used to Sync for Reddit that it's hard to adjust. I'm eager for LJ to get Sync for Lemmy out in the wild in a month or two.
Holy shit I’m posting this from wefwef… how the hell is this as good as Memmy!?
Is it just me or is wefwef letting promoted by bots?
Not a bot, but I think it works surprisingly well for a non native and pretty new app.
