I made a folder with my fav lemmy apps that I tried so far, and they are sorted by favorite to less favorite. By far, wefwef is my most used and I do switch to lifoff sometimes. Also, the official lemmy app is really not bad compared to reddit’s official app. I would say try all of them and see which one works the best for you. waiting for sync and boost to launch. let me know if you have any other suggestions I haven’t tried yet.

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Tried jerboa and wefwef, now on liftoff and this feels best for me at the moment so gonna stick with it for a while till other apps are made.

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same, it’s my placeholder until boost for lemmy is released

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I’ve been trying them as well. It feels like each one (so far) has something problematic–quite understandable given their early development.

I’m really looking forward to trying Sync when it’s ready.

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Slide is still in alpha but is looking promising.

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def looks promising, I’ll give it a try!! thanks

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Wait… The same Slide as the abandoned Reddit app?? That was my favorite of all of the Reddit apps I’ve tried due to it’s simplistic gesture design.

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That’s the one. I’m not 100% sure of the history but it’s an attempt to get it working here and progress is already promising.

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Fudge yeah!!

Edit: hahahahhaa! My autocorrect G-rated my comment

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Been using Connect and liftoff for a few days now. Both are really good but imo connect seems to be a tad bit smoother and has better UI.

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I agree connect has the smoothest scrolling experience of all of them but there is something about the UI and theme that keeps making me go back to wefwef. we can’t really tell now but with time I guess, all of them will be enhanced and less buggy, and it’ll be just a matter of preference.

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memmy

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Looks like lemmotif is in super beta and can’t even add an account. It does load pretty quickly though.

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I’ve been trying them as well. It feels like each one (so far) has something problematic–quite understandable given their early development.

I’m really looking forward to trying Sync when it’s ready.

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I’m currently using Thunder (it is open source, https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder) and it’s pretty nice. I tried Jerboa before but I kept getting way too many request errors (probably because I was using with the lemmy.world instance tho)

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this feels nice to use but I can’t seem to get into lemmy.world. is it meant to be used for other instances?

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I’m using Thunder and wefwef side by side and I like them both. I’m on lemmy.world and it seems to work fine.

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You mean Thunder? I think you are having some weird bug, because I’m logged there and have an account on lemmy.world. Jerboa recently was having problems with lemmy.world because of the server’s version, but that has already been sorted it out.

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I’m on lemmy.world and could only get into it on my PC for a couple of days, I had to use lemm.ee on my device but I just kept trying and eventually I got in.

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I’m on lemmy.world and could only get into it on my PC for a couple of days, I had to use lemm.ee on my device but I just kept trying and eventually I got in.

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Tried jerboa and wefwef, now on liftoff and this one seems best for my use, so gonna stick to it for a bit while other apps are made.

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Which ones are open source?

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Jerboa is as well.

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I know liftoff is open source

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I know liftoff is open source

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memmy

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I don’t think there’s an android version out for Memmy yet.

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how do I get this one on android? I got lost in that GitHub page?

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couldnt tell ya sorry, i use memmy for iOS and had to download it thru apples beta store

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couldnt tell ya sorry, i use memmy for iOS and had to download it thru apples beta store

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Not sure if the bug is within the app or your instance, but you replied 4 times hahaha

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couldnt tell ya sorry, i use memmy for iOS and had to download it thru apples beta store

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couldnt tell ya sorry, i use memmy for iOS and had to download it thru apples beta store

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Haha, I got them all in a folder too and would rate them similarly. (Tough, Liftoff is above wefwef for me)

I Update them all regularly and snoop back in to see how they’re progressing. So far it’s been really fun and inspiring to see these madmen developers push out 3 updates a day

If I get to make one recommendation: the thunder app is also good, but only available through GitHub (I guess?), so you’d have to install via an apk. Worth it in my opinion, as it comes close after wefwef in my ranking! :D

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I see vivaldi, I upvote! Best browser around

I see Niagara, I upvote! Best launcher around

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Switched to both of these within the last couple months, both are great. Niagara is admittedly probably the most expensive android app I’ve purchased, but I think it was worth it

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yes sir!! been using niagara launcher since last year and just switched to Vivaldi on desktop lately. damn man, I don’t ever see myself using that google launcher ever again on my pixel phone no matter what updates they bake

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Which ones are open source?

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Install Obtainium and all your github apk update troubles will disappear!

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I second Obtanium

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