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[–] LRMAN0989@beehaw.org 52 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Replaced RIF with Jerboa on my home screen; I can't say I won't miss it though, wish there was a "Lemmy is fun" already

[–] TechyDad@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

In one of the subreddits, someone mentioned an effort to make a "Reddit API->Lemmy API bridge." Basically, you'd load this code and point your Reddit API calls to Lemmy instead. Then this bridge would translate your Reddit code to Lemmy. This could allow for apps like RIF, Boost, Apollo, etc to quickly turn their Reddit apps into Lemmy apps.

I hope this pans out. Jerboa isn't bad, but having many third party apps to choose from would be great. (As a Boost user, I'd love to load Boost and browse Lemmy instead of Reddit.)

[–] deephurting@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Didn't know we had an app. The RiF developer is working on an app for Tildes, which bums me out, RiF was my weapon of choice.

I've only convinced one real life friend to become interested in reddit, I asked her if she'd heard about all the drama there, and found out she'd been using the official app all this time...she was super shocked when I told her the stories about peoples' phones heating up using that thing.

[–] LRMAN0989@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm still trying out Tildes now and then, but the lack of an app pretty much kills the experience for me at the moment. I feel like the Lemmy system is overall the superior option, but Tildes is still an interesting alternative from what I've seen so I'm excited to see what it looks like with an app.

[–] deephurting@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I read that people were really impressed with how dedicated the RiF developer is working on their app - bugs or features were reported and bam! Fixed asap. I mean to join up at Tildes when they have another bidding round, it is interesting in its own way - same with Squabbles.

Any chance you could give me an invite?

[–] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I was going to join tildes until I saw a slew of posts talking about how they got permabanned for saying stuff like "I like tildes more than lemmy". Lol... what?

[–] wintrparkgrl@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

started using jerboa, but as it stands i found browsing in firefox on the mobile interface better

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[–] RealAccountNameHere@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If folks are on iOS, you can beta test the app "Mlem" by following the instructions here:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc

I like it!

[–] Skyteck@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just downloaded it. I’m not sure how to log in though. I entered beehaw.org for the home page then Skyteck for username and added my password. Then it says could not connect to beehaw.org.

[–] RandomBit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Try the full URL: https://beehaw.org/

Logging in is a major pain in the ass. It took me like 12 minutes to figure it out and if I got logged out, I'm not sure I remember how it worked.

Terrible UX. But better than nothing.

[–] possiblylinux127@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Same. We need better Lemmy apps

[–] ZappySnap@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Jerboa is a pretty nice app overall already. I use an iPhone as my main device, and Mlem is very incomplete at this stage (but it’s quite new). I loaded up Jerboa on a Pixel, though l, and was very impressed. Jerboa is far more polished…shame it’s Android only

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