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It’s sad that people can be so sensitive.
But you really shouldn’t abandon Lemmy entirely over an app..especially when there are a few competing apps that are just as good.
Did Memmy start using swift natively? If so, I’d give them a chance but they were pretty sensitive as well when I pointed out that their choice of React Native was suboptimal since it is, after all, an iOS only app.
Yes, I think Memmy had a revamp but I'm not sure of the details. I think it's still React, but the devs mentioned "learning some tricks and how to avoid some mistakes".
I don't think I'm being sensitive though. First, I really don't think a decision to quit Lemmy would happen soon. Second, even though there are several apps for it under development, as I said, they're all at different stages of maturity and none of them cover all the bases I expect to use in the long term. I honestly hate having to reach around the screen to navigate, which is my biggest problem with all of them now that Memmy lost its gestures navigation. Then there are smaller stuff like Avelon not re-blurring NSFW after you tap on it. Or the crashes. Or the opening Lemmy links in a browser view instead of a regular view in the app. Some of these issues are shared between all of the 7 apps I have for Lemmy on my phone.
I'm going to give it time, I understand very well how most of these apps are side projects. My main concern is that either these apps eventually get abandoned, or they go paid/partly paid like Avelon, while still not providing me with the experience I expect to get. I don't have the inclination to relive the awful experience Reddit forced us through for years with a different name.
Oh I actually didn’t mean that you were being sensitive. I was referring to devs.
Thanks for providing some clarification. Lemmios is swift native, had a few killer features that I didn’t see elsewhere and it was entirely open source…though that one was a side project that seems to fall by the wayside during semester (the dev is a student).
I’d love for someone to make an ENTIRELY OPEN SOURCE, FREE/VOLUNTARY DONATION FUNDED, SWIFT NATIVE IOS LEMMY APP…kind of like Voyager but Swift Native. I’d be happy to fund the development of an app if that funding went back toward helping the rest of the fediverse and was 100% voluntary. IMO, why should I pay a dev working on a fediverse app if they aren’t open source? If I’m paying for a closed source app, I’m paying the dev to create a warchest of proprietary IP and to obfuscate useful code that could help the rest of the community.
!mlem@lemmy.ml is open source, donation funded and native Swift.
!arctic@lemmy.world is also native Swift.
I have both of these. Arctic is really good.