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Best lemmy app (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by EredYasibu@lemm.ee to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Which lemmy app for android do you use and why?

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[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

So far, out of the suggestions in the comments, the only ones that are FOSS and currently work with the latest versions of lemmy are Jerboa, Thunder, and Voyager. Liftoff and Eternity are also FOSS, but haven't been updated since July and October respectively, so may have issues if your instance is running version 0.19+.

Boost and Sync are both closed source and I really wish people would stop recommending them in a community specifically for free and open-source software. I'm sure they're good apps and I don't begrudge devs making money from their work, but if they do I don't want them getting free advertising in the comments of a FOSS-specific community.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When the title is "best Lemmy app" and the body is just "which Lemmy app do you use for Android and why" you can understand why someone would just scroll through and contribute their experience with Sync right?

Just like every other link aggregator: people on All don't pay attention to the specific community.

It's not malice, just people being oblivious. It's not worth getting worked up about.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

I definitely can understand it, but that isn't mutually exclusive with me wishing people would take a second to check the community they're commenting in.

I've never implied it was malice (suggesting closed-source software in a FOSS community is a pretty weak example in maliciousness even if on purpose!) And really I wouldn't say I'm worked up, I just wanted to bring this up because I've noticed this type of thing happen across a couple FOSS communities on lemmy and maybe someone will see my original comment and be more mindful of it next time.

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

Eternity is fine. You just need to log out and back in. I'm using it now.

Details here: https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Eternity/releases/tag/v0.1.2