Jerboa is the official app. It is minimalistic and just works, but lacks features.
Thunder for me is a good alternative.
They both are Material You if you care.
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2024
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You take it wrong, MF'ER!
i use jerbora the only issue no notifications and maybe idk how to setup
I use Voyager for iOS. It’s basically an Apollo clone.
And for Android, check out Sync, it works great.
The developer is a really nice guy and is very communicative with folks, he ran Sync for reddit for years before reddit became enshittified - why we're all here to begin with.
Boost is great too
Ftw
Voyager for Iiphone is the best I’ve found
Voyager for Android is the best I've found
I've been using "connect for lemmy" and i love it! Fully stopped using reddit on mobile because this app is so good!
I've been using Jerboa, which does the job well enough.
If you used RIF for reddit it will be very familiar.
There is like 40 apps
I've only ever used sync since the sync Reddit stopped working (fuck those [Reddit] people). Haven't been back since. Also with ad block and a VPN, I don't get any ads on the free version.
I refuse to use sync because the dev invalidated the old lifetime license and made me pay again to keep using it a few years before reddit went to shit.
I'm not paying them again for something I can't trust won't force me to pay again in the future.
Oh, that's shit. I didn't pay before (or now). That really sucks though. I don't blame you.
Tell me to didn't try without saying you didn't try.
I searched Lemmy in the app store. I didn’t (and still don’t) understand why there are a bunch of third-party apps that connect to Lemmy. But it seemed like Voyager was popular, so I went with that.
Ah, so you were looking for something that was "first party"?
Yes. But I think im starting to understand how this works
Totally fair, and there are actually some official or "first party" apps of parts of the fediverse, like the Mastodon app, which is (or at least was) somewhat subpar when compared to third party offerings, but I believe was put out mainly to give new users a starting point.
Lemmy is not one centralized entity or corporation, so it is impossible for a first party app to exist. Think of it like a collection of separately run clubs/groups that all communicate with each other over the same medium. But the medium is not run by a single person or company.
However, Jerboa is the app made by Lemmy devs themselves, so I suppose it's as close to "first party" as you can get.
Personally, I use and prefer Voyager.
That's because there's no "first party". Just protocols and people
I would read up on how the fediverse works if you don't understand why there are so many "third-party" apps.
These 2 things are not related though? Reddit is not part of the fediverse and had plenty of third party apps until they changed the API.
It does answer why there's no official app, which is the question.
It kinda does. Why are there no open source apps in the app store?
Is there any open source code for iOS or Android apps?
There were many third party Reddit apps before Reddit had their official app. And you could argue that Jerboa is the official Lemmy app since it is made by one of the main Lemmy devs.
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