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❤️🔥 🎇 It’s finally here! And it will live on my home screen just like Apollo used to do. 🔥 ❤️🔥
Just spreading this news in case you’re like me and late to the good news :)
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No link?
App link here, since OP didn’t deliver: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/memmy-for-lemmy/id6450204299
Sorry didn’t include a link since it’s on the app store. Thanks for providing one.
Unfortunately, searching for apps in the app store is not easy. I tried searching for “memmy” and didn’t find it. I had to use the full name.
I think the Apple App Store mostly sorts by popularity and they use reviews, some mixture of the quantity and star rating, to decide that popularity amount.
Anyway, ignoring the obnoxious Apple-inserted banner ad (🙄) typing in “lemmy” or “memmy” bring up the correct app for me now. I had the .ipa sideloaded previously, but yesterday typing in lemmy brought up some other completely unrelated (not lemmy) app came up and memmy I think didn’t work at all. Seems ok now though since most people will go to the App Store and type lemmy.
Fantastic app, really puts Reddit to shame. Maybe if they didn’t spend all their efforts trying to add trackers and shit they would have a decent app
OP you’re on an iPhone. Next time crop the photo in the Photos app to remove the ad for PUBG…
I thought my Lemmy app was displaying ads and almost deleted it.
I also though that, but I’m on wefwef so that didn’t make any sense
Wtf is a wefwef
That made me chuckle. Wefwef is one of the popular apps for browsing Lemmy
The old name for Voyager
And a better name for it too I reckon
Any phone should be able to do this. The first thing my Android does after taking a screen shot is ask me if I want to crop.
Hell, at least on my Motorola, you can set it so triggering a screenshot gives you a transparent, resizable selection box so you only capture the part of the screen you want to capture without having to crop afterwards.
I wonder how much Tencent will pay per post like this
I wonder what they’d pay for the Reddit equivalent
One more step in the right direction.
A giant leap for the fediverse. :)
Now I just need to learn how to use Lemmy
You better start believein’ in using Lemmy…
You’re doing it.
For those unaware, you swipe to access voting/reply on comments, swipe from left to right on a comment to get to the up/down vote and swipe right to left to reply.
On your inbox, you can mark replies “read” by far swiping right to left.
You can also swipe to go back to your feed back swiping left to right starting from the edge of the post.
Lastly you can access settings by clicking the “gear” icon in your profile screen (top right)
Thank you! I wish the app made this clearer. But I’ll be referring to this comment until I develop some muscle memory.
The only gesture it still needs is swiping a comment right to left to collapse the entire comment thread
I prefer WefWef but still: this can only be a good thing for Lemmy. Glad this is out!
WefWef UI is great, just wish it wasn’t a web app
Honestly it’s hard to tell. Even on my old iPhone X it’s pretty seamless. I wish Apple and Android would give PWA apps more feature support overall tbh.
It’s definitely not as responsive and has a slightly laggy feel to it. I mean it looks and runs great for a webapp. But it just isn’t as good as a native app.
It’s the push notifications I’m missing most
It’s hard to tell until suddenly your phone is out of battery.
Oh PWAs take more battery?
Memmy is just a webapp with extra steps though.
The extra step is that it doesn’t run through Safari.
It’s literally not lol
It is react native, meaning it uses the same basic web technologies as wefwef. It’s just bundled up and distributed through the app stores rather than through your browser. I am not complaining though both WefWef and Memmy are absolutely awesome.
It’s not like electron or something. Sure metro works similarly to webpack, but it’s not the same basic web technologies as wefwef. RN runs on threads on your device, a main thread, js thread and shadow thread. The js thread talks to the main thread through a bridge. React Native allows us to work and interface with native APIs with the device, while PWAs does not do that. PWAs don’t do that on your phone, it’s just like running on Safari really. Things aren’t rendered in a webview, while the code itself isn’t “native” we end up with native components through the bridge. The way RN works is fundamentally different than React, despite the syntax looking similar and RN being written in JS. It’s not like its just React bundled up into a mobile app. I often wish they hadn’t named it React Native for this reason, and for having to look up stuff and just getting React answers all the time lol. I am one of the Memmy devs and I am a React developer professionally. FYI this is not in any way a diss at wefwef for not being native, its super super impressive what they’ve done, I’m sure I could learn a lot about React from their code. Also sorry about the disjointed thoughts lol. Hope this clarified a bit how RN works though.
Thanks for the great and detailed reply! Tbh I really thought React Native was just using the webview… super embarassing for a dev of 12 years.
Glad it was helpful!
There was a really annoying issue with wefwef for me - Swiping back to the Home Screen would result in a brief couple seconds of lag before I could scroll again. Apart from that I’d agree that is was great.
But this Memmy app is a lot better in that regard 👌
I had the same experience with wefwef which led me to try out Memmy. Memmy is much more seamless and feels more like a fully functional app.
Interestingly enough, I am actually also getting this intermittently on Memmy after just switching.
Ah that’s annoying! Can’t be near as bad as I haven’t seen it myself.
Hope it’s something that can be resolved.
It’s so frustrating, because this is an iOS bug, and not an inherent problem with wefwef. Hoping they can find a workaround though!
Wefwef feels like Apollo in a stable beta version: it doesn’t have everything I’m used to (blocking communities from the main feed is a big one) but everything is in the right place. Pity I only got it after Apollo went down, since I can’t get my data from Apollo now.
I’m just trying Lemmy (writing this comment on it) and it’s still rather light but thankfully speedier than on a browser.
I figure I’ll bounce between them for a bit and see which one starts to gain more usage and features. But yes, it’s good that there are more options available.
Quick question- what specifically were you looking to export from Apollo over to WefWef? I tried exporting the .json file from Apollo over to WefWef following the instructions and it basically was just a list of my subscribed communities and allowed me to search for similar communities on here (most of which were pretty niche and therefor not on here yet. Totally understandable.) Is there something else I’m missing?
That’s what I was looking for, yeah. Part of it was that I was subscribed to language learning communities (and memes in the target language: the shared language of memes provides a lot of context!) which can be named a large variety of things, so I’d be back at square one and searching for things manually.
It’s not the worst thing to be back to basics, because it forces me to explore and learn about the Fediverse, but there’s always going to be that nagging “did I get everything out of the old apartment” feeling as I drop off the key.
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I bounce back and forth between WefWef and Memmy and I think they are both great in their own way.
I love wefwef but I actually prefer this now!
Same
Wefwef is fast but it’s a web app, not a native one. It feels snappy and fast though.
Only reason I’m not on Wefwef anymore is because of the lack of haptics. Getting haptic feedback on votes and swipes is just too good, imo.
True. That’s the same reason I switched to memmy
angry android noises
Try: jerboa, liftoff, Summit, Thunder, wefwef,
Sync is coming next month too.
And you can install any of them right now without waiting for them to be approved on the store.
I’m currently waiting for some of these to make it to Fdroid, it’s just jerboa on there so far (which I like!)
I’m excited for boost because that was my favourite Reddit client.
Liftoff is pretty good so far. You can use obtanium to install it from GitHub releases and keep it up to date, I find it just as convenient as F-droid.
Thanks for both recommendations, I’ve read about obtainium before but never needed to use it. It’s good!
So far I like liftoff as well. Nice to have several good options (already!)
Liftoff is there too. I like Jerboa but I felt there were too many bugs/crashes just now. Liftoff isn’t the best looking but its the most dependable imo.
Don’t forget Connect.
Really good
Ironically I posted the comment from connect…
You rock! Thanks!!
Lemmotif is also looking good but is newer and less feature rich last I checked. There’s probably a couple newer ones that’s I’m forgetting.
Oh, Artemis is coming soon and also supports kbin which is rare as their api isn’t finished yet.
boost for reddit dev looks like they released a boost for lemmy
It’s been announced that it’s coming, but it’s not released yet. I’m not sure if there’s an expected release date
Thanks so much!!
We’ve got a bajillion of them, and unlike iOS, you didn’t need to wait for it to hit the Apple Store.
iOS allows you to install beta apps via TestFlight. And we have a bunch already not including wefwef.
Which technically doesn’t even get installed because it’s one of these new fancy no-download apps!
Won’t go back to android for their vulnerabilities and Google’s spyware and I won’t be goin back to Reddit
staying in a closed sourced platform is more vulnerable. though I’m running a custom android rom
Not at all true.
how? justify your reasoning? being on apple who have one of the largest user base, you are more vulnerable for cyberattacks. you said you left google because of Google spying on you. how come apple won’t do that?
Oy vey, no man…
Android is the most heavily used OS in the world. The best thing I’m gonna recommend instead of listing all the reasons is to point you to lists of Android vulnerabilities (public info because OSINT is life) vs iOS vulns over time.
Apple may spy on us! But nothing near as severe as google has in the past (and we’re caught for) like when google chrome was listening in on user microphones. Never heard of such a scandal with Apple before.
And for the record I think Apple is over priced and a cult 🤠
This
I’m sure android has alternatives already. I always feel like iOS gets the popular apps later than android. :(
I’m happy to report there are several android apps getting daily updates at the moment.
Right?! Lol
I never head of memmy. Don’t worry Android has lots of good Lemmy apps
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Im excited about all the apps but to be honest i hate the names of most of them. Mlem, wefwef, memmy. Idk the overly cute name makes me think of dudes who owo in people’s DMs
I love the WefWef app but hate every time I have to type that ridiculous name out. There’s absolutely zero chance I will ever say that horrible name aloud to people either.
Apollo was an awesome name. WW, opposite.
Voice your opinion at [email protected]. The dev has already considered renaming as the current one was picked arbitrarily and partly because it’s easy to type with one hand 🤔
Lol I started using liftoff on android for that exact reason. Idk what’s so appealing about baby talk for app devs that they name stuff like that
Imagine being so insecure that you won’t use an app because the name isn’t manly enough. (Although to be fair i am also using liftoff atm because it was the open source app that worked the best last time I tried them all)
I’m going back and forth between Jerboa, LiftOff and Thunder.
I’ll have to checkout thunder. I haven’t heard tried that one yet. There’s so many apps being made right now!
The dev did so much work in the last few weeks. It’s amazing how quickly this app became good.
Why does the app need to collect the Device ID and link it to me?
push notifications
Can’t be. I have multiple apps with push notifications that don’t collect/link it.
TIL: The labels are kind of self imposed by interpreting apple guidelines.
Thanks for the link :)
Most based and respectful conversation you guys are legends
Memmy is fantastic and exactly what Lemmy needs to become more popular. Using Lemmy.world etc on a browser on iOS just didn’t want to work for me, the login button wouldn’t work on any browser.
Browsed through safari before and I would be logged out randomly, too. Not sure why it’s not smooth on browsers though.
It’s good there’s this app which will hopefully work better. I haven’t tried it yet, but if for some reason you still log on mobile browser I found that if I completely delete the auto fill email/PW then manually tell it to fill again, I can login with no problem.
Is there an Android version available?
No, but there are plenty of Android apps available. Personally, I’d recommend Liftoff (and Boost when it’s released).
There’s also something called Jerboa, not sure if it’s good though
Jerboa is OK, but it has a long way to go
I started out using Jerboa, but then it started crashing. Switched to Connect which I like better and has been working well.
I can’t login with jerboa. Not sure why, but there’s no option to.
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Thnx! I downloaded Liftoff and I really like it :)
I am currently using a WebApp called wefwef, but I think it will soon be renamed Voyager https://vger.app/
The GitHub mentions Android support. How do we get this?
well it’s a React app (booo), so all the author (or anyone willing to make a PR) needs to do is update the build pipeline to compile an APK and create a GitHub release for it if they don’t want a Play Store presence.
Please we need to know 😩
Very clean. I like it a lot.
I know. Reminds me so much of apollo. I’m on cloud 9 right now :)
Exactly! My fingers have missed Apollo these last few weeks. Memmy feels SO familiar!
If I’m on the TestFlight is it important to switch?
The TestFlight version will be the beta testing version for all the upcoming official App Store version for updates. If you keep the TestFlight version you will be a bug finder for improvements to the final app.
Thanks!
You’re welcome
TestFlight will still receive new betas, if you don’t want to beta test new releases, just want to have latest stable release download the one from the store. Both will work just fine so you can stay on TestFlight one if you want to.
Thanks!
TestFlight will get updates faster
Thanks!
Having lots of errors signing into various accounts when I was trying to find what server to call home… got my lemmy.world account and beehaw to work, but no luck with kbin.social…
Other than that, works pretty well. Obviously a long way off the gloriousness of Apollo, but not so far off that I’d rather stick with a web shortcut. Seeing a lot of image previews turned into 🔗 instead of showing thumbs, and so many sites now rejecting access due to the use of a VPN… but that’s more a web problem than a Memmy prob I suppose.
Feature-request-wise, it would also be nice to see a more customizable feed that could hook into any combination of my various accounts with a tier-style prioritization on which account to load a subscription when a particular subscription exists across those accounts.
Exciting times either way!
kbin is federated with lemmy (and mastadonj) but it is its own software with its own (unfinished) API.
One of the Memmy devs here - We don’t support kbin (they don’t have an API). Did you have issues with signing into any Lemmy instances specifically?
I got a couple of errors on some others like Beehaw at first, but it worked after a couple of tries. I figured it was just due to the rapid rise of your app’s popularity! Congrats and thanks also for the reply! Sorry for being a goof on kbin… I am still a relative new reddit refugee who had been looking for a new place to be before Memmy came along.
Oh yea you might get some issues with beehaw because they are defederated from other instances. Glad you are enjoying the app and figuring out the fediverse though! :)
I went Lemmy.ml because it doesn’t require an email address. I had 10’s of Reddit accounts that I’d cycle through on different VPNs and only use certain ones on certain devices in the name of Internet anonymity. Giving up an email address (even one that’s purely for junk mail) defeats the anonymity.
Lemmy being open source and relatively transparent means any bad actor with access would have a ton of info on me, even if it’s just my habits, voting tendencies, and comments/posts. That’s not info I want to give out.
![For this who aren’t aware, Memmy for lemmy is now available in the app store [iOS]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1a6d7ff5-2f7a-482c-a07b-f686f8cc33a3.png){kind=link}