“Sync for Lemmy is happening!”

NocturnalNebula@kbin.social to Android@lemmy.world – 267 points –
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As a fellow iOS user, Memmy is pretty sweet for a version 0.0 beta app.

Really enjoying Memmy too! Dev seems to be moving at a quick pace. The app is already functional and getting better each day

How have I not found this!?

I wanted to check out Mlem, but it’s full. Lemur I think is discontinued. There is one that’s coming called Artemis, but that’s not available yet.

Memmy is honestly just what I was looking for. Cheers!

I’ve been testing both and I definitely prefer Memmy overall. Mlem has better image display options and has search. Memmy doesn’t display images unless you tap on the post. Search should be released in the next day or two, though.

Artemis being an Apollo clone had me very excited, though.

Edit: new app just released on TestFlight showing real promise: Limbo

You are able to login with a kbin acc on it?

kbin doesn’t have APIs enabled so Apps can’t talk to it yet

Both memmy and mlem have been great in their own ways thus far. Both are in testflight and getting regular updates, in addition to the news about sync there is also news about another new one called artemis that is aiming to be apollo styled.

Yeah I’ve been enjoying Memmy. Considering how early it is, it works really well.

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This is exactly why I never pick iphones, because a good chunk of the time you miss out on all the niche things you can do on a smartphone.

I never pic up an iPhone because Mac discontinued support for my $6000 editing computer within two years when they scrapped the mac towers and went laptop only.

Which one was that?

2011 Mac Pro, which was discontinued in 2012, while support for the design was fully discontinued in 2013, when mac decided it would completely change everything and focus on the trash can design.

I get upgrading and whatever the fuck, but this was supposed to be an upgradeable machine, like a user built pc, but then they just fucking dumped support within 2 years, which should be fucking criminal considering its outrageous price.

Lol we still have these an my company.

It doesn't make my life as a network engineer hell at all, having to figure out how to make decade old technology fit into a fiber network in a windows environment.

They fit pretty well in the storage closet until the companies life cycle replacement sees them replaced with Windows machines.

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Happy for Android users, but for those that don’t know, on iOS, we have three apps in beta we can download, and all three are very good with the current state they are in. I suggest giving anyone of them a try.

Memmy Join the Memmy App beta - TestFlight - Apple https://testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD

Mlem Join the Mlem beta - Testing Apps with TestFlight https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc

Limbo https://testflight.apple.com/join/e6ZEbxuR

Thank you for sharing this! I was searching for an iOS app.

You already have like 3 apps. We have jerboa. Jerboa.

Actually, a new Android client called Thunder has entered Alpha. It's SEVERELY lacking in features as of now, though.

I like Flutter based apps, so that makes me happy. I saw it a couple of days ago and while it is lacking in features, it does feel nice to use and looks much better than Jerboa IMO.

It's nice that we can have all these choices for 3rd party clients that won't end up getting screwed over due to a central authority.

Been using sync (paid) for over 10 years, will instantly buy a Lemmy version

The official community is on Lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy

There's also a subreddit r/syncforlemmy

I dare say he'll be wanting to get out a functional app before implementing things like support for Kbin. Bjt it's worth requesting it as the more who, perhaps the more priority it will get.

Man, I love sync and can't wait to continue using it.

Please let that also be a Lemmy instance, Lemmy needs horizontal distributed scaling.

This is how I've been thinking Lemmy can scale. Sync can host their own instance funded by premium subscribers. In other cases, a group of friends with common local interests can host an instance with their local channels plus caching posts on other instances, and peoppe could connect to that or lemmy.world for free and see the same content.

Just waiting for Christian to announce he's rewriting Apollo....

Same! I hope he’s considering it… Lemmy + Apollo would make it 1000x more attractive for Reddit users to enjoy Reddit without the management team’s constant fuckery.

I mean, I would throw some more money his way if he decided to integrate it with Lemmy. It’s a good app, and has been reliably functional for years, through all the various iterations of Reddit jiggery-pokery.

Also, if he does, a client app outliving it’s target service and migrating to support another competitor service would obviously become known as “pulling an Apollo”.

Man the ad for lemmy if he announced it with a pop up on Apollo reddit opening

That would make spez so incredibly angry. And then promoting it on reddit in his subreddit and then people posting it to the apple sub would make me not surprised if he banned Apollo sub out of anger.

After everything that happened, let the man enjoy his forced vacation for like a year before going back into the fray.

I mean sync had and iOS version so it’s not out of the realm of possibility.

The iOS version was handled by a different developer altogether. LJ has never done work for iOS himself.

What do we have to do to convince Christian Selig to make Apollo for Lemmy?

I already pay for Apollo, I'd happily keep paying for Apollo for Lemmy, I'm sure tons of users would.

Try wefwef, it’s very similar to Apollo

Any idea if there's a chance that the app will be open-source?

just a PSA, remember you can still use Lemmy as a PWA ("install" lemmy.world from safari as a shortcut)

I always used RIF for reddit but I'll definitely give Sync a try if this actually ends up happening

Fwiw, the dev for RIF has announced they're going to be making an app for Tildes.

Meanwhile I‘m just using the Safari Shortcut on the Home Screen. Works just as good as an app. If you‘re in beta test mood you can check out MLEM. It’s available through the Test Flight App.

Hey, maybe apollo releases the code some day and someone picks it up for lemmy/kbin, would be happy for the iPhone stans lol.

what community do I join for updates?

Okay I'm using jerboa and I just can't get that type of FQ link to open in the app instead of the browser.

Well thanks to the massive influx of users over the last week, Jerboa has been getting steady updates, one of which is going to be fixing just that.

I need an Apollo alternative. Memmy app for iOS comes close though 😄