I’m out of the loop I guess, why is everyone insisting this app will be supreme before it has even been released?
Honestly IMO it’s a bit cringe for me that so many people are like, “fuck these Lemmy apps this [insert unreleased app] is amazing!”.
Like calm down, lol. Let’s see how it’ll be first, a lot of the Lemmy apps are great right now.
Signed, a Reddit Boost user.
While I have no allegiance to any particular app I am somewhat hyped for any and all established former Reddit apps to make the transition. Each release should hopefully bring a small bump of users with it. Also, the diversity of how a user can interact with fediverse is satisfying. Initially I was hoping for something along the lines of lemmyisfun or kbinisfun. Presently I’m enjoying connect for lemmy and anticipating whatever comes next.
Liftoff is at a stage i don’t need Sync to hurry anymore.
The apps were just lightyears behind anything we used for Reddit, it is getting there and i’m happy.
I’ve tried all the available Lemmy apps for Android and none of them are at good at Boost was. Anyway, the more the merrier
It was a really nice Reddit App, and the developer announced a Lemmy version. So if the Lemmy version is anything as good as the Reddit version, it’ll be definitely one of the best apps out there. It’s very needed in a time where all the Lemmy mobile apps are still pretty immature.
It’s not that it hasn’t been released, it already exists. Boost was one of the 3rd party apps for Reddit considered to be one of the top 3 (second only to Apollo and RiF) in terms of performance and UX. Since Reddit booted them off their service, the developer announced he was simply going to rewrite the backend to support Lemmy with the same quality UX and performance that is already known.
Boost was one of the 3rd party apps for Reddit considered to be one of the top 3 (second only to Apollo and RiF)
I can already hear the Sync fanboys pouring in from their discord to disagree.
PSA for all former apollo users: voyager for lemmy (wefwef.app) is what you’re looking for. Go to the site, press the share button, and press add to Home Screen. I always held out hope that apollo would be reincarnated for lemmy, but I never expected it to happen this fast and to work this well
Boost was my favourite Reddit app, couldn’t tell you why off the top of my head because I’ve been using it for so long now
Think a lot of people are excited because it’s the same app they’re used to which was pretty damn good as far as Reddit apps went
Also I think for a lot of people it’s closure to the whole leaving Reddit thing, at the moment I think the experience is more or less equivalent to what Reddit was but the interface can still be unfamiliar and janky sometimes. Makes Lemmy a drop in replacement for old Reddit users
It’s probably unrealistic to expect it to be as solid as it was as a reddit app. I loved boost and I’m sure I’ll try it out, but I’m expecting it to be buggy and not as fully featured as Voyager, which I keep coming back to. Connect and Thunder are great too.
I’ve been using connect for a few weeks, what does voyager offer that connect doesn’t?
Even a perfect reddit app would be very incomplete if ported - it seems like half the feature requests on c/connect are things like “block instance” “treat entire instance as nsfw”, show/hide instance names on users / communities, “browse another instance’s local feed”, the kind of stuff that a reddit app would have no concept of
