Is the Lemmy folks able to get the Apollo dev to create a Lemmy iOS app?

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Check out wefwef, it’s a mobile app but it replicates the Apollo experience shockingly well.

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I can confirm it’s pretty fuckin lit, didn’t expect PWA to be such a good experience

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Same here. Its amazing! And it works on my android too!

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It’s utterly changed my opinion on web apps. It’s astonishingly good.

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Just scrolled through this thread to upvote this. Definitely worth a try if you miss the Apollo UI. Very smooth and beautiful UI.

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Replying using wefwef

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Just remember to read the “Terms and Privacy” before using it.

wefwef.app proxies information and you need to rely on their promise to not log, sell or inspect it.

They also collect “aggregated anonymized analytics”.

As an alternative, you can install any Lemmy website as PWA app. Also, the native phone app Jerboa doesn’t have those issues. You might want to consider one of those alternatives instead.

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As an alternative you can self host wefwef so that should alleviate some of the concerns

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I don’t think that’s enough reason to immediately dismiss wefwef and if your truly concerned just self host.

I’ve tried many alternatives but so far wefwef is #1

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I too was shocked by how much it feels like Apollo and how silky smooth it is. I no longer even care whether or not someone makes a native iOS app for Lemmy.

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It’s really surprisingly polished and quick.

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In one of his interviews he said he wasn’t very interested at the moment. But he did say he will watch Lemmy and the fediverse to see the growth of it and decide later on if it’s worth it to build an app for Lemmy. He isn’t sure if Lemmy will actually grow after July 1st but time will tell.

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He already mentioned he wasn’t super interested.

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I think he even said he was super uninterested. The existing platform and his use of it was what initially drove him to make Apollo. He’d have to first find that same (or more) level of commitment to lemmy.

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Hey, although it’s no big deal since this is also about Lemmy, there’s a megathread for all Reddit-related news and discussion here. We’ve been encouraging everyone to direct most discussion related to Reddit there, and I figured it might be worthwhile to pose this question there since it concerns a former 3PA for Reddit. Thanks!

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Is there a way to link those so folks on other instances can access properly? I get an error when clicking through (using wefwef.app and another server).

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I’m using Memmy, in beta atm, v similar

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