Does anyone else use the android app Connect for Lemmy? It reminds me of Infinity for Reddit. If you use it, do you like it better than Jerboa? I also found another new Lemmy app called Liftoff.
Connect for Lemmy: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect
Looks cool but if it’s not on F-Droid I ain’t using it.
Is your phone 100% un-Googled?
I think Connect looks nicer so I’ve been using it - very excited for Sync for Lemmy though
Using Connect because Jerboa just kept crashing on me at startup. Never got to test it out. Problems do exist in Connect, as e.g. I could not comment on this post in the app. Will check out Thunder and Lift off as well, so thanks for the suggestions!
Edit: I literally just found out that you have to hit the huge plus-button at the bottom right to add a comment… I always thought it was for creating a new post 🤦♂️
I was also having the Jerboa startup crashes starting yesterday. Version 0.0.35 fixed it for me (it’s not on vanilla F-Droid yet but it is on the IzzyOnDroid repo)
Good feedback! I’ll change the plus icon to something more obvious in the next release.
Any comment re:tracking that others have raised ITT and any plans to open the source code? Loving the UI thus far but like others here would very much prefer FOSS applications
Connect has 0 trackers of any kind and I collect no information beyond what Google Play Store collects by default. When you open up a webpage with the in-app viewer that webpage may run it’s own trackers but I don’t capture any of that data.
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect/latest/
This app looks really good. It looks almost exactly how I have my kbin account set up with scripts in a browser, and the gestures are very nice. - I hope it adds kbin support or one of the kbin apps ends up looking like this or better.
Connect seems cool, but I was using Infinity because it was open source. This one doesn’t seem open source (correct me if I’m wrong) so I’ll stick with Liftoff or Jerboa for now
That is a very good point. I just found it by accident a few minutes ago and didn’t even realize that.
I am missing the comment collapse option on all apps except gerboa. Hope they fix it.
Thunder has been the most featured for me so far. It does collapse by time, and i am also able to subscribe to communities from new instances following the !community@instance.tld formatting.
on Jerboa it was long press but they fixed it in recent releases. now just press once on the comment and it collapses. i was missing that but now the UX is great
Liftoff has it. Press and hold
I’m seriously missing the ability to jump to the current/next/previous parent comment. I make heavy use of that and only Jerboa has it right now, I think.
Using it to make this answer, and loving it Jerboa just keeps crashing instantly for me (android 12, Fairphone 4). Not sure why. But connect has just worked out of the box.
Mine has been crashing ever since the recent update specifically when I try to switch my filter from hot to new it seems to only happen if you do it right as you open the app
Jerboa works just fine for me. I’m also on a Fairphone 4, but running CalyxOS with Android 13. Maybe you can try Jerboa from another source like F-droid instead of Google Play or vice versa. You can also try the IzzyOnDroid repository on F-droid.
My jerboa was crashing so I tried to install it from Fdroid, and now I can’t sign into either version. (Server isn’t updated because of captcha issues with new update. Jerboa is preventing login because of this.)
So that prevented me from using jerboa.
Connect works still, shame jerboa is having issues.
The F-Droid version is now updated. Give it a shot.
I wish. I’ve updated it from both F droid and the play store and both say my instance version isnt on the current update so I can’t sign in at all.
My instance isn’t updated because the new update is fucky with captchas idk the fine details
These kind of growing pains certainly suck. I hope it settles down for you soon.
I tried it and didn’t think it was much different from any other Lemmy app right now. Seems like they are only trying to differentiate with visuals at the moment.
Some things I would like to see in future apps and versions of existing apps.
- Integration of the Lemmy community browser or something similar. Basic search takes too long and you need to know what your looking for
- Ability to view top communities posts from the community browser in a separate view alongside “local” and “All” and “subscribed” and could even stand in as a user’s subscribed view before they have customized it to their own liking
- Ability to “force pull” comments and posts from a particular remote community. Or at least compare the number of comments a post has locally to the number it has on its remote instance and present some kind of indicator if they differ.
These are all great suggestions. Is there an official place different app developers could look for these types of feature requests? That would be nice.
I feel like they should be looking here if they want to make an app that the community will appreciate.they should spend some time talking to people in the technology subs and maybe even do some polls.
Connect dev here! I’m watching this thread! 👀
Interesting, I’m waiting for Sync for Lemmy, is this one open source?
No, I dont think it is unfortunately. Another commenter said it was full of trackers, although I have not verified that. I didn’t realize that when I made the post
Where is this post? I tried connect and it works fine, the guy made it in a week, it’s impressive
Here is the post: https://beehaw.org/comment/449643
I cannot verify if that comment is true or not, or how they found out the information.
I tried to reply and ask, but for some reason my comment will not post! I have tried using the website and several Lemmy apps.
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Thanks. I wonder where that other commenter got their info.
That comment seems to be an attempt at disinformation. I have not detected any of those trackers. You should also run your own checks just to be sure.
Connect dev here, we use 0 trackers of any kind beyond what the Play store tracks by default.
If I had to take a guess: he’s opening posts that use the internal browser, and sites he’s browsing are the ones i initiating those connections. The app opening the webview doesn’t have much in the way to prevent that.
Don’t open external links if you don’t know what that entails.
That screenshot is from the DuckDuckGo app when set up to blocking trackers, that means that while it was running it tried to connect to known tracker addresses and the DDG app stopped it and logged the attempts.
We would need somebody else that uses DDG as blocker too to install this app and run it for a bit and see if they can replicate this result
Same for me, strange
If I had to take a guess: he’s opening posts that use the internal browser, and sites he’s browsing are the ones i initiating those connections. The app opening the webview doesn’t have much in the way to prevent that.
Don’t open external links if you don’t know what that entails.
I think this is the answer.
Upvoting this post from Connect for Lemmy. Actually I think I still prefer Jerboa. Unfortunately it has stopped working since I updated my instance to 0.18 so this will have to do for now.
Yeah I prefer the look and feel of Jerboa. It’s working fine for me now but I have experienced some glitches in the past.
Exactly the same error I received as well, which led me to find Connect
Feels and looks good for my instance ‘lemmy.fmhy.ml’ on the web mode. Gestures and actions come second nature almost like, I like it.
Worth noting that the Jerboa app pushed a major update today and it’s massively improved. Definitely suggest giving it another try after today, it feels like an entirely new app.
I’ll be honest, don’t notice many changes? Feels and looks the same to me.
The entire UI got a refresh. There’s an actual search button now too.
Jerboa has been worse for me since the update. It won’t follow my feed or sorting selections.
Didn’t notice anything different. In fact, I can’t change to “All” anymore (coincidence?). That’s why I’m exploring Connect right now.
Im having the exact same issue. Im keeping bith apps on my phone atm so if one has issues I can hop on the other one
Jerboa won’t even let me log in, says server is too outdated :(
That’s an instance problem not a jerboa problem. Your Lemmy instance needs to update to the new version.
Aurora Store is working for you? I always get the
Oops, This Account is rate limitedno matter how much new sessions I request. The main screen seems to be loading though so idk.You now have to log in with a Google user for it to work
That’s sad, because the anonimity was the reason I was using it. Well, it was expectable with Google being Google.
There is also the workaround to search an app in your browser and then open the link to the Google store page witg Aurora. No need to login with Google (at least that’s how it is working for me right now)
You can try to clear the cache, then it works sometimes.
The community for the app:
I’m also happily using it, it’s the only app which works on my old phone, haha :D
Same. I prefer it to Jerboa. But I am disquieted by the currently unverified post stating that it might be full of trackers.
Tested Connect using three different privacy apps and none of them found any trackers. I don’t know if I can trust the source of that post. Instead of blindly taking my word for it you should also conduct your own tests.
you might want to re-evaluate how you are scanning for trackers. I am running duck duck go’s app tracking protection on Android and this is it’s summary of connect for lemmy from the past 22 hours.
1175 tracking attempts blocked from 40 different companies(trackers)
I installed connect for 10 minutes and found 45 requests of the same. Jerboa on the other hand raised no flags.
Thanks for the heads up. A shame since it looks decent. But I think I’ll pass now.
I think this comes down to the difference in how you and I secure our phones. I get no tracker pings on any of my apps. Not even with that DuckDuckGo app running for an hour.
Based on your sample results, Connect isn’t the problem. Your phone seems to be horribly compromised.
The developer himself responded further down the comment and said there are no trackers, and the Aurora store verifies that - it scans the app source and also found zero trackers.
Most likely the trackers the commenter was referring to were from browsing many external websites from within the app itself like when clicking links.
Just downloaded it, exactly what I needed. Thanks!
