My feed has been flooded with posts about the Sync app released for Android, with a lot of hype but also some complaints regarding pricing, ads, privacy, etc.
This made me really appreciate Memmy, with which I have had no issues so far, and am impressed with how clean and easy it has been to use despite being new.
So that’s all, just a huge thank you.
I’ll second this. As a transplant of Reddit who used Apollo, Memmy seems to be heavily influenced by Apollo, which imo was an outstanding app.
I also saw all the posts about Sync and had to get caught up. Definitely makes me appreciate this app too.
You should check out Voyager too. It’s the closest thing to Apollo appearance-wise that I’ve used. I typically switch between that and Memmy.
I can’t get on with voyager. What the dev has done with a React PWA app is amazing but not having haptics makes it feel too weird. And the new app version is just a web view and performance is awful for me, not sure if it’s better on newer phones. But i could learn a lot from what he’s done with React I’m sure.
There’s a TestFlight available, which adds haptics.
Yea that’s what i was talking about with the app version. It just puts it in a web view on mobile, which makes it have terrible performance for me.
In my ANdroid phone on Android 13, haptics are present in Voyager.
I’m Voyager only. Was trying out a few other clients, but Voyager almost nails the Apollo feel
Thanks, I’ll check that. I’ve been beta testing Thunder and Liftoff! liftoff works nicely for browsing, but seems to have trouble posting using federation (tells my I’m not signed in anywhere). Thunder let’s me post, the the UI needs lots of work (now swipe forward, tough vote buttons and more).
@nilloc Are you running the latest version of the Liftoff app? Had a similar issue until the latest upgrade and now it prompts me to select the profile before I post when I’m logged in with multiple profiles across separate instances.
Same. I bounced between all the apps for a few weeks but I’ve settled into only using voyager. It’s just perfect
Yeah sync’s privacy is not the best, hoping the modding community can fix together a no-ads and less talking to 3rd party version of sync.
Can you elaborate on this? Is it just because it’s not FOSS?
Not sure what to elaborate on, so I will just explain more in depth what I meant.
So, because Sync is a closed-source app, in order to modify it you will need to change the compiled code itself or to add your own code, hoping it doesn’t affect the application.
no-ads and less talking to 3rd party version of sync. what I meant by this was that the modders would change 2 things : Ads and requests sent to 3rd parties (google, amazon, facebook, etc.). I have no clue how apk/android modding works, but I’m assuming all they have to do is remove the sections that add ads and talk to amazon, google, facebook etc with data.
Make sense? If not, let me know what doesn’t and I’ll try to explain it.
- AlmightySnoo III 🐢 ( @AlmightySnoo@lemmy.ml ) 22•1 year ago
Same for me with Voyager. I do appreciate famous Reddit apps switching over to Lemmy, but given what Voyager and others achieved so far while remaining open-source and funded by donations, I personally don’t see the appeal anymore in a closed-source Lemmy app that’s going to display ads and ask you to pay to hide them.
Well, it’s including the „Microsoft App Center“ tracker. I have to block ||appcenter.ms^
Several other Lemmy Apps do not have any tracker.
Edit: turns out the request can be useful. See comments. Still strange to get from Microsoft.
I’d guess that’s because we use CodePush to do over the air updates, so you don’t have to wait for apple to approve a build.
Thank you for letting me know. :)
Just for more reference, there are options to enable analytics, but they are not installed in the app. That is a separate package that is not added as I don’t feel comfortable receiving whatever they would send. It’s probably harmless but I don’t even want the hassle.
Are you sure it’s the app and not websites you visit through Lemmy or your instance tracking you? I’m not seeing any tracking on my end when just browsing.
Yes, I am sure. The App Store even say that some device ID are get shared with the App.
Device ID is just for push notifications.
This was explained by the dev at some point when the app went to the store. I believe this is related to push notifications. There is a post about it/comment by the developer but Lemmy.world is giving me server errors when I try to find it.
Not sure where the appcenter tracker is coming from though.
Appcenter does OTA push updates, dev is probably making a fast update system so they don’t have to push updates to the various stores, the app was made in react native so appcenter is pretty standard for codepush OTA updates
good to know.
It’s used for updates not tracking
Any one tried the app called Avelon yet.,??
In my opinion, it’s one of the minimalist and snappy Lemmy app in comparison to Memmy (which is little bit cluttered with all the features and little more battery drainer with the similar usage pattern ).
If anyone likes the Voyager then I’m sure you like Avelon too… give it a try once…
As one of the main Memmy devs, i really like Avelon. I appreciate he’s trying something pretty different and like the direction he’s taking.
Avelon dev here - thanks! Really enjoy Memmy as well, pretty impressive what you guys are able to do with React Native.
It’s very cool to see so much enthusiasm in the dev community. Lemmy can definitely be a place where lots of different apps & frontends can thrive to suit just about everyone.
Hey sorry totally forgot to respond! Been checking out Avelon again for the past couple days and it’s really getting nice! Keep up the awesome work man
Meanwhile I’m just using Kbin on my browser and it works okay.
We plan on eventually adding kbin support!
Sweet! Thanks!
I used to do that as well for a bit but once I tried Memmy I never went back
I’m using Sync right now and honestly it’s not much better than thunder or Connect which are free. The UI is slicker, but I feel my phone heating as it runs, and it’s obnoxious seeing the gray boxes from the ads I’m blocking. Really hope boost doesn’t pull this shit, or at least allows people to play for premium instead of fucking subscribing to it. $16 a YEAR for an app that just mobilizes a free online service is insanity.
I never used sync previously, but this has made a pretty bad first impression so far.
I used Sync pro for years and I don’t ever want to change. Also I like supporting devs of apps which I use constantly. I don’t know why everyone is talking shit about Sync as 16 dollars a year is literally nothing. Good on him for having that option to support the dev :)
$16 a year is not nothing, it’s a subscription service for a basic mobile app with quality options in a competing space. A one time purchase that means I own the app outright or a lifetime “subscription” option is a much better option, and on par with literally every competing app in the space. Mentalities like this are why shit like NBA 2K, Call of Duty, and Diablo have become lootbox fests.
I think that Memmy has the right priorities and a strong lead in regards to what’s important right now. When I read the changelog it feels like this project is on a really solid foundation.
I also like that’s it’s tuned very much for efficiency. No unnecessary glitter and stuff.
Yes.
- Sent from Memmy for lemmy on my Apple iPhone 12 mini