❤️‍🔥 🎇 It’s finally here! And it will live on my home screen just like Apollo used to do. 🔥 ❤️‍🔥

Just spreading this news in case you’re like me and late to the good news :)

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      Sorry didn’t include a link since it’s on the app store. Thanks for providing one.

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        Unfortunately, searching for apps in the app store is not easy. I tried searching for “memmy” and didn’t find it. I had to use the full name.

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          I think the Apple App Store mostly sorts by popularity and they use reviews, some mixture of the quantity and star rating, to decide that popularity amount.

          Anyway, ignoring the obnoxious Apple-inserted banner ad (🙄) typing in “lemmy” or “memmy” bring up the correct app for me now. I had the .ipa sideloaded previously, but yesterday typing in lemmy brought up some other completely unrelated (not lemmy) app came up and memmy I think didn’t work at all. Seems ok now though since most people will go to the App Store and type lemmy.

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      Fantastic app, really puts Reddit to shame. Maybe if they didn’t spend all their efforts trying to add trackers and shit they would have a decent app

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    OP you’re on an iPhone. Next time crop the photo in the Photos app to remove the ad for PUBG…

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        Honestly it’s hard to tell. Even on my old iPhone X it’s pretty seamless. I wish Apple and Android would give PWA apps more feature support overall tbh.

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            It is react native, meaning it uses the same basic web technologies as wefwef. It’s just bundled up and distributed through the app stores rather than through your browser. I am not complaining though both WefWef and Memmy are absolutely awesome.

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              It’s not like electron or something. Sure metro works similarly to webpack, but it’s not the same basic web technologies as wefwef. RN runs on threads on your device, a main thread, js thread and shadow thread. The js thread talks to the main thread through a bridge. React Native allows us to work and interface with native APIs with the device, while PWAs does not do that. PWAs don’t do that on your phone, it’s just like running on Safari really. While the code itself isn’t “native” we end up with native components through the bridge. (If all of RN was just a webview then it would be more like how you’re describing.)

              The way RN works is fundamentally different than React, despite the syntax looking similar and RN being written in JS. It’s not like its just React bundled up into a mobile app. I often wish they hadn’t named it React Native for this reason, and for having to look up stuff and just getting React answers all the time lol. I am one of the Memmy devs and I am a React developer professionally. FYI this is not in any way a diss at wefwef for not being native, its super super impressive what they’ve done, I’m sure I could learn a lot about React from their code. Also sorry about the disjointed thoughts, I’m sure I repeated some stuff here or there lol. Hope this clarified a bit how RN works though.

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                Thanks for the great and detailed reply! Tbh I really thought React Native was just using the webview… super embarassing for a dev of 12 years.

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      There was a really annoying issue with wefwef for me - Swiping back to the Home Screen would result in a brief couple seconds of lag before I could scroll again. Apart from that I’d agree that is was great.

      But this Memmy app is a lot better in that regard 👌

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        Interestingly enough, I am actually also getting this intermittently on Memmy after just switching.

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          Ah that’s annoying! Can’t be near as bad as I haven’t seen it myself.

          Hope it’s something that can be resolved.

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        I had the same experience with wefwef which led me to try out Memmy. Memmy is much more seamless and feels more like a fully functional app.

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        It’s so frustrating, because this is an iOS bug, and not an inherent problem with wefwef. Hoping they can find a workaround though!

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      I bounce back and forth between WefWef and Memmy and I think they are both great in their own way.

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      Wefwef feels like Apollo in a stable beta version: it doesn’t have everything I’m used to (blocking communities from the main feed is a big one) but everything is in the right place. Pity I only got it after Apollo went down, since I can’t get my data from Apollo now.

      I’m just trying Lemmy (writing this comment on it) and it’s still rather light but thankfully speedier than on a browser.

      I figure I’ll bounce between them for a bit and see which one starts to gain more usage and features. But yes, it’s good that there are more options available.

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        Quick question- what specifically were you looking to export from Apollo over to WefWef? I tried exporting the .json file from Apollo over to WefWef following the instructions and it basically was just a list of my subscribed communities and allowed me to search for similar communities on here (most of which were pretty niche and therefor not on here yet. Totally understandable.) Is there something else I’m missing?

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          That’s what I was looking for, yeah. Part of it was that I was subscribed to language learning communities (and memes in the target language: the shared language of memes provides a lot of context!) which can be named a large variety of things, so I’d be back at square one and searching for things manually.

          It’s not the worst thing to be back to basics, because it forces me to explore and learn about the Fediverse, but there’s always going to be that nagging “did I get everything out of the old apartment” feeling as I drop off the key.

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      Only reason I’m not on Wefwef anymore is because of the lack of haptics. Getting haptic feedback on votes and swipes is just too good, imo.

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    For those unaware, you swipe to access voting/reply on comments, swipe from left to right on a comment to get to the up/down vote and swipe right to left to reply.

    On your inbox, you can mark replies “read” by far swiping right to left.

    You can also swipe to go back to your feed back swiping left to right starting from the edge of the post.

    Lastly you can access settings by clicking the “gear” icon in your profile screen (top right)

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      Thank you! I wish the app made this clearer. But I’ll be referring to this comment until I develop some muscle memory.

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      The only gesture it still needs is swiping a comment right to left to collapse the entire comment thread

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      Try: Jerboa, Liftoff, Connect, Summit, Thunder, wefwef, etc.

      Sync is coming next month too.

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        I’m currently waiting for some of these to make it to Fdroid, it’s just jerboa on there so far (which I like!)

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          I’m excited for boost because that was my favourite Reddit client.

          Liftoff is pretty good so far. You can use obtanium to install it from GitHub releases and keep it up to date, I find it just as convenient as F-droid.

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            Thanks for both recommendations, I’ve read about obtainium before but never needed to use it. It’s good!

            So far I like liftoff as well. Nice to have several good options (already!)

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          Liftoff is there too. I like Jerboa but I felt there were too many bugs/crashes just now. Liftoff isn’t the best looking but its the most dependable imo.

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          Lemmotif is also looking good but is newer and less feature rich last I checked. There’s probably a couple newer ones that’s I’m forgetting.

          Oh, Artemis is coming soon and also supports kbin which is rare as their api isn’t finished yet.

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      We’ve got a bajillion of them, and unlike iOS, you didn’t need to wait for it to hit the Apple Store.

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        iOS allows you to install beta apps via TestFlight. And we have a bunch already not including wefwef.

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          Which technically doesn’t even get installed because it’s one of these new fancy no-download apps!

          Won’t go back to android for their vulnerabilities and Google’s spyware and I won’t be goin back to Reddit

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            staying in a closed sourced platform is more vulnerable. though I’m running a custom android rom

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                how? justify your reasoning? being on apple who have one of the largest user base, you are more vulnerable for cyberattacks. you said you left google because of Google spying on you. how come apple won’t do that?

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                  Oy vey, no man…

                  Android is the most heavily used OS in the world. The best thing I’m gonna recommend instead of listing all the reasons is to point you to lists of Android vulnerabilities (public info because OSINT is life) vs iOS vulns over time.

                  Apple may spy on us! But nothing near as severe as google has in the past (and we’re caught for) like when google chrome was listening in on user microphones. Never heard of such a scandal with Apple before.

                  And for the record I think Apple is over priced and a cult 🤠

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      I’m sure android has alternatives already. I always feel like iOS gets the popular apps later than android. :(

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      I’m using jerboa and it’s pretty decent. It’s got bugs, but I’m assuming it’s still up and coming. Overall I’m pleased :)

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    Im excited about all the apps but to be honest i hate the names of most of them. Mlem, wefwef, memmy. Idk the overly cute name makes me think of dudes who owo in people’s DMs

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      I love the WefWef app but hate every time I have to type that ridiculous name out. There’s absolutely zero chance I will ever say that horrible name aloud to people either.

      Apollo was an awesome name. WW, opposite.

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      Lol I started using liftoff on android for that exact reason. Idk what’s so appealing about baby talk for app devs that they name stuff like that

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          I’ll have to checkout thunder. I haven’t heard tried that one yet. There’s so many apps being made right now!

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        Imagine being so insecure that you won’t use an app because the name isn’t manly enough. (Although to be fair i am also using liftoff atm because it was the open source app that worked the best last time I tried them all)

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          Lol nobody said anything about being it not being manly. I said it sounds like baby talk. It’s childish and sounds silly. It’s more telling that you read baby talk and immediately thought about how unmanly something is.

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    The dev did so much work in the last few weeks. It’s amazing how quickly this app became good.

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    Memmy is fantastic and exactly what Lemmy needs to become more popular. Using Lemmy.world etc on a browser on iOS just didn’t want to work for me, the login button wouldn’t work on any browser.

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      Browsed through safari before and I would be logged out randomly, too. Not sure why it’s not smooth on browsers though.

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      It’s good there’s this app which will hopefully work better. I haven’t tried it yet, but if for some reason you still log on mobile browser I found that if I completely delete the auto fill email/PW then manually tell it to fill again, I can login with no problem.

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      well it’s a React app (booo), so all the author (or anyone willing to make a PR) needs to do is update the build pipeline to compile an APK and create a GitHub release for it if they don’t want a Play Store presence.