Coming from RIF, what is your favorite Lemmy app?

After saying goodbye to RIF and reddit, it’s time for me to move on. So far I’ve used 4 apps for Lemmy and this is my personal ranking:

  1. wefwef.app. Very clean design, works well and smooth experience. Overall the best implementation so far.
  2. Connect/Liftoff (tied). Both are solid, I prefer Connect’s sidebar and options but I prefer the design of the posts and comments on Liftoff. When the comments stack in Connect it looks awful IMO.
  3. Jerboa. As a first option it was good but after so many timeouts, other design issues and multiple errors I kinda gave up on the app. After its polished I’ll give it another try.
fuckstick,

I’m using the beta of Memmy and it’s my preferred, but WefWef is a close second. The only ding against WW is it’s a web app, not a native app and that’s my own preference. either option is solid

onslaught,

There is a native wefwef app for android and it feels very close to rif

I wondered why the rif developer doesn’t just recode rif to point at lemmy tbh

fuckstick,

I asked the same thing about Apollo and since this is federated the data is way different than Reddit and would take a lot of work to repurpose a Reddit client. Not saying they won’t but it sounds like it’s a bigger job than one would think

BlackMagicianX,

What do you mean with native wefwef app?

DpwnShift,
@DpwnShift@kbin.social avatar

I mean, they might, at some point. But at the moment, the entire fediverse is still much smaller than Reddit, so there's currently less incentive...

Also, it's certainly not as easy as you make it sound to "just recode rif to point at lemmy"! If it was, one of us would have already done it...

MrPear, (edited )

The RIF dev, Talklittle, is building an app for tildes.net. But he’s on the ferdiverse as well.

Personally, I’m really excited about that! I’m on Tildes as well and Tildes has become on of my favorite platforms that I discovered because of the API changes at Reddit. It has a small, but really nice community with great threads. I also really love the minimal interface: Fast and no distractions. Just text.

I still doesn’t have a native app though and for some reason the mobile website is kinda sluggish on my phone. That might be my aging phone’s fault, as it is a very quick site on my PC. but a RIF-like app would be amazing!

Edit: I just found out he showed a little preview for the app and asked for donations to Tildes (not to him, to Tildes. Because he is cool like that). Preview of the Tildes app here. I can certainly see the DNA of RIF in it! Just to be clear to anyone skimming through my comment: The is NOT an app for Lemmy (or Kbin)!

Edit 2: I’m on a different connection than last week now and now Tildes feels very responsive on my phone. So it was indeed a problem on my end.

otus,

Using Jerboa for the moment, but I’ll probably switch to Boost for Lemmy as soon as it becomes available.

krackalot,

I too use jerboa. I liked connect, but I couldn’t block communities with it and nsfw tags only worked on first image of multi image posts.

jeems,

So far I like Thunder the best, with a similar breakdown for Connect and Liftoff. Wasn’t a fan of Jerboa. I miss the design of RIF is fun.

Macaroni_ninja,
@Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world avatar

Wefwef, it gave the smoothest experience so far. I will probably stick to this until the rest of the apps catches up with the users needs

pewgar_seemsimandroid,

i use based on name

Loce,

I’m using Connect for Lemmy atm, it’s not that bad. It’s missing a decent amount of RiF features but give it time it might be a decent replacement. Atm I’m missing mostly collapsing comments and listing through the parent comments

pyrosive,

Did you use it to post this comment 4 times? 😂

ThatGuyFromMichigan,

Haha given the number of times that app keeps reposting the comment I’m not sure it’s a great selling point for quality.

Loce,

That’s somewhat my fault since it timed out and I kept pressing post. Server issues i guess. Give it time.

Loce,

I doubt it’s the application’s fault. Not everyday your usebase grows by 1000% :)

DrSanta,
@DrSanta@lemmy.world avatar

Anybody got one that’s comparable to Slide for Reddit? Was my app of choice.

karlexceed,

I wasn’t too impressed with Jerboa when I first installed it, but after their latest update, the UI/UX is much improved.

leo,

There is also Thunder.

Swiping for most things took a couple of minutes to get used to. I like it now :)

Loce,

I’m using Connect for Lemmy atm, it’s not that bad. It’s missing a decent amount of RiF features but give it time it might be a decent replacement. Atm I’m missing mostly collapsing comments and listing through the parent comments

worstgemini,

You can long press on a comment to collapse it in Connect

Loce,

I’m using Connect for Lemmy atm, it’s not that bad. It’s missing a decent amount of RiF features but give it time it might be a decent replacement. Atm I’m missing mostly collapsing comments and listing through the parent comments

ChipsAHoey,

Wefwef has been great for me so far

awttech,
@awttech@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Memmy and Mlem right now are my two favorites. I much prefer the design of Mlem but I find there are some weird things about it, like the UI for posting comments.

Strolleypoley,

I can’t find wefwef on the play store, and the link leads to a dead site.

What’s going on?

DerpyPlayz18,
@DerpyPlayz18@vlemmy.net avatar

It’s a web app, that means that you have to go to wefwef.app and install it from there

Strolleypoley,

Yeah found it.

It appears to lag behind jerboa when I compare my feed in both platforms.

kratoz29,

Wefwef is a webapp

wefwef.app

kratoz29,

Wefwef is a webapp

wefwef.app

Elkenders,

Wefwef until Boost is released and I’ll see which I prefer. I used to use Boost for Reddit so I’m expecting I’ll use that.

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