Is it on F-droid?
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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I second this, too. I always prefer Open Source apps.
I second this. Will it be open source in the future?
Unfortunately it is unlikely that I will open source this project but we shall see. I respect the open source community, I just historically have enjoyed working close source more.
how can one enjoy working close source? You are welcome to keep your devlopment private, rather than putting it on an open source development protal like GitHub, and just release it under the GPL so the rest of us can learn from your work, without you having to put up with annoying "developers" on the internet.
how can one enjoy working close source?
Are you really asking how one could enjoy creating an app A) without the general public nitpicking at how and why you're doing it and B) reserving the ability to make some money off the app?
I think maybe you misunderstand how Libre Software works. Nobody wants to take away control from the author of forbid them from making money. We just want to have control over our devices and the software that runs on them. We want to be able to see what it does and that it doesn't have any malicious functionality. Lemmy itself is Libre Software and all software should be like this.
That is unfortunate, true.
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Is it on fdroid and is it foss? I have no access to google play or any other google service by choice and i only use foss apps whenever possible.
May I ask why you don't use any of those?
Because google exerts centralizing control over things. Where i live here in the US if you are not on the play store you may as well not exist. I am led to understand that in much of the eastern world such as china having multiple app stores and such is quite common. I personally choose not to use services from these large companies firstly to limit their abuse of my data, and secondly because most of these companies are american and must bow the knee to the american governmyth to continue to exist. The internet was made to not have a central point of failure, yet what would happen if Google, AWS, and Microsoft all just vanished? Complete chaos would happen over much of the internet and the largest impact would be to western companies.
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Second this! After everything we've been through with Reddit and Twitter, a lot of users are wary of closed-source/closed-data apps and services. Open source values are what brought us to Lemmy in the first place! An open source app is in keeping with that.
This will be proprietary. We need to support Libre Software instead. For example Jerboa app.
Hell yeah man, you cranked that out so quick, I don't know what language you're writing it in, but let me know if you want some help with any features, I'd love to pitch in!
I'm a mid level dev
The work is pretty manageable at the moment so I should be ok. Thank you for the offer!
Getting some RiF vibes, and that's such a refreshing feeling in a era of bloated corporate apps.
I like it a lot so far.
Do you have a public git for this?
The author said in another comment that it will be proprietary.
Aw 😥 I would have liked to contribute to it.
Nice and clean UI, I like it! Still missing quite a few functions (unless I'm blind) though.
Can I currently only browse 'all', or 'local' for lemmy.ml, beehaw.org and lemmy.world? Or is there a way to switch to subscribed or local for other instances that I just didn't find?
Is this compatible with kbin?
Gave it a spin. Looking good so far. And yeah, there is definitely a voting bug.
Looks great! This'll be fun to watch come together, good work!
Thank you!
This is excellent. I started work on an android app cause it seemed like nobody was doing anything. This is already looking like i should have just been patient.
Its so much nicer to use than jerboa, i just hope its feature par with jerboa soon so i can hop ship
Edit: please also consider uploading to FDroid?
I started work on an android app cause it seemed like nobody was doing anything.
Have you heard about Jerboa?
Using it now. Fair to say its pretty bad
Agreed. Please continue yours friend, if there were 20 good apps right now then that would be one thing, but there are zero.
Posting from the kbin web UI
You might wanna change that developer name.
Love how smooth this is compares to jerboa
Nice progress so far, the UI looks clean and easy to use. Though the name Reader is a little confusing to me - is it only for viewing / reading posts, or will you also be able to create new ones and comment on them?
tl;dr is everything is WIP. The goal is that you will be able to do everything and more that you can from the website within the app. I’ll make a post about the current priority list on https://lemmy.world/c/summit later today.
feels nice, but i can't login to lemmy.world, it always gives me "incorrect password". login via web and jerboa works fine.
Hmm that is odd. All of my test accounds are on the lemmy.world instance but I haven't encountered any issues. I can try looking more into it. Can you double check there is no mispelling with the instance name (lemmy.world) or the user name?
I can't login either. There is a non-English letter in my password. Might that be it?
That's probably it
Seems very good after using it for a couple minutes, excited to see it's future!
Pretty nice app!
What's the "Goto" thing? "Enter reddit link"?
Also is there a way to view my subbed communities as a feed? And where is the list of communities in my sidebar pulled from?
Any plans for open source?
Oh yeah, I just found a bug with upvoting :(. I'll try to do a quick release in a bit.
An update with the fix has been submitted to the play store. It should become available in 30 - 60 minutes.
Wow, that's really impressive progress in that amount of time! Keep it up, I love what I'm seeing!
Damn mate, this is pretty substantial already. Well done!
Very nice! Thank you for this, keep on the good work!
Damn, seem like a nice app. Coming from the Baconreader for Reddit app, this feels more familiar than Jerboa. It's also one of the fastest feeling apps on my Nokia 7.2 (which is getting quite slow in some apps). Not feature-rich enough yet to replace Jerboa, but I'm keeping an eye on it nonetheless
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Nice app. Feels a lot better than jerboa already, even if it's just in early access. Have high hopes for this. Keep it up!
I really like it. It's fast and feels nice to use, with a tighter interface. I'll be looking forward to it getting more features.
Shows promise. Two recommendations:
Use or have an option for Android 12's "Material You" colour scheme
Open source it
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