Which apps do currently work with Beehaw? And where do i get them? I tried Jerboa from F-Droid and Google Play. It says 17.4 is to old. Lemmur from F-Droid didn't find Beehaw at all. Couldn't find other apps at both places. I'm using a Fairphone 4 with Android 12.

BTW: i'm rather unexperienced with smartphones, hadn't bought a new one since 2012. (no mouse, no keyboard, no decent screen, not even bash; finicky things!)

Thanks!

Edit: Connect works so far. Thanks everybody!

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[–] Hotchpotch 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, i just assumed something like the play store has an index about all the stuff they host. I used Debian for most of the last decade, so i might be a bit spoiled.

[–] Cube6392 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Play store your only chance is to search "lemmy" and hope you can find what you're looking for intermingled in all the Motorhead shit they want to sell you

[–] Hotchpotch 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For other apps i got better results using a search engine like startpage. I put in a few keywords and find more links for the play store than from the inside. lol

[–] Cube6392 2 points 2 years ago

The play store does not exist to help you find the things you want. It exists to pipeline you to things that will help Google make money. I feel like a lot of us are in a place right now where we're collectively realizing what people have been trying to tell us for years: reliance on for-profit digital corporations results in lesser experiences than putting in some extra work ourselves to create independently owned and operated not for profit digital tools

Unfortunately, because we've collectively as a society been so reliant on those for-profit tools, there's currently a gap that the open-source tools don't close in that they haven't been receiving the development resources they need to provide the full service we need them to. I still find them to be better, but currently things like Lemmy, KBin, and Searx are behind the curve of what people are expecting them to be because until a month ago, people who are relying on them now weren't really thinking of them, maybe thinking they'd switch when the tools were more ready, or perhaps thinking "why switch when Reddit or Google are already fine"

Related: I'm trying to move my personal git workflows away from GitHub going forward, preferring forgejo