Check out wefwef, it’s a mobile app but it replicates the Apollo experience shockingly well.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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I can confirm it's pretty fuckin lit, didn't expect PWA to be such a good experience
Well you rarely ever see them done right. This is a wonderful example of what can be accomplished with a PWA if more developers were more interested that format.
Developers are. But people think a “native” electron app is better.
Also a closed source native app can do tracking a pwa has a hard time doing.
Most applications people use TODAY are a web view with some (or none) extra stuff running in the back anyway. If PWAs worked in safari (as they should) almost no top 100 app would be outside of the capabilities of the web as a platform. Not even offline usage. Not even games.
Same here. Its amazing! And it works on my android too!
It’s utterly changed my opinion on web apps. It’s astonishingly good.
Just scrolled through this thread to upvote this. Definitely worth a try if you miss the Apollo UI. Very smooth and beautiful UI.
Just remember to read the "Terms and Privacy" before using it.
wefwef.app proxies information and you need to rely on their promise to not log, sell or inspect it.
They also collect "aggregated anonymized analytics".
As an alternative, you can install any Lemmy website as PWA app. Also, the native phone app Jerboa doesn't have those issues. You might want to consider one of those alternatives instead.
As an alternative you can self host wefwef so that should alleviate some of the concerns
I don’t think that’s enough reason to immediately dismiss wefwef and if your truly concerned just self host.
I’ve tried many alternatives but so far wefwef is #1
Not enough reason for everyone to dismiss wefwef, but for some. On F-Droid, collecting data in any form is an Anti-Feature.
Replying using wefwef
Same. On my own shiny self-hosted instance.
I too was shocked by how much it feels like Apollo and how silky smooth it is. I no longer even care whether or not someone makes a native iOS app for Lemmy.
It's really surprisingly polished and quick.
Wefwef.app
In one of his interviews he said he wasn’t very interested at the moment. But he did say he will watch Lemmy and the fediverse to see the growth of it and decide later on if it’s worth it to build an app for Lemmy. He isn’t sure if Lemmy will actually grow after July 1st but time will tell.
Well there are charts of 250k growth in the first set of hours that the apps all shutdown so Lemmy has 1m active users, but still who knows how many will stick and if growth will keep going.
He already mentioned he wasn’t super interested.
I think he even said he was super uninterested. The existing platform and his use of it was what initially drove him to make Apollo. He’d have to first find that same (or more) level of commitment to lemmy.
Hey, although it's no big deal since this is also about Lemmy, there's a megathread for all Reddit-related news and discussion here. We've been encouraging everyone to direct most discussion related to Reddit there, and I figured it might be worthwhile to pose this question there since it concerns a former 3PA for Reddit. Thanks!
Is there a way to link those so folks on other instances can access properly? I get an error when clicking through (using wefwef.app and another server).
For some reason I can’t load any comments from that post (browsing on Mlem and wefwef). Anyone else having similar problems?
Given the circumstances, and his statement, can't blame him, the whole thing was exhausting for him I believe. There are already number of apps that appeared for lemmy, and probably more to come, so it is a thriving environment at the moment.
Let's see how the momentum will continue
He is a business and primarily in it for the money, which is fine. He did a wonderful job milking Apollo right until the end with merchandise , wallpapers, adding back the tip jar and asking people to refuse refunds.
If he was as user focused as people say, he’d either work on porting to kbin/lemmy apis or open source parts of Apollo for someone else to build on.
I’m using Memmy, in beta atm, v similar
I’m also using memmy beta. It is already very good.
Get Memmy it’s basically the same and fully featured. I exclusively use it and it works so well. New features are released everyday!
Just search “Memmy TestFlight”
https://testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD
I hope it's released in the appstore/playstore soon, even if incomplete
According to the devs they’ve submitted a version 1 release candidate to the app store, so they’re just waiting on approvals
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Boost dev already migrated to Lemmy, so Apollo better keep up!
Sync is coming over to Lemmy as well
Christian has said he’s not interested currently.
I think Memmy has done an excellent job of being very “Apollo like” and would recommend you take a peek at it.
It’s available in both the App Store and TestFlight.
I moved from Apollo to Memmy and have been extremely happy. I’m in the test flight beta and I usually wake up to multiple updates each morning and all of them are moving in the right direction in my opinion.
https://github.com/Memmy-App/memmy
Edit: fixed link