Android Police: Build your communities elsewhere now that most Reddit third-party clients are dead
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Screenshots of Boost for Lemmy included.
Really wish the RIF is Fun would migrate to Lemmy, but it appears he's going to move to another service
What is he moving to?
PornHub
I think it's Tildes.net
It's good to see more reddit clients coming to lemmy!
Kbin didn't get a mention, bit rough I feel 💔
Bit of a downer, but it is an Android news site. kbin currently doesn't really merit much of a mention in that context. The PWA is nice, but by its nature barely related to Android, since it also runs on Windows, MacOS and everything else under the sun.
If you are using hacker news on mobile. I would recommend Glider. It's a smooth hacker news client. Unfortunately, the dev had his app removed from the play store for reasons but you can access it from its github or fdroid.
Glider looks great! Thanks for the recommendation!
Love the app. Especially love the catch up feature. My only major problem with it is in a thread with lots of comments, tht don't all load at once, and if you try to collapse a comment and scroll down, it goes crazy while it loads all the replies to the comment you collapsed, meaning I have to wait for all the comments to load before I can read anything.
What reasons?
Play Store has strict rules for apps with user generated content. You have to provide ways to block and report users/content to stay on the play store. Glider didn't provide a way to automatically report things by the user as hacker news doesn't provide one. So, google suspended it. Here's the github issue if you are interested: https://github.com/Mosc/Glider/issues/83
Why is discord mentioned?
I don't know man. I still don't understand how Discord became so popular in the first place and I will never ever understand how some people are fine with Discord being their only online presence or way of interaction (I'm looking at you, midjourney!) It's a walled garden with a fucking horrible UI and UX. Just look at the screenshot in the article:
What a steaming pile of dog poop, lol
I tried to make Discord work for a couple niche interests I had. Holy shit is it awful. I genuinely don't understand why people think it's okay. Maybe it's kids who have never experienced forums?
That picture is incredibly bias...
So I do think this is a really unfair take on Discord, but also I think Discord is a terrible replacement for reddit. It was made for conversations, not for discussion.
I take it you don't remember the old internets chatrooms, that's why Discord is popular. It scratches a very specific itch, Live Chat. Social Media scratches a very similar itch, but with a platform that is forum based, not chat based.
Throw in the old Social Media, like ICQ, MSN Messenger, AOL Messenger, etc. and you begin to see that live chat is absolutely a feature that people want. Sometimes they want a "room" where a bunch of like minded people are, sometimes they want to talk to specific people.
Social Media as a concept has gone through a lot of iterations.
I pretty much only chose Lemmy because of the promise of Boost for Lemmy.
I signed up everywhere pretty much but I knew lemmy had to be my home once I knew Sync was coming here.
Have you tried any other clients? Wefwef is pretty good.
Same, I can't wait to get Boost back.
I look forward to trying Boost, even though I only used it for Reddit briefly, several years ago! On desktop, I like the Lemmy web UI just as well as Old Reddit.
The web ui for lemmy is so good and simple