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Coming from RIF, what is your favorite Lemmy app? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ZeroCarbon@lemmy.world to c/redditwasfun@lemmy.world

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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:

wefwef.app. Very clean design, works well and smooth experience. Overall the best implementation so far.
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.
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.

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[–] MrPear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.