Submitted 2 months ago by DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social to [deleted]
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I understand the lack of desire to create a ready made ID database for Palantir but y’all need to look at yourselves and get with 2026
The notification doesn’t say development is ending, just that the app will stop working on phones ruining Google’s rootkit
That’s fair, but it’s asking a little much of users to start direct dowloading apks or whatever to get their leftist shitposting app and if I wanted to try that hard for anything but an adblocker it wouldn’t be an Android in the first place.
OK you’re allowed to just not do that.
The rest of us who are willing to put some effort in will likely not notice your absence.
asking a little much of users to start direct dowloading apks or whatever to get their leftist shitposting app
I mean, if you’re serious about ideology, you probably won’t mind taking a few extra steps for it. If the status quo pisses you off, why not do something that’s ultimately still free and only takes a little more time?
but it’s asking a little much of users to start direct dowloading apks or whatever
you don’t need to be manually downloading apks. get a proper app store, like f-droid, and install jerboa that way.
I don’t get it though. uploading apps to the play store has already required devs to prove their identity for quite a long time.
Sad, jerboa was my first experience with lemmy, but soon after switched to Voyager
Jerboa was my first lemmy app, which had it’s quirks I think. Then I switched to Infinity, and finally Voyager. Voyager is the best app I’ve used.
Where are you getting that jerboa is ending support? There’s nothing of the sort on github or on /c/jerboa. I’ve no doubt they’re not gonna register a google developer account, but that"s really got nothing to do with development of the app.
The notification sent to users through the app itself.
I use the app and have received no such notification.
Github page of jerboa says nothing about this
Jerboa the app had a pop-up not too long ago basically saying the end was near.
You mean that Google is restricting sideloading?
That has nothing to do with the Development of Jerboa. They can just as much develop an app according to Androids standard as they could before. The only change is that phones running googles rootkit won’t be able to install it.
I use it daily and haven’t seen a popup
I’ve been using Boost for r*ddit years ago and I’m still using Boost for Lemmy today. Shit’s too good.
Boost for mobile, alexandrite for browser, I’m good.
Same, I really don’t even use all the features it has already.
I have no clue what this is about
Jerboa is a lemmy client. “Browser users” are people who use lemmy trough a browser.
Right. I’ll be a browser user till the end then. I have no need for apps that will use extra storage on my device without offering a significantly better experience.
Come on over to boost or Voyager
Voyager is sick
No. You can pull Jerboa from my dead hands.
I tried boost out, when it was relatively New and it was so completely bugged out, that it wasnt usuable at all. Voyager is working, but I absolutely dislike the UI. It is way too cluttered for my personal taste.
Jerboa is just perfect IMO. It may be minimalistic, but I Mike it that way.
I was mostly using Jerboa for a long time, but I’ve somewhat recently switched to Boost as I was tired of Jerboa breaking reasonably often. I’ve found I like Boost better.
I mean it’s personal taste I guess
vger.app?
Damn, I’m still going to use it until it stops working completely, but whats the next best alternative?
After trying a few others, I’ve stopped at interstellar… I like it a lot.
I’ve been using Summit for the past six months or so and have enjoyed it.
went from Interstellar to Summit (posting from it now). I also use Boost
Summit is good.
Thunder is my preference
I switched to Interstellar and it’s pretty good
Thanks, I’ll take a look at it an set it up as a backup.
I like interstellar but it lags too much. I’ve mostly switched to summit
I’ll download that as well then. Thank you.
I’ve been using voyager as my backup
The inevitable fork that will be created.
“Here at Google think every project would be safer if they went through an Identity Guy, whose job it is to rubber stamp commits by the entire set of people you were already trusting. And also get threats. Don’t worry, if they commit an obfuscated backdoor, Identity Guy will miss it and then interfere later instead.”
I have Connect, and Voyager as a backup. I prefer Connect. It sounds like a few people here dig Summit; is it better than Connect, and if so, how?
I’ve tried almost all of them, Connect had the nicer feel and I was able to customize it similar to BaconReader. The dev is quick to respond and push fixes too.
For ppl who use the browser and do not like apps, try your instances ui sub domains (if they have any), on Lemmy world do we have multiple, the one I like is photon.lemmy.world
otherwise: I am using the app Voyager if reading on my phone which has been good to me but it is pretty much a wrapped PWA app
I would use phtn.app because it lets you log into any instance, and it’s also up-to-date. The lemmy.world version is over a year old
Eternity is really nice
There are a few of us!!
We didn’t get the normal installing (“side-loading” & displeasing the oligarchy) pop-up but it still affects us.
I’m a big fan of Eternity too, it just feels the best I can’t explain it.
blorp
What do the apps have that the browser doesn’t?
Personally I just think it looks a lot better, and I prefer the infinite scroll and such. There are some things the browser version does better, like accessing the modlogs and such. I guess, metaphorically, those are your clothes “sorting piles” on the floor.
I like Boost because it seems to work really well in low connectivity areas.
Nah, the google monopolists can fuck off right into their own dumpster fire shitholes. I won’t use any app that requires their privacy infringements. Freedom is the only way.
(Written from my desktop PC’s browser)
idk what im gonna do without jerboa. fuck google
Well I ended up making the move to Voyager. It’s okay… But maybe a little cluttered? That’s a personal preference thing though. I guess you can’t really complain about more features.
There is also Jerboa in the F-Droid store
There’s thunder for lemmy
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
jerboa is kil?
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Android developer verification BS
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 months ago
Well, more like it was stabbed by Google and is bleeding out, but I suppose America and the EU could always decide to do the right thing instead.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
no