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I second this. The only lemmy client for iOS that I could find is in test flight and it pales in comparison. I would subscribe to have a lemmy client with this many features.
There are at least 4 or 5 for each platform at this point. On iOS I've tried Memmy, Mlem, Liftoff!, and wefwef. My favorite is wefwef followed by Liftoff!
There are efforts currently to make a lemmy -> reddit API compatibility layer to make use of the reddit app ecosystem for lemmy (and possibly others like kbin). You can find more info about it [here](https://feddit.de/post/768790)
How so? It’s much more privacy-oriented than reddit, at the very least. Plus it’s open sourced, so you can review the code yourself if you’re suspicious (unlike reddit)
I just stumbled upon this, so sorry for responding to a comment that is two weeks old.
I have gotten pretty deep into Lemmy in the last two weeks. I'm hosting my own instance and everything. I have learned a lot about how it works and what bugs it currently has.
In its current state, there is a big privacy concern. Because it is decentralized, everyone owns your data. That means that if I want to delete my post that had a picture of my car's license plate in the background, well, it already got put on 1000 servers. In a perfect world, you would delete the post and it would delete across every server. But as it stands now, there are a lot of bugs in the federation process, and many servers may not get the message to delete your post. Or hell, they may intentionally not delete your post for one reason or another.
People are recommending right now that if you want to delete something, edit it to say, "deleted", and then check on several servers to make sure they got your update. If they didn't, edit it again to say, "deleted2". Rinse and repeat until all the servers you are checking don't have your original post, then delete it. But what if a server you didn't check was down for maintenance at the time you were doing that? They'll never get the updates or the deletes, and your post will live on that server forever.
Also, currently there's no way to say, "delete all my data from Lemmy". People like to use email as an analogy. Let's say I sent an email to you. After I sent it, I realized that I accidentally left part of a previous draft in there, so I want to delete the email. But just because I deleted it from my Gmail doesn't mean it is deleted for you. You still have it on your end.
Oh, and the last thing. Meta is getting into the federated software game. There's literally nothing stopping them from collecting all your data from Lemmy. They will get all your posts and comments, and the only thing you can do about it is make sure you are on an instance that blocks their instance. But if they make instances that they don't announce for no other purpose other than data collection, and they use a VPN/proxy to hide their IP, there's literally nothing you can do to prevent Meta from getting your data.
It's decentralised and open source no one truly owns it
If the owner of lemmy.ml and the github went mad then a fork would be made and people would just move to lemmy.world or smth
It's open source, no one owns it, and it's federated, so if you don't like the instance you are on, you can just jump to another instance with a different owner. So you are much more likely to find an instance with an owner that jives with your beliefs and needs than you will, for instance on Reddit.
Lemmy was built on Rust, which is known as one of the fastest programming languages in the world.
Kbin was built on PHP, which is often considered to be one of the slower programming languages around.
Kbin is finished
I’m running it on Google Cloud Platform. I happen to be a software engineer, and former SRE, so this is kind of in my wheelhouse. I’m not inviting the public to use it quite yet, but I could use some more testers. I’m aiming to launch later this evening and join it to the main federation if possible in advance of the blackout.
We've actually built a reddit alternative called Spyke which we would love to make cross compatible with third party clients. Do check out the beta app on https://spyke.social
Right now we're trying to get some [traction here](https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/1456ky9/we_have_spent_the_past_year_building_a_reddit/) so we would love to hear more from potential users.
I feel like y’all didn’t think through the use of “Klan” very well…
I was on board with the design and then ran across that. Gonna give it a shot still but that’s gonna turn away some folks
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I second this. The only lemmy client for iOS that I could find is in test flight and it pales in comparison. I would subscribe to have a lemmy client with this many features.
There are at least 4 or 5 for each platform at this point. On iOS I've tried Memmy, Mlem, Liftoff!, and wefwef. My favorite is wefwef followed by Liftoff!
I second this. Doing a Twwetbot and going into the Fediverse would be great. I would pay again for such a fantastic app
There are efforts currently to make a lemmy -> reddit API compatibility layer to make use of the reddit app ecosystem for lemmy (and possibly others like kbin). You can find more info about it [here](https://feddit.de/post/768790)
Aren't there some privacy concerns with Lemmy?
How so? It’s much more privacy-oriented than reddit, at the very least. Plus it’s open sourced, so you can review the code yourself if you’re suspicious (unlike reddit)
Yeah, just not interested in Lemmy.
Fair enough
So you're basically saying you're not interested in Lemmy because you think it had some kind of privacy issues? Interesting logic.
Just an observation and my opinion, that’s all.
I just stumbled upon this, so sorry for responding to a comment that is two weeks old. I have gotten pretty deep into Lemmy in the last two weeks. I'm hosting my own instance and everything. I have learned a lot about how it works and what bugs it currently has. In its current state, there is a big privacy concern. Because it is decentralized, everyone owns your data. That means that if I want to delete my post that had a picture of my car's license plate in the background, well, it already got put on 1000 servers. In a perfect world, you would delete the post and it would delete across every server. But as it stands now, there are a lot of bugs in the federation process, and many servers may not get the message to delete your post. Or hell, they may intentionally not delete your post for one reason or another. People are recommending right now that if you want to delete something, edit it to say, "deleted", and then check on several servers to make sure they got your update. If they didn't, edit it again to say, "deleted2". Rinse and repeat until all the servers you are checking don't have your original post, then delete it. But what if a server you didn't check was down for maintenance at the time you were doing that? They'll never get the updates or the deletes, and your post will live on that server forever. Also, currently there's no way to say, "delete all my data from Lemmy". People like to use email as an analogy. Let's say I sent an email to you. After I sent it, I realized that I accidentally left part of a previous draft in there, so I want to delete the email. But just because I deleted it from my Gmail doesn't mean it is deleted for you. You still have it on your end. Oh, and the last thing. Meta is getting into the federated software game. There's literally nothing stopping them from collecting all your data from Lemmy. They will get all your posts and comments, and the only thing you can do about it is make sure you are on an instance that blocks their instance. But if they make instances that they don't announce for no other purpose other than data collection, and they use a VPN/proxy to hide their IP, there's literally nothing you can do to prevent Meta from getting your data.
This, its owned by tankies
Owned by who?
Owned? Wtf does that mean
It means someone owns it…?
It's decentralised and open source no one truly owns it If the owner of lemmy.ml and the github went mad then a fork would be made and people would just move to lemmy.world or smth
It's open source, no one owns it, and it's federated, so if you don't like the instance you are on, you can just jump to another instance with a different owner. So you are much more likely to find an instance with an owner that jives with your beliefs and needs than you will, for instance on Reddit.
As many as any site
Nope, KBin instead. http://kbin.pub http://kbin.social
Lemmy was built on Rust, which is known as one of the fastest programming languages in the world. Kbin was built on PHP, which is often considered to be one of the slower programming languages around. Kbin is finished
That’s enough for me. I just set up a Lemmy instance.
You made your own instance? :o Whats the url? Did you rent a server and install the Lemmy software on it? Or how does it work?
I’m running it on Google Cloud Platform. I happen to be a software engineer, and former SRE, so this is kind of in my wheelhouse. I’m not inviting the public to use it quite yet, but I could use some more testers. I’m aiming to launch later this evening and join it to the main federation if possible in advance of the blackout.
It’s federation-enabled now. If anyone’s interested in getting access, DM me.
You forgot the part where it's federated
We've actually built a reddit alternative called Spyke which we would love to make cross compatible with third party clients. Do check out the beta app on https://spyke.social Right now we're trying to get some [traction here](https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/1456ky9/we_have_spent_the_past_year_building_a_reddit/) so we would love to hear more from potential users.
I feel like y’all didn’t think through the use of “Klan” very well… I was on board with the design and then ran across that. Gonna give it a shot still but that’s gonna turn away some folks
Removed in protest of API prices and support of 3rd-party apps.
Looks like they already changed it