The dev, @hariette, also has a Mastodon profile where she posts updates https://tech.lgbt/@hariette. There is also a link to the apps discord server in her bio.
As a longtime Apollo user, I would love to know when this hits Test Flight!
Same, I’d love to beta test.
Go to her mastodon. You can request to be a beta tester.
Just signed up - thanks for the tip!
Unlike Apollo, will this be Free Software though?
Apollo did have a free tier and then a few paid tiers.
iirc, (I bought it many years ago), they had a one time Pro purchase that removed any ads and unlocked theming and such, and then the Ultimate which was a subscription to cover server costs of push notifications (although it did eventually end up having more features locked behind it).
While I personally did not go for the Ultimate subscription (didn’t really need the push notifications), I gladly paid for the Pro as it was well worth it IMO.
I think they meant Free as in Open Source
It’s not exactly the same. The Free Software movement is about user freedom. Open Source is a term used by corporations to avoid mentioning that users should have rights.
Libre, not gratis
Yes, I meant freedom and not price: https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM
We want to be able to make sure the app doesn’t do anything malicious (like spy on us) and be able to change it to fit out needs. Like we can with Lemmy.
Any chance the Android build will make it to F-Droid?
I also want it in the F-Droid repos.
@hariette thanks!
I’m in the majority, but I don’t even care if an app gets made (obviously I support it though). I used Apollo on Reddit, because Reddit’s mobile design was complete shit. However, Kbin and Lemmy actually look great in a mobile browser, so I really have no need for a separate app.
I agree the Web browser is very similar, but IMO a dedicated app is going to be a much quicker and smoother experience.
On iOS, the Lemmy web experience is temperamental at best and unnavigable at worst. Although you can put bookmark/icon on an iOS home page, there is no navigation option so that once you’ve linked into a thread there’s no way to get back to where you were. Even in a (safari-underpinned) browser the website seems to be very finnicky with back and forth navigation into and out of content. To be fair, this is an iOS problem, not a Lemmy/kbin problem, but it still increases friction for the mobile user.
Artemis is a great name for the app by the way.
The sister of Apollo :). Except I hope this one will be Free Software?
Money = good things cost money to make
I hope the developer offers a way to pay to help out (like RiF having “golden platinum”)
Yeah, it looks great, but this is such a nice touch.
Hoping for a RIF style theme, I really appreciated the simple information dense style it has
Yeeeees
Oh shit I’m in the screenshot!!
Im a Lemmy dude but this app looks awesome. Good job
Can we help the project?
it looks so beautiful
Please also take inspiration from Reddit Sync Pro!!! I would love an app that is taking the best features from both apps!
Every app that ever gets created for this will be called an Apollo “Clone” or “copy” and twenty years from now people will ask, “what was so special about Apollo”?
You just had to be there I guess.
I’ll be speaking this way about Relay on android.
I love Relay, and will very much miss it
I think I downloaded Relay in 2014 or 2015 when I was needing good mobile mod tools and it was the winner for me. Love that app!
RIF user since the beginning. I hope to see them work on something for kbin Lemmy but I’m still excited about an Apollo clone.
The Apollo dev isn’t considering making his app compatible with lemmy or kbin?
I think he might just be burnt out and stressed right now. Being accused of making threats, being lied about publicly, and having something you worked really hard on have to shut down because the people lying about you wouldn’t be reasonable has all got to take a toll.
Never used Apollo, but great news to have multiple ways to interact.
About the app being proprietary or open source it shouldn’t matter. The foundation is federated community, the ways to interact can be federated too. Mix of open source and proprietary.
Sounds awesome! I’m commenting, so I can find this thread later. I can’t figure out how to bookmark it.
Same
Haha same! I think it looks and sounds awesome too so far. But I can’t figure out how to bookmark either.
same here, dont mind me :)
why is the number of upvotes displayed separately from the upvote/downvote buttons? Same also for the comment count/button
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