Hello Lemmy. I just released a new Lemmy client for iOS. I’m still working on a few key features (background notifications, word block filters, i18n, community creation and moderation, plus a few other random things). I hope to have them complete soon. If you have the time, please take a look and let me know how I can make it better: Maliki Issues.
I want to release this app for Android, but Google requires that I have 12 Android testers. Anyone up for that?
It’s good to have more choices as we have less options on IOS compared to Android.
If you still need android testers let me know.
Great! Thank you
Thank you!
I’m definitely gonna try the iOS app out, I hope you find the droids you’re looking for
Thank you. I only know a few people who use Android, so it’s a challenge.
Count me in on Android! Foxes are my spirit animal and I’m a chronically online loser so I’ll be a great beta tester.
Great! Thank you. I’ll be in touch when I release the latest test build.
Do you have a community for discussion etc? Or just the GitHub?
A community would probably be a good idea huh? I’ll get on that.
It looks nice and smooth, but you need to add support for 2FA because I can’t log in without it.
Yes, it’s on the list!
Great! Another great way to get Android users is to publish releases on the github page a lot of Lemmy users will install directly if available or use a service like Obtainium that pulls directly from GitHub.
Thanks for the advice!
I want to release this app for Android, but Google requires that I have 12 Android testers. Anyone up for that?
Don’t you just… build an APK and let people download it? Or are you trying to use some Play Store beta system?
I think it’s only a requirement for new Android developers.
I can think of a few ways around it, but I would in fact like some actual testing done on this thing before release.
Where are you seeing that requirement? Like I said, there should be nothing stopping you from simply building the APK and letting any arbitrary user download/install it. Think of all the APKs available on GitHub, itch.io, etc. Anyone can download/install those without the user or developer having had to register for anything. Android is not a closed system like iOS in which distribution of applications is restricted to some official channel.
Looking good! Also: !lemmysilver
What is lemmysilver
Did it work? I expected the bot to comment 😄
this community isn’t whitelisted, whoopsie, should have checked.
Thanks!
Is it FOSS?
Yes it has a GitHub page.
Wrong. It’s free but not open source.
I will now throw it into the massive pile of closed source fediverse walled-gardens that attempt to build their own version of the wheel from scratch rather than:
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COLLABORATING WITH A MASSIVE COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE WILLING TO HELP OP BUILD THEIR APP AND ADVERTISE THEIR APP TO ANYINE THAT WILL LISTEN FOR FREE.
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actually being paid far more in donations from open source advocates (and free labor) than any closed source app makes in revenue
No need to make your text so big, pretty sure people can read the smaller text.
You may be able to see it, but OP doesn’t seem to. I want to make damn sure they understand the choices they are making.
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It’s free, but not open source. Maybe I’ll reconsider, but no promises either way.
What is your reason for making it free yet not open source? To me, that decision makes 0 sense.
If you wanted to make money for your app, you should at least charge for it because not one person in the fediverse will donate money to someone that won’t at the very least share their source code.
If you wanted the fediverse to support you, you need to show us that you’re not here to enshittify Lemmy.
As it stands though, you come off as just another dead-eyed capitalist looking to milk a grassroots community while offering nothing in exchange other than obfuscated code with a “trust me, bro. I won’t sell your data.”
Jesus fucking christ on a buttplug, what the actual fuck is your problem, dude?
Let’s just say I’m sick of proprietary bullshit and enshittification. I’ve unsubbed so you won’t hear from me again.
Wow, that’s rough. Sorry you feel that way. But I understand how it’s hard to trust anything or anyone these days.
You’re sorry that we insist on honesty and integrity and in exchange would pledge to reward you handsomely?
You must be new here. We are almost ALLLLLLLL here because we are tired of picking up and escaping platforms that slowly evolve around us until we are a frog in boiling water where you get to USE us as the product. The fact that you don’t relate to that now universal truth of online platforms points to the fact that you are here from Reddit merely for self-enrichment.
Ever heard the saying:
If something is free, you are the product. ?
Since we can’t see the source code, how do we know that you won’t be:
- selling our activity to advertisers
- using our activity it to train LLM’s
- suddenly eliminating basic functionality and locking it behind a pro membership on a whim
- filling your app with ads
- mining crypto in the background with your closed source app
- have massive security holes
- embrace, extend, extinguish (if you achieve your goal which is ubiquity)
Seriously. We would fund your app if you’d just open source it. Just take a look at the Voyager app if you doubt me.
I like FOSS too, but no need to be so agressive. Sorry, @[email protected]
I don’t just love FOSS, I INSIST on it from now on.
Don’t come crying to us when a multinational corporation like Google comes in and embraces, extends, then extinguishes this platform, reshaping it into yet another vector for banging the late stage capitalistic, genocidal war drum using propaganda, astroturfing, censorship of dissenting views, and fascist apologia.
Hi, Mod here.
One of our community rules is to “be nice and have fun.” It’s okay to be passionate about lemmy, FOSS, federation, etc. It’s okay to discuss the virtues of FOSS development, or share suggestions with devs. Actually, that’s a big part of why this community exists! We hope that devs and users can have productive conversations that improve the lemmy experience for everyone.
It isn’t okay to rag on developers or others in the community for their preferences or decisions.
I’m not sure if you were here a year or so ago, when this community in fact engaged in a pretty serious conversation about whether to exclude apps that are not FOSS. The consensus of the community was to include everything and let grown-ups make their own well-informed decisions.
There are lots of reasons why a developer may decide not to make an app open-source. It can take a lot of work for a solo dev to organize and clean up code for open publication, and for some people this is a hobby or labor of love and that is not work that interests them. Some may not want to share code that is in early development if it is messy or could reflect on them professionally in unknown ways. Some may have access to proprietary code that they have rights to use but not share from other projects they are working on. And on and on.
In this community, all are welcome, and if anyone is not interested in an app, then they are fortunate that there are many great options!
Here’s a community you should like: [email protected]
However, non-FOSS apps are welcome here, so no need to be so agressive.
Feel free to also join places like [email protected] or [email protected] that help make the Fediverse grow as an alternative to enshittified platforms
Are you planning on a Material You design implementation for the Android version or just sticking with the iOS look?
For now at least, it’ll be the same on Android and iOS
