Android - Jerboa

IOS - ?

  • rhabarba@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I wonder if Lemmy’s (and thus the Fediverse’s) target audience is even willing to spend money on apps. Even the makers of Tweetbot are having a hard time competing with Ivory against the numerous free alternatives.

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      1 year ago

      If the target audience you speak of is people leaving the other site and coming here, then I’d say 100% yes. I can only speak for myself, but after seeing what they did to Apollo, I would be more than happy to spend some money to support Christian if he were to make an app for Lemmy. I think a lot of others would to.

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        1 year ago

        There were no really good free Reddit apps for iOS. Apollo hit a niche. A free Lemmy app would at least have to compete with Mlem and the time frame is narrow until the market is flooded (see also: Mastodon’s three months from 0 to 7262952 apps).

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          1 year ago

          There was, Alien Blue. Then Reddit bought it up and disfigured it into the official app.

          There were a few others besides Apollo though. BaconReader was solid.

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            1 year ago

            I used BaconReader on Android back in the day. I didn’t know it had an iOS version. I stand corrected.