Lemmy Apps @lemmy.world sorasns @lemmy.world 4mo ago

Remy for Lemmy: Upcoming iOS client app with modern interface and advanced features

Hi everyone,

I am the indie developer behind SoraSNS (a Fediverse and Bluesky client featured by Tech Crunch twice).

I just started working on a modern and futuristic styled Lemmy client. It will have a modern UI and equal features as the alien blue app.

Some features I am planning include:

all features like alien blue app (you know which app I am referring to)
a better notification interface so you can see the thread the message belongs to
auto translation feature
bookmark folders
folders to organized your subscribed communities
a discovery feed for most popular posts from your subscribed communities and followed persons
watch a post and receive notifications about new comments
scroll horizontally to switch to previous or next post in the list
Home Screen widget to automatically show top news, refreshed automatically several times a day
Filters for posts and comments based on activity, follow status

The image I attached is obviously the build 0. The target release date is around the first week of May.

If you are interested, please subscribe to the community to receive updates and TestFlight:

!remy@lemmy.world

!remy@lemmy.zip

My other apps: SoraSNS for Mastodon Misskey Bluesky, with local ML powered For You timeline: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sorasns-for-mastodon-bluesky/id6450969760

Thank you in advance!

Technology @lemmy.zip msz @lemmy.zip 4mo ago

Remy for Lemmy: Upcoming iOS client app with modern interface and advanced features

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Looks nice ! I'm not an iOS user but I sure love to see more clients for the Fediverse ! 😄
- Awesome! Thanks for the positive words! If this app works well I will work on an Android version. But yeah I agree I believe more activities around the ecosystem will encourage even more developments.
three suggestions:

fyi, since your post links to https://lemmy.world/c/remy and https://lemmy.zip/c/remy icymi the preferred way to link to communities (so that everyone can access them via their own home instance) is like this: !remy@lemmy.zip. When someone types that in the lemmy web interface, it will auto-complete and expand it into link markup like [!remy@lemmy.zip](https://lemmy.zip/c/remy), but when that markup is rendered it will actually become a link to access the community via the reader's home instance. For instance, for me that link will actually go to https://lemmy.ml/c/remy@lemmy.zip where i can interact with the community whereas https://lemmy.zip/c/remy will take me to the lemmy.zip website where i do not have an account. Here is a non-escaped example (my previous examples are all escaped with backtick characters to prevent them from rendering) which anyone should be able to click to load it through their own instance: !remy@lemmy.zip. Please ensure that your client can both generate and follow community links like this! (as well as user links to lemmy and other activitypub things; user links work the same except they're prefixed with @ instead of !.)

you don't need multiple communities for your app; users from .world can post on .zip and vice-versa (and it is easy for them to if you link to the community the way described above).

will you ever consider open sourcing it? :)
- Oh wow thank you for the detailed information! Going to update the post now.
  
  You’ve been dodging the open source question repeatedly because IMO you’re here to make money off of our naivety.
  
  The fediverse happily funds devs that want to help build the community. Here’s a proper fediverse style community: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager
  
  Notice how many contributors there are and the licensing?
  
  Neat!
Looks and sounds great! I don't have iOS but more great clients is always a good thing.

EDIT: I was not aware of the aggressive monetisation, that's very unfortunate.
- Thank you for your kind words ✨
Looks great!
- Thank you! ❤️ Please do feel free to subscribe to the community so you can try it firsthand before release.
  
  Could you maybe consider another instance than LW for your community? LW is too large at the moment, and has 3 days issues with some instances: https://lemmy.world/post/27146072?scrollToComments=true
  
  Lemmy.zip is very well managed: https://lemmy.zip/post/33065677?scrollToComments=true

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