Reddit Migration @kbin.social doophy @kbin.social 2y ago

Tracking Lemmy/Kbin Mobile Clients

docs.google.com Tracking Lemmy/Kbin Mobile Clients

Sheet1 App Name,Platform,OS,Stage,Community Link,Code Link Artemis (Kmoon),Kbin, Lemmy (Upcoming),Android, IOS,<a href="https://kbin.social/d/forms.gle">Private Beta (Starts end of June)</a>,<a href="https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp">Kbin.social</a>,Soon Beyond,Lemmy,Android, IOS Jerboa,Lemmy,An...

Google Sheet traking Lemmy & Kbin mobile clients. Anyone w/ the link can edit.

Fediverse @lemmy.world d00phy @lemmy.world 2y ago

Tracking Lemmy/Kbin Mobile Clients

docs.google.com /spreadsheets/d/1m_MWfu72TQWiCV5aEH_Kb9PCFcqlRQK5a0yWl-XUjZI/edit

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I'd suggest changing the link permission to "anyone can comment" instead, as any ill-intended individual can grief the file as it is now. Then those who moderate the file can approve or deny new entries.
- Fair point. I'm keeping an eye on it right now. If it gets out of hand, I'll do that. Everyone seems to be behaving so far, though. Fingers crossed.
  
  You should definitely change it now, before something happens.
- owner can always restore a backup on google sheets afaik
Saw this too. Doesn’t appear to have a name yet.
- @demvoter it seems like there has been contact already between that developer and kbin dev... That sounds promising!
  Can't wait to have few apps to chose from. At the end of the day, people like different things and hopefully there will be enough users for them
  
  @doophy
  
  Thanks for the heads up, but right now that has to be considered a rumor. Until there's at least a community and/or repo, it's vaporware.
I updated the Kbin code link to read "soon" as Hariette announced last night that once the code base is in a good place she will open source the project. https://tech.lgbt/@hariette/110585379246580704
- Nice! Thanks!
- Good news everyone!
I'm confused on how mobile clients work with Fediverse. Do they work with larger "threadiverse" like Lemmy and Kbin themselves or do they access it through specific Lemmy/Kbin instance? If it's the latter, does this mean they use Lemmy-specific and Kbin-specific APIs?
- You would use the app to login to a specific instance, and access federated content through that instances API
- Kbin is different code, and Lemmy is different code. Whatever instance you're on, if you made an account with a Lemmy-based instance then you login to Lemmy and thus use a Lemmy oriented app. Same for Kbin. If you use an instance that's using Kbin code (I know there are others but I'm only aware of kbin.social right now) then you login to it using a Kbin oriented app.
  
  As for the content, it's all federated and if it works properly then you should be able to see Lemmy and Kbin content regardless of what app you're using, with the exception of content from defederated instances (regardless of whether they use Lemmy or Kbin). The sharing of content happens using ActivityPub which, while external of both Lemmy and KBin, are used by both (and many others like Mastodon) for the federation thing to actually take place.
  
  In practice you wouldn't have to worry about it, except for choosing what app to use and whenever you're searching for communities on other instances (which on kbin search is something like "community_name@instance.name"). That's how I understand it at least.
  
  This is the definitive answer
And this could not have been done on CryptPad?

sigh
- It still can be! ;-)
- I've been looking for a feasible alternative to Gdrive and OneDrive for some time now, thanks for recommending this!
I hope that there will be more Kbin apps soon. I don't really want to use Lemmy.
- An app that supports any federated instance and multiple accounts would be ideal.
  
  I'm surprised I don't see more of this. Especially given that they all use ActivityPub. I know kbin is different than Lemmy, but an "all-in-one" app would be great.
another one
- Thanks, updated!
Thank you for your good work!
Thanks. Currently test driving Jerboa. It's not bad. Hoping for something that eventually closely matches the design of the Reddit is Fun (Rif) app.
Kbin App from @Dansup

Here's the latest from him: It's called KBam

https://github.com/KbamApp/kbam
This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you.

This morning I hopped in to Mlem on iOS and nothing was working, then I noticed it was gone from TestFlight. Luckily I found about Memmy, which works and looks more polished than Mlem. Hopefully we can get a similar iOS app for Kbin as well in the near future.
Man! This is the first I head about the lead dev of Mlem leaving. I hope the project doesn't get abandoned.
- It's not. One of the remaining devs posted that they're working on getting a new Testflight invite going.
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Been really enjoying Memmy. Has been getting updates at a super fast pace and already feels pretty good and featureful. More to go but the dev work has impressed me.
- Agreed. So far, I think it's my favorite of of the dedicated apps. wefwef.app is also pretty good.

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