Waiting for Apollo to create a Fediverse fork be like

I just downloaded the Mlem TestFlight. The design feels very Apollo-inspired, it’s great so far!

Yeah, I’m using it too, but I find myself using the web more. Functionality is very limited ATM, but I’m excited that it’s in active development.
- I can’t fully replace the web version with Mlem just yet, but the app is much smoother and faster for me. Sometimes loading posts take a few seconds on the web version and it’s really annoying if you just want to go in and out real quick
- Yeah a bit of both for me, both have benefits and drawbacks I feel
Where do I get this mystical magic?
- https://github.com/buresdv/Mlem
- https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc
Tragically, it only supports iOS 16 so far. thankfully the web versions of lemmy et al work decently enough on my iPhone SE 2016 🧓
Today's update has a lot of nice improvements! The app is already petty good considering the current phase of development.
Does mlem have a community in the fediverse?
- /c/mlemapp@lemmy.ml
It crashes a lot for me which is the main problem :P
Looking good on my phone but no ipad support yet. Looks awful in zoom mode

I came from RIF and Jerboa does the trick for me.

same! I'm amazed at how Jerboa is similar to RiF. Feels like home.
- Came from Bacon Reader, and I feel similarly. The only feature I'm dying for is the ability to collapse threads by clicking on them.

Ive always been on rif, never even heard of Apollo until this whole API catastrophe. Now I feel like I'm missing out!

Meh, you weren't. RIF is for us Android Troglodytes. If you are using Android, you are either poor or care how you spend your money. Either way, for RIF was the best $2.99 I ever spent.
- Oh Apollo was apple only? Strange it gets so much attention - who uses Apple anymore, what a racket
It was a labor of love and it showed. I hope to see it return as part of the Fediverse in some capacity, one day. Fingers crossed.

Mlem looks promising, if it can develop the save functionality that Apollo has then it gets my vote.

- It is yes, but there is an (unrelated) Android client called Jerboa if that is the OS you use.
  I would very much like the Apollo developer to do this but possibly he's burnt out on social media and would like to work on something else. He has developed a series of other unrelated apps that make him a decent income also.

Did Christian mention anything about opensourcing the client?

IIRC, he open sourced the server backend.
Edit: apparently I do not recall correctly. I remember someone saying something about open source, and he posted something to github. I incorrectly linked the two. Thanks to those posted more accurate information below.
- I'm not sure if "open sourced" is the right word(s) here. I can't find a license in the repository, so it is not released as open source and the code can't be used without breaching copyright.
- Server back end? What does that do? I thought Apollo would just take directly to Reddit's servers?
No, just a hope and a prayer.
- That would be awesome actually.