OC UPDATED: There are now multiple iOS / Android apps in development for kbin & lemmy!

hariette, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Not much love for Kbin! </3

But I get it, without an official API, it's a lot of work to get one going. I just refuse to use Lemmy, so I'm committed on getting a Kbin app ASAP. We're just about to have alpha.1 build ready and it's pretty darn usable.

Plugging our magazine here:
https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp

EDIT: me not going w Lemmy was due to devs. I still think it’s a viable platform for the fediverse, especially with all the instances out there besides theirs (and being open source). Kbin being completely separated just felt like the right choice for me when picking between the two.

leftbones, 10 months ago

Why do you refuse to use Lemmy?

!deleted201250, 10 months ago

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static, 10 months ago

I've seen that "problem" a lot, but they give away the source code for free as proper communists should do, and then it's out of their hands. Just don't go to lemmygrad.ml.

DarkenLM, 10 months ago

Microsoft also makes a lot of open source software but there's people that want to stay the fuck away from it.

As for me, I just prefer the Kbin layout.

phosphorik, 10 months ago

Tankies? Not familiar with that one.

I signed up for kbin because it was easier to understand. Lemmy looked neat but figuring out which instance to join was hard. As for the developers supporting China… well, Lemmy is open source and the whole point is to make something where you don’t have to agree with the people running it.

kill, 10 months ago

Lemmy looked neat but figuring out which instance to join was hard

how about any lol, any major instance is ok

and yeah lemmy is open source, there's a lemmy instance for every point on the political spectrum, devs being commies makes no difference for the end result which is a very diverse (fe)diverse

MxM111, 10 months ago

Do they have right to be commies? Sure.

Do I have right not to use their project because of that? You betcha! Especially since there is good (if not better) alternative (kbin)

Treebeard, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

There are alleged members of the communist party who are mods at lemmy.ml, or some kind of Chinese state apologists. Those who seek freedom of speech should be forewarned of this.

HidingCat, 10 months ago

Aww yes, looking forward to it! Will go sign up for testing if you're accepting.

acedelgado, 10 months ago

Gotta say, I'm really excited for the work you're doing on Artemis. Kbin's mobile site is really good especially considering how young it is, but I miss the smoothness of a real app. Thank you for jumping in on it so quickly and enthusiastically!!

ColonelSanders, 10 months ago

Thank you for your service kind citizen!

Xeelee, 10 months ago

I with you here but we should avoid fragmentation by all means. Having two competing platforms that aren't interoperable would be a huge disservice.,

hariette, 10 months ago

AFAIK, they are, right? I see lemmy posts on kbin all the time.

Xeelee, 10 months ago

Yes, and that is something we should promote as much as we can.

hariette, 10 months ago

100%!

z500, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

They are. Even Mastodon mentions of communities show up as posts.

bric, 10 months ago

They're fairly interoperable, and people are working to make the interop better daily

static, 10 months ago

Just communicate with the kbin developers a lot, ernest did disable the api for now because he might change it.

hariette, 10 months ago

Yeah, following along the active PR for the site’s API closely :)

Rn using homegrown one based on their DTOs. Using a scrapper. Just so we can run a small scale private beta. Has help us get a lot of the core functionality in place. Currently the app is looking pretty good.

static, 10 months ago

Yea, use anything to get started.
But with what you are doing it's fine to contact the dev team/mr dev directly; they'll love it.

jiji, 10 months ago

I much prefer kbin to lemmy so I really appreciate you putting in the effort! I put myself on the alpha list and I look forward to it. :)

brunofin, 10 months ago

While not mentioned in the list and no code was actually written towards Kbin yet, I do plan to support it and Mastodon if possible on Beyond when possible :)

Lilkev, 10 months ago

By the way, upon full release Artemis will be functional for both Lemmy and kbin, AND be available on both iOS and Android.

Alpha testing should be starting in the next day or two.

Eggyhead, 10 months ago

Lol 9 for lemmy, 1 for Kbin. At least I won’t have to worry about crippling indecisiveness.

Still, excited for the outlook of the fediverse right now.

Lilkev, 10 months ago

Technically 10 for Lemmy, 1 for kbin (Artemis will support both kbin and Lemmy on full release)

z2k_, 10 months ago

A lot of devs have said they will look at supporting kbin as soon as the APIs are finalised and available.

gk99, 10 months ago

Kbin currently has no functional API, which makes it much harder to develop a kbin app.

Edit: Also I'm pretty sure that one is iOS only so I can't use it 😭

McBinary, 10 months ago

Artemis is slated to be IOS/Android both.

mizzyc, 10 months ago

Thanks for the info! I was wondering why there's only lemmy apps being released and why they hated kbin so much lol

firebat, 10 months ago

@gk99 There is work ongoing: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/357

w8l, 10 months ago

Artemis will only be iOS-exclusive for only the initial Limited Alpha. Beta onwards, it will be for both iOS and Android.

Lilkev, 10 months ago

Artemis will be available for both IOS and Android!

alin, 10 months ago

If there isn't one already, we should pin this post and keep it updated with all the apps that are coming out.
Might need @ernest to do it since he's mod.

firebat, 10 months ago

@alin I’m keeping an eye on any new apps and updating the post

@ernest

ChrV, 10 months ago

Sync is being developed as well
!syncforlemmy

firebat, 10 months ago

@ChrV Thanks, added!

Noki, 10 months ago

you can add one more to the list for Kbin:
https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110587136358486606
@dansup

He already created https://pixelfed.org/ (Instagramm like interface for the fedivers) and https://fedidb.org/ (tracking of the fedivers growth)

Very talented and hard working! Very happy to ses that.

gkd, 10 months ago

Memmy dev here. I am waiting to see what happens with this new API. As long as that is ready, I’ll be ready. I’m working on wrapping the Lemmy API client a bit differently so I can easily just plug in the KBin API whenever that time comes.

Lodespawn, 10 months ago

Any KBin app would have to pretty special, the mobile page is pretty great as it stands. It's got a few small bugs but none of them are showstoppers.

demvoter, 10 months ago

Also Slide

firebat, 10 months ago

@demvoter Added thanks!

npastaSyn, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I hope RIF, Apollo, Infinity... and all the other wonderful alts have been reached out to. They are a big reason for the migration.

Ed:sp

imperator, 10 months ago

Yeah RIF is my app. If I get one that works like that for Lemmy that would be awesome.

idunnololz, 10 months ago

Summit is also in development. It is a lemmy only reader (for now) for Android and it is in open beta. https://lemmy.world/c/summit

Gamers_Mate, 10 months ago

Awesome I am gonna try Artemis.

DARbarian, 10 months ago

Anybody get around to getting all of these into a nice, updated awesome-table on Github? Yanno to cleanly display which ones are lemmy / kbin, iOS / Android, FOSS, etc.

littleblondegirl, 10 months ago

Wtf it's too many lol I can't choose

BrollyLSSJ, 10 months ago

The Limbo Dev and the Lemmynade Dev joined forces and both their clients will be merged to Liftoff. Maybe the list above could be adjusted to reflect that.

Sources:

https://lemmy.world/post/520520
https://lemmy.world/post/520809
https://bigfoot.ninja/post/6474

firebat, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

@BrollyLSSJ Thanks I just saw your comment right after I updated the list! :)