I always used baconreader because I'm after really compact and full function with options. I don't want giant image cards because I'm ten million years old (I'm not, I just like the outcome of having to design around simplicity and efficiency).
However, an actual app? Made by a popular, experienced, and successful app dev? I will 100% pay for and use that even though it's not my preferred design philosophy.
Lemmy and kbin are... alright as they are, but chrome is such a pos for multitasking and I would really love some clarity and consistency to the ux design across different instances and more and better options.
What I really want, ideally, is baconreader to make a universal fediverse app - but the likelihood of anybody making a universal app and that's good is very low, let alone my favorite 3rd party reddit app dev that's already said they don't plan on it.
You can give Summit a try as well (me is the developer). It's kind of compact, but I'm willing to add options to tighten it up even more for you if that's what users want.
I'm not super familiar with Bacon reader nowadays, but Sync has a list view and a compact view that cram quite a few posts onto the screen. Hopefully its comparable.
You can configure sync to use a compact layout that reminds me of baconreader as well, it's what I've always configured sync to do, because it's what I like, the nice thing about sync is that it's really configurable it can be almost what you want it to be :)
It almost certainly won't be at launch, as the kbin API is not ready yet. Artemis, another upcoming kbin/Lemmy double-act app, is currently relying on a web scraper and self-hosted shim API to access kbin content, with the goal being to switch to the real API once it's available.
Basically, it's a lot of extra work to support kbin right now, but in the future it should be about as easy as Lemmy. I'll be interested to see if any other Lemmy apps pick up kbin support as a result, but even just a couple is more than I expected so soon.
From an end user point of view, there's not much difference other than the UI (and because of differing APIs, different third party apps too). It's fully interoperable with Lemmy (and Mastodon).
Behind the scenes on the server, though, it's a completely different piece of software.
Can you subscribe to kbin communities with a user made on a lemmy instance and post, and the other way around? I was under the impression that kbin and lemmy instances don't really mix that well. But maybe that's just because the clients we have right now are limited.
You can, yep. You can skidaddle over to kbin.social and give it a go.
The important thing to remember is that all of the stuff that you do with your account (subscribing, posting, commenting etc.) is actually done by the server your account is on. The way you "interact" with users/content on other servers is that once you've "done something" on your server, it then let's other servers know about it (via federation).
So if you're a Lemmy user and say "I want to subscribe to tech@kbin.social", your Lemmy server will go away and pull down all the info for that community from kbin.social and start displaying it in your feed. If you create a post on that community, your Lemmy server will send a message to kbin.social containing all the info it needs to create the post.
Lemmy and kbin fully federate together, so all this works just the same as kbin-to-kbin or Lemmy-to-Lemmy. As also mentioned, kbin also has "microblogging" (Twitter-like posting) as well as Reddit-like thread posting, and fully federates with Mastodon in the same way.
I wonder if the development would be very difficult for the dev, do we know if he's gonna give some updates blogs-like? That'd be cool, maybe to insñir other Reddit apps devs.
Plenty for iOS to chose from, Christian’s legacy continues. Memmy and Mlem both feel pretty close to Apollo - and are both directly inspired by it.
These apps are in early beta. They have constant updates (daily for Memmy and weekly for Mlem), so you can kind of see them being built in real time. If you’re patient with the developers, you’ll get that Apollo experience very soon. It’s like 80% of the way there.
Liftoff is pretty cool too, though it’s a different design approach.
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