The dev, @hariette, also has a Mastodon profile where she posts updates https://tech.lgbt/@hariette. There is also a link to the apps discord server in her bio.
As a longtime Apollo user, I would love to know when this hits Test Flight!
Unlike Apollo, will this be Free Software though?
Apollo did have a free tier and then a few paid tiers.
iirc, (I bought it many years ago), they had a one time Pro purchase that removed any ads and unlocked theming and such, and then the Ultimate which was a subscription to cover server costs of push notifications (although it did eventually end up having more features locked behind it).
While I personally did not go for the Ultimate subscription (didn’t really need the push notifications), I gladly paid for the Pro as it was well worth it IMO.
I think they meant Free as in Open Source
It’s not exactly the same. The Free Software movement is about user freedom. Open Source is a term used by corporations to avoid mentioning that users should have rights.
Libre, not gratis
Yes, I meant freedom and not price: https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM
We want to be able to make sure the app doesn’t do anything malicious (like spy on us) and be able to change it to fit out needs. Like we can with Lemmy.
Go to her mastodon. You can request to be a beta tester.
Just signed up - thanks for the tip!
Same, I’d love to beta test.
Never used Apollo, but great news to have multiple ways to interact.
About the app being proprietary or open source it shouldn’t matter. The foundation is federated community, the ways to interact can be federated too. Mix of open source and proprietary.
That looks great! iOS and Android? Can’t wait to try ut!
Yep, iOS and Android! Also, all this work has been done in less than a week. It’s crazy.
You just made my night! Thank you!!
why is the number of upvotes displayed separately from the upvote/downvote buttons? Same also for the comment count/button
Sounds awesome! I’m commenting, so I can find this thread later. I can’t figure out how to bookmark it.
Haha same! I think it looks and sounds awesome too so far. But I can’t figure out how to bookmark either.
same here, dont mind me :)
Same
Signed up for testing!
@Lilkev nice app!
Can’t wait for this
What makes this different from/better than Jerboa? I’m a (soon to be former) Reddit Sync user and Jerboa’s a little feature bare but it does everything I did on Sync.
Jerboa is Lemmy only, is it not? There currently is no app for Kbin.
I’m viewing this kbin magazine(?) through an identity hosted on lemmy.world (and just double checked that I can post on these kbin-hosted communities through Jerboa), i’m new to this whole federated thing but isn’t that supposed to be the point? I thought the protocol that kbin and other instances use was a standard with certain compliance and the whole “cross-federation” thing meant that as long as your “home” and the place you’re browsing are buddy-buddy, you can sign in to whatever to look at whatever (and if you wanted your “home” to literally be a raspberry pi in your closet, it can be).
So you’re currently signed in to the lemmy.world instance. I am signed in to the kbin.social instance. I don’t want to recreate my account over on a Lemmy instance just so I can use the Jerboa app or any of the other alternatives.
You are able to post and see posts from kbin due to federation, but you would not be able to log in to a kbin instance on the Jerboa app.
The Artemis App (the app in the OP) will allow users to sign in with EITHER a Lemmy instance or a kbin instance
Great job all involved! So happy to see people trying to make usability apps/features! The color indicators for chat are great!
So far all of the dev work has been done by Hariette herself. Full credit to her, I’m just promoting it because it really looks quite great in my opinion.
@hariette thanks!
Wow! This is really looking great.
awesome!
Now, let’s wait for the Android one…
Developing as x-plat codebase. And we have an equal split of beta testers across platform. So wanna prioritize em equally!
in the coming weeks there will be some waves of rollouts to testers. Hopefully we’ll go public not far from there :)
Thank you so much!
Native apps? Because I sure hope so.
It will be for both, friend.
Very excited for this
