Yes

It won’t be multi-window in the sense that you can browse two feeds at once or have a feed and post open at the same time, but it will take advantage of the larger screen.

I do think the multi-window feature is cool. I think there is room for a few really good Lemmy apps with slightly different philosophies. Another example is I’m not planning on being as gesture-driven as Voyager. If you like gestures, Voyager is a great app! It’s possible I will change my mind later, but for now I have a design in mind.

Sync is Android only, right? My Apple will work on Android, iOS, MacOS, and web.

I’m sold! I’m going to subscribe for a month and try it out.

Dropout.tv was created by college human right? Idk if their old videos would hold up today, but I remember liking their content. Nice to know they’re still around.

Tbh I dont use it enough, but I love that’s it no ads like you said. Also feels good to support creators instead of Google. I’ll check out the originals!

Not a fediverse thing, but I pay $5 a month for nebula. I think it’s worth it to support creators. And I believe the whole “if you’re not paying for something you’re the product”. Though you can still be the product even if you do pay.

Yes! I believe Voyager’s database issue is caused by Safari’s implementation of IndexedDB since voyager runs in a web view. Since my app also has a web version, I suppose you could technically get that error in the browser. But the actual native app you install doesn’t use a web view or IndexedDB, so you will never see that error.

I really appreciate that! I’m aiming for a TestFlight beta in 2 months. Technically, there is no reason I can’t launch a beta today, but I want to have the app be functional enough that it’s mostly usable.

I’ll DM you when I have a beta up.

Definitely a different approach than I was going for, but I will use them as a comparable! Thanks!

Based on your screenshot, it looks like they do the feed on the left and the post on the right. Idk if I’m gonna go for that layout, but it’s interesting and definitely a cool way to take advantage of the larger screen.

I won a robot R2D2 in a raffle. This was like over 10 years ago. It had voice commands, and somehow understood me better than Siri.

I second behind the basters.

Lemmy isn’t.

Blorp lol. Don’t ask about the name. Very much a work in progress, but I’m aiming for a public beta in 2ish months. Though I know it’s very likely I’ll be the only one that uses it.

As an Android/iOS app, Blorp will cache the data (and optionally images) offline. So any feeds/posts that are already loaded you will be able to read offline.

Right now that’s the biggest feature setting me apart from Voyager, but I want to keep iterating and improving.

This is the website version, which admittedly is a bit more clunky than the iOS/Android app. https://blorpblorp.xyz/

Yeah I’m curious too! What technical sorcery is OP doing for presumably free API access

And this is actually the issue. As a developer I want to build and app based on what interests me. Then I want to write a post about it.

The comments:

• person 1: Why would you waste your time building an app for that platform, you should build an app for this platform that way less people use”
• person 2: “nah that’s a waste of time you should build an app for this even more niche platform with even less users”
• person 3: “you should just use RSS feeds and anything else is a waste of time”

Me as a developer “thanks guys I just wanted to build an app for a platform I’m passionate about”

Wrote this comment on my own lemmy client, because I like using about lemmy :)

Idk maybe I’m wrong. I worked for a news outlet for a couple years and I just remember generating and parsing XML to be more work then generating a JSON feed.

It’s not even just parsing. I just remember crawling the parsed JSON tree to not be as nice as navigating a JSON object.

But a lot of languages have native support for parsing JSON without the need for a library. When it’s handled by the language, it’s more likely to be done to spec, doesn’t increase bundle size (if that matters to you), and will be considered as updates to the language are made.

I get that the idea of rss is sort of a universal protocol for publishing articles, which is really cool, but damnit if you make me parse XML in 2025. As a developer, I would be ok if they modernized RSS feeds.

Something like this

Did the logo fix everything?