Well this came outta nowhere!
Do we have any source why dev changed his mind?
What did he change his mind on?
The dev said in another post that he had really no interest in developing a Lemmy app, but very recently he edited his official shutdown post that boost for Lemmy is happening!
This was my main reddit app. I am glad they have decided to implement it for Lemmy.
Whoa and it’s on playstore already huh, cool!
well thats good. I used Boost for years and was really sad that it was shutting down.
I’ve used Boost for reddit, and I’m on KBin, but it looks like between this and most of the other apps focusing on Lemmy, I might just switch over.
I just got on kbin. I thought it was interchangeable with lemmy? As in this post is on lemmy and I’m responding to it. Or have I completely missed something? If anyone good a good link to clear that up I’d appreciate it.
Novice explanation (I’m the novice, not an expert dumbing it down). The Fediverse includes all platforms that operate on the ActivityPub protocol. That means that different platforms can be part of the fediverse. Mastodon is the biggest fediverse platform I’m aware of. It’s a lot like Twitter structurally. Even though Kbin looks like reddit and Mastodon looks like Twitter, they are all part of the fediverse because their built on ActivityPub. The way these platforms are built, anyone can make their own mastodon or Kbin instance (server) and Federate with other instances. Even though Kbin and Mastodon are pretty different, they can still federate with and talk to eachother.
Kbin and Lemmy are different software platforms that were both built to be a lot like reddit. They might even be hard to distinguish. They are written in different programming languages, so Kbin isn’t just another instance of Lemmy run by a different person, it’s a wholly seperate software project. However, they can communicate with eachother through ActivityPub. Since they look so similar to users, they almost look like they are just different instances to eachother, but under the hood it’s more like how Kbin can pull in microblogs from Mastodon.
Because Lemmy has been around a few years and Kbin only a couple of months, many developers are making Lemmy apps first. Since the software is made differently, an app made to work with Lemmy won’t necessarily work out of the box if you try to login with a Kbin account. But I do think that longterm there may be some apps that support both.
It’s worth mentioning that the Lemmy focus among app developers is probably temporary. Since it’s only brand new software, kbin currently has no API active at all. Lemmy has been around for longer and has an established API. It’s not anything personal against kbin.
Yeah, I never took it as preferential treatment or anything. Part of it is just that I used Boost for Reddit, so a part of me wants thinks it would be cool to continue to support them. I’ll probably just stick here though. I’m sure eventually someone will make an app.
I’m sure most Lemmy apps will add Kbin support down the line, too. The lead developer for Sync for Lemmy already said he’s looking into it, I believe. At the moment, Kbin doesn’t have an API though, so it’s less straightforward to approach I guess.
For an app designed for Kbin first and Lemmy second, Artemis is under way and you can follow it here: https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp
Screenshots look so good!
Honestly I was so excited about this that I registered without even looking at the screenshots, hahah. Haven’t been active on Reddit in a few weeks now and those just made me weirdly nostalgic <3 So pumped!!
It really feels like the beginning of something new. Brand new communities, tons of people, great looking apps…it’s just a nice change from the doomscrolling of the last few weeks on Reddit :)
I’m so excited I just ordered an iPhone!
I kinda saw it coming when I noticed you have to search for communities instead of subreddits.
Here’s hoping that the contains ads and in app purchases is just a remnant from the reddit app.
Boost was well worth the money and I’d happily pay again for the Lemmy port.
I think it’s important to not scare experienced and skilled developers away with all that brigading for free and open-source.
Developing good software is not easy and as long as Ruben offers a premium version without ads, that’s more than fair.
