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Memmy is amazing (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/memmy@lemmy.ml
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My feed has been flooded with posts about the Sync app released for Android, with a lot of hype but also some complaints regarding pricing, ads, privacy, etc.

This made me really appreciate Memmy, with which I have had no issues so far, and am impressed with how clean and easy it has been to use despite being new.

So that’s all, just a huge thank you.

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[–] 76 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I’ll second this. As a transplant of Reddit who used Apollo, Memmy seems to be heavily influenced by Apollo, which imo was an outstanding app.

I also saw all the posts about Sync and had to get caught up. Definitely makes me appreciate this app too.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    You should check out Voyager too. It’s the closest thing to Apollo appearance-wise that I’ve used. I typically switch between that and Memmy.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    I can’t get on with voyager. What the dev has done with a React PWA app is amazing but not having haptics makes it feel too weird. And the new app version is just a web view and performance is awful for me, not sure if it’s better on newer phones. But i could learn a lot from what he’s done with React I’m sure.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I’m Voyager only. Was trying out a few other clients, but Voyager almost nails the Apollo feel

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Thanks, I’ll check that. I’ve been beta testing Thunder and Liftoff! liftoff works nicely for browsing, but seems to have trouble posting using federation (tells my I’m not signed in anywhere). Thunder let’s me post, the the UI needs lots of work (now swipe forward, tough vote buttons and more).

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm also an ex-Apollo user. Memmy was my go to until I learned about Voyager. Don't even need Sync much, at this point, as this web app works for everything. If Voyager improves posting experience with rich text preview, it's simply perfect.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah sync's privacy is not the best, hoping the modding community can fix together a no-ads and less talking to 3rd party version of sync.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Can you elaborate on this? Is it just because it's not FOSS?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Not sure what to elaborate on, so I will just explain more in depth what I meant.

    So, because Sync is a closed-source app, in order to modify it you will need to change the compiled code itself or to add your own code, hoping it doesn't affect the application.

    no-ads and less talking to 3rd party version of sync. what I meant by this was that the modders would change 2 things : Ads and requests sent to 3rd parties (google, amazon, facebook, etc.). I have no clue how apk/android modding works, but I'm assuming all they have to do is remove the sections that add ads and talk to amazon, google, facebook etc with data.

    Make sense? If not, let me know what doesn't and I'll try to explain it.

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