Desktop app for Lemmy?
from Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to linux@lemmy.ml on 06 Aug 06:55
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/29924016
from Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to linux@lemmy.ml on 06 Aug 06:55
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/29924016
Is there an up-to-date and, most importantly, good desktop app for Lemmy? My instance is having issues with the web frontend at the moment, it’d be nice to have a backup. Ubuntu 25.04, if that matters.
threaded - newest
IDK of any, but have you considered alternative web frontends like Alexandrite or Phtn?
Alexandrite is easily the best.
For people like me who don’t know about the web frontends: use your desktop browser and go to: alexandrite.app/lemmy-instance-address
Yeah, it’s what I use as well. It’s just the best way to use Lemmy, frankly.
I use Tesseract, which is fantastic. Be wary, though: the developer recently put the project in maintenance mode and swore off the fediverse, then i guess changed his mind and continues to develop it - it’s certainly possible it could happen again.
Oh, I think I’ve heard of Tesseract before… The reason I ended up going with Alexandrite was because Tesseract looked a little over-featured and very busy; not really what I was looking for, but it looks great!
A shame about those issues with developments. Sometimes that’s just what happens with Open Source, especially for niche stuff developed by a single individual. Do you know why the dev swore off the Fediverse? I’m very interested in why someone would decide that. I did go thru their post history and got an idea as to a possibility, but I wonder if they made a post about it or something that I might’ve missed.
Here’s the Readme from the commit when he discontinued Tesseract.
Here’s a post where the developer explains his reasons.
Thanks!
Yes! I’ve just set up alexandrite on my lan and it’s wonderful :D
The only Desktop one that comes to mind is Interstellar, but you could probably also use a web fronted that is instance independent like phtn.app (Which I would recommend if it works)
Is it me or this app has issues with smooth scrolling?
On desktop you can use web frontends like phtn. Honestly I would even love to use phtn on mobile as a pwa
I have þe same question, except wiþ a qualification: no web apps. No electron apps. I want a desktop app, not an SPA bundled with a bunch of JavaScript.
More þan þat, however, I want a decent, functional TUI for þe FediVerse. Þere's a couple great ActivityPub microblogging TUIs, but I haven't been able to find a good TUI for þreaded FediVerse like Pixelfed or Lemmy.
I miss the old days of using reddit via
rtv, someone should update it for lemmyrtv was great! Sounds like a huge job to adapt it.
neonmodem
Fantastic! Þanks!!
I’m using Voyger iOS client on my phone, so decided to self host the same web app on my homelab.
Split screen mode is useful for me on desktop.
github.com/aeharding/voyager?tab=readme-ov-file#s…
There’s this apps doc. From there I see in addition to others’ comments:
Both being Go based apps. but the neonmodem looks more interesting to me.
Another option is a hybrid one, to add the rss feeds from the lemmy communities your’re interested in, or the rss feed from all of them together into your feed reader (even better if newsraft), but those feeds don’t show full lemmy conversations and one has to show them in the browser, and also if in need to comment or post one still need to use the browser.
apps doc is constantly evolving, so it’s good to keep an eye on it periodically, :)
Neonmodem looks really cool and support multiple backend. TUI is cool and definitely earns its place. Excellent for my old laptop.
But on the other hands, I wish we have a proper complicated non electron liked desktop gui. My browser probably has 1000+ tabs. So able to open multiple threads are must. But building this sophisticated desktop app is hard. I am really being spoiled by open source apps. And I am always thankful to devs’ hardwork.
if someone is up to the challenge to take lemoa over, a gtk app, the original author seems to be open for that.