Angel and Buffy.

For sure. It’s good to know. But not a huge compromise considering we are talking about still using a flavour of Android and play services.

For sure! Just checked Lemmy.ca and I do see c/vancouver in my subscribed list 🙏

Not sure if this is related but I do see duplicates of the main community of Lemmy.ca in my subscribed

I just tried that! Definitely something weird with my account. Even starting fresh, the side bar didn’t show that I was subbed to that community even tho I am.

Huh. I did that in my recording! Just tried it again… Unless I’m doing something wrong 😅 it still doesn’t work 🥲🥲🥲

Also tried logging out and logging back in 🫡

Hmm if it makes any difference… I don’t see that community in this sidebar, but I’m definitely subbed…

Ah. They have a lot thats open. And I believe if you run Headscale (and android and/or Linux clients), you can be fully open source.

Thanks for taking the time and checking this out!

Waiting about 5s didn’t seem to work. I’ve also tried to unsubscribe first. Maybe there’s something wrong with my account. I tried other communities… This is the only I can find that has this problem. Here’s a screen recording. It feels like user error to me 😅

https://imgur.com/a/QyXpUTD

I can’t seem to add !vancouver@lemmy.ca as a favourite on this build 🙏

I’ve just switched from an iPhone 12 Pro to Pixel 9 and am on GrapheneOS now. Aside from Signal chat history, everything switched over quite easily. Sandboxed google play services is simply an amazing feature. Rerouting location requests let’s me feel a certain level of trust when I use Google Maps now. There are a tonne of little quality of life features too that I don’t remember if base Android had back when I used it before; e.g. setting the default language for a specific application.

For using Immich without exposing it to the public, check out Tailscale. It’s a private VPN (wireguard) service (it’s partially opensource and provides paid tiers, but the free tier is all you’ll need; there’s an open source server called Headscale, if you need full open source) you can use on your home network that is dead simple to configure. You literally just login on you computer and your phone.

On iOS, Arctic for Lemmy supports push notifications. And Ice Cubes for Mastodon supports push notifications as well.

On Android, I’ve been using Moshidon for Mastodon and Thunder for Lemmy. Both apps support Unified Push (it’s experimental for Thunder, requires a self hosted server as well).

Done! I created it here: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/issues/1736

Yeah, I’m coming from iOS (mlem) and tried out a bunch of different apps. I picked Thunder on Android cause it has all the features and style I want, but the scrolling and loading of feeds feels not as smooth/fast as other apps.

Mlem or Arctic

Zen for desktop: https://zen-browser.app/

Ironfox for mobile: https://ironfoxoss.org/

Oh neat. Termux:Styling let’s me change fonts. And Fira Code, has support for nerd fonts! Thanks again for the recommendation, you saved me a butt load of time 😍

Huh. Not quite what I was looking for… But you know what? It works! Terminal, just installed OpenSSH. Thank you. This plays a lot better with Fish shell. I’ll look into seeing if I can install Nerdfonts.

Appreciate the recommendation 🙏❤️

Same issue with that one. Thank you tho 🙏

Yeah. Apps make the experience of mobile that much better. Voyager is a very good web app. Its just missing the snappiness of a native app.

Raccoon for Lemmy is the closest I can find to what I want.

Curious if anyone has any other suggestions for native and open source in Android.

I’ve tried it! Both on iOS and Android. Maybe it’s cause it’s not native. There’s something about how it feels that isn’t the same as a native app.

For iOS, I use Mlem. It’s open source and updated regularly (the TestFlight version at least). It’s got a really nice interface. Lots of little customization options. Feels a lot like Apollo. My second choice is Arctic. A lot of great options, has push notifications. But isn’t open source (yet!) and feels like it’s slightly less polished than Mlem.

I’m looking for Android equivalent to these two apps, but I’m not see anything remotely close.