I’ll add more apps to this list as they are released.
Since all these apps are being constantly updated, I’ll also include the version number. Please don’t let my post stop you from using any of these apps. My complaints will probably be fixed very, very soon.
Summit v0.1.22 (Day 1): The app is pretty neat since they added inboxes halfway through my day. The app feels pretty neat overall. It will be much better once they add profiles. I just wish they had an infinite scrolling feature. The community selection feels kinda wonky though.
Connect v1.0.73 (Day 2): This is probably the best app for Android right now; but I obviously can’t tell since I haven’t even tried half of them yet. Nothing feels missing from this app. It’s great and has all the features I could want from a Lemmy client. The only issue I had was that some communities sometimes don’t appear in the hamburger menu. I check up on my Stephen King community every few hours but I often have to search for it to find it. Overall an amazing app.
fennec v0.0.4 (Day 3): Overall a pretty neat app. It doesn’t have too many formatting options; no button for adding pics to comments. The reversed voting buttons were kinda annoying and sometimes when a post had too many comments or votes, or when I was deep into a comment thread, it wouldn’t show the upvote button. Also idk if it’s just me being dumb but I can’t figure out how to edit posts…
Thunder v0.2.1 11 (Day 4): It’s a decent app. I don’t really have much else to say about it. My only complaint is that you can’t add images to comments and posts. If you don’t really care about that it’s a good choice for your main app.
Lemming 1.0.0-alpha05 (Day 5): It feels different from the others apps I’ve tried so far (probably just because of the unusual hamburger menu) but it’s great. Profiles and inboxes are missing but i liked the UI colors quite a lot which made scrolling through it fun for me. Also, swiping to upvote requires a very small swipe on this app so I used it quite a lot whereas I literally never used it on the other apps. Pretty great and it’s probably gonna be one of the best when inboxes and profiles are added.
RSS isn’t specific to Lemmy. It’s a standard that has existed for a long time. It stands for Really Simple Syndication (or also apparently RDF Site Summary). It’s a way for websites, blogs, link aggregators, news sites, anything really that has content that updates, to provide a simple, platform agnostic method for users to subscribe to that changing content.
You would use an RSS reader, or maybe some software that isn’t specifically an RSS reader but supports RSS subscriptions (Outlook is an example of an email client that you can add RSS subscriptions to), then your RSS reader takes care of fetching updates, and you have a perpetually updating feed of your subscribed RSS content in one spot. An RSS feed item usually has a link, some text, and sometimes other content. So you can read a summary, follow the link to read the whole thing, etc.
For Lemmy, you can subscribe via RSS to your Subscription, Local or All feed, with whichever sort you want. But you can also subscribe to specific users’ comments to be notified whenever they make another comment.
Oh so I get a summary based on parameters I select beforehand? And that’s more than side wide? I’m sorry if I missintepret something English is sadly not my first language
It’s different for different RSS feeds. I haven’t tried the feeds on Lemmy, but I would assume that they contain a link to the post, plus the content of the text for that post if there is any. So you could read the post and decide if you want to click through to interact.
I just had a quick look at what’s included in the Lemmy RSS feed. Each item in the feed has a Title, Link and Description. The description appears to give a summary of the post, the number of comments and upvotes it’s received, and links to the content.
The core concept for RSS to understand though is that an RSS reader is a link aggregator where the links come from different feeds you subscribe to from all over the net. If you see an RSS icon, you can copy the link and past it into your reader to add a new subscription and be notified when there are updates without having to visit the site in your browser unless you see something that interests you and you want to click through to read and interact with.
Oh that’s really interesting. I maybe will look deeper into it. Thanks a lot for explaining