Every time I go to the piefed frontpage I’m blown away by how much more polished it is. It has all the bells and whistles that lemmy is sometimes missing.

Whats the catch? Why aren’t we recommending everyone goes to piefed instead of lemmy?

App support is one thing I can think of.

  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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    20 days ago

    Why aren’t we suggesting Mbin over Lemmy, actually? Because it seems like it has the same options. And Mbin even has an app (not just the PWA function)!

    • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      20 days ago

      There’s quite a few nice apps for Lemmy. I’m using Connect for Lemmy on android and it’s wonderful.

      • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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        20 days ago

        Oh, I’m aware that both Lemmy and Mastodon have good apps. I’m just pointing out that if the ‘argument’ is that alternatives don’t have an app, MBin does have one.

            • Nusm@yall.theatl.socialEnglish
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              20 days ago

              You may not be from the US, but in the US smartphone market, as of late 2024, iOS (Apple) holds a larger market share than Android, with iOS at around 58% and Android at 42%.

              • jwr1@kbin.earth
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                19 days ago

                I’m the developer of Interstellar, and I am actually from the US. iOS support is something I’d like to add, but is not the priority. @Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org made many good points about it not catering towards FOSS projects, but I’d also like to add, it costs $100 every single year in order to have an Apple developer account, which is required if you want to publish anything to the Apple App Store. Additionally, Apple’s very expensive hardware is required in order to build and release any Apple software, which I do not own.

                All that to say, I’d like to support iOS and macOS platforms, but Apple makes it extremely difficult (and costly) for that to happen. Why should I have to pay $100 every year in order to publish a free app that I’m not even making any money off of?