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Desktop app for Lemmy?
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IDK of any, but have you considered alternative web frontends like Alexandrite or Phtn?
Yes! I’ve just set up alexandrite on my lan and it’s wonderful :D
Alexandrite is easily the best.
For people like me who don't know about the web frontends: use your desktop browser and go to: https://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!