Obvious answer is obvious

Fight Club

Needed office for my Mac, internet was terrible and I couldn’t find it legitimately to download anywhere (these were the days before Office 365)

Took a shot at an eBay listing, got sent a burned DVD with an OEM product key written on it sharpie

It worked, but I wasn’t particularly happy

WhatsApp for family Discord for friends Slack for work iMessage / SMS for everyone else

Chef or content manager?

They’re all in test flight, an online search will usually throw up their GitHub page with either a link to their lemmy communities and the TestFlight sign up page.

That was also mine, didn’t really have a clue about what it was going in (other than it had Nick Cage in) and enjoyed it pretty much all the way through, great movie!

There are a bunch of options each with their pros and cons, here’s what I’ve found so far:

Mlem

• Feels very Apollo like with things like slide to upvote and reply
• Doesn’t seem to be able to handle inline images and media (so you sometimes miss post information)
• Switching to new communities is not intuitive (you have to click the community name and type with the “Subscribed” toggle pane open)
• No guides on how Markdown works
• No message inbox

Memmy

• Has an inbox (not something I’ve seen from the others)
• Has Apollo like slide interactions
• Easy to find and switch communities
• Text is a little too small
• Found a couple of visual bugs (obviously this is all very beta!)

Liftoff

• Seems to show all the post information you could want (community it was posted too, which community that user is part of, etc)
• Feels a little bit like the official reddit app
• No Apollo like slide interactions
• Some interesting choices when trying to find communities (showing the full sidebar)
• Colours are a little constrasty
• A couple of UI bugs
• I don’t love the rounded corners on everything out of the box

Thunder

• Pretty polished
• Slide interactions are great
• Nice Markdown editor
• Not found any graphical bugs
• Some UI elements (subbing / unsubbing from a community) aren’t always clear
• Written in flutter so may not give a true “native” experience

Personally I think I’m gonna stick with Thunder for a bit, but I’m swapping daily at this point.

Given that any development on these really only kicked into gear in the last few weeks everything these devs are doing is incredible, they’ve all come a long way in such a short time!

I’m finding mlem is a lot better than the web app… it’s no Apollo but I feel they’re doing their best.

Deleted my posts, deleted my comments, account will be active until the 30th then I’ll probably delete that too.

It sucks - I had some 20K comment karma on about 2000 posts over 13+ years - but they’ve burnt that bridge and I’m not giving them anything back.

If I need to create a burner account at some point down the road then that’ll happen but I just don’t want to engage with it any more.