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Lemmy clients for Debian (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Has anyone found a Debian client for Lemmy? I’m really surprised nothing exists yet and wonder if my search skills are just lacking. This is what found:

  • lemoa is non-Debian, and dying
  • neonmodem is non-Debian, and crashes
  • nnreddit is non-Debian, and only rumored to be getting ported to activitypub; the repo for that project is a broken website for me

(Non-debian just means they are not in the Debian repos, not that they don’t work on Debian).

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

...A browser.

No, actually, I always use web apps on desktop. I only download apps if it's something like Discord. For social media? Web. Always web.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Javascript clients aren’t good for that. Lemmy/kbin/mastodon nodes vanish all the time without warning. All your posts: gone. JS has no practical way to integrate local storage, thus no historic content when a server vanishes.

Not to mention as well that web UIs tend to force you to use a mouse, which is a slower workflow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I see. Well, I can at least help search for a client, and I'll get back if I can find anything myself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Probably not helpful, but here are all the Linux desktop Lemmy clients I could fined: