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Jerboa

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Jerboa is a native-android client for Lemmy, built using the native android framework, Jetpack Compose.

Warning: You can submit issues, but between Lemmy and lemmy-ui, I probably won't have too much time to work on them. Learn jetpack compose like I did if you want to help make this app better.

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Jerboa and Newpipe (lemmy.today)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The perfect social media android experience, using Jerboa for ad free, federated, social media and Newpipe for ad free YouTube with a beautiful userface.

Install newpipe with f-droid.

Remember to go into Apps and click on Newpipe and change default urls so Android opens all the YouTube urls with Newpipe.

After that, it's heaven on mobile.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Personally I use LibreTube, which is an Android frontend for the Piped API, an anonymous YouTube interface and proxy. I self host Piped, so it's nice to have an app that integrates on mobile. Personally, I think LibreTube looks a lot nicer than newpipe, buy new pipe has more functionality iirc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you for sharing LibreTube! It's exactly what I was looking for!

I was starting to like NewPipe more since Revanced borked on my phone. However, it doesn't load child comments and the UI could use an update. LibreTube seems to improve on those exact issues!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are people not using YouTube Vanced anymore? I'm old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

OG Vanced died (mostly) but there's revanced now. I use it and it works pretty much perfectly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

PeerTube really needs more attention

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Never heard about it.

YouTube really needs competition. But a video platform is expensive to run, not to mention labour intensive. There's a reason in 20 years no one has truly come close to the scale of YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

PeerTube actually works but needs a lot of improvements

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

And content, by what I can tell.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Eh...I'm liking Revanced, myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same. Newpipe seems lacking in UI. I've heard that even the devs acknowledged this and are planning a full rewrite of the app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Until Google pulls a Twitter and kills 3rd party apps.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My pet peeve is when people take time during their video to put in an ad that is part of the video itself, so it's not skippable like traditional Youtube ads. You have to use the seeker to fast forward past the ad.

I have YT premium (we get it with our cell phone plan), so I'm even paying these people for the videos, yet am still being served ads. I wish YouTube would institute a policy against it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There is a fork of NewPipe which supports sponsorblock. That clips out the segments your talking about. Mainline NewPipe won't support that as an ethical stance so only in the fork.