Just thought I’d point this out to anyone looking for an RIF alternative that’s actually in the same vein as RIF (compact, simple, clean).

Boost was a Reddit app until today. They just added a preview to the Play Store for their Lemmy app with no fanfare.

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      I’m so grateful you posted this comment! As a fellow refugee from Reddit that used only Apollo since the very beginning, wefwef is truly a blessing!

      Wouldn’t have found out about it so soon if not for you!

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    Wow, this looks exactly like RIF.

    Personally I’m making the move to open source as long as I’m moving from Reddit to Lemmy anyway, so I won’t be using Boost although I used RIF for like a decade, but I’m glad that the app ecosystem is growing so fast and that there’s something for everybody.

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    Looks good! I’ve been using Jerboa on list view and finding it pretty close to my old experience on rif.

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      Jerboa was based on Boost, so the Boost for Lemmy app should be really popular.

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    Now trying out Connect for Lemmy. Seems to work fine with a few customization tweaks. Looks very similar to RIF.

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        Mainly the layout as a list instead of cards one in the settings. Also, don’t need the navigation bar all the time.

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          Thanks for that, I’ll be applying those tweaks on Connect myself. boost looks cool, I’ve bounce from Jerboa to Wefwef and now to Connect, I think I’ll hang out here for awhile unless I hear raving reviews about Boost

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            Connect has surpassed jerboa for me at the moment.

            Wefwef is still incomplete, there’s no block user or community (for when something gets spammy)

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              I also just hopped from Jerboa to Connect. I like the look and feel of Connect more. I’m coming from BaconReader and this is the closest experience to that I’ve found so far.