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Official community for Mlem, a free and open-source iOS Lemmy client.
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- Keep it civil.
- This is a forum for discussion about Mlem. We welcome a degree of general chatter, but anything not related to Mlem may be removed at moderator discretion. This is not a forum for iPhone/Android debate. Posts and comments saying nothing but "iOS bad/I use Android" will be removed as off-topic.
- We welcome constructive criticism, but ask that it be both precise and polite.
FAQ
- When will insert feature here be implemented?
- Check our issue board--if there isn't an issue open for the feature you want, feel free to open an issue or make post! Just remember that devs are people too--we're doing this for free in our spare time, and building a quality app takes a lot of patient work.
- Is Mlem available for Android?
- No. Mlem is written using SwiftUI, which is not currently supported on Android. If such support becomes available, we will look into bringing Mlem to our Android friends.
- How do I join the beta?
- We are currently testing our new 2.0 codebase on TestFlight. We have two beta groups: a weekly group that receives the current state of our development branch every week, and a stable group that receives a curated pre-release build at the end of each development cycle.
- Join the weekly beta
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- How do I join the dev team?
- Head over to our recruitment channel, or go straight to our GitHub and read CONTRIBUTING.md to get started.
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Mlem is licensed under Commons Clause.
This means that Mlem is open-source and you can do whatever you want with its source, like modifying it, contributing to it etc., but you can't sell Mlem or modified versions of it.
Coded entirely in Swift to be native to iOS and run on Apple Silicon, there's no plans for Android support, as that would require rewriting the app from scratch in java, which none of us know (nor do any of us know the android app dev process)-- or making a crappy port, which is obviously unacceptable.
As for kbin-- the platform and API are just different enough that they're both incompatible with Lemmy and not very easy to integrate. there's been rumors of kbin development moving towards lemmy compatibility in the future, so we're waiting to see about that. if that happens, and integrating it become easier in the future, we'll see. as of now, however, we have no plans to integrate kbin.