i just tried to sign back into loops, app’s too old, went to run the update, doesn’t support my 2024 samsung phone.
edit: I figured it out!
so the installer error pointed out that the package was unparsable, leading me to believe it was 32 bit or a different flavor of arm.
I had to install through ADB to get the real error. Existing version is newer the package. Which was wrong, but to play the game, I uninstalled first and got the same error, then I realized I had loops also installed in the knox partition. Went into secure folder, uninstalled loops, installed package, (no error) and it works fine.
I seriously doubt this will help anyone here, but there it is.
I feel like the big tech push to apps so folks can have data harvested better has become a surprising hurdle for the fediverse. Because I’ve found the web UI for most of the fediverse great, and the apps to be harder for devs to maintain.
I literally just use Lemmy on Firefox on my phone, runs a lot smoother than reddit did on any app. Has some weirdness on occasions but still better than reddit crashing for no reason.
I definitely like Lemmy/piefed webUI a lot.
Pixelfed is adequate, loops is kinda rough
Mastodon is okish; discovery on it is a PITA.
On lemmy, you can find a bunch of communities and subscribe, easily build up a feed. Mastodon having servers as communities is rough, then trying to find creators you like via hashtags, I won’t say that platform needs a complex algorithm, but it could stand to have some simple you followed this person, people who followed this person also like that person.
i just tried to sign back into loops, app’s too old, went to run the update, doesn’t support my 2024 samsung phone.
edit: I figured it out!
so the installer error pointed out that the package was unparsable, leading me to believe it was 32 bit or a different flavor of arm.
I had to install through ADB to get the real error. Existing version is newer the package. Which was wrong, but to play the game, I uninstalled first and got the same error, then I realized I had loops also installed in the knox partition. Went into secure folder, uninstalled loops, installed package, (no error) and it works fine.
I seriously doubt this will help anyone here, but there it is.
I feel like the big tech push to apps so folks can have data harvested better has become a surprising hurdle for the fediverse. Because I’ve found the web UI for most of the fediverse great, and the apps to be harder for devs to maintain.
I literally just use Lemmy on Firefox on my phone, runs a lot smoother than reddit did on any app. Has some weirdness on occasions but still better than reddit crashing for no reason.
I definitely like Lemmy/piefed webUI a lot. Pixelfed is adequate, loops is kinda rough Mastodon is okish; discovery on it is a PITA.
On lemmy, you can find a bunch of communities and subscribe, easily build up a feed. Mastodon having servers as communities is rough, then trying to find creators you like via hashtags, I won’t say that platform needs a complex algorithm, but it could stand to have some simple you followed this person, people who followed this person also like that person.