cross-posted from: https://linkage.ds8.zone/post/515550
Folks— Most Lemmy client apps are on the phone. I am looking for a FOSS phone app that works offline. That is, the phone has no data plan and only occasionally connects to public wifi hotspots. I do not want to be entering login passwords and reading and writing posts when I am connected. Reading and writing posts interactively needs to happen offline. Typical workflow: when I meet people at a bar/cafe, I need the app to sync over the public wi-fi without using my attention. It should post my comments and fetch threads for which I am active, for offline access later. It needs to support multiple accounts spanning multiple instances.
Does anything like this exist? Or do all Lemmy/kbin/mbin phone apps demand your realtime attention when connected?
3 Comments
olorin99@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 324d
Not sure about creating posts but blorp can at least cache posts for offline viewing.
moseschrute@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 324d
Blorp in theory could do this. It would need a bit of tuning to really work well under the circumstances you mentioned. For example, feeds only refresh currently when you open them, but I could have it auto refresh all your subscribed feeds when you connect to the internet.
Draft posts and multi account support is already there if you wanna give that part a try. Writing comments offline wont work yet. They may save if you don't close the app before reconnecting to wifi, but I wouldn't count on that.
I'm the developer behind Blorp btw.
LibreMonk@linkage.ds8.zone · 1 pts · 322d
Thanks for the tip. It needs AOS 8, which blows it for me using my phone. Though it could motivate me to hack AOS onto a Kobo e-reader just to run Blorp.