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?
You would need to download every new post/comment Everytime you connect…
You’d be duplicating everything from every server everytime you “connect”…
How much phone storage do you have?
The phone has a 64gb sd card but I would have to cleanup to get a decent amount of space. Luckily text compresses very well. The app would ideally delete content that’s a year old or something so it doesn’t grow out of control.
There would be no duplication though because a good app would use a proper DB on the disk, not cookies. Kensanada developed a PC app that synchronises with Mastodon. It has a way of only grabbing new content. Though I have no idea if the threadiverse API is as well designed. But isn’t Mastodon and Lemmy both based on the same ActivityPub API?