Well, I think that the fundamental problem is that most people here are here because they do want to use the Threadiverse as an alternative to Reddit and find it to be the best alternative.
Of the alternatives that I know of (and don’t personally think are as desirable), on checking, all seem to have a Web-based front-end. You might have a PWA, what amounts to an “app” that’s basically the web browser running on mobile and appearing to be a separate app.
There are some vaguely-similar systems, but they tend to not be a “collection of forums” systems, things like Twitter, Bluesky, and so forth.
I guess you could try using Usenet, though last I checked — and that was some time back — there wasn’t a lot of discussion happening any more on Usenet. A lot of the people still using it are using it to basically get commercial access to “binaries” newsgroups, to pirate stuff. A big part of the reason that the Usenet discussion crowd mostly moved to Reddit-like sites was because they dealt with spam better. You can get free (registration required) Usenet access from eternal-september.org and commercial Usenet service from someone like supernews.com. I don’t know what the state of things there is. I’m sure that someone out there has a Usenet client for Android.
kagis
It looks like the pickings are pretty slim, but they’re out there. Here’s someone’s list from 2023:
Note that there are some limitations compared to something like Reddit or the Threadiverse. You can’t edit a Usenet post once sent and normally can’t delete them either (there is something called cancel messages, but I have never used them and IIRC some servers won’t honor them anyway). Unless things have changed since last I looked, there was no standard support for something like Markdown across clients.
If you’re willing to use Usenet with a native client on a desktop machine, rather than Android, your choices become rather better. And there are clients with very good “offline” support — you can basically download a lot of content and make posts, and have them only be sent next time you have an Internet connection, which the Threadiverse and Reddit don’t really have support for. That doesn’t matter as much for most people today, where omnipresent Internet access is far more common than it was when people were using Usenet for discussion quite a bit, but it’s possible that it could be a benefit for you. You don’t benefit from a lot of the filtering and moderation that other users do, but clients do tend to have powerful tools for you to locally filter out content that you don’t want to see.
There are things like Matrix, IRC, and Discord, but they aren’t really a direct analog to what Reddit and the Threadiverse are — they’re really aimed at more real-time, interactive chats. I don’t find that I like discussion with them nearly as much, because people tend to write shorter material with less thought put into them. But they do serve certain niches, and you might like them.
There’s the imageboard family, like 4chan, and those have native Android clients.
Well, I think that the fundamental problem is that most people here are here because they do want to use the Threadiverse as an alternative to Reddit and find it to be the best alternative.
Of the alternatives that I know of (and don’t personally think are as desirable), on checking, all seem to have a Web-based front-end. You might have a PWA, what amounts to an “app” that’s basically the web browser running on mobile and appearing to be a separate app.
There are some vaguely-similar systems, but they tend to not be a “collection of forums” systems, things like Twitter, Bluesky, and so forth.
I guess you could try using Usenet, though last I checked — and that was some time back — there wasn’t a lot of discussion happening any more on Usenet. A lot of the people still using it are using it to basically get commercial access to “binaries” newsgroups, to pirate stuff. A big part of the reason that the Usenet discussion crowd mostly moved to Reddit-like sites was because they dealt with spam better. You can get free (registration required) Usenet access from eternal-september.org and commercial Usenet service from someone like supernews.com. I don’t know what the state of things there is. I’m sure that someone out there has a Usenet client for Android.
kagis
It looks like the pickings are pretty slim, but they’re out there. Here’s someone’s list from 2023:
https://xdaforums.com/t/a-list-of-android-usenet-newsreaders-how-to-search-reference-nntp-dejanews-google-web-archives-for-comp-mobile-android-newsgroup-topics-in-one-tap.4634973/
Note that there are some limitations compared to something like Reddit or the Threadiverse. You can’t edit a Usenet post once sent and normally can’t delete them either (there is something called cancel messages, but I have never used them and IIRC some servers won’t honor them anyway). Unless things have changed since last I looked, there was no standard support for something like Markdown across clients.
If you’re willing to use Usenet with a native client on a desktop machine, rather than Android, your choices become rather better. And there are clients with very good “offline” support — you can basically download a lot of content and make posts, and have them only be sent next time you have an Internet connection, which the Threadiverse and Reddit don’t really have support for. That doesn’t matter as much for most people today, where omnipresent Internet access is far more common than it was when people were using Usenet for discussion quite a bit, but it’s possible that it could be a benefit for you. You don’t benefit from a lot of the filtering and moderation that other users do, but clients do tend to have powerful tools for you to locally filter out content that you don’t want to see.
There are things like Matrix, IRC, and Discord, but they aren’t really a direct analog to what Reddit and the Threadiverse are — they’re really aimed at more real-time, interactive chats. I don’t find that I like discussion with them nearly as much, because people tend to write shorter material with less thought put into them. But they do serve certain niches, and you might like them.
There’s the imageboard family, like 4chan, and those have native Android clients.