Voyager

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The official lemmy community for Voyager, an open source, mobile-first client for lemmy.

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Voyager now has experimental Piefed support in the App Store and Play Store. F-droid rolling out soon. 🥳

Make sure your app is up to date (v2.37.0 or greater) and enjoy!

https://getvoyager.app/

P.S. Support is under active development and there are known and unknown issues. Please post any feedback or questions!

::: spoiler Background image credit

https://images.nasa.gov/details/hubble-observes-one-of-a-kind-star-nicknamed-nasty_17754652960_o

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered surprising new clues about a hefty, rapidly aging star whose behavior has never been seen before in our Milky Way galaxy. In fact, the star is so weird that astronomers have nicknamed it “Nasty 1,” a play on its catalog name of NaSt1. The star may represent a brief transitory stage in the evolution of extremely massive stars.

First discovered several decades ago, Nasty 1 was identified as a Wolf-Rayet star, a rapidly evolving star that is much more massive than our sun. The star loses its hydrogen-filled outer layers quickly, exposing its super-hot and extremely bright helium-burning core.

But Nasty 1 doesn’t look like a typical Wolf-Rayet star. The astronomers using Hubble had expected to see twin lobes of gas flowing from opposite sides of the star, perhaps similar to those emanating from the massive star Eta Carinae, which is a Wolf-Rayet candidate.

Instead, Hubble revealed a pancake-shaped disk of gas encircling the star. The vast disk is nearly 2 trillion miles wide, and may have formed from an unseen companion star that snacked on the outer envelope of the newly formed Wolf-Rayet. Based on current estimates, the nebula surrounding the stars is just a few thousand years old, and as close as 3,000 light-years from Earth.

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Since a few days, I get 50 posts in the All feed, and no more

If I close the All feed and open again, I get a refreshed list with new posts added, but as many old posts disappearing.

Is this a voyager app issue, or is this a server issue?

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I'm really annoyed that there doesn't seem to be a way to show hidden posts after you've hidden them. I accidentally hid all read posts in a community that I moderate, and while I disabled marking posts as read to prevent that from happening in the future, I cannot reverse the misclick in any way. This makes it harder to manually check any of those posts without using a different app or a browser.

While I know I'm a weirdo who doesn't use social media like most people (I never use feeds and always look at specific communities or pages at a time), it is really annoying when interfaces are designed in a way that make my life harder. I love checking on posts multiple times throughout the day so I don't miss out on any conversation. I hate feeds feeding me endless content and like it when repeat posts give my scrolling a natural endpoint. I just wish there was a way to reverse decisions that you can easily access with a single click. It hurt me inside to lose several days worth of posts that I might've checked in on, and not finding any option to help me was infuriating.

Feeling like I'm not getting all the information I want to see is seriously turning me off of this app, which sucks because there aren't many like it. Open source apps without ads are hard to come by, and I while I do enjoy this app overall, I often need to use a web browser to see critical information like old posts, full mod actions, and user profiles. It's a shame, because I doubt these features will ever be added.

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Hi! Right now in order to block someone or a community you need to go first to the user/community and flock from there. It would be useful to have these two options available in the homepage, like Boost does, for example.

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Hi! I really like the saved post feature but i'd love to tag them for me to efficiently sort through. Is this possible?

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A month or two ago I made a few posts on reddit to nudge people to join PieFed
More details here
The posts got 500,000 views and a couple thousand people joined PieFed.

This is the insights of a Reddit community, as you can see the vast majority of people prefer using a mobile app.
~98% of users are using a mobile app. image

One issue I kept seeing in the comments was that there's no "PieFed" app on any of the app-stores.

I want to be able to tell people, "Hey there's this cool PieFed app, just search for it from the App-Store"

With age verification and other BS looming, the next Rexit is coming, we need to be ready. Ideally people can just comment, "Yea Reddit sucks, Just download PieFed from the app-store"

Can we make this happen? I'm sure it'll greatly benifit Voyager, PieFed and the Fediverse

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I love Voyager already, but something really hit me today to where I want to give you a shout out.

I usually browse all posts, but that can be a downer. I decided to subscribe to some less consistently depressing communities so I can better filter out the doom and gloom for my bad days. I got ready to start combing for communities, but then saw the starter packs. So much of the work had already been done for me. I saved time and was introduced to some communities I may not have found otherwise.

Thanks!

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I have several keyword filters set up for my account, but posts in my local feed aren't getting filtered out.

I've tried clearing the app cache (after a force stop), as well as deleting and re-adding the filter with no success.

Is this likely due to piefed support being experimental?

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The issue: Certain website (like wired.com) will limit the number of articles a user is allowed to see before a paywall is forced on the user.

Proposed solutions:

  1. Allow the user to clear cookies for a website, resetting the limit. Possibly even introduce a user editable list of websites where cookies are cleared when the site is exited.
  2. By default or a list based on website, open links into “private browsing”/“incognito mode”, which should remove persistent cookies.

Additional information: many websites accomplish the paywall through the use of a client side tracking cookie. Removing the cookie resets the counter.

Additional removing cookies helps limit online tracking, keeping the user slightly more private.

Removing cookies does come with some downsides. If the user is logged into the website, removing cookies generally logs them off. Also, any persistent settings will likely be lost. Due to the normal use case of Voyager and Lemmy, this likely won’t be a significant issue.

On iOS: it doesn’t appear cookie data is shared between safari and voyager. Websites visited in Voyager do not show in the cookie list on the safari app.

Anything to add? Is there a setting that does this and I just missed it?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.radio/post/12809391

Most days I'll scroll through the All feed and read posts of interest. If I come back an hour or so later and start scrolling again, I'll see the same posts in the same order, even though I've set my Lemmy app Voyager to hide posts automatically if I scroll past them.

Note that I'm not talking about duplicate posts, I'm talking about a repeated series of posts.

Anyone have any ideas on what's causing this?

Is this a PEBCAK issue, or is there something else going on?

Edit: I've got "mark read on scroll" enabled as well as "hide read posts".

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This only happens on Voyager. Nowhere else. The keys take longer to register and let go, which results into sticky keys and slow typing as if the keys are actually sticking to my thumbs. I tested everywhere and it doesn’t happen except on Voyager. Is anyone experiencing the same issue? Thanks
iPhone 17 pro max
iOS 26.4.1

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So I noticed voyager has an Apple Watch app but it doesn’t seem to show my home feed at all, I was wondering if anyone knew how fix this, or if there is a specific way to set it up.

Thanks in advanced!

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i think i know why this is happening: someone has made an assumption about aspect ratios. my phone is tall and narrow, so anything locked to 16:9 will be stretched or have gaps.

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I keep trying to upload pics, and I keep getting a message that says “Problem uploading image: Body is disturbed or locked. Please try again.”

Any idea what’s going on?

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Since the last update I've noticed that gesture back stops working after a bit. Closing voyager and opening it again makes it work.

Also something slightly odd is happening with scaling where the app seems to take up less screen real estate randomly.

Pixel 7pro running Graphene.

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I assumed that would not be the goal of anyone using the fediverse but I'm pretty terminally online and sometimes see posts on [All/New] that make me wonder

Or is that a thing my instance could do?

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Using the latest app version (2.44.0) under iOS (26.3.1a), I started to see this proto-app frame before the app’s UI renders. I had to be quick with my screenshots to nab it.

Anyone else seeing this?

Mar 22 2026 update: Solved, thanks to @LemUrun@pawb.social in the comments:

It’s default look of Liquid Glass app. Normally apps are loading too fast for it to be noticeable. I posted about it too, but later realised what it is.

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The search results come back in some unknown order.

I would like to at least view the results in new or old date and time order.

I believe that the lemmy web interface allows that in some fashion.

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It doesn’t seem like I’m able to type Japanese at all in voyager when commenting or replying. However, if I start typing in English then go to Japanese, it’s fine, as it only seems to be the first word that does this.

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I got an automatic Voyager update from F-droid and now it complains of an out of date Webview version and tells me to update Webview from the Play store. But I don't use the Play store and don't want to enroll an account there. I get all my apps from F-droid. Is there a fix or workaround from this? thanks. Android 14 on Motorola Stylus 5g 2023 if that matters.

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Lemmy's web interface allows this, and it might help make article link posts look better. Particularly with websites that don't co-operate when Lemmy tries to automatically pull a thumbnail.

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When on Voyager I'm unable to create new posts/comments, nor can I see my own inbox/profile history. At first I thought I caught a ban, because I can do all of these things on a separate instance account (made at .world for testing) through Voyager. However, after more testing, I'm able to post/comment through Firefox on the original account, so it's not an 'access revoked' issue. Anyone else having this problem? This is the original account, for reference.

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I keep getting this behavior randomly, across multiple accounts. This happens when using both lemmy and piefed accounts.

The only work around I've found is to block a community which forces a reload.

Not sure why it is happening, but it's frustrating to keep having to either reload the feed or block and unblock a community.

Appreciate the app, it's awesome, just figured I'd report the issue!

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