Boost for Lemmy

Man, there's a dearth of apps that match the old reddit apps.

There's sync, boost and eternity that existed as reddit apps, and they're waaay behind, or abandoned.

When it comes to the best lemmy apps, there's some really good ones, but they don't match the visual polish of boost or sync for sure, as you noticed with summit (which is a damn fine app functionally, and keeps improving). Connect, Thunder, and jerboa tend to stay up to date but jerboa is kinda bare bones, and doesn't support piefed. And they all have some degree of problem with image/video formats and/or their internal players not working well with one or another of the most popular hosting services (catbox and redgifs in particular tend to fail hard on one or another.)

I'm riding sync, boost, and eternity until the wheels fall off just because the ability to have a visually coherent double column view in portrait is just too damn important to my enjoyment to give up until I have no other choice. Thunder does a double column layout, but it's visually difficult to use.

Based on wh at I've heard from friends, the new nsfw piefed instance is a horrible experience on every app because of the issue with hosting and formats. I know that my piefed account is less enjoyable as a main scrolling account for that reason, and I've yet to find anything universally better than sync or boost with this lemmy account, or my backup accounts on other instances under this name.

It really makes me wish my brain would work right with coding because things are almost there on several, but I have zero ability to contribute.

If I was to point you to the first to try next, it would be connect, followed by thunder. Interstellar isn't bad, and the piefed support is good. Past that, jerboa is reliable at least.

Edit: I mentioned piefed a lot because interoperability is important for when instances fail or go down. It's as good or better than lemmy under the hood, and a lot of folks go back and forth between the two on various instances.