Voyager, because I need a replacement for Reddit after they booted me (not saying why, just know it was complete horseshit), and I heard Lemmy was the next-best thing, and Voyager was the best-rated in the iOS App Store.
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Voyager, reminds me a bit of Apollo for Reddit and has a good webapp for desktop usage.
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Summit. Reminds me of Sync on Reddit 5 years ago
+1 for Summit!
It has been the best clean user experience for me so far
I've been on Summit forever now. Very active development, and they've added every feature request I've had along with many others'. I lose track of all the options it gets anymore.
It looks good, works good, and when it doesn't, it gets fixed quickly.
I share lots of posts and articles and put them in quote blocks and just bring able to select all text and guy a single button that auto quotes all paragraphs won me over for good, and then multi-communities was the icing on the cake.
If you ever ask what app has feature X, it's likely already in Summit.
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Summit here too. I changed up some of the display settings so it feels like Relay for Reddit π
The things that got me to move from Voyager were that when images didn't load first time, there was no way to re-try - Summit has that. And I don't think Voyager handled drafts that well. Summit has drafts but I do wish there was a client that had drafts like Relay did, where if you come back to the same comment/post and hit reply it has your draft from where you left off on that comment/reply.
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Jerboa.
I dunno, it was on F-Droid and it's really simple and lightweight, like its namesake critter. I'm sure there's some more full featured options out there. (Voyager's gestures kept throwing me off I think lol)
But I don't hear a lot of people talking about this one much! Wonder why...
It was the first one I used and I never bothered with anything else. It works great
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Voyager.
I used "Reddit is Fun" for years on Reddit but when it came time to switch to Lemmy I picked Voyager (wefwef at the time) because the UI was the most similar. I tried many of the other popular apps and I was happy with most of them, but Voyager was (and is) my favorite.
It's simple. Lots of text. Easy to use. Looks nice.
Thunder
https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder
The killer feature for me is swipe gesture navigation. Most apps do not have that. If anything, they might have a "swipe in from the edge of the screen" gesture, but that is not the same as being able to swipe from any point onscreen to go back.
It also supports PieFed.
Boost mainly. Then I found it struggles getting posts in the "hot" feed so I'll switch to Voyager for that.
Edit: I forgot to add why. I used boost for Reddit and I really like the UI. It's very customizable.
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Voyager. I'm not sure why. Never thought about trying others but now I'm curious.
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A web browser. Why limit myself with an app, when Firefox can do anything I want?
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Fuck apps, anything that can be done in a browser will be done in a browser for me
"Where's my battery?"
Can I ask why anyone doesn't use, like, a browser? What's the benefit?
The browser doesnβt remember where I was in my feed when I go back from reading a post. Itβs also slower
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I just type in the URL into phone browser and use it that way
the website, because it works the same as on my computer
Blorp.
Itβs the only client I have found that loads all images, regardless of source. When I used voyager, about half of the images didnβt load.
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I usually use the official Lemmy client in the browser, because it is minimalistic and fast on any device
Summit
I went jerboa->sync->interstellar->summit
Every other one gave me a reason to switch, though I don't remember why I left interstellar
Jerboa
Heard that it was an app from a Lemmy dev.
Tried it and it was simple enough.
Voyager, cause I like it the best. I tried a bunch.
Connect. First one I happened to try, it works well, gets good updates, and is Canadian
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- Boost on old (2013) android phone. very convenient coming from RedReader on android
- Voyager on recent android phone. it's good but kinda slow because it's web-based
- Arctic on iOS (iPod Touch 7G). Mlem doesn't support iOS 15, Voyager is slow/doesn't fit small screen properly
Voyager because Interstellar doesn't work well for me.
No joke, I use my self-hosted Friendica instance as a PWA and browse Lemmy/PieFed threads from there. I even get notifications for new topics via Firefox.
Why? Because an extra app on my phone means extra battery usage, basically.
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I was using Sync for Lemmy until a week or two ago. It was nice and familiar because that was my reddit app of choice prior to api-gate, but for some reason it kept frequently erroring out and not showing posts or images. I switched to Voyager and so far it's been pretty good
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Jerboa, I was using Eternity by Bazalansky (Eternity is Infinity for Reddit but for.. Lemmy) but it hasn't been updated continuously, and I already had Jerboa as backup app just in case and it's from the lemmy devs so it's (for me) guaranteed to keep up with lemmy development
I have Jerboa installed from F-Droid, but I use Firefox.
Phone, it's connect or summit, depending on which phone. I like summit's looks better on oled screens. Otherwise it's connect
Thunder. It was the first I found when leaving Reddit and it had been a good experience so I've not looked at other ones.
Eternity. I used Infinity for reddit and it's the best UI and FOSS
Is Eternity still maintained? On fdroid the last version is from 2 years ago.
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I have three Lemmy clients on my phone: Blorp, Summit and Voyager. However, I mostly use Voyager. I think it's the best app for Lemmy that I've tried so far. It's the one I'm most comfortable with.
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It's one if Lemmy's main advantages that the websites are light enough on resources to not need a client. Praise open source :)
Firefox. I used jerboa for a while but it got confused one of the times the admins forgot to renew the domain or cert or something plus you have to remember all the names for the emotes.
I use boost because it was what I used for reddit and it has a good swipe view.
Mlem. Open source and native application.
Summit. Chose at random
Interstellar, because it's the only one that works with mbin
Blorp
Not sure why but I just find it so likable like RIF once was for Reddit!
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