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[–] 43 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Summit. Reminds me of Sync on Reddit 5 years ago

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I wonder why I had written it off months ago, because giving it another shot now, that app sure seems to suit all my needs. Perhaps I had just tried it out when it was very new and lacked many of the features that I wanted and could find in Thunder.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Summit here too. I changed up some of the display settings so it feels like Relay for Reddit πŸ˜€

    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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  • [–] 43 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Voyager, reminds me a bit of Apollo for Reddit and has a good webapp for desktop usage.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Voyager. I'm not sure why. Never thought about trying others but now I'm curious.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    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...

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Connect. First one I happened to try, it works well, gets good updates, and is Canadian

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    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

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    The same one I use on my laptop, Firefox/lemmy-ui.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    I just type in the URL into phone browser and use it that way

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    I usually use the official Lemmy client in the browser, because it is minimalistic and fast on any device

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Blorp.

    It’s the only client I have found that loads all images, regardless of source. When I used voyager, about half of the images didn’t load.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    loads all images, regardless of source

    Is it certain websites that were the problem, or file formats, or something else?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    Probably because of Anubis protection. When the whole "AI scrapes the internet over and over so servers get flooded to death" (effectively an unintended DDoS attack) thing got wild, several websites incl image hosts enabled Anubis, which somewhat works in a browser, but often not so great in apps. Possibly it's the apps fault for [not] setting the correct headers or whatever.

    image of Anubis when it blocks a request

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago

    A web browser. Why limit myself with an app, when Firefox can do anything I want?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    the website, because it works the same as on my computer

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago*

    Jerboa
    Heard that it was an app from a Lemmy dev.

    Tried it and it was simple enough.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Voyager, cause I like it the best. I tried a bunch.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    what does it give you over using your browser to access lemmy on your phone?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    On phones, I generally find the usability worse on a browser than on an app.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    for most things -- yes.

    but lemmy is fully functional w/o the apps and why i ask this question -- what am i missing by using a browser instead?

    i've tried the apps myself and couldn't find a reason to justify keeping it around since most of them keep my user password.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    I have Jerboa installed from F-Droid, but I use Firefox.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago
    • 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
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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Boost because it works.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    I use boost because it was what I used for reddit and it has a good swipe view.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Phone, it's connect or summit, depending on which phone. I like summit's looks better on oled screens. Otherwise it's connect

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Voyager because Interstellar doesn't work well for me.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I was a sync user for many years on Reddit. Then also I paid for the subscription on Lemmy. The app stopped being updated so I left. It had been around a year at the time since anyone heard from the dev.

    I haven’t checked back. What’s the latest? Still got the β€œLJ does this but he always comes back! He’s so great!!” crowd; or has everyone jumped ship?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Eternity. I used Infinity for reddit and it's the best UI and FOSS

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Is Eternity still maintained? On fdroid the last version is from 2 years ago.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I don't think it is and it sucks because I'm so used to swipe to go back.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I don't think it is, but it still works.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Mlem. Open source and native application.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Fuck apps, anything that can be done in a browser will be done in a browser for me

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Blorp

    Not sure why but I just find it so likable like RIF once was for Reddit!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Blorp. It had the best name.

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  • Summit. Chose at random

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Interstellar, because it's the only one that works with mbin

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Used to be Memmy for Lemmy. That's gone, so I've been using Arctic and the web.

    This just inspired me to download the source code for Memmy for Lemmy. Whether I spend time updating it for personal use or not, at least I have it if I need it. Sorta like how I plan to keep a derivative of Pocket going if I decide Wallabag isn't enough (also code available on github).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Summit. It's a little buggy sometimes but I really enjoy the ui.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Blorp. Don't know why, just felt right at home with the UI and design.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    uazo/cromite on my phone and qutebrowser on my laptop

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I've been on Summit for a bit, but it doesn't seem to have push notifications, or if it does I can't make them work, so I'm thinking about switching back to Boost. I prefer the appearance of Summit, though.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Summit, it's the closest replacement for Sync I've found.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Eternity even though it's no longer developed it has all the features I want that the others don't have.

    Voyager + Thunder - Don't have comment navigation with volume buttons.

    Summit - Can't set it to show the content of the collapsed parent comment.

    Jerboa - Can't set a default comment sort, literally have to resort every time you click into comments.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I am using Hermit to create an app for lemmy

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Im using voyager with peel that lets you run webapps as contained native apps.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago*

    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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