I just made the switch to Lemmy and I'm curious what everyone's using to browse it. Looking for recommendations for both mobile and desktop.

Mobile: Been testing a few apps.

  • Voyager's been solid so far - clean interface and works well. Only downside is no push notifications.
  • Also tried Boost but it has some display issues - embedded icons don't show up right and GIFs in comments are way too small.

Desktop: Still figuring out what to use here. What do you all prefer?

Any recommendations would be helpful. Thanks.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

mlmym on desktop, voyager on fast phone, boost on slow phone

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    PC. I'm just using the web front end, which is decent. It looks like nobody really has an alternative, which is okay, but I do wish I could switch to backup instances more gracefully when there's downtime.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I use Summit on my phone, Mlem on my iPad. I don’t browse from pc.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Just the regular browser. It just works.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How does the user tags feature work?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Voyager on mobile because it's open source

    And thats it. I don't use Lemmy on desktop

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    for desktop, I just access it from browser. in mobile, I use Thunder. wanting to try Jerboa, but somehow didn't work in my phone, constantly disconnected and not loading at all. never attempted to step my foot into close-sourced app.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Jerboa on android, default frontend in the browser on desktop. Jerboa is visually great, especially if you were used to RIF, and works very well. But since it's made by one of the main lemmy devs, it'll never support mbin or piefed.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Web browser.

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

    Voyager can't show profiles, that's a big minus

    However it blows everything else out of the water in every other way

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Boost on my phone, and browser on PC. It's what works for me ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Phone: Sync but it feels a bit broken
    Web: Regular frontend

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Sync on my phone and any old browser on the PC.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I use Mlem on my iPhone 11. I don’t use social media on my pc. I haven’t tried any other apps, but I haven’t felt a need to either.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I use Eternity on Android, which is almost exclusively how I use Lemmy. When I use on desktop, I use old Lemmy.

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    Mlem - in active development and the dev’s are very responsive as far as new feature

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Mlem on my phone, I get on pretty well with it

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Voyager. It feels good.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    i just started using Interstellar on Android. Really liking it so far.

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  • Sync on my main tablet, because it has the best 2 column layout for my needs.

    Connect on my phone where 2 column isn't really a big factor, with summit as an alternative on there because I never have decided which of the two I prefer.

    I don't use lemmy on laptop/desktop because I dislike the experience via browser. It would be fine for passive scrolling I guess, but even with the various front end options, I run into more hassles than it's worth when even the meh apps handle lemmy better and I just don't need anything that could be gained via browser.

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

    Voyager on Android, default browser UI on desktop. Although, I might try one of the alternative browser UIs as the Lemmy.world default UI seems to load slowly (or even hang entirely, without refreshing content) for me.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Voyager on phone and when i actually browse here on pc (rare event) i just use the native ui through the browser

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Using Raccoon for now after having a few issues with voyager. Liking it so far.

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  • The offical Jerboa client is great.

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