What is the best app to browse Lemmy

I currently use Blorp

I heard Jerboa is also good which one are you using? Best if app is available on fdroid

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[–] 48 points 6 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Me too, lack some features I like from other apps like Boost, like ability to block people/communities from the homepage but still the best overall.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    You can, long hold the username or community and a quick menu appears.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Not sure if it's available on F-Droid or not, but I've been using Summit lately and absolutely loving it. Blorp was my previous favourite, but I prefer the bit more modern and clean UI of Summit.

    I did try Jerboa about a year ago when I first tried Lemmy, but quickly dropped it due to UI/UX issues I was experiencing at the time, but I would personally just stick with Blorp if it was between them.

    Voyager was another I tried previously. Earlier I tried on my other phone (HMD Skyline) and consistently had performance issues with the app (long load times, occasional crashing, janky scroll). When I got my S25 I thought this would be solved with the more powerful device, and while it was much better than before, I still had performance issues.

    Hope this helps a little!

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Blorp dev here. Just out of curiosity did you not see the same performance issues (e.g. scroll) with Blorp that you saw with voyager? I’m using similar technologies to voyager, so this would be helpful in informing future decisions I make.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Unpopular opinion maybe, but a web browser is absolutely fine.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    that's all I've used as well. tbh not sure what an app adds?

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    I've only used Jeroba. It works great for me, but with the google garbage going on, Im going to have to root my phone to sideload? I guess? So. thats my summer plan.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    I bounce between Boost & Voyager. Will be checking out Blorp myself, thanks!

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    I used jerboa for a long time and liked it a lot. But it is optimized "just" for lemmy. It cant operate (in my experience) with piefed instances.

    if you want to use lemmy and piefed for example, Interstellar is a better solution.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago
    [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
    1. Summit
    2. Blorp
    3. Voyager
    4. Thunder / Interstellar
    5. Jerboa

    Ranking is based on personal preferences.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Blorp dev here. What I can I do to bring Blorp to the top of the list in your opinion?

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Hi @moseschrute@lemmy.world. Blorp is equal to summit in features and ui—sometimes even ahead. For example emoji reactions and image loading speed, swiping image posts etc.

    And I have both on my phone and keep switching between them.

    The main reason I prefer summit is because the ui is very snappy on my phone. There's no lag or skipped frames during animations or after clicking a button.

    One issue I had with blorp is: when you click on a lemmy link summit opens it inside the app itself but blorp opens it in the browser. It breaks the flow and I can't interact with it because I'm not logged in there. Hope that made sense.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Summit's an easy recommendation.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Summit is absolutely wonderful

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    As a former RIF user, I haven't found anything better than Jerboa. Which is shame because it will never support piefed.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    I like Blorp but it could do with showing parent comment while replying.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah I'm asking for other app mainly for this reason.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Looks good but have you considered something like reddit bubble, you can scroll all replies without closing editor. I like Blorp better but reddit bubble is very convenient.

    Also when there is draft comment, if not troublesome add some indicator that there is draft on reply button.

    At first I was surprised when I used Blorp how to reply for main post and took me embarrassingly log to figure out you write it on bottom, suggestion add also reply button to post similar to when you reply to comment.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Yeah, there are a few things that Reddit does better. Just gotta take baby steps, but we’ll get there. This is the easiest solution to implement right now, so I’m going to start here. But I agree that I can be even better.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    I like connect, it resembles my old app I used for Reddit

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    I'm using Boost (and Vger but preferred Boost from Reddit days too). I got used to Infinity on Reddit after Boost ended and wish they'd make a Lemmy version of that now.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Waterfox, it's a fork of Firefox with no AI slop.

    You don't need an app, just open it in browser.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I use Summit.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I'm trying Blorp right now, since I do not want to figure out how to side load Jerboa onto my Android. (Thanks Google you bag of dicks.) So far Blorp is great, my only complaint being I wish three was a way to increase text/font size because I am old now and my eyeballs don't work as well as they did.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Blorp dev here. I think you should be able to increase this via some system setting, though admittedly I've only tested this on iOS. The goal was to read whatever os preference you set for font size, but if this isn't working for people, I may need to add an app level override.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Used to love jerboa but stopped working for me. I think is because of my instance. I use photon now, it's ok.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    I use Thunder, and I am very happy with it generally.
    I used to use (and paid for) Sync for Lemmy previously, but I had the impression bugs didn't get fixed, so I switched away from them.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Boost while not perfect has very few flaws for me. Whenever I receive a DM I have to go the web interface to get the notification to go away though. But that's the worst of it

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I've been using interstellar (alexandrite on desktop) for some time and rather like it. Nice clean and useful UI, a bit buggy at times. Only other one I tried was voyager but wasn't a huge fan.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Another vote for Summit. Does everything I need it to and more, and has a very active developer. It's available on the play store but I get it from github via Obtainium. https://github.com/idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I use Fennec. Works great.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Jerboa. It was the first one I found working and installed, and didn't see a reason to change unless it stops working - like RiF before it. If it aint broke why switch.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I use connect. No other reason than it's the first I tried and I've not been annoyed enough to switch.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I'm using boost

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Summit, by far. Voyager gets a lot of recommendations but it's not nearly as slick.

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