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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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[–] JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Just the regular browser. It just works.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, particularly opening posts in tabs is something I miss from most apps...

[–] twikz@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Yes. It works.

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

Thought I was the only one. As I was reading replies I was wondering if I was doing it wrong.

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] twikz@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've been trying out the frontend Alexandrite on browser on PC, thoughts?

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

Not tried it, so I don't have thoughts on it

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

Voyager has been great. No notifications is a plus. Haha

[–] ByteMe@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] twikz@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am currently trying out Summit, crazy nice app so far

[–] ByteMe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It's awesome

[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Voyager on mobile because it's open source

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

[–] twikz@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

I respect it

[–] razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I use the browser while on PC and Voyager on mobile since I like the minimalist interface, don’t need push notifications, and find the β€œuser tags” feature is pretty nifty :)

[–] twikz@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How does the user tags feature work?

[–] razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It displays a net score of the number of times you upvoted/downvoted a user beside their username. You can enable that feature under β€œSettings” in Voyager.

[–] twikz@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if that feature is synced or if its local on my phone only

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Not synced, it's a voyager-only feature

[–] bandarbaru_1@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months 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.

[–] twikz@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

I switched to Summit for now, been great

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

I've been using Jerboa since I signed up, I do have occasions where it can't connect or won't load my subscriptions but not too often. I'm not that heavy of a user though.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months 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.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 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.

[–] twikz@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Voyager looks really good on Android, heard about it being on iOS too. I've been trying out Alexandite as UI on desktop

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Been using it on IOS for years without issue

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Web browser.

[–] FRYD@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months 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.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] d3lta19@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] UncleArthur@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] sam@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Damarus@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Boost worked best for me after comparing a few apps for my phone. Coming from Relay it wasn't a 100% fit but good enough.

I don't use Lemmy much on desktop because I find all of the frontends lacking in comparison to old Reddit with RES. However Tesseract is my preferred frontend when I am on desktop.

[–] twikz@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Give Thunder a try on your phone, it looks good, but the performance for me is really bad

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago
[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] twikz@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] sjmarf@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, iOS only.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Voyager. It feels good.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] Quills@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months 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.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago

PC, tablet: Browser

Mobile: Boost for Lemmy

[–] Babalugats@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

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