Jerboa (FOSS. Play Store + F-Droid)

Voyager (FOSS. Play Store + F-Droid + PWA + iOS App Store)

Thunder (FOSS. Play Store + IzzyOnDroid + iOS App Store)

Eternity (FOSS. Play Store + F-Droid)

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Please. For the love of god, NEVER use a proprietary app to use a piece of FOSS software. I think it's kind of sad that we have this amazing FOSS social network and people use fucking proprietary software to use it.

Use F-Droid, Google store is a malware vendor at this point.

Voyager

It's a FOSS privacy respecting Lemmy client.

It's available on Android and IOS

You can also try it as a PWA: https://vger.app

Boost dev here. There should be an Ad icon on the top right to report the ad. Not sure why it is not showing in this case. I will try to block those ads in the AdMob console. Edit: Done

Your lemmy app has ads???

Use foss apps

The ads come from an ad network where there is very little visibility into what's going to be displayed in your app. And bad people also keep managing to get their ads published even though the ad network doesn't allow them

And it all ties into the whole targeted advertising, where they also make sure very few people get the bad ad, and tries to target people they think may be more susceptible to these kinds of tactics. Depending on the amount of interactivity allowed, the ad can even display two different things if it deems you too savvy to fall for it.

It's basically unescapable unless you only use apps without ads, or pay for the ad-free versions.

The whole advertising industry is sketchy, more news at 10.

I like Thunder a lot.

I start with whatever is on F-Droid, and narrow it down from there.

Jerboa was the only option there until recently. I see Voyager and Eternity are there now. I'll have to give them a try.

I use Connect for lemmy, it's really great and ad-free.

Jerboa works well

Use Jerboa.

It's wild just how many apps there are for Lemmy, ha

I use the webpage as a webapp. It's adless.

I'm not so sure about clients that are specifically focused on security and privacy, however my general FOSS mobile app suggestions would be Voyager for a polished UX, or Eternity for a more native Android experience.

Both are available on GitHub and F-Droid

I use Boost and I like it. But I gave the dev the few bucks for ad-free.

If there's a malicious ad, report it to the dev. I'm pretty sure they can ban it.

Eternity is great! free, no ads, and no lag while scrolling. it also supports swipe to go back from posts.

Why would you need an app when an account settings page and a web interface for posts exist? What need is that combination not meeting for you?

https://xkcd.com/1367/

https://xkcd.com/1174/

Iirc Sync and Boost are the only proprietary clients right now, so everything else is good. I'm using Eternity right now, it's on f droid

Voyager, eternity, jerboa in that order

I am using Voyager & Eternity and both have no ads.

The dev has to do what they have to do to feed themselves. If you really like the app, deal with the ads or pay for the app. I personally can't deal with ads so I'm on Eternity for Lemmy (through the fdroid store)

Voyager

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.vger.voyager

Also on f-droid

I like Voyager a lot but it might be iOS only.

I use Voyager. It's pretty good.

Jerboah??

Eternity. It was a FOSS Reddit client before the API stuff but they became a Lemmy client.

Wait, Boost has ads? I've literally never seen an ad.

Thunder

This is why ad blockers should always be used. Small devs don't have relationships with advertisers or control over what ad networks will do.

Or you can pay once and be done with them. I think the price of a burger is not a big ask for something you use every day.

I do both.