Self-hosted Photon on PC and Summit on Android.
this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
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I use voyager and eternity. I think I prefer voyager tho.
Voyager can separate my subscribed communities from my All feed, so I can scroll my Home feed and switch to All and not see the subscribed posts I've just finished viewing.
I've tried Blorp and Jerboa but settled on Voyager. Afaik neither of them can sort my Home out of my All.
I use Sync.
Summit on mobile, plain old web version on the laptop.
Voyager on mobile
Dont use desktop, but if I need to I use the browser
Voyager is great
Second for Voyager. Is there a way to flip the colors so upvote is red (and not blue)?
Thunder, but only because Lemmy doesn't support user tags. It's nice to not accidentally interact wirh a shit head because you forgot they were a shit head.
Otherwise the mobile website is perfectly fine without an app.
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.hjiangsu.thunder
I've taken to using Summit it took a bit of figuring out and configuring before I decided to keep to it.
web browser on desktop? I am not on board with every internet thing having to have its own "app"
Eternity on mobile
Web browser doesn't mean much, you still are using a web client. OP mentioned Blorp, that has a web client and some instances give you the choice of using the client you prefer. Check blahaj for example.
Boost (for Piefed). I know its not free, but everything else is either missing too many features, or uses a UI style I don't like.
I'm using Thunder on Android for both Lemmy and PieFed. It's working decently well, but doesn't support all features. The main missing one for me is PieFed's crosspost viewing. I hearing a lot of good things about Voyager lately, maybe I'll give it a shot soon.
Voyager on mobile and I've been trying out the blorp frontend on Lemmy.
- Browser on the desktop.
- Don't use on phone.
I just look at vanilla lemmy.world on a browser. I'm not really sure what an "instance" is, other than .mil sucks.
I don't use a desktop client but I used to use Jerboa for android before something happened that I can't remember that made me switch to Voyager for android. Don't need a desktop client because I do all my intentional looking at Lemmy on my phone.
Using old.lemmy.zip on desktop AND the same desktop site on mobile.
voyager and boost on android, mlmym on web/desktop
Blorp but i try to switch with interstellar to mbin (at some point i need to delete blorp)
Voyager for desktop/browser because of the 2-column layout option. I loved Alexandrite and it had that feature, but I think it hasn’t been updated in a while and it doesn’t support piefed. For mobile, I use Thunder.
Native Web interface on desktop. Eternity for Lemmy on Android. Interstellar for PieFed on Android.
EDIT: While the last time I used Mbin on Android, there was only the PWA client, I suppose I'd probably at least try Interstellar for Mbin if I were using an Mbin instance right now. Can't vouch for it specifically on Mbin instances, though; no experience with it there. My assumption is that the experience would be pretty much the same as Interstellar elsewhere.
EDIT2: On the desktop Lemmy native Web interface, I do use the Firefox add-on Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin on Lemmy instances. Lemmy doesn't really have a great way to link to anything other than communities via bang links (!community@instance); any other link (like, if someone wants to link to a comment or post) takes you off your home instance. You will probably run into links that take you off your home instance. This sticks a button in the sidebar of Lemmy instances to let you bounce to the same page as viewed through your home instance.
If you use a PieFed home instance, it tries to deal with this by rewriting links in posts and comments targeting other Threadiverse instances to aim at pages on your home instance. That has some benefits
simpler for an end user
but also some problems in that it's kind of obnoxious if someone explicitly wants to link to a page on another instance. But if you're using a PieFed home instance, you probably won't run into that problem, so you won't need the add-on.
I don't know whether and if Mbin attempts to address the problem.