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.
46 Comments
JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 1y
Just the regular browser. It just works.
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
Yeah, particularly opening posts in tabs is something I miss from most apps...
Cherry@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1y
Thought I was the only one. As I was reading replies I was wondering if I was doing it wrong.
twikz@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
On your phone?
JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Yes. It works.
locuester@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1y
Voyager has been great. No notifications is a plus. Haha
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social · 9 pts · 1y
Boost on my phone, and browser on PC. It's what works for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
twikz@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
I've been trying out the frontend Alexandrite on browser on PC, thoughts?
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social · 1 pts · 1y
Not tried it, so I don't have thoughts on it
ByteMe@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
I use Summit on my phone, Mlem on my iPad. I don’t browse from pc.
twikz@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 1y
I am currently trying out Summit, crazy nice app so far
ByteMe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
It's awesome
razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 1y
twikz@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
How does the user tags feature work?
razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y
twikz@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
I wonder if that feature is synced or if its local on my phone only
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
Not synced, it's a voyager-only feature
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
Voyager on mobile because it's open source
And thats it. I don't use Lemmy on desktop
twikz@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
I respect it
bandarbaru_1@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
I switched to Summit for now, been great
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y
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.
grue@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
Been using it on IOS for years without issue
xorollo@leminal.space · 4 pts · 1y
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
Web browser.
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 1y
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.
FRYD@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
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.
d3lta19@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
Sync on my phone and any old browser on the PC.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
What profiles?
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
Exactly
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
Phone: Sync but it feels a bit broken
Web: Regular frontend
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
Voyager. It feels good.
sam@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
i just started using Interstellar on Android. Really liking it so far.
PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Mlem on my phone, I get on pretty well with it
Damarus@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
Give Thunder a try on your phone, it looks good, but the performance for me is really bad
GuyFawkes@midwest.social · 2 pts · 1y
Mlem - in active development and the dev’s are very responsive as far as new feature
twikz@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
Mlem, ios only?
sjmarf@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Yes, iOS only.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
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.
Babalugats@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Using Raccoon for now after having a few issues with voyager. Liking it so far.
hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 1y
mlmym on desktop, voyager on fast phone, boost on slow phone
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 1y
The offical Jerboa client is great.