What is your favorite client for Lemmy?
Sync all the way.
Sync! It’s what I used on Reddit, and having it here made switching platforms so much smoother.
100%
Voyager…formerly wefwef.
It has all platforms - Web, PWA, iOS and Android.
It is free and open source. No tracking and no ads.
Me too. Same app for my PC and Android feels good.
It is wild that on github, Voyager almost has much stars as Lemmy. I love this app so far. (And lemmy as well)
My only problem with it is the developer disappeared for the longest time and it feels like it fell behind so many other apps.
Hmm…I guess I don’t know what I’m missing since I haven’t tried any other apps lately. For me my main ask out of Lenny is more users, more content, more communities and community so I don’t care much about fancy features at the moment.
Lately I’ve actually been feeling a sort of online loneliness…once upon a time I had a lot of engagement and connection on Facebook. On Twitter at a different point in time. I didn’t really miss it when I had Reddit because there was all of the community, support, camaraderie you could need from mental health to football to weird hobbies and quirks.
Voyager feels like Apollo but most of what made Apollo great is dead and gone (Reddit)
Now I’m depressed 😂😭
I’m sorry dude. What communities do you have interest in?
I miss the raisedbyborderlines sub, having live game threads for sports with lots of parcipants, finding active subs for whatever random show you are binging at any time like Suits or Haunting of Hill House. Parenting subs like Daddit.
Sync has not received an update in more than a month and nobody complains about that.
Voyager dev takes a well deserved break and suddenly everybody bitches about it.
Why this double standard¿?
The dev is a human being with life outside of developing this app and there is no arguing that. All I simply stated is that it fell behind in development when compared to many other apps.
Do not misconstrue my words.
This is not an attack on you or your statement. This is just a general observation I made. I have seen several people claim they left voyager because the dev has ‘left’ even though he told us he was taking a break (went on a vacation) and even though the client is actively being developed now
same. initially i was worried about the performance compared to “native” clients like Boost,Sync,etc but even as a PWA written in JS i have zero issues with it.
I previously used Voyager before switching to Boost. It was the only way I could experience iOS apps on Android.
Eternity
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Sync
Boost (the best social app ever) & Jerboa (simple, lightweight alternative).
Boost gang! 🚀🚀
I can’t even begin to describe how amazing Boost is. It’s the only android Reddit app that I will acknowledge, and it’s the only client that got me into Lemmy.
Has to be Boost.
You can 1- hand with boost. That’s all you need to know
Boost is too nosy.
And requires payment to remove ads. Fucking lame.
What’s the issue with that?
Hmmm. Let’s see. Annoy the users of your product into paying you money so that they can have the features that other similar products offer for free?
I’ll be damned! Seems there is no catch!
I don’t get it. Do you expect him to work for free just because others do? If Boost for Lemmy was completely a paid app instead of free with ads, it wouldn’t see as much adoption. That’s how Sync, Boost and Relay (for Reddit) used to work.
So…. There’s tons of free options that are just as good, if not better. So, offering a paid version of something people can easily get for free is duping the ignorant.
Now if Boost offered some premium option that was not offered in the free apps- that’d be entirely different. But that’s not the case.
So it’s a rip-off.
How so?
Boost
Memmy (on iOS).
Astoundingly good for solo effort at sub v1.0.
Yeah. It’s my favorite at the moment, but it doesn’t seem well maintained
The github is active again! Looks like the dev is back from their break
Removed by mod
all day long. everything else feels clunky
Absolutely love it.
Boost!
Boost. 1000% boost.
Has too many trackers for my liking
Jerboa
I tried many waiting for Sync release on Lemmy, but nothing felt as complete, it’s just far and away the best IMHO.
On Android, former Relay for Reddit user.
Right now I have SEVEN lemmy apps on my home screen as I figure out which I like best. So far I keep going back to Sync the most.
Boost’s animations suck. It takes too long to show the post list after swiping away an image and the whole screen goes black, it’s a bit jarring.
Liftoff works well but it’s ugly.
Jerboa isn’t very customizable and the post list doesn’t feel dense enough.
Voyager literally does not tell you what instance the community you’re viewing is on.
I haven’t touched Thunder in a while but I see they’ve updated quite a bit with a lot more customization. I remember older versions being nice, so I’ll give it a try again.
Connect is about the same as Liftoff, works well but kinda ugly. Admittedly not as ugly though.
That issue with Boost may be device dependent. It is only a split second of black for me on an S23. But, i agree it should just be better no matter the device.
For Voyager, there is a setting to show the instance.
I found the setting for showing a user’s instance, but still no setting for showing the instance of communities.
If there’s no @, it’s local.
Could probably add an option to configure. The idea to not include the instance url if local was to cut down on noise in the UI.
Voyager literally does not tell you what instance the community you’re viewing is on.
Yes it does. If there no @lemmy.instance attached to the community then that is because the community is on the same instance as your account.
Boost can display new comments in a different color. I don’t know how I lived without that feature for so long. Any other apps that can do that?
Last time I used Connect and Voyager (a few weeks ago) they couldn’t do that. They were nice otherwise, but Boost seems to do everything they do and more.
