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submitted 16 hours ago by twikz@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] FRYD@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours 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.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago

Web browser.

[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago

Voyager. It feels good.

[-] locuester@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 2 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] twikz@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 hours ago
[-] sjmarf@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

Yes, iOS only.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 hours ago

The offical Jerboa client is great.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 hours 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.

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 hours ago

Voyager on mobile because it's open source

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

[-] twikz@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 hours ago

I respect it

[-] ByteMe@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] twikz@sopuli.xyz 5 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] ByteMe@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

It's awesome

[-] Babalugats@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

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

[-] JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 10 points 16 hours ago

Just the regular browser. It just works.

[-] Cherry@piefed.social 2 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] twikz@sopuli.xyz 2 points 15 hours ago
[-] JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

Yes. It works.

[-] bandarbaru_1@lemmy.ml 4 points 13 hours ago

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 13 hours ago

I switched to Summit for now, been great

[-] sam@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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 “user tags” feature is pretty nifty :)

[-] twikz@sopuli.xyz 1 points 14 hours ago

How does the user tags feature work?

[-] razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] twikz@sopuli.xyz 2 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 points 14 hours ago

Not synced, it's a voyager-only feature

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 points 12 hours ago
[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 4 points 14 hours 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.

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 hours ago

PC, tablet: Browser

Mobile: Boost for Lemmy

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 6 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] twikz@sopuli.xyz 2 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 1 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 points 14 hours ago

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

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

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

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 14 hours ago

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 7 hours ago

Been using it on IOS for years without issue

[-] UncleArthur@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] Damarus@feddit.org 1 points 16 hours ago

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 15 hours ago

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

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