I am very new to Lemmy, and I am using the Eternity app. But I am wondering which one you guys are using, and maybe there are better one’s than Eternity without me knowing
I currently browse around through Quiblr
I am using boost for lemmy for some time now and am very happy with that app. I’ve tried jerboa, summit and thunder before but they felt somewhat incomplete at the time I used them.
Mobile browser because I have more control over what gets left behind on my device. I don’t really trust apps, I don’t like putting other people’s code on my device unless I can review it, it’s a trust thing and as a q υ є є я American I’d like to have a as little that could potentially be spying on my as possible in life.
Eternity is a solid one, was my main for quite some time until I used Voyager while waiting for Eternity to to update to work with the latest Lemmy at the time, and ended up sticking with Voyager.
I do miss the user avatars though, voyager doesn’t have those.
Had to scroll to the bottom for this Gem!! Eternity is rock solid.
I’m using Sync to write this comment :)
The dev has in the past taken steps away, but comes back when needed. And despite not being updated in a hot sec it’s still still the best mobile app IMHO.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I’m returning to Lemmy and got Sync again because I liked it (and paid for no ads) previously.
Ate there specific features you know of that it doesn’t support?
Another shoutout to summit, coming from an ex-Sync user. It’s very nice.
Also Summit. It was the first Android app i saw for it and I just went with it. No complains so far.
I came from reddit a few years back and was a staunch baconreader user.
Eternity for lemmy has been wonderful.
any “beef” I have is with content/community which are getting better and not related to the client I use.
I’m using thunder because it’s the best of what I’ve tried.
Mlem on iPhone - I like it best
Thunder, because it works best with accessibility features like VoiceOver and TalkBack: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder
Does the simple webversion count? I am using the qwant browser on android.
I used Thunder for a long time, but I have been giving Arctic a try lately and like it. I will likely give Mlem another shot after the next update. Voyager is another great one, but I have not used it for a while.
Overall, there are a lot of great Lemmy apps and I love that most of them did not get abandoned after the initial wave from the Reddit exodus died down. I think we have more high-quality Lemmy apps than there were for Reddit.
I use Bilbo, mostly for the free Hobbit memes and because the maintainer is a personal close friend of Simon Baxter of Redwall fame
Mlem
I’ve bounced around several clients (mobile) and frontends (web) especially when I first started. I’ve eventually settled on Voyager (mobile) and Alexandrite (web frontend).
Voyager has a lot of neat features that makes browsing Lemmy on mobile smooth and an overall nice experience. It’s got swipe gestures (configurable, but mine has long swipe left to upvote, long swipe left to save, short swipe right to downvote, and long swipe right to reply). There’s also a feature to tag a user, and to keep track of votes (in aggregate, so I wouldn’t know if I give a user an upvote in one thread, and a downvote in another, yielding a net zero, or I just haven’t given that user a vote at all). Still a nice set of features. There might be more that I have yet to discover and use.
Alexandrite, on the other hand, presents a really good desktop experience. There’s an option to have the posts (on my feed, or a community) on the left side of the screen and the post I’m reading on the right, which is great if I am just scanning a my feed, deciding if I want to take a closer look at a post. I end up mostly just using this mode most of the time.
Both Voyager and Alexandrite allow me to switch between my Lemmy accounts easily, which is a great plus if you’re having a handful of accounts (for different purposes, like one main, another for NSFW, etc).
IMO, the clients (for mobile) have a lot of competition going on, and I wouldn’t be surprised if I find a different one I’d like better. Just keep an eye out for those, I guess?
