- imkali ( @imkali@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 97•9 months ago
Jerboa (FOSS. Play Store + F-Droid)
Voyager (FOSS. Play Store + F-Droid + PWA + iOS App Store)
Thunder (FOSS. Play Store + IzzyOnDroid + iOS App Store)
Eternity (FOSS. Play Store + F-Droid)
edit: formatting
- Southern Wolf ( @southernwolf@pawb.social ) 16•9 months ago
10/10 for Voyager, with a shout-out to Eternity too!
- pacjo ( @pacjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 10•9 months ago
Eternity is great and there’s a work in progress to add multicommunity support.
Also just like Infinity enabling amoled theme makes it look a whole lot more modern.
- JustEnoughDucks ( @JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ) 2•9 months ago
The only thing it is missing for me is community search. It is great! Also the most customizable of the bunch in my opinion
- catacomb ( @catacomb@beehaw.org ) English1•9 months ago
Really happy with Eternity having come from Infinity.
- hackris ( @hackris@lemmy.ml ) 89•9 months ago
Please. For the love of god, NEVER use a proprietary app to use a piece of FOSS software. I think it’s kind of sad that we have this amazing FOSS social network and people use fucking proprietary software to use it.
- pirrrrrrrr ( @pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 16•9 months ago
Open-source it a better interface then.
Until it’s as useful as at least Sync for Lemmy, people will use 3rd party proprietary apps
- hackris ( @hackris@lemmy.ml ) 6•9 months ago
I mean isn’t Lemmy licensed under the AGPL? I’m just asking because AFAIK a proprietary client is not even allowed under this license.
- SeriousBug ( @SeriousBug@infosec.pub ) English16•9 months ago
You couldn’t make a proprietary server. Client is fine, AGPL doesn’t apply when you are accessing the server over a public API.
- hackris ( @hackris@lemmy.ml ) 5•9 months ago
Thank you, didn’t know this :)
- voxel ( @vox@sopuli.xyz ) 15•9 months ago
i use sync. there’s nothing even close to the quality of the client. (The onlt client that implements material you in a fun and usable way, sync is usable one-handed)
I had been using Liftoff for a while (before switching to Sync as soon as it came out), which i quite liked but it feels a lot worse than sync- Arthur Besse ( @cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ) 6•9 months ago
(The onlt client that implements material you in a fun and usable way, sync is usable one-handed)
Touchscreen keyboards and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
- haui ( @haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ) 1•8 months ago
Indeed.
- Max-P ( @Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ) 87•9 months ago
The ads come from an ad network where there is very little visibility into what’s going to be displayed in your app. And bad people also keep managing to get their ads published even though the ad network doesn’t allow them
And it all ties into the whole targeted advertising, where they also make sure very few people get the bad ad, and tries to target people they think may be more susceptible to these kinds of tactics. Depending on the amount of interactivity allowed, the ad can even display two different things if it deems you too savvy to fall for it.
It’s basically unescapable unless you only use apps without ads, or pay for the ad-free versions.
The whole advertising industry is sketchy, more news at 10.
- Darkassassin07 ( @Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ) English22•9 months ago
Pi-hole blocks ads served by these networks just fine. Never seen an ad in Boost for Lemmy or for Reddit, though I tend to use Jerboa now that I’ve gotten used to it while I was waiting for Boost for Lemmy to release.
DNS based adblocking like Pihole or Adguard limits you to receiving advertising hosted by the app provider (youtube for example) which is usually better curated than third party advertising networks and less commonly found at all.
- Otter ( @otter@lemmy.ca ) English11•9 months ago
Yep, also the ads don’t get initialized at all if the user buys the ad-free version (going to top all in the Lemmy Boost community should bring up the post about it). It’s relatively cheap and the dev is very active with bugs and requests. The dev is developing for the Fediverse and I’m happy to support that (as well as devs for Sync, Connect, Lemmy, etc.)
I like Boost and paid for ad-Free, but a lot of other clients should work for your needs. While they might not be privacy focussed, many are open source so you can check what is going on.
My preference goes
- Boost (not FOSS, one time payment to remove ads)
- Connect (not FOSS, ad free)
- Eternity (FOSS & ad free)
I uninstalled the other ones and haven’t kept up with them. There may be better ones out there, these are the ones I’m keeping up with
- waratchess ( @waratchess@lemm.ee ) 34•9 months ago
Voyager
It’s a FOSS privacy respecting Lemmy client.
It’s available on Android and IOS
You can also try it as a PWA: https://vger.app
- labbbb ( @labbbb@thelemmy.club ) 1•9 months ago
Another one URL I use: https://wefwef.app/
- waratchess ( @waratchess@lemm.ee ) 1•9 months ago
The OG
- Katlah ( @eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English29•9 months ago
Your lemmy app has ads???
- ono ( @ono@lemmy.ca ) English28•9 months ago
I start with whatever is on F-Droid, and narrow it down from there.
Jerboa was the only option there until recently. I see Voyager and Eternity are there now. I’ll have to give them a try.
- schizoidman ( @schizoidman@lemmy.ml ) English10•9 months ago
Voyager is currently many versions ahead of the one listed on F-Droid. It is still usable but you may want to get the latest version from GitHub.
- ono ( @ono@lemmy.ca ) English10•9 months ago
If new versions don’t make it to F-Droid, they might as well not exist for me. There are only a couple of apps that I find important enough that I’ll spend time manually building/pulling/installing, and a Lemmy reader isn’t one of them. Thanks for the tip, though.
- carzian ( @carzian@lemmy.ml ) 14•9 months ago
Have you considered using https://github.com/imranr98/obtainium You give it the repository of the app and it will handle checking for new versions and updating them
- ono ( @ono@lemmy.ca ) English17•9 months ago
Part of what I value in F-Droid is the additional layer in the build/release process, because it makes tampering more likely to be detected.
It’s still nice to know a tool like obtanium exists, though. Thanks for the link.
thunder is awesome too
Eternity FTW
- daftwerder ( @daftwerder@lemm.ee ) 25•9 months ago
Eternity is great! free, no ads, and no lag while scrolling. it also supports swipe to go back from posts.
- nezrock ( @nezrock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 23•9 months ago
I use Connect for lemmy, it’s really great and ad-free.
- HypnoticSheep ( @HypnoticSheep@lemm.ee ) 11•9 months ago
I’ve tried all the other popular apps, and keep coming back to Connect.
The main features that pull me back are profile-specific settings so I can set up different accounts without having to reconfigure everything every time I switch instances, and the ability to customize post card quick actions, specifically the Mark As Read quick button combined with the persistent Hide All Read toggle. It’s just so convenient, I keep coming back even though it deletes my account info every time it logs me out. - itsnicodegallo ( @itsnicodegallo@lemm.ee ) 1•8 months ago
Connect rarely makes it on these lists, but I think it’s fantastic.
- JokeDeity ( @JokeDeity@lemm.ee ) 22•9 months ago
I really like Voyager.
- BlanK0 ( @BlanK0@lemmy.ml ) 18•9 months ago
Install the fdroid apps. Eternity is a good example of a fdroid app for lemmy
- risencode ( @risencode@lemmy.ml ) 17•9 months ago
Thanks for the warning, switching to Jerboa.
- jet ( @jet@hackertalks.com ) English17•9 months ago
voyager is great, progressive web app, or in your favorite app store.
- bitwolf ( @bitwolf@lemmy.one ) 15•9 months ago
Sync Pro (paid) Jerboa (free)
- turbulentMagma ( @turbulentMagma@lemm.ee ) 14•9 months ago
Use foss apps
- mariusafa ( @mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ) 13•9 months ago
Use F-Droid, Google store is a malware vendor at this point.