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.
Just the regular browser. It just works.
Thought I was the only one. As I was reading replies I was wondering if I was doing it wrong.
Yeah, particularly opening posts in tabs is something I miss from most apps…
On your phone?
Yes. It works.
Boost on my phone, and browser on PC. It’s what works for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’ve been trying out the frontend Alexandrite on browser on PC, thoughts?
Not tried it, so I don’t have thoughts on it
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How does the user tags feature work?
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I wonder if that feature is synced or if its local on my phone only
Not synced, it’s a voyager-only feature
I switched to Summit for now, been great
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.
Voyager has been great. No notifications is a plus. Haha
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.
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Mlem - in active development and the dev’s are very responsive as far as new feature
Mlem, ios only?
Yes, iOS only.
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.
Give Thunder a try on your phone, it looks good, but the performance for me is really bad
Voyager can’t show profiles, that’s a big minus
However it blows everything else out of the water in every other way
Browser
Web browser.
The offical Jerboa client is great.
I use Eternity on Android, which is almost exclusively how I use Lemmy. When I use on desktop, I use old Lemmy.
Voyager. It feels good.
