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.
Voyager on phone and when i actually browse here on pc (rare event) i just use the native ui through the browser
Jeroba on mobile. I don’t browse on my desktop. I tried Voyager for a while at first, but then it broke and I switched and haven’t had any issues with Jeroba.
Phone: Sync but it feels a bit broken
Web: Regular frontendSync on my main tablet, because it has the best 2 column layout for my needs.
Connect on my phone where 2 column isn’t really a big factor, with summit as an alternative on there because I never have decided which of the two I prefer.
I don’t use lemmy on laptop/desktop because I dislike the experience via browser. It would be fine for passive scrolling I guess, but even with the various front end options, I run into more hassles than it’s worth when even the meh apps handle lemmy better and I just don’t need anything that could be gained via browser.
Voyager has been great. No notifications is a plus. Haha
I use Eternity on Android, which is almost exclusively how I use Lemmy. When I use on desktop, I use old Lemmy.
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.
On your phone?
Yes. It works.
Yeah, particularly opening posts in tabs is something I miss from most apps…
Voyager on mobile because it’s open source
And thats it. I don’t use Lemmy on desktop
I respect it
Web browser.
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.
I use Summit on my phone, Mlem on my iPad. I don’t browse from pc.
I am currently trying out Summit, crazy nice app so far
It’s awesome
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
I use the browser while on PC and Voyager with Lemmy since I like the minimalist interface, don’t need push notifications, and find the “user tags” feature is pretty nifty.
How does the user tags feature work?
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.
I wonder if that feature is synced or if its local on my phone only
Not synced, it’s a voyager-only feature
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.
I switched to Summit for now, been great
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.
Voyager looks really good on Android, heard about it being on iOS too. I’ve been trying out Alexandite as UI on desktop
Been using it on IOS for years without issue