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
Just the regular browser. It just works.
Yeah, particularly opening posts in tabs is something I miss from most apps…
On your phone?
Yes. It works.
Thought I was the only one. As I was reading replies I was wondering if I was doing it wrong.
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 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
Voyager has been great. No notifications is a plus. Haha
Voyager on mobile because it’s open source
And thats it. I don’t use Lemmy on desktop
I respect it
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 :)
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 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 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
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.
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.
Web browser.
Voyager can’t show profiles, that’s a big minus
However it blows everything else out of the water in every other way
What profiles?
Exactly
Phone: Sync but it feels a bit broken
Web: Regular frontendI use Eternity on Android, which is almost exclusively how I use Lemmy. When I use on desktop, I use old Lemmy.
