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.

  • FRYD@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • Bandar Baru@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    for desktop, I just access it from browser. in mobile, I use Thunder. wanting to try Jerboa, but somehow didn’t work in my phone, constantly disconnected and not loading at all. never attempted to step my foot into close-sourced app.

    • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev
      1·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • Damarus@feddit.org
    2·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • twikz@sopuli.xyzOP
      1·
      2 months ago

      Give Thunder a try on your phone, it looks good, but the performance for me is really bad

  • xorollo@leminal.space
    4·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    2 months ago

    Sync 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.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    2 months ago

    PC. I’m just using the web front end, which is decent. It looks like nobody really has an alternative, which is okay, but I do wish I could switch to backup instances more gracefully when there’s downtime.