What Lemmy Client(s) Do You Use?

Eternity represent!!

I used Infinity for a while on Reddit, it's pretty cool!

Wasn't Infinity not available until not long ago?

I was using Boost on reddit, but their Lemmy version isn't available yet. Read about Eternity. Thus far I have no complaints. It works.

I'm loving it. Just to confirm: The last update was three weeks ago, right? I hope the dev continuous on working this.

For me, it's not about being afraid of change, but that Sync has exactly the features I want.

Same here. I’ve moved to Avelon which I strongly recommend you trying out. It’s legit.

Once memmy starts getting updates again I may switch back but gotta say, Avelon may have me hooked.

I'm using Memmy too, although the app sometimes repeat post reply 5 times and I had to delete the other 4. I still use Memmy anyway and don't mind waiting till this gets fixed.

Oh look, 6 times this time. I shall leave the duplicated replies here. Coincidental proof. Only happens sometimes. Talk about the devil.

I'm using Memmy too, although the app sometimes repeat post reply 5 times and I had to delete the other 4. I still use Memmy anyway and don't mind waiting till this gets fixed.

I'm using Memmy too, although the app sometimes repeat post reply 5 times and I had to delete the other 4. I still use Memmy anyway and don't mind waiting till this gets fixed.

I'm using Memmy too, although the app sometimes repeat post reply 5 times and I had to delete the other 4. I still use Memmy anyway and don't mind waiting till this gets fixed.

I'm using Memmy too, although the app sometimes repeat post reply 5 times and I had to delete the other 4. I still use Memmy anyway and don't mind waiting till this gets fixed.

I'm using Memmy too, although the app sometimes repeat post reply 5 times and I had to delete the other 4. I still use Memmy anyway and don't mind waiting till this gets fixed.

Yeah, breaks are more important though it is a bit sad to not get new stuff

My only problem with lemmy is the lack of a client. Right now, for me, memmy and voyager are the least worst, but they’re pretty bad.

I’m not even asking for an Apollo out of the gate. I’d settle for an Alien Blue. And I have no problem paying for it, either. I was an Apollo ne plus ultra user, or whatever it was called.

From an information architecture perspective, it really seems like reddit and lemmy might be close enough that a middle layer could be written that would make it easier to port user-facing apps from one api to the other. There’s obviously be some differences, but if feasible it might accelerate development of multiple client options at once.

For the record, I’ve tried memmy, voyager, mlem, lemmios, liftoff, and I am presently going to try bean. That’s approximately the order of how useable I’ve found them, but they each have their own annoyances. I don’t own an android device, but I hope the options are better over there.

In any case, I became a heavy reddit user only after Alien Blue came out. I became a very heavy user after Apollo came out. I left reddit the day external clients became unavailable.

I think lemmy has enormous potential, but the UX needs to be made easier if we’re to really make a dent in reddit usership and get the level of posts, comments, and active communities they have there.

I also suspect that the backend is going to need a better approach for handling the negative consequences of a large influx of users. I’m not talking about load - I’m talking about community management. Back in the day (by which I mean the early 90s) there was an email blacklist. Admins of important nodes in the email distribution network had a shared list of domains that had unsecured servers, and would update it based on where they saw the (then relatively recent phenomenon of) spam coming from.

I’m really interested in how the information flow network of the fediverse evolves, if it continues to grow. Are we going to find a network with community structure, with clumps of mutually federated instances that have few if any connections between them? If so, clients will have to have solid account creation and management, and the admin tools will need to be sophisticated.

Yeah I really liked Memmy. The lack of updates wouldn’t bother me except there are a couple annoying bugs still. Also when I click on a community it opens in my browser. I’ve tested a bunch to find one that has everything I want. I’ve also settled on Avelon. The only thing it doesn’t have is multiple icon options and that’s not an important factor at all.

I think only Summit is as good as Sync is in smoothness, I voted for Sync, Voyager and Summit as those are the ones I use more, Voyager is nice, but it is not very smooth compared with the other two (using the native app).

I recently switched from Voyager to Avelon. Voyager is great and I’m keeping it because it’s always been so reliable, but I just really like Avelon. It has a nice explore tab for finding new communities, and it’s SwiftUI, so it has that clean native iOS look to it. They’re very similar otherwise.

Voyager is 💪🏻

What do you like more about the PWA?

Yeah I saw that too!

LemmyUI is great. I've using it until recently I settled on using Eternity.

I paid to remove ads from Reddit Sync in 2014. 9 years went by where I continued to use the app every single day, as ljdawson continued regular improvements and updates (aside from the incident). By the time Reddit Sync went away, I felt I had vastly underpaid for what I got, and purchased lifetime Ultra as a way of supporting ljdawson.

I totally get what you're saying. But at the same time, Sync is so much more than just the content that it displays. The ads are not there to profit on free content, they're there to support the user experience that sync provides. They're also far, far less obtrusive than typical ads

The nice thing is, there's choices! Feel free to use other clients and find what works best

I'm a sync user and pretty tired of these pointless statements. Don't want it, don't use it! I pay for ultra to support the dev and that's my choice. Again, if you don't want it, don't use it. But can you please stop this sync bashing? It's not as if the torrent of anti-sync memes forgot to cover what you are saying.

WTF is wrong with supporting a developer (Either with cash or ad revenue)?

This is such a bad take. Imagine being mad that the user has a choice for a low/no cost ad supported version and a paid version. There are other benefits too, like being able to trial the software for as long as you want before buying in.

I'm using the free version of Sync for Lemmy now, I don't see any ads. Maybe because my phone has the adguard server as my DNS server and it's just blocking them all?

How atrocious are they when not using adguard?

Wait, how is earning revenue from having ads in your app "profiting off free user content," but charging someone directly to use the app isn't? They both do the same thing for the developer (generate revenue), the only difference is who is paying.

Synce is hilarious to me. "You know how Lemmy is completely free to use? What if it had ADs! And what if you had to pay money to remove those ADs!".
And people lined up around the block for it.

FYI Izzy got permabanned for stating this opinion. That's really insane.

Then shut up and make a better app. Because it's sweet.

As re there any other Lemmy clients that are being worked on full time?

This is why I use Liftoff.

Or have a free version to lurk only. Want to participate? Buy the full version.

Every time I see comments like this I imagine that Reese meme from Malcom in The Middle saying "Wah Wah, too bad!" Or whatever the English translation of that is.

Picture for reference.

I was considering trying sync. thanks for the info. never gonna touch it now. there are too many good free browsers now to even bother. I'm still trying narrow down between the last three out of five different iOS ones I downloaded. they are all so good and Apollo like

Liftoff is fantastic. I think updates are slow, but it's in a good place.

Same here.

Still on liftoff. Works good enough for now though it's true ghat updates are scarce right now.

I tried using Thunder a while ago and didn't really like it when compared to liftoff, but that was earlier in the development timeline so it's probably better now

Downloaded Thunder and it’s pretty sweet. I’ll keep Bean and bounce between the two. Thanks for the recommendation.

Same

I'm surprised more of you aren't using my mom, she gets around

Same! I'm wondering though at this point how much longer? I understand it's a big job but I've gotten really settled in with Connect at this point.

That's a pretty nice endorsement for sync though, BTW can you embed polls into your app (assuming there's an API for straw poll)?

Me too, but to Thunder. I find its interface more polished.

Yeah, Liftoff is really good for me

I'm using Liftoff as well right now I wanted to take a look at Eternity a while ago but it just never came to that for some reason. Probably cause my main is kbin idk. Might as well just try it now that I'm reminded by the poll, I guess.

Edit: Well, Eternity doesn't seem to handle logging in from lemmy.blahaj.zone yet. Or something else's wrong with my credentials idk.

I tried like 10 different clients and ended up sticking with Liftoff. I just want it to implement spoilers, though.

Well you still use a UI; do you use the default web UI or something like photon?

The only reason I use a client is on mobile just because it integrates better, and I still flipflop between a photon PWA and Sync/Liftoff

Are you on desktop? I assumed clients were more a mobile thing

Not weird, but definitely missing out in smoothness, check out Sync or Summit if you use Android.

really? have you tried connect? it is much MUCH closer imho ( if configured right)

Where do you get all these apps like Sync and Voyager?

Sure thing. Polls are fun. I would love a native poll feature in lemmy.

Sync is pretty cool, it just works so smoothly!

For me when I was looking for an Android client via https://join-lemmy.org/apps .

It's FOSS or it's loss.

Let's see which one will rule them all after a while.

Yeah, personally for the web UI I prefer the also open-source Photon but whatever floats your boat!

I use Connect too and I consider myself as bit of a power user(have 6 clients installed my phone). Connect has all the features or even more than any other client. The horizontal swipe to navigate the posts is my favourite and probably only client that has this feature.

I really love Voyager on IOS, slowly Lemmy is taking over reddit for me ...

been using wefwef since the start and didn’t hear about voyager until this poll, love it :) is it made by the same person that did wefwef?

Yeah, Avelon looks cool! I use android so I can't use it, but hope it turns out good!