2d ago

What are your guys setup for using lemmy on your pc and phone?

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.

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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

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.

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.

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.
- 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 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

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 Eternity on Android, which is almost exclusively how I use Lemmy. When I use on desktop, I use old Lemmy.

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.

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

Mlem - in active development and the dev’s are very responsive as far as new feature
- Mlem, ios only?
  
  Yes, iOS only.

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.

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.

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