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 mobile because it’s open source
And thats it. I don’t use Lemmy on desktop
I respect it
PC, tablet: Browser
Mobile: Boost for Lemmy
Browser
I switched to Summit for now, been great
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 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 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
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.
Just the regular browser. It just works.
On your phone?
Yes. It works.
Yeah, particularly opening posts in tabs is something I miss from most apps…
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
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
Mlem on my phone, I get on pretty well with it
Sync on my phone and any old browser on the PC.
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
