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I was wondering, with all the different Lemmy clients and frontends, what/which out of these do people actually use? To answer this, I made a poll if anyone wants to fill it out, and I tried to put every client I could find.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have four installed on Android: Sync, Jerboa, Connect and Voyager. Five if you count Firefox which is the only one that does all the admin tasks I need. I switch between them because as admin I find myself testing the user experience frequently.

I have Memmy on iOS, but really only use iOS for testing purposes. I don't browse with it.

I default to Sync for most browsing and commenting because the Dev is very active and it's the only client I know of with any mod tools at all. It is the most polished of the clients at the moment.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy UI and Jerboa seem to work well for me and they are both open-source.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I use primarily Connect, but I'll switch to Thunder from time to time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Eternity is one my favorite client

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Sync on my phone and Photon on desktop.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

theres so many lemmy clients i guess thats one of the benefits of lemmy being licensed under agpl and has a free api

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jerboa. Came up when I was searching on F-Droid

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I'm using a mix of Sync and Eternity. I was using Infinity for Reddit before the migration.

Because Sync came first, it's still my default way to navigate Lemmy but Eternity is slowly growing on me. I prefer to alternate between a few apps to stay up to date on the alternatives, and to ensure I don't become dependant on a single app/interface.

I've also tested a few times Photon, great web UI which can be installed as a PWA.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I access Lemmy through the browser all the time. The experience is solid and consistent across devices and I need access to both mod and (occasionally) admin tools.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be honest I was extremely skeptical about Sync because I didn't use it for Reddit and I thought that the default web-ui is pretty neat even on my mobile phone. But curiosity got me and I installed it, even though it's not FLOSS and it has ads in it which are two no-goes for me. Still I'm using it on the phone predominately, but I hate myself for it.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Alexandrite & Sync

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah, 30% sync users. I've always thought Sync was the best reddit client, and now it's the best Lemmy client.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was previously using Memmy and it’s good, but it hasn’t been updated for a while. I’m giving Avelon a try and it is nice so far.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Voyager is 90% Apollo and is absolutely solid. Try Voyager App. Intuitive, beautifully designed and based off Christian’s source code.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I've found Summit the best for me, personally, on Android. I've been able to configure it closest to how I used RIF which is what I wanted.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Connect. Ive not had any issues.

Im not a power user either though, so maybe theres some features not here, you may want. No idea

But theres custom themes. You can pick your own colors for the different elements.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Just an interesting note, I see a lot of talk about Avalon in the comments being amazing but not as many votes as other clients. It seems pretty new, but already has a loyal userbase. Wish it was on Android so I could check it out!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I’m glad to see Voyager so high. I was hooked on Memmy for a while, even though I had been trying wefwef and a few other interfaces occasionally. But now the app version of Voyager is just about perfect for me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

after trying a few, Eternity was the first one that worked without errors on my older Android phone. i enjoyed using Infinity previously and i'm glad it was repurposed

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