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I'm currently using Jerboa but it's a little janky so I'm looking for recommendations

Edit: I think I'm gonna be using Eternity for Lemmy. Thanks for the suggestions!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Boost, hands down! It was my favourite for Reddit and is still just as amazing in it's Lemmy version.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Same.

Used Liftoff before Boost became available but it was buggy. As soon as boost was released it was a no-brainer, moved straight over. The familiarity from using it with reddit is excellent, has a great feel and everything just works how it should.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Just installed Boost. So far, it's feeling so much better than either Jerboa or Connect.

[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Been using Eternity for a while now, works great. Handles lemmy links pretty well too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Even though it has some bugs (Wrong formatting, backticks inside of other chars), it works nicely. The only thing concerning me is that there have been active pushes to the codeberg repo, last one an hour ago, but no new releases/tags since two months.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep, sync with some tinkering in the settings brings me great comfort.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think that's a thing that some people miss about it, it's incredibly customisable

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's precisely why I think it's far superior than most other clients. You can tweak it to be exactly how you want.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago

Boost! @rmayayo did such a great port. Best Reddit app, best lemmy app... On Android ;P

[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

Boost. I used it's reddit app exclusively because I liked it so much, and the Lemmy version is perfect too. 10/10

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Really enjoying Voyager so far. Avaliable as Android, iOS and PWA and best of all open-source ans free.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Boost for Lemmy

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

No, it's Sync

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

I like sync. But I also like that there are so many different answers here. Seems to bode well for the fediverse.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thunder. It gives me that Relay for Reddit experience and I've not needed to switch ever since downloading it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Came to vote for Eternity. Was an Infinity user when I was on the other place, so was really happy to see it land here too.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Connect for Lemmy. It's a lot like Relay for Reddit was. And it lets you block users, communities, instances. I still have Thunder app and the /kbin instant app installed, but after the first month I rarely use them. Connect is great.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Firefox.

Seriously. Every app I've tried has come up short in one way or another. Lemmy is best in a browser and the best browser is Firefox.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

I've been using sync pretty much every day since it became available, it was my Reddit client of choice too, so it's helped me cut Reddit out entirely.

Sorry to go slightly off topic, but does anyone know if any of the iOS apps have a similar experience to sync, particularly those with iPad support?

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Sync for Lemmy

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

I like experimenting and switching, so no choice is ever "final". Speaking of open source apps: Jerboa is the only native (kotlin+jetpack compose) for Android and its author is one of the very creators of Lemmy itself so he is an authority and I really like his "philosophy". Thunder offers a very polished and appealing UI/UX. Liftoff is feature rich even though somehow buggy. Apart from the mere app features, the community, the developer attitude, its being an open platform etc. are all factors to consider in my opinion.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Boost is perfect, I used jerboa for a long time and is too buggy for me

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I hopped over to Boost as soon as it was available. I was on Jerboa before but that was finicky.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Using Connect. Pretty happy with it so far. Feels smooth and snappy. Best of all, it doesn't collect any personal data.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Thank you! I didn't realize there was an Infinity remake for Lemmy! I think I might stick with it! (I'm typing this from the Eternity app rn)

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yep. Eternity is great.

I've been a long time Relay user, so it was difficult for me to adjust with the different Lemmy apps. But I've customized Eternity enough that I'm liking it now.

I'm using this Ponyo theme & it's awesome.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Liftoff and Sync are both amazing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I tried all of them and I kept going back to Jerboa so I've stuck with it for now. I might try them again at some point.

There was always something weird with most of them with the way they implemented profiles, profile pictures, profile banners, community icons and community banners that made them seem off. I haven't encountered any bugs. I'd be curious to know what bugs people are running into with it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Voyager app

I also use Thunder but voyager is my go to app. I've tried most of the others but always end up back with voyager.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My favourite is Jerboa, what issues are you having with it?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Mostly it's just sightly clunky ui. I'm coming from Tusky for Mastodon for context. It's not really anything specific, just a general feel.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Loving Thunder! Have tried all the others.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Boost mostly and Eternity.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Sync was nice. But Boost is back! Was my favorite reddit app for years.

Jerboa I keep around, just in case. It was the first one I used. It is clunky, sadly. It just stutters way too much for some reason.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

i gave up on jerboa in the earlier days and moved to Connect. havent felt the need to move on from that since then.

Jerboa may have improved since i used it though so don't that this as me slating it. Jerboa is developed by the same dev that writes the main lemmy backend and webapp so obvs he needs to prioritise that

[โ€“] wildbus8979 4 points 10 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I have tried Connect, Sync, and Jerboa. They're all pretty nice, but Jerboa just "feels right" to me. Former BaconReader user fwiw

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I prefer Sync but I can't figure out how to embiggen all text, so comments and stuff are fine but the actual text of a post is miniscule so I'm back on Voyager. I find the navigation a bit clunky but overall it's good. I also used connect for a while but it was slow.

Edit: thanks everyone who linked settings but none of those are it. Here is an example of what I see on posts in sync vs the comments. I also forgot it doesn't give me in app notifications if I get a message or response. I don't want push notifications but it doesn't give me in app notifications either. https://i.imgur.com/iUY2Sfw.png

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

...Jerboa.

Thunder also pretty good

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Liftoff.

Was a Boost user and was excited for it to come out for Lemmy, but the post creation process doesn't look to do all what I want it to do, so I'm still using Liftoff.

If I was just lurking, I'd be using Boost because it looks great, but Liftoff gives me a similar browsing experience with better posting.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Went back to Jerboa, as the rest is worse in my experience. Thunder maybe?

[โ€“] kersploosh 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Summit because it's the only app with moderation features implemented. I'll revisit other apps once they get to that part of their respective roadmaps.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Boost is best no doubt.

But for low end phones (like mine), Jerboa is a good alternative.

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