What is the best app to browse Lemmy
I currently use Blorp
I heard Jerboa is also good which one are you using? Best if app is available on fdroid
Voyager for me.
Me too, lack some features I like from other apps like Boost, like ability to block people/communities from the homepage but still the best overall.
You can, long hold the username or community and a quick menu appears.
Wow, thank you! Been using Voyager on both my tablet and phone pretty much since day one and only now learn about it.
Yea, I only found out about it a month or so ago.
Big fan of Thunder app. Great FOSS option and has tons of customization options!
honestly Thunder doesn’t get enough love in posts like these. you often expect FOSS apps to not be very good, but I can’t imagine using anything other than Thunder at this point
Could not agree more! Thunder is actually better experience than some of the paid apps I used for Reddit… You know when they still had an option for a non-shit tier mobile experience 😬
I’ve only used Jeroba. It works great for me, but with the google garbage going on, Im going to have to root my phone to sideload? I guess? So. thats my summer plan.
I bounce between Boost & Voyager. Will be checking out Blorp myself, thanks!
Boost for Lemmy. I love it.
Summit’s an easy recommendation.
Is summit foss?
On its github there is no license.
AGPL3.0, according to this repo.
Yep!
Unpopular opinion maybe, but a web browser is absolutely fine.
Many lemmy apps also have a web app:
Off the top of my head:
- Voyager: vger.app
- Blorp: blorpblorp.xyz
- Tesseracts: t.lemmy.dbzer0.com
that’s all I’ve used as well. tbh not sure what an app adds?
Summit is absolutely wonderful
I like connect, it resembles my old app I used for Reddit
I used jerboa for a long time and liked it a lot. But it is optimized “just” for lemmy. It cant operate (in my experience) with piefed instances.
if you want to use lemmy and piefed for example, Interstellar is a better solution.
Boost while not perfect has very few flaws for me. Whenever I receive a DM I have to go the web interface to get the notification to go away though. But that’s the worst of it
I also recommend Boost. Slick ui, very user friendly
I use Thunder, and I am very happy with it generally.
I used to use (and paid for) Sync for Lemmy previously, but I had the impression bugs didn’t get fixed, so I switched away from them.Another vote for Summit. Does everything I need it to and more, and has a very active developer. It’s available on the play store but I get it from github via Obtainium. https://github.com/idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy
Is summit foss?
On its github there is no license.
Yes! I linked the android release page, here is the source github https://github.com/idunnololz/summit
Licensed under AGPL-3.0
I’ve been using interstellar (alexandrite on desktop) for some time and rather like it. Nice clean and useful UI, a bit buggy at times. Only other one I tried was voyager but wasn’t a huge fan.
I’m trying Blorp right now, since I do not want to figure out how to side load Jerboa onto my Android. (Thanks Google you bag of dicks.) So far Blorp is great, my only complaint being I wish three was a way to increase text/font size because I am old now and my eyeballs don’t work as well as they did.
Blorp dev here. I think you should be able to increase this via some system setting, though admittedly I’ve only tested this on iOS. The goal was to read whatever os preference you set for font size, but if this isn’t working for people, I may need to add an app level override.
I made the native font bigger on my phone and it fixed it. Thanks!
