With all these new options springing up, I’m a little outdated. What’s the best app to use right now?
I’ll put my thoughts on this post as it showed up as I scrolled to get to the one from a day or two ago…I have 5 different Lemmy apps installed right now. Figure that there is going to be a lot of experimentation and work being done right now, so it’s nice to see what everyone is doing.
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Jerboa - Personally, I really like Jerboa. Being the most mature of the bunch shows. It’s well laid out, has just enough UI options, and works. Except that now Beehaw isn’t on v0.18.
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Connect - Not open source at this time, I get why that matters to people, but not a deal breaker for me. Typing this comment in Connect. Just updated this morning with additional and redesigned settings. There is about a thumbs width of space between this comment box and my keyboard. That’s kind of yucky.
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Liftoff - I’m hopeful for this one. It LOOKS the best to me, but there’s some weird UX issues. Biggest being that the only place to see your replies/notifications is the top of the Home feed with no quick way to get there if you’ve been scrolling.
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Thunder - I can see the potential, but it’s not for me right now. No buttons on comments, you have to use swipe gestures. But posts have buttons. Changing UI options doesn’t actually change anything 95% of the time.
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Summit - You want a zero frills, dark mode way of browsing and interacting? This is that. I’d love a FEW options (like light mode), but it’s fast and easy. Uhh…just realized I can’t find a way to make a new post…
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Wefwef.app - Last one. Really slick looking and responsive, but too iOS-y for me. It also claims to have light mode, but I can’t figure out how to switch it. Really polished though.
Is there a reason why thunder is only on a weird, very 90s looking app store and not F-Droid?
Izzyondroid (the weird 90s looking store) can be used with the (or any) fdroid client. You just have to add the repository in the settings. Fdroid builds all the apps from source themselves. You need to add a request for packaging and even after that it takes a bit of time until the app is approved. It seems nobody has requested the inclusion yet. Izzy on the other hand takes the developer build binaries and publishes. The requirements are lower to be included here. So apps tend to be in izzy first and then get eventually added to fdroid proper.
The apk is available on the github page, so you can just download and install from there.
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I’m using jerboa for now, I intend to investigate in a couple months to find the best one, things are changing way too rapidly right now and I’d end up going through so many and that can’t be great for security.
On Android…
I am eternally grateful for the welcoming start to fediverse apps in Jerboa.
Connect is visually nice in places, but not a fit for me (so far).
I’m REALLY enjoying functionality of Summit so far - don’t know how to submit a new post in a community in app though and it’s driving me crazy that I may be missing something obvious…
I’ve been using Connect for Lemmy and so far it’s unbeatable
Waiting for Sync
Sync is what I used for reddit for years. Is there a timeline for sync for lemmy or is it just started?
See r/SyncforLemmy. The dev stated an ETA of 3-6 weeks for a first release with very basic functionality.
On Android…
I am eternally grateful for the welcoming start to fediverse apps in Jerboa.
Connect is visually nice in places, but not a fit for me (so far).
I’m REALLY enjoying functionality of Summit so far - don’t know how to submit a new post in a community in app though and it’s driving me crazy that I may be missing something obvious…
I’ve currently settled with Liftoff. I got very used to Jerboa and was perfectly happy with it, but the last few updates broke it to the point of unusability for me.
Liftoff isn’t perfect, though its pretty good. My biggest gripe is that as far as I can tell there’s no button to go straight to the top of the feed, which is really annoying when you’ve been scrolling for ages and have to scroll all the way back up. Hopefully that will be added soon.
I’ve had the best luck with Liftoff so far. I used Jerboa for awhile until it kept crashing within seconds of opening it. Not sure how much this affects it, but I’m using GrapheneOS instead of stock Android on a Pixel 6
Is liftoff in the play store? I can’t find it.
Here’s the github link for the latest release:
Thanks!
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I was using Jerboa, but recently moved to Thunder and enjoying it a lot more.
Although the Reddit Sync app Dev said he’s going to make Sync for Lemmy, so I’ll swap to that once it’s released.
I prefer using a firefox PWA but I have the scrolling bug no matter what browser I use - the page keeps jumping to top when I’m trying to read.
So I’ve started using liftoff this morning and so I agree with others in this thread, it looks the best to me. It’s not as smooth but I find it each much easier to tell which post comes from which instance than with connect. The community icons and titles are larger and the cards seem more separated.
Any that are optimized for tablets yet?
Jerboad has been my go-to. I’ve tried liftoff, connect, and some of the webapps, But I found that jerboa has worked most reliably for how I use Lemmy.
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I was using Jerboa but I’ve been having problems with it over the last few days and was getting annoyed. I saw this morning that there was another app, Connect for Lemmy. I’ve deleted Jerboa now because the connect ui is much nicer and hasn’t been crashing so far.
I was using jerboa for the last couple of days but today I tried thunder again after it didn’t work last time. I really love it. It comes really close to baconreader, which I have used for the last 11 years. I really love tapping comments to minimize them but still being able to read the parent comment. The only thing I would like is an option to sort comments, but as far as I know, no other app allows to do this
Liftoff and thunder. Liftoff has the feature of showing combined feed from multiple accounts so you can see things even when instance are defederated.
