Hi fellow sync-ers,

Having joined Lemmy recently, I have been having a ton of fun. However accessing Lemmy through my mobile browser has been an awful experience, similar to my past Reddit experience till I found Sync.

I'm not sure how much longer I can tolerate the browser experience, and am hesitating jumping on a app. Where's your head at about this?

Edit (4 days later)

I've been on Connect and has been 8/10 so far. Gonna dual use with liftoff after seeing the comments.

I did a 5 minute ctr+F to see which were the most popular apps/ interfaces. Not sorted by pos/neg, just mentions.

  • wefwef/ voyager - 46
  • connect - 43
  • Liftoff - 33
  • Jerboa - 23
  • Thunder - 16
  • Firefox - 13
  • Thunder - 16
  • Old.lemmy - 5
  • Alexandrite - 4
  • Vivaldi - 2

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[โ€“] 40 points 3 years ago

Jerboa for Android

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  • [โ€“] 37 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    On mobile, I'm using the Voyager app, which lemmy.world has installed as an alternative front end. Seems to work great.

    On desktop, I'm using the amazing Alexandrite UI (https://alexandrite.app/) which solves all of my interface annoyances with the regular Lemmy UI (infinite scroll, opening posts without losing place in the feed, easily accessible communities list).

    I love how flexible Lemmy is proving with its UI options... there really does seem to be something for everyone!

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    [โ€“] 26 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Voyager (former wefwef) quickly turned out the best. Good updates every day just made the experience the best. Go to their webpage from your browser of choice and install it from there.

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  • [โ€“] 23 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm using Connect until Sync is available.

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  • [โ€“] 19 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    For now I am using connect for lemmy. Which is great! And grown in Canada.

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    [โ€“] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Highly recommend Connect for Lemmy. I've been using it practically since I started, and it's been consistently great (as long as your instance is up of course)

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Using Voyager, the really downside was the iOS inspired theming but, with latest updates android theming is supported. It's still in beta but promising. Better than that native iOS look ๐Ÿ˜‘

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Connect for now. It isn't perfect but pretty good. Feed isn't as smooth (images load in later kicks your scrolling up) and you can't open links in it automatically.

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    [โ€“] 13 points 3 years ago

    I use Connect for Lemmy, the UI design is great.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Thunder. I tried every single Android app, and this is the only one without any major issues.

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    [โ€“] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Using Jerboa app on Android...had a rocky start but it has updated a whole lot in the past weeks, getting close to 5/5 probably 3.5/5 right now

    Even with reddit I seldomly used the browser on PC, if I'm home and on my PC I generally play games or YouTube/streaming shows rarely browsed reddit on PC

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    [โ€“] 10 points 3 years ago

    Jerboa on mobile and WebUI on PC

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 3 years ago

    Web interface for now while I wait for Sync.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I've been using Liftoff on Android. It's way better than mobile browsing but no where near the same level as Sync. Biggest pain points are searching and subscribing to new instances as well as an insane amount of cache builds up and never clears on its own.

    Currently I can't load my subscribed instances but I think that's a temporary bug...

    I am eagerly and patiently awaiting Sync for Lemmy release.

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    [โ€“] 8 points 3 years ago

    I'm using Voyager, it's simple and my design of choice.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 3 years ago

    I use the browser with the old.reddit look, and Connect on Android until the Sync app comes out.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 3 years ago

    Jerboa for Lemmy for me. Pretty smooth experience.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    App - Jerboa, mainly. I tried a few others and kept Liftoff installed, but keep going back to Jerboa.

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    [โ€“] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Browser at home and Jerboa on the go.

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    [โ€“] 8 points 3 years ago

    I was switching between Liftoff and Connect, but lately I've just been using Connect. It's gotten a lot better in a short time.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Mostly browser. But when I'm off the computer, I use Liftoff.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 3 years ago

    For now I'm holding myself over with Jerboa

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 3 years ago

    Voyager checking in, pretty decent apart from common freezes while scrolling.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm actually interacting with the servers directly using my psychic powers.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Browser basically 100% of the time.

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    [โ€“] 6 points 3 years ago

    Liftoff was the first app I tried, still very happy with it and mostly using Lemmy through it.

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  • Using Voyager, formally WefWef.

    It's constantly getting updated and they welcome feedback so I would definitely recommend lol

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 3 years ago

    I've been hopping around between the different Android apps and PWAs however, I always seem to come back to Voyager (wefwef). My primary app on Reddit was sync and hope to return to it if it functions as it did on the other site. If not, I am enjoying Connect and Jerboa. Thunder, Summit, and Liftoff have small things I would like to see tweaked and/or they have minor bugs that they are still ironing out, but I am not yet sold on a specific app yet until we get further down the road.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 3 years ago

    Browser, wefwef. Former Apollo user very happy with this interface.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 years ago

    PWA with wefwef. But also checking out the new apps here and there.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 years ago

    Waiting for Boost

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 years ago

    While other apps offer a nice interface I find the jerboa app by far the best app for actually posting and commenting /actually interacting

    This is important because I find that interacting with communities is actually a much better way to get meaningful engagement of Lemmy than it was with Reddit (I.e: lurking)

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 years ago

    web browser on desktop, but if synclemmy is going to be as hot as reddit syncreddit, then mobile usage will jump.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 years ago

    Currently using CONNECT on the phone and browser on PC. More or less exactly the way I used to browse reddit really

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 years ago

    I have jerboa installed but it was buggy so I mostly use a browser (Vivaldi)

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