I just made the switch to Lemmy and I’m curious what everyone’s using to browse it. Looking for recommendations for both mobile and desktop.
Mobile: Been testing a few apps.
- Voyager’s been solid so far - clean interface and works well. Only downside is no push notifications.
- Also tried Boost but it has some display issues - embedded icons don’t show up right and GIFs in comments are way too small.
Desktop: Still figuring out what to use here. What do you all prefer?
Any recommendations would be helpful. Thanks.
mlmym on desktop, voyager on fast phone, boost on slow phone
Using Raccoon for now after having a few issues with voyager. Liking it so far.
Voyager on mobile because it’s open source
And thats it. I don’t use Lemmy on desktop
I respect it
i just started using Interstellar on Android. Really liking it so far.
I switched to Summit for now, been great
Browser
I use Summit on my phone, Mlem on my iPad. I don’t browse from pc.
I am currently trying out Summit, crazy nice app so far
It’s awesome
Voyager can’t show profiles, that’s a big minus
However it blows everything else out of the water in every other way
What profiles?
Exactly
Just the regular browser. It just works.
Yeah, particularly opening posts in tabs is something I miss from most apps…
On your phone?
Yes. It works.
Voyager on Android, default browser UI on desktop. Although, I might try one of the alternative browser UIs as the Lemmy.world default UI seems to load slowly (or even hang entirely, without refreshing content) for me.
Voyager looks really good on Android, heard about it being on iOS too. I’ve been trying out Alexandite as UI on desktop
Jerboa on android, default frontend in the browser on desktop. Jerboa is visually great, especially if you were used to RIF, and works very well. But since it’s made by one of the main lemmy devs, it’ll never support mbin or piefed.
I use the browser while on PC and Voyager on mobile since I like the minimalist interface, don’t need push notifications, and find the “user tags” feature is pretty nifty :)
How does the user tags feature work?
It displays a net score of the number of times you upvoted/downvoted a user beside their username. You can enable that feature under “Settings” in Voyager.
I wonder if that feature is synced or if its local on my phone only
Not synced, it’s a voyager-only feature
Boost on my phone, and browser on PC. It’s what works for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’ve been trying out the frontend Alexandrite on browser on PC, thoughts?
Not tried it, so I don’t have thoughts on it
Mlem on my phone, I get on pretty well with it
Sync on my phone and any old browser on the PC.
