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I'm trying to stop using Reddit, but it having an app I know about makes it have quite an advantage.

I know there's a few apps out there I can use to browse Lemmy, but I'm not sure about their names and the different features they offer.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (30 children)

I'm the developer of Summit. Unfortunately I don't see anyone mention Summit but I would suggest giving it a try as well.

I think I've been a bit slower to implement certain features compared to the other apps, but the app is heavily focused on scalability and performance. Give it a try just in case you might like it. Play store link: Summit for Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Looks really good! Dont be afraid to shill it :)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

If you are a fellow reddit refugee, the Sync for Lemmy is coming soon.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The developer of Sync for reddit is creating a lemmy app. Can't wait to try it, as Sync was my favorite reddit app.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I'm new but Jerboa works like a charm on my Samsung, very fast and responsive.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

My only complain is it's a little too easy to click on the sub instead of the title, other than that Jerboa has been great.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's bit buggy, sometimes I press to open a sub and I need it used the internal browser and sometimes it takes me there within the app. No idea why it has two options.

Since the most recent update it closes wben I bookmark something and keeps saying to log into my instance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Because not all the instance links has been added to Jerboa. It's reported on github and hopefully will be fixed soon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My current problem with jerboa is that it keeps pestering me to update server to a newer version without giving me a clue how to do it.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

These are the apps I'm using rn. So far i like thunder, connect and liftoff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you link lemming? That's the only one i can't see to find

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've tried jeroba, liftoff and thunder. My experience with jeroba is mostly negative. It's not good enough to be a full replacement for using a web browser and with the new update it crashes on my older, not bleeding edge phone. It can't even open lemmy links people post half the time.

Thundar is ok. I'm not a fan of its interface but at least you can actually browse communities you aren't subscribed to.

The third one I've tried is Liftoff and it's the best one I've seen so far. It's about the same in terms of quality as Boost for reddit. You can explore new communities in other instances, have more than one active account logged in to be able to simultaneously use different instances and best of all there's a search.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Connect is great for me so far...lftoff wouldnt accept my login details and Jerboa only returns a server error message

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

currently using Jerboa, but waiting on Sync for Lemmy to be available! [email protected] to follow progress.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I tried them all (Jerboa, Thunder, Liftoff, Lemmynade) and I like Jerboa the most. The layout is clean, compact and it works really well.

I was a Slide user on Reddit so I'm waiting for it to be available for Lemmy!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This might sound crazy, but i am just using the website via Firefox on my phone. Jerboa wasnt doing it for me, and someone recommended just using the website... I prefer it over jerboa. I imagine with all the development going on, there will be something better showing up, but until it does, I'm just going old school.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jerboa was doing fine for me until Jerboa got updated beyond the Lemmy instances I've been browsing (which aren't updating because the new Lemmy release removes the captcha, which then prevents new sign ups). Now Jerboa says the biggest Lemmy instance is below the minimum version Jerboa supports, and refuses to open the instance. Helluva bump in the road...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I tried lift off from Github. Its just like Infinity for Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jerboa, works better than any other app atm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At this exact moment might be a little buggy - Jerboa updated to support Lemmy v0.18.x only and Lemmy.world remains at 0.17.4 for a bit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Is there any word on when lemmy.world will be updated to 0.18? I really hate scrolling through the feed, because of the auto-refresh. And I saw that auto-refresh was removed in 0.18.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I'm currently switching between Liftoff, Thunder, and Jerboa, altho Jerboa refuses to let me sign in, 'cause server version BS.

Liftoff has a nice UI IMO, and I like Thunder's navigation, so I'll prolly end up using one of the 2. Notably, Liftoff is more feature-complete than Thunder, so... Depends on what you want I guess.

Well that got out of hand quickly.

Have a nice day!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Connect until sync comes out

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'm using Liftoff as of this morning when Jerboa started crashing every few minutes. So far, so good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

+1 for liftoff! Still supports older and newer versions of lemmy, unlike jerboa.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Liftoff is my choice. Nice clean UI and covers every function i need

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been using Jerboa for quite a while now. Everything has worked alright, with no big complaints.

After the 0.18 update, I have had issues with using lemmy.world, so I decided to give yourbsuggestion a try instead.

Turns out I had already installed Liftoff, and was quite surprised now that I gave it a second try.

It's clearly still in development, and there are some things from Jerboa that I will miss, but I'm set on giving it a sincere try this time around.

If anyone is interested, its available in the Play Store:

Play Store

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Another satisfied Connect user here, at least for the time being. It needs polishing, but it seems to just work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I am using https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect

Looks pretty good to me, it can make text larger so yeah. Like 10 minutes in rn though lol

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Liftoff is amazing and the two main developers for it have been very active with updates and changes since they forked it from the old Lemmur project.

wefwef is a very slick web-app which follows iOS design guidelines that I also enjoy using. It's easy to install via Safari/Chrome/Firefox on both iOS and Android.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Jerboa - a bit buggy still, and sometimes posts take a while to load, but its features are fantastic.

Connect - I love this app, and I tried to switch to it, but being unable to disable "swipe to upvote" is a dealbreaker for me.

Liftoff - I just switched to this. It's very polished and responsive, and accomodates my preferred way of scrolling and interacting with communities.

Lemmotif - pure minimalist doomscrolling. It doesn't even let you log in to vote, comment, or post. Blazingly fast, and I love it. Uninstalled.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Jerboa if you're on Android but it has a login issue that makes it unable to connect to instances that are still running the 0.17.4 version of the backend (and among them is lemmy.world). You'd have to wait for those instances to update to the 0.18.1 when it comes out before you can use Jerboa reliably.

Meanwhile, you can just open the web UI in your mobile browser and it will work just fine.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I love Jerboa, but can't right now because lemmy.world doesn't support the latest update. Currently using Liftoff for the meantime.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm currently using Liftoff since lemmy.world isnt on 0.18 yet and therefore doesn't work with Jerboa.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

lemmy.world is waiting for 0.18.1 because 0.18 removed captcha as a consequence of a change away from websocket, i think. they announced they arent going to update until its added back in, which the lemmy developers promised to do.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I just use firefox most of the apps I have tried did not work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Until Sync for Lemmy comes out, I've been using the chrome Web app via Chrome browser.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Currently using Jerboa. I want simplicity and no clutter. It would be nice if there was a "collapse all" for comments. And would like to be able to double-click an image and have it zoom in.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I actually just switched from Jerboa to Connect based on this thread, and I'm loving it. Much nicer UI and easier to use. I think I'll stay with this until Sync is ready!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

why not web browser. that's what i use

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Another list I got from a similar post on r/RedditAlternatives. I personally used Slide for reddit, so I'm excited about getting something similar for Lemmy. For now, I got Jerboa from the play store and am enjoying it.

https://lemmy.world/post/465785

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