I use both Sync and Jerboa. Jerboa because it was there first in the great migration, and Sync because it's a nice UI and I wanted to reward the dev for coming over from Reddit.
Edit- funnily enough, I'm posting this on my Kbin account since Beehaw defeded from Lemmy.World
A combination of Boost for my primary account, and Sync for my alternate(s). I don’t need two, but this helps me to better visually separate where I am.
Voyager. It’s the only one with a “hide posts I’ve already read” button that I’ve tried, and any app without that button isn’t worth even comparing to.
Oh yeah, there’s also an option to make All exclude communities you’re subbed to, which makes it way easier to discover new communities.
I use eternity; I havent found something that it struggles with yet. Can anyone here let me know why use decided against eternity? I dont really know its limitations since I’ve only used it.
I tried jerboa, voyager (formally known as wefwef) and eternity and settled for voyager. It just feels very smooth, has all the functionality I need and looks clean. No reason to look further for me.
I use Connect for Lemmy. It’s as free, but closed source. The developer is available and fairly responsive in !lemmyconnect
I recommend opting into the beta version on the Playstore to get some features a little earlier. For example, Lemmy 0.19 introduces the new Scaled and Controversial sort options, which are amazing – particularly Scaled if you’re subscribed to smaller communities. However, Connect for Lemmy only has that sort option in the beta at the moment.
The only thing I don’t like is that you cannot paste images from the clipboard into comments.
I’ve kept coming back to Voyager. The main draw is the functionality marking posts read on scroll, hiding read posts, and otherwise being feature complete (nothing broken as far as I can tell, and is keeps up with Lemmy updates).
So far, out of the suggestions in the comments, the only ones that are FOSS and currently work with the latest versions of lemmy are Jerboa, Thunder, and Voyager. Liftoff and Eternity are also FOSS, but haven’t been updated since July and October respectively, so may have issues if your instance is running version 0.19+.
Boost and Sync are both closed source and I really wish people would stop recommending them in a community specifically for free and open-source software. I’m sure they’re good apps and I don’t begrudge devs making money from their work, but if they do I don’t want them getting free advertising in the comments of a FOSS-specific community.
When the title is “best Lemmy app” and the body is just “which Lemmy app do you use for Android and why” you can understand why someone would just scroll through and contribute their experience with Sync right?
Just like every other link aggregator: people on All don’t pay attention to the specific community.
It’s not malice, just people being oblivious. It’s not worth getting worked up about.
I definitely can understand it, but that isn’t mutually exclusive with me wishing people would take a second to check the community they’re commenting in.
I’ve never implied it was malice (suggesting closed-source software in a FOSS community is a pretty weak example in maliciousness even if on purpose!) And really I wouldn’t say I’m worked up, I just wanted to bring this up because I’ve noticed this type of thing happen across a couple FOSS communities on lemmy and maybe someone will see my original comment and be more mindful of it next time.
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