How are you accessing Lemmy now? Browser or app?

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
Goodie,

I’m using https://old.lemmy.world/ and waiting on Sync for mobile.

Keishee,

I tried wefwef (now Voyager) but was annoyed by its account/instance selector I’m now using Liftoff, it’s quite usable despite its meh design

radarsat1, (edited )

I was using Jerboa because i was used to Sync for reddit. But, I got a bit tired of how rough around the edges it is, so I switched to just installing my Lemmy instance front page as Firefox “app” on my phone and realized it’s not that bad as a UI, so sticking with it for now.

I’ll probably try apps again in the future but I feel more open to “installing” good web apps now. Incidentally I tried the same trick with Reddit’s mobile interface after Sync stopped working and realized it’s also not so awful as I remembered. I did prefer Sync but I’ll see how it goes with this method. So it’s mobile web interfaces on Android for me for now.

Having said that, in both cases I think I’d prefer a more “simple HTML” type experience like old reddit over these dynamic SPA things they both have going.

Miimikko,

I’m also using the Firefox “app” and every time I switch to another app or minimize the FF app it crashes FF. Does this happen for you too? Decided to just suffer through it cause I couldn’t find any fix for it.

danielfgom,
@danielfgom@lemmy.world avatar

I’m using the “Connect” app on Android

Jobe1105,

Same here since it’s the closest we have to Sync at the moment. It also lets me block entire instances, which is great since Lemmy itself doesn’t have this feature yet.

ComeHereOrIHookYou,
@ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.world avatar

App.

At the moment, I just use Connect on my phone and Wefwef/Voyager on Desktop (I access it via Firefox Sidebar)

Zstom6IP,

browser.

dissociationmuseum,

Currently just visiting on Vivaldi (mobile), but STOKED for Boost For Lemmy

renrenPDX,

Desktop browser on PC or tablet with multiple Lemmy instances pinned. I get different flavors of lemmy based on subscription. Also wefwef.app and old.lemmy. iOS Mlem and Memmy apps on phone.

Auduras,

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

unifier,

But why ? Liftoff is quite good imho

mr_m00,

I went from Liftoff to Jerboa as well. Liftoff is great but I just had a few nitpicks. Frame drops from time to time. Upvoting and commenting feels really slow. No button feedback when downloading images, I ended up downloading images multiple times.

unifier,

If you have github account tell.these issue to.Dev , I.am.sure they will.fix.it

guttermonk, (edited )
@guttermonk@lemmy.ml avatar

App - Thunder FTW

I really enjoy the double action swiping to up/down vote or to favorite/reply. Also, you can save your favorite default filter for the main feed.

Humanius,
@Humanius@lemmy.world avatar

For now I’m holding myself over with Jerboa

loom_in_essence,

Right now I’m on old.lemmy.world

But I also have Jerboa on my phone and Connect on my tablet. I like Connect more than Jerboa, but both of them have some quirks when browsing and reading. I really prefer the experience of the site.

KuroJ,

Firefox when I’m at my PC, and when I’m relaxing I switch between Connect on Android or Memmy on my iPad.

chrizbie,

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)

salarua,
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on my laptop, i access the Lemmy web frontend through Tangram. on mobile, i currently just access it through Firefox, but i’d like to switch to an app once i find one i like

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