Spyke
lemmy.world

I do the Voyager. Can't remember how I landed on it, but it works good

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I only remember switching to Voyager because I was having problems with images and other such things loading when I was using Jerboa when I first jumped ship to Lemmy.

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Love jerboa. It was rough at first but the bugs got worked out pretty quick. Now it's perfect, all the features I need and nothing that I dont

1
Dil
is.hardlywork.ing

Thunder has become my main, has the least issues for me, been meaning to customize arctic since its a bit quicker being native. Thunder will sometimes take a bit to post a comment.

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Its prob because of my self hosted instance being iffy(goes down for a few seconds at a time because all of my cpus will go from 18% to 100% for a second sometimes, think friendica causes it), the other apps dont have issues reconnecting when it tweaks, thunder I usually have to force close a few times before it works again, thats more of a shoddyinstance issue with the app.

1

Same! "open in new tab", history, and bookmarking are the big winners for me. I have Jerboa just to see what things look like on another platform tho.

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Voyager, because it was the most mature and feature complete app available when I left Reddit and I don’t fancy switching again without good reason.

It was a bit of a learning curve initially, coming from RiF, but I’m used to it now and rarely encounter any issues.

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Flagstaffreply
programming.dev

I actually still use Boost for Reddit because it's so incredible and unbeatable (especially for moderating), but I decided to lean more open-source otherwise.

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MP3Martinreply
programming.dev

Allow me to use Boost for Reddit after the API changes

Edit: or you probably mean Boost for Lemmy

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Flagstaffreply
programming.dev

You don't need to patch it; you just need to be a mod of a subreddit. I've had no problem continuing with using regular Boost for Reddit post-API restriction, as a mod in various places.

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MP3Martinreply
programming.dev

It stopped working for me, so I just patched it instead of moderating a sub

1

Agree, and I have tested a bunch of them so far. It's just so clean!

4
sh.itjust.works

I use Boost. I tried a few others, and wanted to pick an open source option, but I never found one with UI I was satisfied with.

9

Just saying, I'm a huge Boost fan (donated, even) and still use its Reddit app to this day. Thunder is marvelous.

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orizereply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Do not use Boost, it is tracking you and selling your data.

Use Jerboa or another trackingless alternative

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The app clearly explains that there are two options: a free version with ads and tracking or a paid version with no tracking or ads. Myself and lots of other users are happy to pay the developer for their work, and enjoy Boost with zero tracking or data selling.

If you prefer other apps, or if you only use FOSS, then don't use Boost. It is not and has never claimed to be FOSS. But for me, it's a great app, and having tried 10+ other lemmy clients, I was happy to pay for Boost. I just much prefer the ui and don't think it's wrong to pay a few bucks to a developer who makes an app I like.

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Flagstaffreply
programming.dev

@[email protected] mentioned it, so you're the 2nd.

I just prefer to use something recent if possible; Eternity was last updated in August versus Thunder, just this month, in F-Droid. It looks probably fine, though.

3

Not in eternity apparently!

Edit: actually I found it, apparently I don't have very good attention to detail when scrolling lemmy

2

Just the web interface for me - it does everything I want, so I have an instance of Firefox on my phone dedicated to social media, with always open tabs for Lemmy, Discuit, Tildes and Pixelfed.

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Old reddit/mlmym on desktop and Sync on Android for me.

4

I think it’s linked in the Mlem community? I actually can’t remember lol. Maybe it’s on the GitHub???

1

PieFed in Firefox on the desktop and Chrome on Android, because this way I can make it full screen there.

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The standard Lemmy Web UI on desktop. Eternity on Android.

4

Was using connect for nearly two years but more and more issues are being introduced and old ones not solved despite a few updates this last month. So currently I have moved over to Voyager, I prefer the way connect is laid out etc but Voyager actually works and as a bonus I can moderate from it.

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Wish I could have used Thunder but it didn't support older phones (think it was related to something about a certificate with Flutter???). I just use Connect now and customized it to be how Baconreader was for me. Been a great app so far.

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jimmy90reply
lemmy.world

it does render post comments at full depth (so all of them) in about 60% of the time of JS frameworks

that equates to a fraction of a second on most computers but it really does work better than the others. you can only really tell on massive posts with over 300 comments

ooh actually the other good feature is that from a cold start (empty window) it will render the page on the server side which means the page displays much quicker. the JS frameworks normally load the skeleton/engine first and then load the data and render the page

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jimmy90reply
lemmy.world

it's a minimalist experience at the moment so it's very useful but far from full featured

i do use it all the time though (using it to write this) so maybe i should release it officially soon

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jimmy90reply
lemmy.world

it's already out there darling, just not publicised

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lemmy.world

Sync. I would use thunder, but it currently cannot do some very basic shit like messaging threads with specific users.

Once they add that feature I'll probably switch to thunder full time.

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Thunder is better in pretty much every other way though. Just need them to implement a way to have direct messages with people is all.

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Flagstaffreply
programming.dev

Off-topic: How do you deal with uBlock Origin's reduced abilities in Chrome? That'd be an intolerable video experience for me, personally.

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remonreply
ani.social

I haven't noticed any reduced abilities, yet.

But that will be when I switch.

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Flagstaffreply
programming.dev

It's YouTube; uBO pre-Manifest v3 was able to completely hide YouTube video commercials that show to non-subscribers, and on Mozilla browsers, it still can. I haven't recently seen an ad in YouTube except when on Chromium browsers.

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It still works perfectly fine for me, including on youtube.

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