Just the regular browser. It just works.
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On your phone?
Yes. It works.
Yeah, particularly opening posts in tabs is something I miss from most apps...
Thought I was the only one. As I was reading replies I was wondering if I was doing it wrong.
Boost on my phone, and browser on PC. It's what works for me Β―β \β _β (β γβ )β _β /β Β―
I've been trying out the frontend Alexandrite on browser on PC, thoughts?
Not tried it, so I don't have thoughts on it
Voyager has been great. No notifications is a plus. Haha
I use Summit on my phone, Mlem on my iPad. I donβt browse from pc.
I am currently trying out Summit, crazy nice app so far
It's awesome
Voyager on mobile because it's open source
And thats it. I don't use Lemmy on desktop
I respect it
I use the browser while on PC and Voyager on mobile since I like the minimalist interface, donβt need push notifications, and find the βuser tagsβ 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 βSettingsβ 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
I switched to Summit for now, been great
I've been using Jerboa since I signed up, I do have occasions where it can't connect or won't load my subscriptions but not too often. I'm not that heavy of a user though.
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
Been using it on IOS for years without issue
Web browser.
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.
Jeroba on mobile. I don't browse on my desktop. I tried Voyager for a while at first, but then it broke and I switched and haven't had any issues with Jeroba.
I use Mlem on my iPhone 11. I donβt use social media on my pc. I havenβt tried any other apps, but I havenβt felt a need to either.
Sync on my phone and any old browser on the PC.
Phone: Sync but it feels a bit broken
Web: Regular frontend
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
I use Eternity on Android, which is almost exclusively how I use Lemmy. When I use on desktop, I use old Lemmy.
Voyager. It feels good.
i just started using Interstellar on Android. Really liking it so far.
Mlem - in active development and the devβs are very responsive as far as new feature
Mlem, ios only?
Yes, iOS only.
Boost worked best for me after comparing a few apps for my phone. Coming from Relay it wasn't a 100% fit but good enough.
I don't use Lemmy much on desktop because I find all of the frontends lacking in comparison to old Reddit with RES. However Tesseract is my preferred frontend when I am on desktop.
Give Thunder a try on your phone, it looks good, but the performance for me is really bad
Mlem on my phone, I get on pretty well with it
Browser
Sync on my main tablet, because it has the best 2 column layout for my needs.
Connect on my phone where 2 column isn't really a big factor, with summit as an alternative on there because I never have decided which of the two I prefer.
I don't use lemmy on laptop/desktop because I dislike the experience via browser. It would be fine for passive scrolling I guess, but even with the various front end options, I run into more hassles than it's worth when even the meh apps handle lemmy better and I just don't need anything that could be gained via browser.
PC. I'm just using the web front end, which is decent. It looks like nobody really has an alternative, which is okay, but I do wish I could switch to backup instances more gracefully when there's downtime.
mlmym on desktop, voyager on fast phone, boost on slow phone
Voyager on phone and when i actually browse here on pc (rare event) i just use the native ui through the browser
Using Raccoon for now after having a few issues with voyager. Liking it so far.
The offical Jerboa client is great.