Hey I figured I’d make a post and see the state of current lemmy appage, since I’m looking for a good one. So far I’ve used Jerboa, Thunder, Eternity, and Voyager.

Eternity seems to be a dead project, it’s full of bugs and hasn’t recieved an update since The Exodus

Thunder seems ok and is what I’m using right now, but I can’t seem to send direct messages, and can’t “Don’t blur NSFW preview on NSFW comms” which sucks. The messaging is the dealbreaker for me.

Voyager I used momentarily but the UI was not my favorite.

Jerboa seems OK if unpolished (which is ok to me) but I don’t trust the rabid idealogue that makes it and using another instance of his site is one thing, but installing an app is another. Has it been audited to confirm lack of spyware?

Ideally through this I can find one with instance blocking, DMs, and a decent UI. What’re your experiences with the current state of lemmy apps?

  • sag@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    After Raccon4Lemmy dies. !summit@lemmy.world is best for me. It’s closed source though but it doesn’t show any ads unlike some other popular Lemmy apps.

    • Zangoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Try Raccoon, the UI feels very similar to what I remember from liftoff, imo it’s worth trying. It’s still a little bit beta and I’ve run into formatting issues a few times but the UI is so much better than Jerboa’s and has a lot of nice features (like linking cross-posts within the app) that Jerboa doesn’t.

  • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Anyone else get a lot of “Failed to load media” messages on images? I particularly see them on science memes in both Voyager and Arctic on iOS. Haven’t tested on android yet.

  • arudesalad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You can look at the app list on join-lemmy.org. Ignore the big scary warnings on there about non foss apps unless you want a foss app. Most of the proprietary apps are just made by hobbyists who don’t want the world to see their spaghetti code.

  • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So far I tried voyager, eternity, liftoff and Jerboa. Liftoff wasn’t usable and eternity and voyager weren’t exactly my type of UI. I stick with jerboa. I really like the simplicity and how clean and intuitive it is. Only thing lacking is the ability to create communities.

    • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Only thing lacking is the ability to create communities.

      Seems weird that it’s not implemented. I guess they assume you’re not supposed to create communities every day.

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    These are my favorite apps in preference order right now:

    • Summit
    • Boost
    • Eternity
    • Voyager
    • Thunder
    • Sync (seriously the damn mark as read on scroll needs to be fixed to be on top 2 again…)

    I’d tell my issues with each client just as I did with Sync, but I don’t want to sound mean… (Also they are very specific for my usage and my device I guess), so I chose to keep things positive because we have plenty of pretty good clients! :)

    Of course I am missing some other clients but those are the ones that stick in my “Social” folder the most time.

  • Aurelius@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m made Quiblr. Lot’s of cool features (For You feed, different post formats, etc.). Plus I tried to make the UI clean and intuitive.

    Just a web client right now. If there’s enough demand, I’ll make a native version.

    Lmk what you think

  • yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I started out with Memmy and was kinda meh about it. Not bad but not great. Then I found Voyager and never looked back. As a paid Apollo refugee, Voyager makes me almost forget that I’m on a different platform from the days of yore.

  • Makeshift@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Was on Voyager until it updated past my old OS. Current version of Voyager no longer supports my old 6S Plus.

    So now I’m on Thunder. It works. I liked Voyager better, but I won’t complain about an app that still works on my phone.