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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Arctic on iOS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I’m also in voyager.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Boost baby!

Launch the rocket! 🚀

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Eternity which is based on Infinity for Reddit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

How would you have worded it? I wanted to cover all the bases lol.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Chrome. (let the downvotes commence)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I haven't noticed any reduced abilities, yet.

But that will be when I switch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Voyager app in Android, vger.app on my laptop

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

I tried a few and settled on Voyager. I like it a lot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Eternity (infinity for Lemmy)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

Use Jerboa or another trackingless alternative

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Connect. It feels like RIF

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

It's so cool to see so many different ways to experience Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Photon or tesseract (for admin stuff) on PC, thunder on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Surprised I'm the first to say Eternity

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

@[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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, I guess I didn't read the full comment haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Where's your search bar, soldier?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

one i wrote myself in rust

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"Impressive." - Darth Vader

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Share this magnificent creation already!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Hey, some people crave minimalism and speed!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

cool, well thanks for the encouragement

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

Voyager on iOS, Firefox on PC

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Currently on mbin

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Mlem (TestFlight version)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Hmm, I haven't noticed any such delay. Hopefully that will get fixed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Firefox on all the platforms I use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Boost on Android

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