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what lemmy app do you recommend and why? (linux.community)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Connect.

I like to have posts and comments as small as possible, without large pictures being downloaded before I click the post, and it must have a dark mode.

I also tried Jerboa and Voyager, and while they're also customizable, I couldn't get it exactly right. Maybe it's possible now, but I can't be bothered to keep up to date on three apps when Connect does it just fine.

I'm not sure what any of them look like by default. I basically set out to recreate the way I used RiF for Reddit, which also wasn't the default.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I've been using Jerboa for that reason. Condensed information so I'm not constantly scrolling.

What's Connect look like for you?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

The ol boosteroo! Nice and simple.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Boost, boost have always been my favorite, on Reddit and now Lemmy. Cant say more then i just like it, and like the developer

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I also use Boost because of one nice feature: it highlights new comments in a different color.

I had to turn that feature on in the settings, and it's very convenient when revisiting an active post.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I use Connect, and I have no complaints.

Tried Jerboa early on, but at the time it was super buggy. Hopefully it's better now - I feel like a FOSS app is a way better option for Lemmy just on principle.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

Voyager. It economizes on screen real estate, and has similar (therefore, familiar to me) ergonomics as Relay did back at the old place.

Tight design that stays out of the way, and updates frequently.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Eternity for lemmy is peak user experience imo

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Racoon for Lemmy still have some rough edges, but is really cool and nice looking.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Jerboa. Because it works alright, it's open source and it's the Lemmy team's app.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (9 children)

I'm biased because I chat a lot with the developers, but I'd highly recommend Thunder - very sleek, very customizable, VERY nice compact mode, and a very welcoming group of people. If you try it and feel like something big is missing, they're quite responsive on github! Been quite impressed with the leaps they've made with features on every release.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Thunder does look quite nice, but sadly my long defunct keyboard app doesn't work with it, and they weren't able to get the apk to test a fix for it. (But they did try.) You'd think, of all things, a keyboard and input field wouldn't have compatibility issues, but I guess that's Android for ya.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Oh, that's a bummer :( what happens when you try to use it?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I second Thunder. Only a few minor gripes from me but switching from sync (gross ads) has been just fine

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Thunder is a great mix of functions and UI. The compact mode is really great.

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