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There’s like 40 of them lol. I personally like Voyager, but there are a bunch of really good options.
many of them are archived, outdated or simply removed. that list needs a total recheck.
Last commits shows the one that haven’t been updated for a while
I’ve tried a few, voyager fits what I need.
I really like boost
I used RIF in the before times, and boost is the closest thing I’ve found to duplicate that experience.
Same, RIF to Boost. It’s been a great transition.
https://join-lemmy.org/apps is a better list
Absolutely not. It hasn’t been updated in forever and is missing a bunch of good apps. The one above automatically updates based on the releases, it’s sortable, searchable, etc.
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Connect gang rise
See the website https://join-lemmy.org/apps
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Sync allows user tagging, but it’s a feature of the Ultra version since those tags are stored on sync’s private server. Ultra got a few other perks such as in-app translation, text extraction (from pictures / screenshots) etc., but it’s rather pricey.
I use sync and yeah it’s paid, but I thought it was worth it
I do as well, just wanted to state all the facts.
That list is pretty outdated. A better resource for new users is https://www.lemmyapps.com/
There is like 40 apps
I use voyager which I know is available on iOS. There’s a lot of android options as well.
Voyager gang.
I use Voyager on Android phone and iPad.
It’s not perfect, but it’s the least sucky Lemmy experience I’ve had so far.
Voyager
Voyager is good in some ways but I think Mlem is better in a bunch more ways. I really dislike that in voyager when you are typing a comment you can’t pull down to see the thread or anything at all as it tries to delete your comment. Why in the world would I want to delete my comment by pulling down like that? So many apps do that, like YouTube.
I find mlem better in all ways except is has all sorts of annoying haptic actions and weird alerts, but they seem to be attenuating with each update
I use voyager on android and I’m happy with it so far.
I use Voyager on Android with the iOS theme.
Tell me to didn’t try without saying you didn’t try.
I searched Lemmy in the app store. I didn’t (and still don’t) understand why there are a bunch of third-party apps that connect to Lemmy. But it seemed like Voyager was popular, so I went with that.
I would read up on how the fediverse works if you don’t understand why there are so many “third-party” apps.
These 2 things are not related though? Reddit is not part of the fediverse and had plenty of third party apps until they changed the API.
It does answer why there’s no official app, which is the question.
There were many third party Reddit apps before Reddit had their official app. And you could argue that Jerboa is the official Lemmy app since it is made by one of the main Lemmy devs.
It kinda does. Why are there no open source apps in the app store?
Is there any open source code for iOS or Android apps?
Lemmy is not one centralized entity or corporation, so it is impossible for a first party app to exist. Think of it like a collection of separately run clubs/groups that all communicate with each other over the same medium. But the medium is not run by a single person or company.
However, Jerboa is the app made by Lemmy devs themselves, so I suppose it’s as close to “first party” as you can get.
Personally, I use and prefer Voyager.
That’s because there’s no “first party”. Just protocols and people
Ah, so you were looking for something that was “first party”?
Yes. But I think im starting to understand how this works
Totally fair, and there are actually some official or “first party” apps of parts of the fediverse, like the Mastodon app, which is (or at least was) somewhat subpar when compared to third party offerings, but I believe was put out mainly to give new users a starting point.
I recommend trying a few of them out to see which one(s) you like:
- Connect
- Boost
- Jerboa
- Sync
I liked Jerboa, but after a lemmy upgrade, Jerboa took too long to support the new protocol, so I switched to Voyager. I would probably be using Jerboa again noe if there was a simple way of exporting my blocks et al. back to Jerboa.
I still use Jerboa. I’m a fan.
Unless an app is doing something weird, your blocks should be tied to the account and not the app.
Thunder has been great so far
I like the link previews. Not getting rickrolled again.
We’re no strangers to love…
It loves to freeze up randomly while scrolling and take fucking forever to become responsive again (usually I just kill it), but ignoring that, it’s a pretty solid app.
No way to reply to direct messages, though. Gotta pull up the instance site. So other than that…
I use Voyager for iOS. It’s basically an Apollo clone.
And for Android, check out Sync, it works great.
The developer is a really nice guy and is very communicative with folks, he ran Sync for reddit for years before reddit became enshittified - why we’re all here to begin with.
I’ve been using Jerboa, which does the job well enough.
If you used RIF for reddit it will be very familiar.
Voyager for Iiphone is the best I’ve found
Voyager for Android is the best I’ve found
Eternity is good.
To name a few others, Liftoff, Thunder, Jerboa, Voyager are worth a look.
Boost is great too
Ftw
Many of the third party Reddit apps switched to Lemmy when the API got locked down. I’m using Sync for Lemmy, but there’s plenty others.
I’m using Jerboa
I like Connect, it’s been pretty good so far.
I had to switch to Jerboa because Connect kept glitching out on a bunch of posts where it would load the image for a second, then just give a blank screen. So you’d need to either keep clicking out and reloading to hope it worked, or load externally in a browser.
I think that might be fixed now - there were some image related fixes in a recent version.
