What is the best app to browse Lemmy
I currently use Blorp
I heard Jerboa is also good which one are you using? Best if app is available on fdroid
I’m trying Blorp right now, since I do not want to figure out how to side load Jerboa onto my Android. (Thanks Google you bag of dicks.) So far Blorp is great, my only complaint being I wish three was a way to increase text/font size because I am old now and my eyeballs don’t work as well as they did.
Blorp dev here. I think you should be able to increase this via some system setting, though admittedly I’ve only tested this on iOS. The goal was to read whatever os preference you set for font size, but if this isn’t working for people, I may need to add an app level override.
I made the native font bigger on my phone and it fixed it. Thanks!
Big fan of Thunder app. Great FOSS option and has tons of customization options!
honestly Thunder doesn’t get enough love in posts like these. you often expect FOSS apps to not be very good, but I can’t imagine using anything other than Thunder at this point
Could not agree more! Thunder is actually better experience than some of the paid apps I used for Reddit… You know when they still had an option for a non-shit tier mobile experience 😬
I’ve only used Jeroba. It works great for me, but with the google garbage going on, Im going to have to root my phone to sideload? I guess? So. thats my summer plan.
Boost for Lemmy. I love it.
I used jerboa for a long time and liked it a lot. But it is optimized “just” for lemmy. It cant operate (in my experience) with piefed instances.
if you want to use lemmy and piefed for example, Interstellar is a better solution.
I’m using boost
- Summit
- Blorp
- Voyager
- Thunder / Interstellar
- Jerboa
Ranking is based on personal preferences.
Blorp dev here. What I can I do to bring Blorp to the top of the list in your opinion?
Hi @moseschrute@lemmy.world. Blorp is equal to summit in features and ui—sometimes even ahead. For example emoji reactions and image loading speed, swiping image posts etc.
And I have both on my phone and keep switching between them.
The main reason I prefer summit is because the ui is very snappy on my phone. There’s no lag or skipped frames during animations or after clicking a button.
One issue I had with blorp is: when you click on a lemmy link summit opens it inside the app itself but blorp opens it in the browser. It breaks the flow and I can’t interact with it because I’m not logged in there. Hope that made sense.
Summit’s an easy recommendation.
Is summit foss?
On its github there is no license.
AGPL3.0, according to this repo.
Yep!
As a former RIF user, I haven’t found anything better than Jerboa. Which is shame because it will never support piefed.
Also a former big fan of RIF and I found Boost a fairly easy transition.
Summit is absolutely wonderful
Firefox.
I’m using Boost (and Vger but preferred Boost from Reddit days too). I got used to Infinity on Reddit after Boost ended and wish they’d make a Lemmy version of that now.
Waterfox, it’s a fork of Firefox with no AI slop.
You don’t need an app, just open it in browser.
Summit, by far. Voyager gets a lot of recommendations but it’s not nearly as slick.
Used to love jerboa but stopped working for me. I think is because of my instance. I use photon now, it’s ok.
