With all these new options springing up, I’m a little outdated. What’s the best app to use right now?
Liftoff the best hands down.
Thunder is my favorite so far, still rough but the next update should be great.
I’m still using the mobile website until the apps mature a little bit. it’s surprisingly functional.
I’m enjoying liftoff for lemmy right now but will switch to sync for lemmy once it’s out. The reason why is because of gestures. I feel that it’s intuitive to swipe to go back and forth between posts and voting.
I’ve currently settled with Liftoff. I got very used to Jerboa and was perfectly happy with it, but the last few updates broke it to the point of unusability for me.
Liftoff isn’t perfect, though its pretty good. My biggest gripe is that as far as I can tell there’s no button to go straight to the top of the feed, which is really annoying when you’ve been scrolling for ages and have to scroll all the way back up. Hopefully that will be added soon.
Jerboa is fine for me, I’ve been using it for about 2 weeks now. Last update also added a bunch of new functionality which is awesome. It’s still in alpha but seems to be on track to become a great app.
Currently using Jerboa, which works well for me. Haven’t had any of the issues people are reporting. Might switch to Sync when it comes out though.
I was using Jerboa, but recently moved to Thunder and enjoying it a lot more.
Although the Reddit Sync app Dev said he’s going to make Sync for Lemmy, so I’ll swap to that once it’s released.
Liftoff and thunder. Liftoff has the feature of showing combined feed from multiple accounts so you can see things even when instance are defederated.
Jerboa 0.0.36, but there are some bugs that really bother me. But since Sync will hopefully come soon I don’t care enough to try others in the meantime, just waiting it out.
Jerboa is working well for me so far. A closed source app for here seems a bit rude.
been using Connect for Lemmy, it seems pretty decent so far.
Your comment is duplicated. I just had the same thing with a new post. I’m also using Connect. Sometimes it seems the UI doesn’t respond so you press again, I guess.
I switched from Jerboa to Connect. I like Connect a bit better. Really excited for Sync for Lemmy, and will likely switch to that.
Is Connect open source?
Nope
As a kbin user, I’m really excited about Artemis.
Another vote for connect. It’s my current go to after trying jerboa, liftoff, summit, and thunder. Although thunder is a close second.
The kbin mobile site as a PWA :)
Yes, I just use the normal Lemmy site presented as a PWA or just my workstation to post and comment. Use Jerboa for browsing and marking. Works fine for that, but seems to be less then reliable for commenting.
No saving/bookmarking 😞
Upvoting saves a post to your favourites
That’s not feasible if you upvote a lot of stuff. There’s a difference between, “let me upvote this so it gets visibility and to help there be activity on this site so it can grow” and “This has a piece of information that I want to look at later when I need it.”
Normal Lemmy site can be used as a PWA and you can just login and do what you want. Also Jerboa works fine for reading and marking. So could use that to read and mark, and then do replies with PWA. That is what I do.
I’ve kind of gotten into PWA’s phone wide. I went through my app list and replaced as many as I could. I had to go back to one or two apps when the webpage didn’t cut it, but it’s working pretty well. As a side effect, I had also cut down on my Google search usage about a month ago and I have noticed that ads (within Facebook at least) have gotten a lot more generic. So apparently the walled garden that hermit created is working.
I’ve tried most of the Android apps available and Jerboa is the one I like the most. It functions and looks just as a expect it to.
