I started off using Voyager, swapped to Mlem because of slight differences I preferred. Recently found out Thunder for Lemmy is available on the apple appstore and it instantly became my favorite. I like how unique the ui is compared to other, it seems better suited for browsing and posting on Lemmy, while the others feel better for the initial transition from Reddit. Very suprised it has barely any downloads or reviews when its easily the best Lemmy app on IOS.

Thunder reminds me of the more “modern” alternative front ends for lemmy some sites have while mlem and voyager feel more like the alternative reddit apps (blue alien) and give a similar experience.

On desktop, I’ve been using Friendica.

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    I use Voyager on Android. It’s a quality app that just works. On my iPad I use a safari plug in called sink-it.

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      I was swapping back and forth between that and mlem for a while, I like the custom interaction bar in mlem. Feels nice to finetune, but voyager just works and has plenty of settings to get the necessary customizations. I like that the issue for me is that they are all good, so I just end up using them all.

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      I’m a bit confused. Looking at the App Store Sink it appears to only be for Reddit/Twitter and not Lemmy or am I missing something?

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    Sync on Android. I’ll go down with the ship, I guess. If ljdawson never comes back I’ll be forced to look into other options eventually, but for now it still works, despite some bugs. It just looks and feels the best to me, and I’ve yet to find another app that can exactly replicate how I have it set up.

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      Excellent, just the example I needed to prevent me from examining my own use of Sync. I picked it up straight off of RiF and it’s been mostly fine. Spoilers rarely work and sometimes it just straight up can’t “fetch the image,” but I can do the things I care about, like downvoting and making ad hominem attacks. 10 out of 10 for me.

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        […] like downvoting and making ad hominem attacks.

        Thunder can be used for that too, you blithering imbecile.

        (Sync alumnus, only on Thunder because I moved to iOS. Sync is still the best 😢)

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      I use sync occasionally, and I found it has some features literally no other app has (or I’m too dumb to find them) like easy instance switching. It’s right there on the main screen, you just click instances, pick a federated instance, and boom, now you’re seeing stuff from that instance. I wish more apps has that.

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      Same boat. I’m really happy with my current look and feel, and I have no reason to change at this time.

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      I was in the same boat as you, but I discovered Summit this week. I feel like it fixes a couple of annoyances from Sync.

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      I was a Sync user on Reddit. Thunder has reproduced that feel for me here. The one place it didn’t I contributed (2-column tablet mode)

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    Boost, it was the perfect Reddit client for me and now it’s the perfect Lemmy client, I didn’t have to sacrifice any aspect of the experience.

    God I love you, Boost my beloved 😍

    I’m on Android. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I give Steve Jobs a penny.

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    I’m using Eternity, I haven’t tried more so I can’t compare, but I liked Eternity enough to don’t have the need to try others.

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      I like Eternity but i have two problems with it:
      Cannot upload images from the app So, uh… 🤦‍♂️
      It doesn’t format spoilers properly

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          Comments, yes. In Thunder there’s a button and you just do a press.

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            You actually can, just scroll left when formating the comment.

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              BRUH WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS
              HOW DID I NOT FIGURE THIS OUT

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        Same, tried voyager for a while but came back to this because I love the UI of it.

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      I loved Apollo! I randomly chose Voyager as my first introduction to Lemmy and it’s been great so far

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      Absolutely Thunder for android. Easy, customizable, and is very similar to the app I used for reddit called Relay. Dunno how an apk could be better for using Lemmy.

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    Voyager on iOS. It’s the best for my use case and I like the UI the most.

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    Voyager on iOS has worked well enough I haven’t gone hunting for anything else. On desktop I like the Alexandrite front end.

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      Voyager is my go to. But it doesn’t load Redgifs for me. Which isn’t a deal breaker as I do most of my browsing at work, but there are times when no one’s looking so it’d be nice to have.

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      Give Arctic a try. Just a little bit smoother and some great customisation options.

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    Eternity. As lacking in updates it may be, still woks well, and it is super customizable.

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    Currently using Voyager on my Android phone. I like it. Quite the upgrade over Boost (which I was using before, as I really liked Boost for Reddit in the before-times).

    Don’t like going into Lemmy on PC, though. It looks fugly as hell, and the UI looks like something from the 90s. I wonder if there’s a different way of accessing Lemmy through my browser.

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      Ton of alternate frontends mentioned here, I like phtn.app, you can loginto multiple accounts from different instances, tesseract is also nice.

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    Connect for Android was my jam, but now that I’m on Mbin I’m liking Interstellar (which also works with Lemmy).

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      Connect is the most like the reddit is fun client. How i like to shitpost and see content