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For me personally, I use Blorp on desktop and Voyager on mobile. I've tried a lot of mobile clients but despite lacking a lot of piefed features, I like voyager because of the ui

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[–] Blaze@quokk.au 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If you use Blorp on desktop, why not use it mobile as well? There are mobile versions for both platforms

[–] Az_1@piefed.zip 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I like the Voyager ui alot. I did try Blorp on mobile and liked it too but I like the voyager ui more than having the extra features. I've also switched back to using Piefed ui after they introduced some new themes that make me like the ui enough to use it when combined with the fact it has all the latest Piefed features

[–] Blaze@quokk.au 1 points 5 hours ago

That makes sense!

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago
[–] lastweakness@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Self-hosted Photon on PC and Summit on Android.

[–] thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 5 points 20 hours ago

I use voyager and eternity. I think I prefer voyager tho.

[–] darklamer@feddit.org 4 points 20 hours ago

I use Sync.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Summit on mobile, plain old web version on the laptop.

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Voyager can separate my subscribed communities from my All feed, so I can scroll my Home feed and switch to All and not see the subscribed posts I've just finished viewing.

I've tried Blorp and Jerboa but settled on Voyager. Afaik neither of them can sort my Home out of my All.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Blorp dev here. I forget if you were the person that asked for this feature, but hiding subscribed from all/local will be released in v1.14.0. Sorry for dragging my feet with the release. Hopefully I will get this out in the next week after a little more testing. It’s already working on blorpblorp.xyz if you want to try it.

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Thanks! That's really cool. I did mention this before in a comment. I'll start using Blorp as my main bc I do like it better. This makes the All feed much more useable.

[–] Gerald@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Second for Voyager. Is there a way to flip the colors so upvote is red (and not blue)?

[–] Gerald@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Settings / Appearance / Themes / Votes Theme Reddit

[–] Teknikal@anarchist.nexus 9 points 1 day ago

I've taken to using Summit it took a bit of figuring out and configuring before I decided to keep to it.

[–] valar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Voyager on mobile
Dont use desktop, but if I need to I use the browser

[–] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

web browser on desktop? I am not on board with every internet thing having to have its own "app"

Eternity on mobile

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Web browser doesn't mean much, you still are using a web client. OP mentioned Blorp, that has a web client and some instances give you the choice of using the client you prefer. Check blahaj for example.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Blorp dev here. The native apps are really a lightweight wrapper around the blorp web app. I like the portability of webapps and you can easily self host Blorp. The native wrapper just adds a little polish to the install, but it’s not required.

[–] kobra@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Voyager on mobile and I've been trying out the blorp frontend on Lemmy.

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Thunder, but only because Lemmy doesn't support user tags. It's nice to not accidentally interact wirh a shit head because you forgot they were a shit head.

Otherwise the mobile website is perfectly fine without an app.

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.hjiangsu.thunder

[–] Libb@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago
  • Browser on the desktop.
  • Don't use on phone.
[–] yesman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just look at vanilla lemmy.world on a browser. I'm not really sure what an "instance" is, other than .mil sucks.

[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

@whiskey_pete@dod.mil gets up to all kinds of hijinks.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Using old.lemmy.zip on desktop AND the same desktop site on mobile.

[–] PlzGibHugs@piefed.ca 1 points 22 hours ago

Boost (for Piefed). I know its not free, but everything else is either missing too many features, or uses a UI style I don't like.

[–] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I'm using Thunder on Android for both Lemmy and PieFed. It's working decently well, but doesn't support all features. The main missing one for me is PieFed's crosspost viewing. I hearing a lot of good things about Voyager lately, maybe I'll give it a shot soon.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I don't use a desktop client but I used to use Jerboa for android before something happened that I can't remember that made me switch to Voyager for android. Don't need a desktop client because I do all my intentional looking at Lemmy on my phone.

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Blorp but i try to switch with interstellar to mbin (at some point i need to delete blorp)

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

voyager and boost on android, mlmym on web/desktop

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Voyager for desktop/browser because of the 2-column layout option. I loved Alexandrite and it had that feature, but I think it hasn’t been updated in a while and it doesn’t support piefed. For mobile, I use Thunder.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Native Web interface on desktop. Eternity for Lemmy on Android. Interstellar for PieFed on Android.

EDIT: While the last time I used Mbin on Android, there was only the PWA client, I suppose I'd probably at least try Interstellar for Mbin if I were using an Mbin instance right now. Can't vouch for it specifically on Mbin instances, though; no experience with it there. My assumption is that the experience would be pretty much the same as Interstellar elsewhere.

EDIT2: On the desktop Lemmy native Web interface, I do use the Firefox add-on Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin on Lemmy instances. Lemmy doesn't really have a great way to link to anything other than communities via bang links (!community@instance); any other link (like, if someone wants to link to a comment or post) takes you off your home instance. You will probably run into links that take you off your home instance. This sticks a button in the sidebar of Lemmy instances to let you bounce to the same page as viewed through your home instance.

If you use a PieFed home instance, it tries to deal with this by rewriting links in posts and comments targeting other Threadiverse instances to aim at pages on your home instance. That has some benefits


simpler for an end user


but also some problems in that it's kind of obnoxious if someone explicitly wants to link to a page on another instance. But if you're using a PieFed home instance, you probably won't run into that problem, so you won't need the add-on.

I don't know whether and if Mbin attempts to address the problem.