Hey I figured I'd make a post and see the state of current lemmy appage, since I'm looking for a good one. So far I've used Jerboa, Thunder, Eternity, and Voyager.

Eternity seems to be a dead project, it's full of bugs and hasn't recieved an update since The Exodus

Thunder seems ok and is what I'm using right now, but I can't seem to send direct messages, and can't "Don't blur NSFW preview on NSFW comms" which sucks. The messaging is the dealbreaker for me.

Voyager I used momentarily but the UI was not my favorite.

Jerboa seems OK if unpolished (which is ok to me) but I don't trust the rabid idealogue that makes it and using another instance of his site is one thing, but installing an app is another. Has it been audited to confirm lack of spyware?

Ideally through this I can find one with instance blocking, DMs, and a decent UI. What're your experiences with the current state of lemmy apps?

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[–] Teknikal@eviltoast.org 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

How has nobody said Connect yet, I tried most of the other clients people mentioned and settled on connect.

This is after using Sync Pro for years on Reddit the pricing of the lemmy version just put me right off to the point I'll admit I haven't even tried it but then again I'm not interested in anything that puts ads on an adless service and I also will never try it as long as this is the case.

Connect is free and the developer is great

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I started with connect and never left. Some of the videos weren't working due to API changes. But for about 2 weeks, everyday there was an update fixing one or two of them.

[–] Teknikal@eviltoast.org 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah the dev seems to jump straight to any issues even now, seems like a great guy to me he could easily charge for such a polished app and as long as the greed wasn't mad I'd pay it.

[–] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Another happy Connect user here and you can enable the beta branch from the play store. I ran into a bug a few months ago and made a post, the Dev had it fixed hours later.

Connect was also one of the very few apps that was very early to doing instance and other flexible filtering options. It's so good I can browse All without getting upset.