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I was wondering, with all the different Lemmy clients and frontends, what/which out of these do people actually use? To answer this, I made a poll if anyone wants to fill it out, and I tried to put every client I could find.

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[–] minorsecond@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

I was on Memmy but it seems to be abandoned so I switched to Avelon. It’s great!

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Wow ~~seven~~ eight people in six minutes, thanks guys!

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[–] Killercat103@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jerboa. Came up when I was searching on F-Droid

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[–] Nath@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have four installed on Android: Sync, Jerboa, Connect and Voyager. Five if you count Firefox which is the only one that does all the admin tasks I need. I switch between them because as admin I find myself testing the user experience frequently.

I have Memmy on iOS, but really only use iOS for testing purposes. I don't browse with it.

I default to Sync for most browsing and commenting because the Dev is very active and it's the only client I know of with any mod tools at all. It is the most polished of the clients at the moment.

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[–] Dekthro@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

I use primarily Connect, but I'll switch to Thunder from time to time.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy UI and Jerboa seem to work well for me and they are both open-source.

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[–] AndreTelevise@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Sync on my phone and Photon on desktop.

[–] deadlyremote@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Eternity is one my favorite client

[–] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

theres so many lemmy clients i guess thats one of the benefits of lemmy being licensed under agpl and has a free api

[–] Zacryon@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's see which one will rule them all after a while.

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[–] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Curious what sync users find about it worth paying for above say Jerboa or whatever? Would appreciate comments.

I used sync on Reddit and was kinda sad to see the dev didn't grandfather people into Sync for Lemmy - especially given the high price of sync and the reuse of work that I'd already paid for. Obviously the guy should get paid, but I think Β£18 is excessive, especially for existing users.

[–] volodymyr@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually I like the very fact that it is paid. Supporting the developer, and some sort of accountability.

Also, after trying connect, liftoff, jerboa (all perfectly good apps), etc I find that sync is most smooth and customizable.

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[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got close to a decade off a $5 purchase. (Or however much it was) I can't think of a single other thing I've used daily for that long that cost so little. $20 now is no biggie to pay for a major update to switch to lemmy.

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[–] skburgart@lemmy.delat.net 8 points 1 year ago

Alexandrite & Sync

[–] ledtasso@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah, 30% sync users. I've always thought Sync was the best reddit client, and now it's the best Lemmy client.

[–] Afatmess@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was previously using Memmy and it’s good, but it hasn’t been updated for a while. I’m giving Avelon a try and it is nice so far.

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[–] provomeister@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

I'm using a mix of Sync and Eternity. I was using Infinity for Reddit before the migration.

Because Sync came first, it's still my default way to navigate Lemmy but Eternity is slowly growing on me. I prefer to alternate between a few apps to stay up to date on the alternatives, and to ensure I don't become dependant on a single app/interface.

I've also tested a few times Photon, great web UI which can be installed as a PWA.

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Connect. Ive not had any issues.

Im not a power user either though, so maybe theres some features not here, you may want. No idea

But theres custom themes. You can pick your own colors for the different elements.

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[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be honest I was extremely skeptical about Sync because I didn't use it for Reddit and I thought that the default web-ui is pretty neat even on my mobile phone. But curiosity got me and I installed it, even though it's not FLOSS and it has ads in it which are two no-goes for me. Still I'm using it on the phone predominately, but I hate myself for it.

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[–] Sim@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 year ago

I've found Summit the best for me, personally, on Android. I've been able to configure it closest to how I used RIF which is what I wanted.

[–] hsl@wayfarershaven.eu 7 points 1 year ago

I access Lemmy through the browser all the time. The experience is solid and consistent across devices and I need access to both mod and (occasionally) admin tools.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

I’m glad to see Voyager so high. I was hooked on Memmy for a while, even though I had been trying wefwef and a few other interfaces occasionally. But now the app version of Voyager is just about perfect for me.

[–] meiko60@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Alexandrite for desktop and Voyager for iOS & Android is nice combo

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