No joke, I use my self-hosted Friendica instance as a PWA and browse Lemmy/PieFed threads from there. I even get notifications for new topics via Firefox.

Thunder

https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder

The killer feature for me is swipe gesture navigation. Most apps do not have that. If anything, they might have a "swipe in from the edge of the screen" gesture, but that is not the same as being able to swipe from any point onscreen to go back.

It also supports PieFed.

Why? Because an extra app on my phone means extra battery usage, basically.

Voyager, reminds me a bit of Apollo for Reddit and has a good webapp for desktop usage.

Boost mainly. Then I found it struggles getting posts in the "hot" feed so I'll switch to Voyager for that.

Edit: I forgot to add why. I used boost for Reddit and I really like the UI. It's very customizable.

Summit. Reminds me of Sync on Reddit 5 years ago

Blorp.

It’s the only client I have found that loads all images, regardless of source. When I used voyager, about half of the images didn’t load.

+1 for Summit!

It has been the best clean user experience for me so far

Phone, it's connect or summit, depending on which phone. I like summit's looks better on oled screens. Otherwise it's connect

Jerboa.

I dunno, it was on F-Droid and it's really simple and lightweight, like its namesake critter. I'm sure there's some more full featured options out there. (Voyager's gestures kept throwing me off I think lol)

But I don't hear a lot of people talking about this one much! Wonder why...

Summit

I went jerboa->sync->interstellar->summit

Every other one gave me a reason to switch, though I don't remember why I left interstellar

Voyager. I'm not sure why. Never thought about trying others but now I'm curious.

I went from Android to iOS due to reasons and this is one of the few apps I truly miss. Voyager comes close, but I was willing to pay for Boost when I was using it for Reddit.

I just type in the URL into phone browser and use it that way

I've been on Summit forever now. Very active development, and they've added every feature request I've had along with many others'. I lose track of all the options it gets anymore.

It looks good, works good, and when it doesn't, it gets fixed quickly.

I share lots of posts and articles and put them in quote blocks and just bring able to select all text and guy a single button that auto quotes all paragraphs won me over for good, and then multi-communities was the icing on the cake.

If you ever ask what app has feature X, it's likely already in Summit.

A web browser. Why limit myself with an app, when Firefox can do anything I want?

Connect. First one I happened to try, it works well, gets good updates, and is Canadian

It was the first one I used and I never bothered with anything else. It works great

Um.. I don't think it does.. but the friendica thing is pretty cool

The same one I use on my laptop, Firefox/lemmy-ui.

loads all images, regardless of source

Is it certain websites that were the problem, or file formats, or something else?

(Voyager’s gestures kept throwing me off I think lol)

I disabled all gestures in Voyager. I also found them annoying.

I have Jerboa installed from F-Droid, but I use Firefox.

Probably because of Anubis protection. When the whole "AI scrapes the internet over and over so servers get flooded to death" (effectively an unintended DDoS attack) thing got wild, several websites incl image hosts enabled Anubis, which somewhat works in a browser, but often not so great in apps. Possibly it's the apps fault for [not] setting the correct headers or whatever.

I wonder why I had written it off months ago, because giving it another shot now, that app sure seems to suit all my needs. Perhaps I had just tried it out when it was very new and lacked many of the features that I wanted and could find in Thunder.

I use boost because it was what I used for reddit and it has a good swipe view.

Fuck apps, anything that can be done in a browser will be done in a browser for me

Boost because it works.

Certain instances and some individual users

Interesting, thank you. I have some research to do. Any idea if you can mitigate this on the client side?

Summit here too. I changed up some of the display settings so it feels like Relay for Reddit 😀

The things that got me to move from Voyager were that when images didn't load first time, there was no way to re-try - Summit has that. And I don't think Voyager handled drafts that well. Summit has drafts but I do wish there was a client that had drafts like Relay did, where if you come back to the same comment/post and hit reply it has your draft from where you left off on that comment/reply.

Voyager, cause I like it the best. I tried a bunch.

"Where's my battery?"

I was using Sync for Lemmy until a week or two ago. It was nice and familiar because that was my reddit app of choice prior to api-gate, but for some reason it kept frequently erroring out and not showing posts or images. I switched to Voyager and so far it's been pretty good

Voyager.

I used "Reddit is Fun" for years on Reddit but when it came time to switch to Lemmy I picked Voyager (wefwef at the time) because the UI was the most similar. I tried many of the other popular apps and I was happy with most of them, but Voyager was (and is) my favorite.

It's simple. Lots of text. Easy to use. Looks nice.

It's one of Lemmy's main advantages that the websites are light enough on resources to not need a client. Praise open source :)

I usually use the official Lemmy client in the browser, because it is minimalistic and fast on any device

Interstellar, because it's the only one that works with mbin

Same, but Jerboa.

Blorp

Not sure why but I just find it so likable like RIF once was for Reddit!

Mlem. Open source and native application.

Blorp. It had the best name.

Jerboa
Heard that it was an app from a Lemmy dev.

Tried it and it was simple enough.

Voyager because Interstellar doesn't work well for me.

Voyager because it was the first one I tried.

It went open source a bit ago if that may have been a sticking point.

Summit, it's the closest replacement for Sync I've found.

the website, because it works the same as on my computer

I was a sync user for many years on Reddit. Then also I paid for the subscription on Lemmy. The app stopped being updated so I left. It had been around a year at the time since anyone heard from the dev.

I haven’t checked back. What’s the latest? Still got the “LJ does this but he always comes back! He’s so great!!” crowd; or has everyone jumped ship?

uazo/cromite on my phone and qutebrowser on my laptop