Brand new to the platform. Just wondering if I have to use my browser each time. Thanks. Ps. F reddit mods
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I’ve only ever used sync since the sync Reddit stopped working (fuck those [Reddit] people). Haven’t been back since. Also with ad block and a VPN, I don’t get any ads on the free version.
I refuse to use sync because the dev invalidated the old lifetime license and made me pay again to keep using it a few years before reddit went to shit.
I’m not paying them again for something I can’t trust won’t force me to pay again in the future.
There is like 40 apps
Many of the third party Reddit apps switched to Lemmy when the API got locked down. I’m using Sync for Lemmy, but there’s plenty others.
I recommend trying a few of them out to see which one(s) you like:
- Connect
- Boost
- Jerboa
- Sync
I liked Jerboa, but after a lemmy upgrade, Jerboa took too long to support the new protocol, so I switched to Voyager. I would probably be using Jerboa again if there was a simple way of exporting my blocks et al. back to Jerboa.
Unless an app is doing something weird, your blocks should be tied to the account and not the app.
I still use Jerboa. I’m a fan.
I’m using Jerboa
Boost is great too
Ftw
Voyager for Iiphone is the best I’ve found
Voyager for Android is the best I’ve found
Eternity is good.
To name a few others, Liftoff, Thunder, Jerboa, Voyager are worth a look.
I’ve been using “connect for lemmy” and i love it! Fully stopped using reddit on mobile because this app is so good!
I like Connect, it’s been pretty good so far.
I had to switch to Jerboa because Connect kept glitching out on a bunch of posts where it would load the image for a second, then just give a blank screen. So you’d need to either keep clicking out and reloading to hope it worked, or load externally in a browser.
I think that might be fixed now - there were some image related fixes in a recent version.
I’ve been using Jerboa, which does the job well enough.
If you used RIF for reddit it will be very familiar.
Welcome welcome! There are a lot of apps to choose from, check out here: https://www.lemmyapps.com/
Jerboa is my choice, but what you settle on depends on what features you want.
Tell me to didn’t try without saying you didn’t try.
I searched Lemmy in the app store. I didn’t (and still don’t) understand why there are a bunch of third-party apps that connect to Lemmy. But it seemed like Voyager was popular, so I went with that.
That’s because there’s no “first party”. Just protocols and people
Lemmy is not one centralized entity or corporation, so it is impossible for a first party app to exist. Think of it like a collection of separately run clubs/groups that all communicate with each other over the same medium. But the medium is not run by a single person or company.
However, Jerboa is the app made by Lemmy devs themselves, so I suppose it’s as close to “first party” as you can get.
Personally, I use and prefer Voyager.
Ah, so you were looking for something that was “first party”?
Yes. But I think im starting to understand how this works
Totally fair, and there are actually some official or “first party” apps of parts of the fediverse, like the Mastodon app, which is (or at least was) somewhat subpar when compared to third party offerings, but I believe was put out mainly to give new users a starting point.
I would read up on how the fediverse works if you don’t understand why there are so many “third-party” apps.
These 2 things are not related though? Reddit is not part of the fediverse and had plenty of third party apps until they changed the API.
It does answer why there’s no official app, which is the question.
There were many third party Reddit apps before Reddit had their official app. And you could argue that Jerboa is the official Lemmy app since it is made by one of the main Lemmy devs.
Arctic is my daily driver.
Jerboa is the “official”
I know you put in scare quotes, but I have to note for newcomers: as an open software built on an open web standard, 3rd party apps are first class citizens for Lemmy
They really are. Use whatever you want newcomers. Voyager, Connect, Thunder, Jerboa, all valid and beautiful.
