(single quotes around best for subjectivity) I’m trying to get all of my Android using friends and family into the Fediverse.

I’m an iOS user, so I have no idea about Android apps.

  • primalanimist@lemmy.today
    9·
    2 years ago

    I use Connect on my phone. I’ve tried others, even Sync when it came out but I guess I was already used to Connect.

  • EddyBot@feddit.deEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Voyager recently got added to F-Droid but can also be used as PWA from a web browser but personally I’m currently waiting until Infinity for Lemmy actually will get it’s first stable release

    • nodiet@feddit.de
      2·
      2 years ago

      Infinity is not too bad right now, I am replying from it right now. My only real issue with it is that I can’t see whether people have responded to my posts/comments.

      • redw0rm@kerala.party
        0·
        2 years ago

        I can see replies to my comments and posts in infinity. The main issue is now that private messages aren’t implemented. Depending on the speed of developement, it will soon land

  • MasterBuilder@lemmy.one
    5·
    2 years ago

    I’m using both Liftoff and Jerboa. I can’t decide which is better, so I’m interested in others people love.

    • nodiet@feddit.de
      3·
      2 years ago

      I prefer Liftoff, mainly because I am plagued by a well-known bug in jerboa that makes writing comments a big pain. However, since infinity got semi usable (it still has a bunch of references to reddit in its ui and the messages/replies page is broken) I have only used liftoff to check for replies. I am just used to infinity from years of reddit usage lol

  • bet@lemm.ee
    5·
    2 years ago

    when I wanted a lemmy app, searching f-droid only pulled up Jerboa, and I remain happy with it.

    • ⑨③③Ⓚ@lemdro.idEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’m an Infinity user too, though its name might change soon as the developer is discussing this in this post

      Great app, very level headed developer and the way he asks for community users input makes you feel included.

    • Once@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 years ago

      I have been using Thunder for a few weeks and it works very well. It has the best compact interface for me, close to the RedReader experience.

  • ultrasquid@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    I’m not sure if its open source, so technically not FOSS, but Connect is by far my favorite UI and UX wise.

  • essell@beehaw.org
    3·
    2 years ago

    I really really wanted to use Jerboa. I love Jerboas and I love FOSS.

    But I tried sync today and it’s just better.

    Really disappointed at the pricing model but I’m just ad blocking it in protest of the insane pricing.

    As an app though, I’d happily buy it for a reasonable price given the quality.

    • Matt@lemdro.idEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      This is the FOSS community and neither Sync nor Boost are open source.

  • kd637_mi@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    2 years ago

    The web browser works fine for me, and then I don’t have a other app on my phone. I’ve tried a bunch of different apps, Jerboa, Liftoff, Wefwef/voyager, and connect, and I keep coming back to just viewing it in browser. Haven’t tried Sync because the idea of wilfully putting ads into a thing that doesn’t have them is disgusting to me.

  • comicallycluttered@beehaw.org
    3·
    2 years ago

    Good resource for all platforms: https://lemdro.id/post/4319

    Constantly updated, so make sure to check in there every couple of weeks.

    I think most apps are decent in their own way and appeal to different users. Some want a simple client that just does what it needs to do, some prefer complete customization, some prefer having the exact same interface that they had on reddit, some prefer something a little different.

    Infinity, Sync, Liftoff, Jerboa, Thunder, just to name a few, are all good for different reasons. Some upcoming ones look really nice (particularly Artemis which will be for Kbin and, shortly later, Lemmy) and several are cross-platform, which is a benefit when suggesting something that everyone can use.

    I personally really like the Photon web app UI. And since it’s a web app, it’s platform agnostic as well which is nice. (Another bonus is that any instance can use it and other web app interfaces as potential alternative interfaces for the entire instance, like lemdro.id using Photon for https://nu.lemdro.id/)

    To be honest, I just stick with the web interface at this point. I’ve become so used to it and I don’t feel like using apps that were reddit ones or try to emulate them or reddit in general. Prefer Lemmy feeling a bit, if only a little, different from my previous time on the orange nightmare site, but I get why others prefer them for familiarity.