Blorp from fdroid platform not google play
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I tried Thunder, and Connect, and Summit and Voyager and Boost. Nothing matched the experience I preferred with Sync, but it's clearly abandoned by the developer and has many compatibility issues and bugs. So I signed up with a PieFed instance and downloaded Blorp. It doesn't have quite as many features yet, but it's the closest to what I want...
Tesseract: https://tesseract.dubvee.org/
It's a webapp, and I fucking love web apps. Also has quality-of-life improvements like making it easier to see modlogs or checking the account age of new accounts.
Voyager
Voyager. Don't remember why I stuck to this one, but the others I tried lacked some features I wanted.
I like it because it is pretty much the Lemmy successor to Apollo for Reddit.
Jerboa
Jeroba is for Jabronis
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Voyager and the website
Boost. Only problem I have is videos often only play in thumbnail and load infinitely when clicked on. Not that important for me though.
With Jerboa and Voyager there were a lot of small problems that just made the experience worse.
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Jerboa. I find the UI very nice. Right around amount of info and density (i hate excessive padding), fully customizable colors, not 1 glitch
The only issue I ever experienced on Jerboa was gifs just not playing until you clicked on them and you never knew if something was supposed to be a gif or not.
Boost and also sometimes Voyager, both are really well polished.
web browser
I've gotten comfortable with Jerboa, but also I don't get to see GIFs and stuff people post, and I'm not sure if that's a limitation of the app? I really should try some of the others though.
I used to use (paid) Boost but it has more bugs than an entomology lab and I'm just fucking sick of it.
Recently switched to Voyager, and it's not as feature rich, but the features are much more stable.
Boost for the longest time; but since I've been using Piefed, I mostly just use mobile Vivaldi/Firefox instead of an app (Boost still works with it; I just got used to using it over apps).
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sink still works for me. what's wrong with it
As a former Sync user of nearly 10 years, I've moved to Summit now. It's the closest to Sync of all the apps I tried.
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Are you me? This is exactly what I needed too because I was on Sync for years now and had no idea development stopped. Started to notice a lot of small issues here and there with it and finally saw there's been no updates on almost 2 years.
I tried Voyager and I liked the gestures for votes and being able to customize things pretty well. Also trying out Boost right now and I like how familiar it is to me since I used it on Reddit, but now I'm missing the gestures.
The developer of sync releases a big update once in awhile with complete silence in between. it's always been like that
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eternity.
it's a bit broken in some places, but it still works just fine for my shitposting.
Having tried almost all apps for Lemmy, Summit is the best. Not only is it feature rich, it also let's me view some content from instances that don't load for me on other clients. And this apparently only happens on Lemmy.zip.
I keep hoping sync will be updated
Boost. Used to use it for Reddit, then they disabled the APIs or whatever.
Anyway, it's excellent. Highly recommend.
I used sync for Lemmy and Reddit, but switched to eternity like 6 months ago.
Very similar layout options & oled black night mode.
Doesn't work: Spoilers Gifs & Gboard gif search
Everything else is fine.
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