Brand new to the platform. Just wondering if I have to use my browser each time. Thanks. Ps. F reddit mods

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    2 months ago

    I recommend trying a few of them out to see which one(s) you like:

    • Connect
    • Boost
    • Jerboa
    • Sync
    • neidu2@feddit.nl
      10·
      2 months ago

      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 noe if there was a simple way of exporting my blocks et al. back to Jerboa.

    • Fishingee@lemmy.worldOP
      9·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        2 months ago

        I would read up on how the fediverse works if you don’t understand why there are so many “third-party” apps.

      • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        2 months ago

        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.

    • Retrograde@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      And for Android, check out Sync, it works great.

      The developer is a really nice guy and is very communicative with folks, he ran Sync for reddit for years before reddit became enshittified - why we’re all here to begin with.

    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      It loves to freeze up randomly while scrolling and take fucking forever to become responsive again (usually I just kill it), but ignoring that, it’s a pretty solid app.

      No way to reply to direct messages, though. Gotta pull up the instance site. So other than that…

  • Technus@lemmy.zip
    11·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • BreadOven@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • BreadOven@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Oh, that’s shit. I didn’t pay before (or now). That really sucks though. I don’t blame you.

    • Bael422@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • Chris@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I think that might be fixed now - there were some image related fixes in a recent version.