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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

No h on the end - just Jerboa

[–] effward 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

+1

I don't think it shows any ads.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Of course not.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (6 children)

connect is never mentioned enough in threads like these

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's wild just how many apps there are for Lemmy, ha

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Ads in the feed now? Yikes, that's reason enough for me to switch before I'm forced to update it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Iirc Sync and Boost are the only proprietary clients right now, so everything else is good. I'm using Eternity right now, it's on f droid

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I'm using android Connect for lemmy and it's pretty good

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

i got scared cause i was on infinity and saw this post and thought infinity was showing ads now :p

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

The dev has to do what they have to do to feed themselves. If you really like the app, deal with the ads or pay for the app. I personally can't deal with ads so I'm on Eternity for Lemmy (through the fdroid store)

[–] fox2263 9 points 9 months ago

Good god I thought that was my client for a moment. Almost uninstalled before realising it was an image.

Phew

[–] superbirra 9 points 9 months ago (6 children)

sync does not have ads for me as of now :)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not so sure about clients that are specifically focused on security and privacy, however my general FOSS mobile app suggestions would be Voyager for a polished UX, or Eternity for a more native Android experience.

Both are available on GitHub and F-Droid

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Iceblade02 8 points 9 months ago

I just use my mobile browser (firefox for android) to view it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Thunder! It is

  • FOSS
  • Cross-platform (Android/iOS and you can even build for desktop or web)
  • Has some neat features that I haven't seen in other clients, like a really customizable FAB, material you theming, multiple anonymous instances, ping time and version info for instances, supports 0.19 including new features like instance blocking, an advanced share that can create a microblog style image to share posts
  • Very good accessibility
  • and lots more.

Coming from Relay for Reddit, I feel very at home in Thunder!

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[–] Cyberflunk 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

i bought boost the first day because i loved boost for reddit but, honestly, i'm loving eternity even more these days.

it's on neo store/fdroid and the repo is here: https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Eternity

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

What’s your absolute must needs? I’m on iOS but Voyager (android as well) has been my top choice for a while now even beating out apps I’ve paid lifetime subscriptions for because the developers disappeared or have been extremely quiet. I like Thunder a lot too. It’s missing key features I like in Voyager but I love its design and how smooth it is.

[–] taiyang 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Idk, I've tried a few but still like Boost; just can't get into Jerboa or Liftoff, which I tried. It's mostly just their ad network being meh


though I mostly just get crappy fake gameplay ads, and not enough to bother me. I'm not even sure if they're targeting me, cause if they are, they're pretty bad at it.

Unfortunately I'm sure the app developer doesn't get much say, virtually all mobile app networks are cancer.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Jerboa doesn't have ads..?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Not even one ad, it's open source same with Eternity.

I switched from Jerboa to Eternity because of the 0.19 update fuss.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I like Voyager a lot but it might be iOS only.

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