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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago

It's my main lemmy client. Can't recommend it enough. It's not the most impressive client in terms of fancy features but it's the most intuitive one I found.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am a big Thunder fan as it reminds me a lot of RedReader from my reddit days.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can hide posts! My primary way of browsing Reddit and no lemmy client has had it. I’m so happy with that feature alone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Works on Sync, it's not FOSS tho

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I use this for mobile and desktop! Thanks for the quick updates devs!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Those who have used both Voyager and Jerboa, which do you prefer and why?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jerboa has one open bug that makes it very annoying for me (Issue 194). Thats why I don't use it anymore. However, this bug does not affect everyone.

Voyager and Liftoff are my favourite apps for Lemmy.

[–] Uwu_im_toxic 6 points 11 months ago

I swapped to Voyager a while ago and never looked back. I tried Jerboa, Liftoff, Sync, and Connect and Voyager just felt the best. The only feature I miss from the reddit app I used to use is swiping from left to right to go from the comments of a post back to the homepage I was on, but everything else is great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I use Jerboa mainly, but sometimes use Voyager. I like better the Jerboa UI usually, but sometimes I want a change. Also I know you can enable buttons rather than swipe gestures for comments on Voyager, but in Jerboa it's easier and nicer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm a RedReader user so I really missed the swipe gestures for voting. It also has a web app version that I can install both on mpbile and PC. While I'm not a fan of iOS look, I'm not a fan of Material You either.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I use Jerboa mainly, but sometimes use Voyager. I like better the Jerboa UI usually, but sometimes I want a change. Also I know you can enable buttons rather than swipe gestures for comments on Voyager, but in Jerboa it's easier and nicer.

[–] droidpenguin 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I didn't like Voyager initially, mostly because it felt weird having iOS style on my Android device. The Android theme didn't seem that different too me either. But I'm actually using it now and think it works great and don't even mind the iOS styling anymore either!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I feel the same. Even the icons is Apple's! But Voyager is my main Lemmy client because despite it goes after Apple's guide lines and not Google's (which is wrong and I find the developers as very lazy because of this), it is a very nice client.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Voyager is the only Lemmy client I’ve tried that has an Apple Watch app! It is so nice to just review some headlines for a minute and save the interesting ones for later.

On my phone though I’ve been using Memmy more recently too.

[–] eluminx 4 points 11 months ago

Had not heard about it, but thanks for posting about it. Trying it out now, so far so good.

[–] fern2k 3 points 11 months ago

I just downloaded it I love it it lets you import your subreddits I love it !!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Can I make the font bigger ? I can't see properly so I need really big font. I am using connect atm but I want to try other clients.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Font options are in settings -> appearance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You can. I've just downloaded it, and I can say for sure: this is now my main Lemmy app. Was using eternity, but this just seems more intuitive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I started using Lemmy because of Voyager. it's pretty good

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Same. Just this morning actually. And here I was thinking I was done with social media after the Reddit API debacle. So far Lemmy scratches that same itch for me.

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

Is there a way to change those horrible Apple inspired icons and make it in general less Apple like? The Apple UI is just really badly made.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I think the UI itself is OK, but it feels very unnatural on an android device.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

yes, there is a setting for that in the options, but the UI still looks very much like an iOS app with it changed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah the Android version is still on beta and not pleasant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Looks to be visually identical to WefWef, which is a web app that is pinnable to your screen. Even the settings are almost identical.

Don’t know who copied who, but yeah.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you mean Wefwef.app that literally IS voyager running as a PWA as can be seen in settings -> about.

The official PWA instance is https://vger.app/ and self hosting instructions are in the github repo linked by f-droid.

[–] Xabis 2 points 11 months ago

Same app. They rebranded because the old name was corny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Is there any way to change the font settings for Post Titles? I'd like to make them bold, if I could.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Can you please give us an option to disable the feature that collapses comments when they are clicked on? I do this pretty often on accident and loose my place in the comments. Thanks!

[–] RexSonic 0 points 11 months ago

Would love to have this work as a reddit client too