There are plenty of third party apps for Lemmy on Android/iPhone or Web, but are there any decent apps built for desktop use? Is it just simply a matter of relying on a web interface currently, or are there any well rounded apps out there that are worth mentioning.
I just use Firefox, not seeing any reason to download a extra app
Good to know, I was just having flashbacks to using Reddit on a browser and thought a dedicated App may be something in the wild out there.
Lemmy’s browser experience is a lot better than Reddit’s.
Same here.
But as a user of Firefox on mobile, I’m running into a weird persistent issue around the back button and post listings on pages beyond the first page. Sometimes, when I click into either the comments of a post or the post itself, when I click the ‘back’ button to return to the post list, sometimes I will end up on the previous page of search results (as though I pressed the back button twice).
Reloading the page seems to fix the problem (showing me the post list page that I expect), but it’s still weird.
Have you seen this?
That’s been an issue for a while now in Lemmy-UI. It’s the main annoyance that made me switch to alternative UIs.
I really don’t watch YouTube on my phone. Sorry I can’t help you with that
I just use the website of the instance I prefer on desktop via Firefox. On mobile, I use Liftoff.
I just use my browser; the less software I have to install, the better.
https://alexandrite.app/instance or https://phtn.app/ or the default web UI in a dark mode theme.
I use Alexandrite on desktop. Nice, modern interface that maximizes screen real estate with its 2-panel layout.
Love the interface and it does cover the entire screen, dark mode is a plus as well, thanks checking it out now.
I started using it because it was the first one I could find with infinite scrolling. I’ve just gotten used to it now.
If you have an Apple chip Mac Voyager can be used on desktop.
Thanks for this, it’s an interesting option, I tried it on my M1 Mac and it’s pretty close to what I was hoping for. Using a web app and browser for me doesn’t always work well when I decide to shut down and clear my cookies, this will always force me to sign in again.
I use the basic frontend with Firefox.
A lot of extensions and userscripts support it it, and while there are are other frontends depending on your instance, I found them buggy.
You can find a lot of the extensions on communities that keep track of that. I use a few of extensions a lot, like Instance Assistant. Others look cool but I haven’t tried them much, like the multi-lemmy one
Edit:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/lemmy-instance-assistant/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/mullem/ (although it looks like this one hasn’t been updated in a few months, your results may vary)
LibreWolf
Nice one, will definitely try this one out.
That’s not a Lemmy specific app by the way, it’s a version of Firefox
Yeah I know, I am interested in the privacy side of things as well, so having a Mozilla based privacy centric browser on top of using lemmy on the web sounds like a great approach for me.
I’m using a browser (Firefox to be exact), but there are native Linux interfaces for Lemmy, like Lemoa.
On pc I am using voyager web app. It works just fine.
