(single quotes around best for subjectivity) I’m trying to get all of my Android using friends and family into the Fediverse.
I’m an iOS user, so I have no idea about Android apps.
Good resource for all platforms: https://lemdro.id/post/4319
Constantly updated, so make sure to check in there every couple of weeks.
I think most apps are decent in their own way and appeal to different users. Some want a simple client that just does what it needs to do, some prefer complete customization, some prefer having the exact same interface that they had on reddit, some prefer something a little different.
Infinity, Sync, Liftoff, Jerboa, Thunder, just to name a few, are all good for different reasons. Some upcoming ones look really nice (particularly Artemis which will be for Kbin and, shortly later, Lemmy) and several are cross-platform, which is a benefit when suggesting something that everyone can use.
I personally really like the Photon web app UI. And since it’s a web app, it’s platform agnostic as well which is nice. (Another bonus is that any instance can use it and other web app interfaces as potential alternative interfaces for the entire instance, like lemdro.id using Photon for https://nu.lemdro.id/)
To be honest, I just stick with the web interface at this point. I’ve become so used to it and I don’t feel like using apps that were reddit ones or try to emulate them or reddit in general. Prefer Lemmy feeling a bit, if only a little, different from my previous time on the orange nightmare site, but I get why others prefer them for familiarity.
I had a look on F-Droid and it seems that Jerboa and Lemmur are your best options.
My understanding is that Lemmur is effectively abandoned and won’t work
Oh, sorry. I’ve done a bit more looking, though, and Thunder looks quite good as well.
https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/
Every of the “Hot” app there is a solid choice, but it will probably depend on their personal preferences
I really really wanted to use Jerboa. I love Jerboas and I love FOSS.
But I tried sync today and it’s just better.
Really disappointed at the pricing model but I’m just ad blocking it in protest of the insane pricing.
As an app though, I’d happily buy it for a reasonable price given the quality.
I like Thunder and Infinity
@admin tell me I’m not the only person in the world who thought ‘Lemmy???’ What on earth does it mean nowadays?
Lemmy is to reddit as Mastadon is to Twitter
I use Connect on my phone. I’ve tried others, even Sync when it came out but I guess I was already used to Connect.
Not open source
That’s not a requirement for everyone. And I don’t mind paying someone for their efforts.
It kind of is, in this community.
To win over friends and family, an app being FOSS doesn’t matter as much as its UI/UX.
This is a FOSS-specific community.
I’m using both Liftoff and Jerboa. I can’t decide which is better, so I’m interested in others people love.
Infinity!
I’m an Infinity user too, though its name might change soon as the developer is discussing this in this post
Great app, very level headed developer and the way he asks for community users input makes you feel included.
All apps require some customization for my preference. Once I’m done with customizing, there’s hardly any difference between apps. I’m currently using Connect, because it’s very customizable. I like the list view and the option not to preload pictures to save on data.
Voyager is also pretty good, but the webapp seemed to conflict with my browser. Maybe that’s fixed in the native app.
I don’t understand why anyone likes card view at all. It’s pretty much the reason why I was locked to using a third party app for Reddit in the first place when they “updated” the site back in 2018.
I think card view in a native app mainly works well for communities with high image/video content, other communities are okay either way.
When I used to use Reddit on my browser the styling would