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What Lemmy Client are you Android users using in 2026? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 day ago by mannycalavera@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What client do Android users use for Lemmy these days? I've been using Jerboa from the start but it's a bit basic and lacks any good search functionality. So I want to try some others. What do other Android users recommend?

Things I like about Jerboa:

It just works. It's pretty simple.
It has actual private browsing in app. You never have to leave the app and it knows how to never save your history.
It can do the above even when setting your main browser to Firefox (so as blocking works even in open links in app).

Things I don't like about Jerboa:

Text entry is oftentimes buggy.
Lack of any decent search for communities or in threads.
No draft capability.

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[–] cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The one that finally pushed me over the edge was, while i could (barely) tolerate the ads, some time after his last update, something in the code broke or wasnt updated, and the ads would play an audible blip, as if the first 5ms of audio played before it was then caught and automatically muted - and that was just a bridge too far. There were smaller things and features unimplemnted - but having to hear blips catching me off guard and at times when scrolling is appropriate but audio wasnt was too frustrating for me and so i switched. Was using sync forever, was a true fan, was frustrated how he changed and milked the pay structure for sync for lemmy as conpared to how he did it for reddit, and then he had the gal to just dip entirely, such a shame for such a good ux.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

That ad thing is weird, I've not seen anything like that at all. In fact I don't even see video ads. Where is this, in your feed? Or when you open a thread?

I wonder if it's to do with how the feed is set up? I use Small Cards view, don't know if that's maybe preventing me seeing the ads in the first place? I do sometimes see small static ads at the top of a thread, but that's all.