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I see. You only see the avatars from the posts? Not the comments?
On Boost, I had to click on the post, then the username. On the other clients I can see the avatars from the comments.
Well, which client is the best besides boost that has the pictures? Im entirely new to lemmy
Which client you choose depends on your preferences. For Android, searching Lemmy app in the app store gets me the most popular ones. Boost, Voyager, Summit, Connect, Thunder, etc. I don't have an iPhone, so I'm not sure what clients are available for them.
I've got an android. I didnt do much research and just downloaded boost because of its popularity on the Google play store.
Does voyager look the way boost does? (Im not entirely clear on why there are so many versions of lemmy and of their client apps because I am sorta not a techie person)
Each client app looks slightly different. They are all just front-ends for whatever Lemmy instance you're on. You are on the lemmy.world instance. I'm on the lemmy.sdf.org instance.
Lemmy is federated software. It works kind of like email. You can have a Google address or Yahoo or whatever and send email to anyone else. In the same way, everyone on lemmy.world can see what everyone on lemmy.today or europe.pub or most other instances posts and usually vice versa. Some instances are not federated with others because of philosophical disagreements between their users, but mostly everyone can see and respond to each others' posts and comments, no matter what instance anyone is on. There are many instances so that there is less work for each instance administrator and so that no one group can decide what everyone else sees.