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I was wondering, with all the different Lemmy clients and frontends, what/which out of these do people actually use? To answer this, I made a poll if anyone wants to fill it out, and I tried to put every client I could find.

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[โ€“] Throbbing_Banjo@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Am I weird for still just using Firefox? I don't see the need for a standalone client.

[โ€“] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well you still use a UI; do you use the default web UI or something like photon?

The only reason I use a client is on mobile just because it integrates better, and I still flipflop between a photon PWA and Sync/Liftoff

[โ€“] Throbbing_Banjo@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Default UI, just on dark. Might look into photon though.

[โ€“] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 2 points 1 year ago

Photon is really cool! I use it as much as I can over the default UI, it's just better (except it takes a little getting used to the upvote colors)

[โ€“] GammaGames@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you on desktop? I assumed clients were more a mobile thing

Nope, I'm on Mobile. Since all I really use lemme for is text posts, links to articles about things, and the occasional star trek meme, there's just no added value in using a client for me. I have no interest in ad-supported software at all, so if there's a decent FOSS one I'd maybe try it eventually, but unless there's something as minimalistic as BaconReader, probably not.

[โ€“] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Not weird, but definitely missing out in smoothness, check out Sync or Summit if you use Android.