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Guy trying to hold a fart in meme template with the text “POV: you just mentioned you use Boost instead of the myriad FOSS alternatives”
on-topic rant
Use Jerboa if you want simple, go Voyager if you want modern and feature rich. Explore others if you want to find the best experience. Just stop supporting the only proprietary, ad-infested client.
off-topic rant
If you have trouble parsing the meme, this is a rare use of “POV” where the meme is actually from your POV and those three letters aren’t just slapped there like “nobody:” might be.
Still happy with Eternity :)
I use Lemmy via curl, virgins!!
Boost makes Lemmy nice. I tried other clients, and didnt like them. So got boost and paid for no ads. Been happy ever since.
Same. Wish spoiler tags would get fixed though. Biggest problem
Hasn’t been updated in over a year :(
only proprietary, ad-infested client
There are a handful of them, Sync and Boost have ads / ad-free versions and Connect was closed but without ads from what I remember. I’m not familiar with the rest of the closed source ones
I keep Voyager installed as the FOSS alternative, and then the rest I add and remove every now and then to try out.
Boost and Sync are popular because people coming from Reddit have used them for years, and are familiar with the interface / dev. If it helps them get familiar with the fediverse then I’m all for it
Boost and Sync are popular because people coming from Reddit have used them for years, and are familiar with the interface / dev. If it helps them get familiar with the fediverse then I’m all for it
Users dedicated to Eternity are similar. It was forked (by a different developer) from Infinity for Reddit, and the UX is still exactly the same.
Seems abandoned unfortunately
I confess that I regularly use Boost. I used it back in the day on Reddit, and the ads don’t bother me that much at all cough pihole cough. I used jerboa when I first tried Lemmy, and I still use it from time to time, but on my old tablet it kept crashing or logging me out, and Boost has been pretty reliable.
I don’t even worry about C++ libs like Boost since I’m on rust now
Rare proper use of the “POV” meme
Since it sounds like you didn’t read the “off-topic rant” part: thank you for noticing!
Battle incoming in the comments
Web browser gang ftw!
People who use Tesseract on mobile be like 🕶️
Indeed!
that’s me whenever I see someone using <insert proprietary lemmy client here>
Boost should at least go open-source on Codeberg, so the code can be perserved by the community to avoid what happened to Bean.
Who is Bean and what happened to them
Sean Bean dies in a lot of movies. It was the Bean meme before the bean meme.
Mr Bean is your average British chap and lots happen to him.
I believe the developer had health issues and stopped working on the project.
I’ve never seen an ad on boost.
You probably paid for it, like I did
Nope.
eta:
Whenever possible, I block ads at the router with adblocking DNS.
This can be local, public, etc. Pi-hole, Adguard, NextDNS, unbind, privoxy.
Can also be device level.Bottom line is I so rarely encounter ads, I’m shocked when I see other peeps’ devices.
Boost’s ads are non- intrusive. I don’t notice them either when I used free version. But I happily paid for the no ads version.
I expounded on my curt reply above yours to provide a better answer.
Me, using the mobile web app:
I will keep using the browser. Unless it becomes annoying in a way that I have to jump to a different place where I’m comfortable using the browser.
wait, boost has ads? are people who use it dumb or something?
Boost has a payment option. It’s super cheap and one-time so it’s not much of a hurdle. I use voyager now because Boost got weirdly inconsistent when loading lemmy images and videos, but I’d kill to have that UI and persistence back.
I think I forgot I payed for no ads. And I’ve been jumping between it, Thunder, and Eternity. I don’t think any support Lemmy collapseable spoiler sections.
Thunder does.
Already posted same thing before I saw yours.
Well, considering that the only apps that have multiple columns in portrait mode are the ones that were reddit apps originally, and that 2/3 of those are closed source, it’s kinda slim pickings for me.
I use all three, for different purposes, as well as lemmy-native apps for others.
But I read things on tablets because it’s easier to do than on phones. A double column view is just better in that use case. For me definitely, and I would argue that it would be for others too, unless they have specific issues that require the extra real estate be single image/bigger text.
I still use sync primarily because it ends up giving me a better experience over eternity and boost. Boost’s implementation of columns is weak sauce. Eternity is great for almost everything though, and has better filtering. But the layout isn’t as suited for my needs as sync is.
What I really miss is slide, but it’s dead in the water
What about Eternity?
Continuing from the previous comment section:
Eternity is great for almost everything though, and has better filtering. But the layout isn’t as suited for my needs as sync is.
Generally, it’s the sidebar and the distancing of dividers that holds it back for me.
The sidebar just feels clunky visually. Things don’t “flow”. It’s utterly subjective. The dividers, again subjective, need more width/height to keep posts visually distinct.
That’s really it overall. I have issues via dyslexia and old eyes, and eternity isn’t as good in that regard. It’s one of those things where it has benefits, but the small drawbacks keep it from being a daily driver
I switched from Eternity to Thunder yesterday and wow, this is easily my favourite client so far (I’ve also used Liftoff and Boost in the past, and I’ve briefly tried Raccoon).
I’ve been using Thunder for a long time now and basically have no complaints. It does everything I want and need it to without any bloat or extra features I don’t want.
It just works.
Q: Why are you finding Thunder so much better than Eternity? (Genuine interest). I use Eternity & am having a good experience. Liftoff and Jerboa (the latter very early days) didn’t hold my attention.
