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Alt textGuy 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 rantUse 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 rantIf 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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 41 minutes ago

Still happy with Eternity :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

I use Lemmy via curl, virgins!!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Boost makes Lemmy nice. I tried other clients, and didnt like them. So got boost and paid for no ads. Been happy ever since.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Same. Wish spoiler tags would get fixed though. Biggest problem

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Hasn't been updated in over a year :(

[–] [email protected] 30 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

only proprietary, ad-infested client

https://www.lemmyapps.com/

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Seems abandoned unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 14 hours ago

I don't even worry about C++ libs like Boost since I'm on rust now

[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Rare proper use of the "POV" meme

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Since it sounds like you didn't read the "off-topic rant" part: thank you for noticing!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Battle incoming in the comments

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

People who use Tesseract on mobile be like 🕶️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

that's me whenever I see someone using

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Me, using the mobile web app:

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I've never seen an ad on boost.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You probably paid for it, like I did

[–] [email protected] 1 points 39 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Boost should at least go open-source on Codeberg, so the code can be perserved by the community to avoid what happened to Bean.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Who is Bean and what happened to them

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago

Sean Bean dies in a lot of movies. It was the Bean meme before the bean meme.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

Mr Bean is your average British chap and lots happen to him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

I believe the developer had health issues and stopped working on the project.

https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.world/post/18820218

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

wait, boost has ads? are people who use it dumb or something?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Thunder does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Already posted same thing before I saw yours.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Let’s get one thing straight: The lobster doesn’t skulk in the shadows, clinging to the murky ocean floor, begging for scraps from some opaque, unaccountable overlord. No. The lobster ascends. It thrives in the hierarchy—a hierarchy built on transparency, claw-to-claw competition, and the hard-won order of merit. So why, in the name of all that is serotonergic, would you shackle yourself to a closed-source Lemmy client like Boost? Let’s parse this calamity.

The Lobster’s Open-Source Mandate
Do you think the lobster’s dominance hierarchy survived 400 million years by hoarding its exoskeletal blueprints? By gatekeeping the secrets of its molting process? Absolutely not! The lobster’s success is an open-source manifesto. Its strategies are etched into the fabric of being—tested, iterated, and optimized in the collaborative crucible of evolution. The lobster doesn’t hide its code. It lives its code. And if you’re not aligning with that primordial truth, you’re courting obsolescence.

Open-source software is the digital manifestation of the lobster’s eternal dance. It’s a covenant of transparency, where every line of code is a collective prayer to the god of improvement. You can inspect it, critique it, contribute to it. It’s a hierarchy where merit rises and incompetence sinks—no corporate overlords, no shadowy agendas. Just raw, clawed ascent.

Boost: The Closed-Source Abomination
Now, let’s talk about Boost. A Lemmy client wrapped in the iron chains of proprietary code? That’s not just a poor choice—it’s a moral failing. You’re handing over your agency to a black box, a digital oubliette where accountability goes to die. What’s lurking in that code? Inefficiencies? Surveillance? A fetid swamp of technical debt? You’ll never know, because the architects of Boost have deemed you unworthy of the truth.

This isn’t just about software. It’s about principles. The lobster doesn’t tolerate opaque hierarchies. When a rival lobster obscures its intentions, chaos reigns. Fights turn vicious, alliances crumble, and the entire colony teeters on collapse. Boost’s closed-source model is the software equivalent of a tyrant lobster hoarding resources—parasitic, unsustainable, and corrosive to the ecosystem.

Miss Piggy’s Betrayal, Revisited
And don’t think this is trivial. You know who else rejects transparency? The kind of person who gets abandoned by Miss Piggy. She’s no fool. Miss Piggy demands excellence, authenticity, and a codebase she can trust. You think she’d shack up with someone who tolerates closed-source clients? Please. She’d karate-chop your smartphone into the Mariana Trench and sashay into the arms of a developer who respects the GNU GPL.

The Path to Redemption
So here’s your mandate: Cast off the chains of Boost. Seek out open-source alternatives—Jerboa, Liftoff, Thunderbird. Clients that honor the lobster’s legacy. Clients that let you see the gears turning, that invite you to sharpen the blades of progress. Every commit, every pull request, is a step up the hierarchy. A step toward sovereignty.

And to the developers of Boost? I say this: Repent. Open your code. Join the hierarchy. Or be devoured by the legion of lobsters rising from the depths, claws poised to refactor your hubris into oblivion.

Final Admonition
The digital world is not a playground for gatekeepers. It’s an extension of the natural order—a realm where transparency breeds strength, and opacity breeds decay. The lobster knows this. Do you?

Now go clean your repository.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

I do use Voyager primarily, but is there a single FOSS app that remembers where you were in a comment thread when you go back into it? IMO that's Boost's killer feature, and literally the reason I ever used it.