Lemmy Alternative UIs
Lemmy has a few alternative UIs that can be used to access the Lemmy instance. These UIs are built by the community and provide a different look and feel to the default UI. Some of these UIs are already hosted on many instances of Lemmy, while others can be self-hosted for your own Lemmy instance.
Photon
A better, more intuitive way to use Lemmy, with a cleaner UI, more features, and snappier usage.
You can check out the Photon repository on GitHub.
Official Website: Photon
Some of the features of Photon are:
- Newest Moderation tools
- Modern and clean UI
- Fast and lightweight
- Dark mode
- Responsive design
- Customizable
- Mobile-friendly
Public Instances: Photon Instances
It can be self-hosted for your own Lemmy instance. You can check out the Photon Self-Hosting Installation Guide for more information.
For many instances of lemmy, Photon is already hosted additionally to the default UI. Some examples are:
Alexandrite
Alexandrite is a beautiful desktop-first alternative web UI for Lemmy, a social link aggregator and discussion forum for the Fediverse.
You can check out the Alexandrite repository on GitHub.
Official Website: Alexandrite
Some of the features of Alexandrite are:
- Infinite scrolling
- View posts in an overlay or side-by-side with the feed in a second column so you don't lose your spot
- Customizable theme hue
- Powerful account switcher, login to different accounts across the same or different instances simultaneously in different browser tabs
- Most mod tools
- Supports most markdown formatting
For many instances of lemmy, Alexandrite is already hosted additionally to the default UI. Some examples are:
Voyager
Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!
You can check out the Voyager repository on GitHub.
Official Website: Voyager
Some of the features of Voyager are:
- Light/dark mode
- View and subscribe to communities
- Multi account support
- Single comment thread context view
- Upvote, downvote and reply to threads and comments
- Interact with user profiles
- Comment thread collapsing
- A bunch of swipe gestures
- Messaging, mentions and replies
- Creating new posts (url/photo/text)
- Deleting/editing comments
- Deleting/editing posts
- Swipe to hide posts
- Saving/bookmarking
- Favorites
- Android theme (beta)
For many instances of lemmy, Voyager is already hosted additionally to the default UI. Some examples are:
mlmym
a familiar desktop experience for lemmy.
You can check out the mlmym repository on GitHub.
Official Website: None available as it is instance bound so it can not be used dynamically for different instances.
Some of the features of mlmym are:
- Desktop experience
- Old Reddit-like UI
- Unlimted scrolling
- Light/dark mode
For many instances of lemmy, mlmym is already hosted additionally to the default UI. Some examples are:
lemmy-ui-next
Alternative frontend for Lemmy. Built with Next.js.
You can check out the lemmy-ui-next repository on GitHub.
Official Website: None available as it is instance bound so it can not be used dynamically for different instances.
Some of the features of lemmy-ui-next are:
- Simple UI
- Fast and lightweight
- Dark mode
- Proxy support
For many instances of lemmy, lemmy-ui-next is already hosted additionally to the default UI. Some examples are: