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I have Android 7 and Jerboa {the official Lemmy app) requires Android 8 or higher. So people told me to upgrade but I wasn't having that. It turns out there is a fork with Android 6 and 7 support that might get merged into mainline, so my phone will be cool for a while longer. But the upgrade pressure is out there.
You can use the web version and hold on to your phone even longer ๐
I had trouble with the web version but it works now so I'm using it. I'll try Jerboa again sometime. I had to uninstall the 0.17 fork I was using after lemmy.world upgraded it's backend.
Android 7 is quite old though, isn't there any custom ROM development for your phone? I know there are downsides but it's usually been fine for me
I am not sure of the custom rom situation but I use this phone every day so I don't want to mess with it. I can consider it if I get a new phone while the old one still works.