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I will be the only person to agree and not suggest an app!
Unless there's some fantastic game-changing functionality provided by the app, I'm fine with the webpage. I have a pi-hole at home that further enhances the "no ads" experience.
I didn't use an app on reddit, either - old.reddit only! I left reddit and joined lemmy because fuck spez!
The gamechanging functionality for me was being able to log in. Mobile, desktop, whatever. I click login, use my credentials, it says "logged in" and then asks me to log in again and warns down the right side of the website that I'm not logged in.
Using an app, I can actually log the fuck in.
That's fair. I'm definitely having to log in every couple days.
But I'm also not on Lemmy as often / continuously as I was on reddit. That's been a nice change for me.
Using Jerboa I get infinite scroll and a more usable layout. The website works ok, but there's lots of room for improvement.
All the stuff at the top on lemmy web page gets turned into buttons on the top and bottom of my phone that I don't have to scroll up for. Vote buttons are big enough to hit easily. Titles flow on top of Images so I see more than a thumbnail without tapping.
In my experience (large asterisk there), infinite scroll is great until you click a link, then hit back, and it doesn't resume where you were before so then you have to keep scrolling to get back to where you were before. Maybe the infinite scroll experience is better now than it was in the dark ages of new.reddit.
Pagination just never really bugged me? It gives me a stopping point.
For me, this is a bug and not a feature.