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Hi All, What app are you using to browse Lemmy from mobile and why? It's my first day

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm using "Jerboa for Lemmy" on Android cause its the only option i've found lol

ps: it's my second day

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Same, still has a lot of missing features though. The one thing that would be a major improvement is to be able to open links between communities and threads. It always interprets everything as an email address for some reason. !Ask [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yes! I've been pretty happy with Jerboa so far but this is definitely my main issue with it.

[–] jcb2016 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Give it time. Like one solid day and you will be an expert in no time. Jerboa is nice but it's only in alpha stage. use lemmy on the mobile browser and desktop. you gotta get used to it though first. Just like Reddit when you first started using it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I agree with this. I've been using Jerboa when needed (personally prefer it to the mobile browser), but if I have the option I'm just browsing using my laptop. I'm sure that there is going to be a point where mobile apps like Jerboa are more streamlined, which I look forward to. I've always been a mobile user first and foremost.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, the person you're talking to is using Lemmy :P

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Oh, I didn't realize. Confusing...

There should really be some identifier in kbin so I can tell if users are on the same platform or not...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, there isn't an obvious way to tell. I only know because their instance's address is lemmy.pt.

Although, annoyingly, Lemmy doesn't show that part if someone has a display name set. Not sure if kbin does though.

There should be an easier way to tell.

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

As far as I know, it doesnt. I tried 😅

I coudn't find a Kbin app for android either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Kbin federates with Lemmy now. I can browse Kbin magazines in Jerboa.

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

Also using Jerboa because it is seemingly the only app that's currently out there for android. I wish one of the 3rd party reddit app devs would bring their app over to lemmy.

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

I keep getting an error that says "value of html java type not found"

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

Yeah I've been getting that a bit. I think that's the error that you get when your instance of lemmy is getting overloaded and servers having a difficult time keeping up with the users.

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

Yeah. That's what I've been assuming also. But didn't Lemmy.ml just upgrade?

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[–] dustojnikhummer 2 points 2 years ago

I would love to see apps like Relay, RIF etc having a Lemmy variant.

[–] skullvalanche 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I found the web UI on mobile a bit clumsy for my big thumbs.

There's a couple early beta apps for iOS:

Mlem - https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc

Memmy - https://testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

These are the two I’m trying! Need to use the web browser for most features, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the links!

I didn’t know about memmy. This is great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I just installed Memmy a few minutes ago, and I quite enjoy it thus far!

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

Im betaing both and so far, Im partial to Mlem

[–] yacht_boy 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m trying them both. Mlem crashed a lot my first few days but has been stable so far. Memmy has the swipe actions I loved on Apollo. Really glad to see developers jumping in! If we can get an app that functions half as well as Apollo I can see myself never going back to reddit.

[–] yacht_boy 1 points 2 years ago

Hmm, not sure how to edit my comment yet from memmy. But I meant to say mlem has been stable so far today.

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[–] TRBoom 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Using Mlem. Really enjoying it so far, it doesn't seem to have that refresh bug that the web based version has.

[–] skullvalanche 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's hard to tell what's a bug in the app and what's a bug in the underlying Lemmy service these days.

Hooray for early days of software development! 😀

[–] Dee 5 points 2 years ago

Which is exactly why I'm using the web interface for the time being. There's already bugs with this early build, I don't need to compound them with an additional application layer 😂

[–] mrpibb 4 points 2 years ago

+1 for Mlem. It's buggy but still a better default experience than Reddit's official App.

[–] Dee 6 points 2 years ago

I just use the mobile browser version with Firefox 🤷

[–] fl3tching101 5 points 2 years ago

Mlem and Memmy for iOS

Prefer Mlem’s overall look and feel plus it is a bit more well rounded currently (though obviously very early days). However I’ve been having issues with Mlem crashing very, very often so trying out Memmy currently which seems more stable.

[–] a_crappy_pirate 3 points 2 years ago

i'm on windows desktop. the web interface leaves much to be desired. i'd personally be happy with an app in the windows store

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I’m using kbin on safari iOS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The /kbin website as a PWA on my phone. Lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

From another thread I discovered Hermit, an app I didn't know I needed. It will create "lite" apps from any site. I've been creating apps for all of my self hosted apps that are browser based but do not have dedicated mobile apps (whoogle, mealie, invidous, etc.)

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

I'm using kbin via a Firefox PWA.

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

Jeboa. It's not the prettiest but it works and I like it. I tried wefwef but it was not easy to block communities so I moved back to jeboa.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

100%, there are quite a few nice apps out there and it'll only keep growing but I keep coming back to jerboa for it's functionally, I'm just waiting for "sync for lemmy" (former Reddit client)

But that's not to say the other apps are bad at all

Vyger.app is beautiful Connect for lemmy (Android) has a great keyword filter Liftoff (android) is very popular but I can't login with my instance with it for some reason Thunder for lemmy (android) is very nice and has a good balance of form and function and it's also open source and probably reminds me the most of a solid Reddit client

The main reason I keep coming back to jerboa is because it's very easy to post to any community from the main screen / feed whereas most other apps require you to navigate to the community you want to post to first (a small, but significant difference) and it's also just very reliable and easy to see what's going on at a glance

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

I'm using Jerboa for Lemmy and it's been really good beside a few hiccups.

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

I am full luddite: I just post from the Brave browser, lol.

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

Firefox on my pc and Safari for Kbin on my mobile.

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

Kbin, just in mobile browser.

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

Big same. Can't wait for a sick and sleek kbin app

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

If you don't already know, there are some decent settings built in to kbin. Nothing mind blowing but it did improve my experience. Infinite scroll and rounded edges helped make it look more sleek, imho. I also turned on mag icons. Look for the gear icon to access your settings, on mobile it's all the way at the bottom.

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

Is there any setting to put the add comment box above the comments as opposed to being below every other comment?

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

PWA works ok but I might give the apps a try.

[–] MicroWave 1 points 2 years ago

Just using the Safari browser on iOS at the moment, but one feature I really miss from apps like Apollo is the seamless swipe back and forth.

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