First post. Majorly a lurker on reddit, and now that I’ve switched to Lemmy, most likely will continue to stay a lurker.
I know I can download and try all the apps to see what the difference is but I’m curious as to how many people just use their web browser or mobile browser?
Since I’m new, I have no interest to figure out what apps would work for me as all my time is used to figuring out Lemmy, and absorbing the contents.
Would it be a better experience to use any app to learn how to use and navigate Lemmy? The idea of using multiple apps at the same time to find what I like more seems overwhelming.
Edit: typo
I prefer the option to just scroll without accidentally putting myself back at the top of the list.
It’s probably just that the majority of users here are here because their Reddit app stopped working yesterday! So they’re used to a certain app and are looking to fill that hole
Apps have a few advantages not the least of which are Push notifications, individualised UIs, additional functionality like swipe to upvote etc. Webapps are ok, native Applications in General just have greater flexibility and access to more features of your Smartphone.
In short: browser on PC, app on mobile
Nothing really. The mobile app is mainly to browse on the phone when not in front of the computer. I guess you can browse it in a phone’s browser but it’s more convenient, at least for me, to use an app.
I think a lot of people want an app, because they left reddit because of apps.
Using Lemmy on a browser on a phone is fine, better than old.reddit from a phone which is what I always did.
The biggest annoyance for me is hitting the back button in my browser as it doesn’t remember how far down I scrolled on the page.
There are lots of other little convenience things but that’s what prompted me to download an app.
That’s what started me too. Then it snowballed as i tried every other app available to install. And now i cannot go back.
What app did you end up liking?
Sorry for the late reply. I was jumping from instance to instance.
Thi is now my app ranking
- Connect for Lemmy
- Jerboa
- Liftoff for Lemmy
- Firefox browser (mobile eeb display for lemmy is underrated)
- Wefwef (it has no block instance and user option, yet)
I got on wefwef today and I’m in love with it. (I came to lemmy after Apollo was shut down. Now I feel right at home with wefwef!)
I’m firmly a desktop user here, I’m old-fashioned, I don’t like using my phone, I’d rather be doing just about anything else than reading and typing on a phone screen. But each to their own!
If someone wants to make a desktop app I’d be interested (there never was one for Reddit), but the browser experience is just fine - especially with version 0.18 it’s starting to feel polished.
I think Infinity for Reddit had a desktop app.
I’ve not seen or heard anything about it if they did.
you clearly aren’t suffering from the random screen fast scroll bug. Every time I try to browse on the desktop, it just starts scrolling like mad and I close the site.
There are bugs but they are getting fewer by the day, I don’t think I’ve had the fast scroll thing for a few days now. But that’s not relevant for me, I have no interest in using my phone so it’s either live with the bugs of the web version or don’t do it at all.
That should have been fixed in last nights release.
I hope with a smaller community you feel more able to start / contribute to quality conversations. You add value here. Reddit was easy to feel like your comments didn’t matter.
You’re not missing anything by not using apps, as other people said, many people came here because reddit apps stopped working and they’re looking for replacements.
I never used apps on reddit, old.reddit on desktop was by far the best experience for me, I don’t intend to use apps on lemmy either.
Apps are generally more optimised for phones, and thus work a little bit better (with the exception of www.wefwef.app). But if you like the website, you don’t have to use apps.
wefwef might be a webapp but it’s very mobile optimized (: feels almost native and it’s just like Apollo
And it’s trustworthy with my username and password?? 🤔
every app needs your username and password to log in? and it’s fully open source on github…
I took a leap and I’ve been using wefwef all day (and I love it)!
However, just because the source code is on GitHub doesn’t mean that the wefwef server I’m connecting to is running unaltered code straight from GitHub.
Hosting my only server may be the only way to be certain my credentials are protected.
What does this mean? Wefwef is amazing, easy to install, and provides one of the best Lemmy mobile experiences right now, in my ever so humble opinion.
wefwef is a progressive web app. It’s something inbetween a native mobile app an a traditonal web app u would load in your browser(aka the user interface of your homepage). They have certain advantages but also disadvantages like performance and dependemcy on specific browsers etc. Basically everything you download from app stores like Google play are native mobile apps everything else runs in a browser or some container of it (roughly summarized)
My biggest gripe using the browser was the constant auto-refresh. I’m using wefwef which has better functionality and looks way nicer, feels more like a ‘Reddit’ experience.
Who said there’s something wrong using a browser?
I found it would constantly jump to the top when reading/scrolling as new content was added, so I found various apps to be a much better experience. I guess that’s what happens with such a jump in new lemmings coming online!
I understand the scrolling/jumping problem was supposed to be addressed in 0.18.1, which is great!
Am I missing out on something by not using an app?
Right now you are not missing out on anything. Infact most apps are not fully functional yet.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with using a web browser. I think people like the app just because it makes it easier to manage when browsing on the phone.
Since I work from home on a company PC now trying to use my own PC for anything is depressing lol so now I browse pretty much exclusively from my Android phone
