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
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!)
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.
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
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.
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.
That should have been fixed in last nights release.
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.
