Hi all, looking for an iOS app I can use for Lemmy.world. Mlem is absolutely not the answer, at least not anytime in the near future. Thanks for the help! Any navigation tips for mobile browsing would be much appreciated as well!
Its the tough thing, going forward things will suck before they get better, it won’t be an apples to apples seem less transfer but we are going to have to be willing to sacrifice here and there otherwise we will all go back to Reddit in the end.
The short answer is there isn’t one. You got Mlem for iOS and Jerboa for android
That’s kind of what I thought, it feels good knowing I was on the right track. Thank you.
I’m on Jerboa currently. I’ve been finding it very useable.
Yea, Mlem will get there I’m sure. Going off the fact Jerboa is on build 33 (0.33) I imagine its gotten a decent amount of stuff ironed out over the last 6ish months, Mlem is only on build 6 (0.6) so its still fairly rough. It works, but its got a bit before it is better than just using the mobile site through browser.
Mlem is coming along nicely. It’s a far cry from Apollo, but I feel for the devs in this space; they weren’t ready! It’s a lot all at once.
I’ve been flipping between mlem and kbin (as a pwa for now)
Kbin does have a bit more to offer right now in terms of customization, but it’s barely out of prototype phase itself. You can have a compact mode experience there, but both options are limited and struggling to catch their breath, in their own ways.
Mlem just implemented comment collapsing which I definitely appreciate.
At the same time I’m not mad about the lack of polish in this stage. A lot of the things people hated about reddit came from a particular type of mean-spirited and/or low-effort user… maybe the requirement of a little effort and patience/empathy on our parts now could be to our ultimate benefit :)
I may be a programmer, but as a person that doesn’t not own any Apple devices, I might be speaking out of place.
In the coming few days I’m hoping to learn Kotlin/use my prior experience in Rust and try to help the programmers for the Android app bring out features faster.
My reason for bringing this up is that I can’t be the only one that wants to contribute to a good cause like Lemmy and the hope is that there would be participation for iOS programmers too.
But I feel like these things take time, so for now it is too early to make conclusions, especially given the really short timeframe all the migration is happening in
There isn’t really an alternative to Mlem at present, so the only thing you can do is to make due with it for now and / or use the website. I mainly use the website at present because Mlem doesn’t have a compact mode.
Ok thank you! Any suggestions on how you more smoothly navigate the website on mobile?
What problems are you facing on the website exactly? I’m just accessing my instance’s website via Safari and it works pretty okay. I’d just recommend opening threads in a new tab, perhaps.
used to be remmel, but seems that development has stopped - it does not work with newer Lemmy versions.
