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[–] drcabbage@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

We still need a good mobile app for Lemmy. I tried using the Jebora one, and its scrolling speed is abysmal.

Silver lining, I am looking forward to all the new things getting developed for lemmy and the like when they can't make things for Reddit anymore. Their loss is our gain.

[–] XPost3000@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Praying that Infinity for Reddit moved to Lemmy πŸ™

[–] ron3ats@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This right here. Infinity is/was my go-to. Fingers crossed!

[–] Vlixz@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

That would be a amezing! I do really hope some of the third party apps consider moving to Lemmy

[–] blterrible@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's going to be tough for some communities. Some of the Lemmy devs are literally avowed Communists and that is bound to cause friction.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe for you, but I honestly read that, thought it was interesting, and went on with my life.

[–] god@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I need captlizm to feel not bad 😭 what's a good name for a free market lemmy?

[–] suborbital@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Interesting. I'm using Jerboa right now and while I have a few complaints, scrolling speed isn't one of them. I wonder if it's a phone specific issue.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the only shrinking issue I have is, when there are images in the comments - then it flickers all the time

[–] SuitedUpDev@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago

I am having the same issue (Pixel 6) but a propose fix is underway.

The fix: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/pull/483

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Same here, scrolling is fine for me (Pixel 6 Pro in case it matters).

[–] casey@lemmy.wiuf.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right now I'm just using the web interface on mobile - selfhosted though so I got to change the theme to dark.

[–] god@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just use a dark reader extension on the browser.

[–] Celediel@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dark Reader made Firefox on Android so unbelievably slow for me that I disabled it out of frustration, and have just been blinding myself rather than waiting 10+ seconds for Firefox to load sites that Chrome loaded near instantly.

[–] god@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ehhh I don't use firefox tho I use Kiwi Browser with dark reader extension. It works very very fast.

I would use firefox but firefox is kinda slow on my phone and I dislike slow.

[–] Celediel@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIL about Kiwi Browser, thanks for this, I think I could like this a lot. Firefox's mobile extension support is extremely limited, so this is a breath of fresh air.

[–] god@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only warning I can give you cuz it bothers some people around me is that it's centralized and closed source. It's also not privacy oriented. Other than that I like it more than Firefox in all respects.

[–] Celediel@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's not my favourite, but it's not a deal breaker for me. I used Chrome for a long time on desktop. Thanks for the info, though! I'm going to give it a shot for a few days, and see if I can live without tab syncing.

I love that they have bottom URL bar as an option though! One of my favourite additions to Firefox Mobile. Will make the switch a whole lot more comfortable. Thanks, god! πŸ˜‚

[–] god@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

live without tab syncing.

Hmm. I just message things to my Telegram "Saved Messages" and copy them on phone and viceversa. Then again I haven't ever been able to rely on Firefox tab sync cuz it was buggy when i switched to kiwi, if it's better now idk how much better it is than my method. Anyway I have tested Firefox recently for a few things I do like reading novels and Kiwi works much better for the same purpose today.

i.e. when firefox loses cache it kills a tab and it takes several seconds, like 6, to reload it, and it's not as pleasant as the kiwi experience, which although it does kill inactive tabs to save memory/battery, it reloads them much faster and efficiently than firefox.

anyway i wish you good luck in your experiments and if you remember lmk what u decide in the end.

[–] Celediel@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

I've been using Kiwi as my daily driver on Android since, and I must say, I'm a big fan! Being able to have any extension has been fantastic. The biggest thing I'm missing from Firefox, is the integrated reader mode button. Trying to read any article on the modern Internet, without a reader mode, is an absolute nightmare. I've been using Article Reader, and Google's Android-wide Reader view app as replacements, as I couldn't find a Chrome extension that worked well enough in Kiwi, and while they're not nearly as seamless, they've served their purpose. Thanks again for the rec!

[–] Rhabuko@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The dev from RedReader wants to integrate support for Lemmy.

[–] lemmy_steve@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

RedReader is a fantastic app. I hope the dev works it out.

[–] Br0qm@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I'm using jerboa right now, agreeded. It's not the worst experience but there's definitely improvements to be made.

There's a real opportunity in transitioning existing reddit clients to access Lemmy instead. Keep the user base, change the platform.

[–] ndr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mlem for iOS is a beta still in early development but it’s buttery smooth on my phone. If the dev sees this, I appreciate your work a lot!

[–] CollinTG@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Seconding Mlem! I’m still getting used to how this app works, but I like it so far!

[–] DudePluto@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Tbh I prefer just good old firefox browser over jerboa. The site is optimized pretty well for mobile

[–] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use the website for mobile, and it works really well

The problem is that even though you and me are ok with not having an app, most people need an app 🀷