Apologies if this has already been asked, I’m very new here and still learning everything.
I am (was…) an RIF user on reddit. I just found Jerboa For Lemmy today and so far it feels somewhat intuitive coming from RIF. It seems like a decent app so far in the handful of hours I’ve been toying with it. But I would love to hear what others are currently using for Android.
Thanks!
Your options are Jerboa or adding the website to your home screen. Both work, sort of, but I don’t think any major developers have turned their attention to Lemmy yet.
It should be possible to take an open source Reddit client (Infinity, Slide) and alter it to call the Lemmy API, but you’d need to tweak the login flow and make sure to show avatars/instances/etc. correctly and I can see that becoming tricky.
Lemmy usage has quickly jumped up so hopefully this will attract app developers to the platform.
Ive been using boost for reddit for a long time. Jerboa is neat but imo not yet sufficient for daily use. Its a new app, development takes time.
Currently to use lemmy I am using Brave browser on Android and using my instance’s website. This seems to be the most robust option available at the moment.
I’m a fellow booster using Jerboa. It’s pretty barebones but it works so far! My only issue is I can’t figure out how to community search (or search at all). I just switch to the browser, find what I need, then switch back. A little clunky but it’s new!
If you go to the home screen and pick the community button (it’s the second item from the left on the bottom and looks like a list) you should be able to search for any community that is indexed by your host instance.
oh nice! I see it now, it’s hard to spot because it blends in with the rest of the in-line text. Maybe a future version could put a search box or make the search field more obvious in some other way. Thanks so much!
Yeah, I am enjoying Lemmy and Jerboa, but they are definitely not the most user intuitive.
Fellow booster! I am going to miss that app :(( I haven’t been able to get jerboa to work totally correct, so I’ve also just been browsing on the website (on my phone)
I know 😔 I cant believe it honestly. Its been a daily use app for me ever since I started browsing reddit on my phone. Originally I got it because there was no official app, but over the years I’ve gotten so comfy with it. I really hope jerboa comes around, or we can plug lemmy into boost which we may actually be able to do, but for now the standard lemmy browsing interface is actually shockingly good on mobile.
Yeah I’m SHOCKED how easy it is to browse on Firefox. I saw some stuff about being able to basically imitate the reddit API and plug in all the old 3rd party apps. That would be so wizard
Also the official reddit app is trash to be honest
Yeah, Boost for reddit was my go-to too…
Like others I’m also using jerboa (think thats the only one afaik) came from infinity for reddit
Same for me. I hope that Infinity gets ported to Lemmy someday.
AFAIK Jerboa is the only working option at the moment.
Currently Jerboa. Infinity for Reddit on the other place. Husky for other #fedi stuff.
Jerboa/Infinity feel kind of similar-ish. Learning curve not bad.
Jerboa works fine but if anyone else is Lemmying on multiple accounts like I am, fyi it’s very clunky for that (which is fine, it’s not a common use-case). In that situation, installing your various home instances as apps works much better.
TIL a new verb
Jerboa is definitely a little infuriating coming fom RIF but i think its the best option
I tried Jeroba, but had some issues logging in and then noticed the UI is huge on my Pixel 7. I’m on Chrome now and it works great. I cam from Sync.
You probably noticed when you were messing around with Jerboa, but you can decrease font size in the Look and Feel settings. I found the app unusable until I did that.
The default font size on the thread overview page is okay, but when you enter a thread it is way too large. When you decrease the font size, the fonts on the overview page become way too small.
I don’t know why they are so different and why they are even connected in the settings.
I’m experiencing this as well on Jerboa. It would be nice if I could decrease the text size in a thread without making the overview page unreadable.
As an added bonus, you can install the Lemmy websites as an app (PWA) so it shows up in your app drawer like apps you install from other sources:
