Brand new to the platform. Just wondering if I have to use my browser each time. Thanks. Ps. F reddit mods

    • Fishingee@lemmy.worldOP
      910·
      2 months ago

      I searched Lemmy in the app store. I didn’t (and still don’t) understand why there are a bunch of third-party apps that connect to Lemmy. But it seemed like Voyager was popular, so I went with that.

      • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
        251·
        2 months ago

        I would read up on how the fediverse works if you don’t understand why there are so many “third-party” apps.

        • Tywèle [she|her]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          34·
          2 months ago

          These 2 things are not related though? Reddit is not part of the fediverse and had plenty of third party apps until they changed the API.

          • sour@feddit.orgEnglish
            131·
            2 months ago

            It does answer why there’s no official app, which is the question.

            • Tywèle [she|her]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              62·
              2 months ago

              There were many third party Reddit apps before Reddit had their official app. And you could argue that Jerboa is the official Lemmy app since it is made by one of the main Lemmy devs.

            • intensely_human@lemm.ee
              1·
              2 months ago

              It kinda does. Why are there no open source apps in the app store?

              Is there any open source code for iOS or Android apps?

      • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        2 months ago

        Lemmy is not one centralized entity or corporation, so it is impossible for a first party app to exist. Think of it like a collection of separately run clubs/groups that all communicate with each other over the same medium. But the medium is not run by a single person or company.

        However, Jerboa is the app made by Lemmy devs themselves, so I suppose it’s as close to “first party” as you can get.

        Personally, I use and prefer Voyager.

  • TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml
    37·
    2 months ago

    I use voyager which I know is available on iOS. There’s a lot of android options as well.

    • Brewchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      I use Voyager on Android phone and iPad.

      It’s not perfect, but it’s the least sucky Lemmy experience I’ve had so far.

    • tyler@programming.dev
      5·
      2 months ago

      Voyager is good in some ways but I think Mlem is better in a bunch more ways. I really dislike that in voyager when you are typing a comment you can’t pull down to see the thread or anything at all as it tries to delete your comment. Why in the world would I want to delete my comment by pulling down like that? So many apps do that, like YouTube.

      • FridaG@reddthat.comEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        I find mlem better in all ways except is has all sorts of annoying haptic actions and weird alerts, but they seem to be attenuating with each update

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    2 months ago

    I recommend trying a few of them out to see which one(s) you like:

    • Connect
    • Boost
    • Jerboa
    • Sync
    • neidu2@feddit.nl
      12·
      2 months ago

      I liked Jerboa, but after a lemmy upgrade, Jerboa took too long to support the new protocol, so I switched to Voyager. I would probably be using Jerboa again noe if there was a simple way of exporting my blocks et al. back to Jerboa.

    • Retrograde@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      And for Android, check out Sync, it works great.

      The developer is a really nice guy and is very communicative with folks, he ran Sync for reddit for years before reddit became enshittified - why we’re all here to begin with.

    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      It loves to freeze up randomly while scrolling and take fucking forever to become responsive again (usually I just kill it), but ignoring that, it’s a pretty solid app.

      No way to reply to direct messages, though. Gotta pull up the instance site. So other than that…

  • Technus@lemmy.zip
    11·
    2 months ago

    Many of the third party Reddit apps switched to Lemmy when the API got locked down. I’m using Sync for Lemmy, but there’s plenty others.

    • Bael422@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      I had to switch to Jerboa because Connect kept glitching out on a bunch of posts where it would load the image for a second, then just give a blank screen. So you’d need to either keep clicking out and reloading to hope it worked, or load externally in a browser.

      • Chris@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I think that might be fixed now - there were some image related fixes in a recent version.

  • BreadOven@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 months ago

    I’ve only ever used sync since the sync Reddit stopped working (fuck those [Reddit] people). Haven’t been back since. Also with ad block and a VPN, I don’t get any ads on the free version.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I refuse to use sync because the dev invalidated the old lifetime license and made me pay again to keep using it a few years before reddit went to shit.

      I’m not paying them again for something I can’t trust won’t force me to pay again in the future.

      • BreadOven@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Oh, that’s shit. I didn’t pay before (or now). That really sucks though. I don’t blame you.