How are you accessing lemmy, or reddit? (mobile apps, desktop?)
Let us know how you are accessing lemmy (or reddit). Both are going to see some big updates shortly, reddit in a negative way, while lemmy is only improving services.
I am putting together some information to help new users get the most out of lemmy, so that it feels user-friendly and easily accessible. Stay tuned
For those of you using lemmy in a mobile browser, most browsers support "installing" the site as a progressive web app (PWA). This will create a shortcut which opens the site fullscreen without the usual browser address bar, giving it a much more "appy" feel.
For Safari on iOS:
Browse to your local lemmy instance (e.g. lemmy.world)
Click on the share button located at the center bottom of the screen
Scroll to add to the home button at the bottom of the UI
Click on add to the home button
Click on add button
For the Chrome, Firefox and most other mobile browsers:
Browse to your local lemmy instance (e.g. lemmy.world)
Right now for Lemmy I am using the Safari web browser page bookmarked onto my iPhone home screen. I have both Memmy and Mlem installed on my iPhone (beta versions), but both are missing a lot of basic features at the moment. So I mostly use the bookmarked safari page. I am eagerly waiting for iOS apps to be released.
I'm using the jerboa app on my (android) phone.
I've used the website a couple of times (installed as an an app) but have found the app easier....
I've always used the official Reddit app (really only been on Reddit for just over a year and a half) and only using it to check out the sewing subs cos they don't seem to have moved over ... yet....
But agree that Reddit is very quickly losing its appeal, and I definitely prefer it here on Lemmy...
So far I've just used lemmy.world on a browser on both laptop and kindle. If there's an app just for lemmy, I don't know what it is.
I do still scroll through Reddit a bit (using RIF on my phone), but it's becoming such a dumpster fire, it's losing its appeal quickly.
Hi! I'm using the Jerboa app on an Android phone. Not using reddit much, but if I do, it's through the website. So glad to see this community here! Thank you for all that you do.
I used the official reddit app for mobile (uninstalled now), I'm using both Jeroba app and browser for lemmy, and I'm using browser for kbin. I really only use my phone and I don't have a problem with accessing what I need.
Here I use mobile Safari and desktop Safari. I only peek at Reddit for a couple of health related subs that didn’t migrate, and I use Bacon Reader. Once that goes away I’ll use old.reddit.com in the browser until they kill that too
Was using jerboa but it's having issues with the new update so I am now trying lemmynade. As for reddit i was just using the official app but I am no longer using reddit.
haha lemmynade...love it. The latest Jerboa update requires your local lemmy instance to be running version 0.18+. Lemmy.world has not yet updated to version 0.18 as they are waiting for captcha fixes to resolve spam bot concerns. It's being worked on though!
I'm accessing this via Kbin.social (ie via Kbin, not quite Lemmy) on the ios Arc browser (no app yet for kbin, afaik), and am still connected to (but not actively using) Reddit via Apollo ios app, while it lasts.