Recommendation from app developer is to use web interface until your instance uptates to 0.18, and probably to 0.18.1 since than will captcha be back.
And that won't probably take that long. The captcha code has already been written, it was just not yet properly reviewed. With some luck as early as next week.
Yeah, you can also take this opportunity to try out some other apps that are popping up. Liftoff is really active right now and should be backwards compatible with Lemmy 0.17.x
Yup, that's the policy. I could find it on Matrix if you like, but basically the main dev isn't interested in spending the time for backwards compatibility, and nobody has yet stepped up.
So it's not like anyone is opposed. Priority right now is improving supporting new lemmy versions, followed by high priority bugs and features.
Customarily, backwards compatibility starts with version 1.x, so until Lemmy doesn't release a 1.x stable version, instead staying on a 0.x "let's break everything", backwards compatibility is more of a lucky coincidence.
The admin for my instance claims that 0.18 is very buggy, won't update the server until the next version is out and bugs are fixed. The new Jerboa still runs for me, but its a bit wonky... I might just downgrade back to the previous version until its sorted out.
Yup I thought this would happen. I ended up using Lemmy.ml again until instances update. My phone updated Jerboa and now I can't get into my ordinary instance.
I got the message from Jerboa using 0.0.35 from Fdroid but oddly I can just dismiss it and use it just fine. There is an 0.0.36 from Izzy but I'm not able to upgrade to it to test.
Yeah, I have two Lemmy accounts (one on Lemmy.ml and one on Lemmy.world, since Lemmy.ml won't let me add nsfw instances to my subscriptions list for whatever reason) and I've had to start using Thunder as my app for Lemmy.world and Jerboa for Lemmy.ml til this whole mess gets sorted out.
I couldn't find any option to hide seen posts so it's a bit early in development. If there is an app that does all that this version of jerboa does AND let's you flip through posts instead of opening them individually I'd try it.