I’m new to the whole fediverse thing, and how Beehaw and Lemmy all interact is still something I’m wrapping my head around. I’m very used to how Reddit worked and would always browse it using Apollo on my iPhone or old Reddit with RES on my laptop.
My question is, how can I get a more customized Beehaw/Lemmy experience? Is that a thing? Like is there an app at this point for Lemmy that works with instances like Beehaw? Or is that kind of a silly question and I should expect to always access Beehaw via a standard web browser? And if that’s the case, do any browsers work better with Beehaw? Like, could I run into more bugs if I use, say, Safari instead of Chrome? For instance, I notice when I’m browsing comments on a post, sometimes my page shoots me back to the top and I can’t tell if that’s a bug caused by my browser or what.
I use Jerboa on Android and even though it’s in early development it’s already very nice! Reminds me of boost for reddit.
I’ve heard of mlem(?) for ios but know nothing about it.
I’m beta testing mlem…still missing a lot…looks good thus far.
Memmy is also a promising alternative, but it’s even newer than Mlem, although development is going very fast.
I’m using Jerboa on Android and Firefox on Linux and neither experience is all that great. Jerboa keeps putting my comments in random places, not refreshing, and doesn’t have accurate comment counts.
Biggest issue with Firefox so far is that it likes to randomly refresh while I’m in the middle of browsing, so I’ll go from a few pages down back to the top without warning.
Both have problems following links to other instances without bringing you to a login page. Adding new communities is obnoxious because you have to copy and paste them into your search bar. Both also seem slow and clunky to me.
It’d also be great if there was an easy way to block communities. I like using the All option so I discover new ones, but a lot show up in languages I can’t read or are niche porn subs I’m not into.
It still very much feels like I’m a beta tester.
I always use Lemmy on a browser. I think the default browser is the most stable, that would be Safari on iOS, Chrome on Android, although I’m currently using Brave on iOS without noticing any issues.
The browser lemmy-ui clients have more features. But Jerboa is a decent mobile experience and getting better. I finally put together a version in my fork last night that includes the latest contributions like comment sorting with other regressions fixed (and also supports Android 5.0+ too)
I would start in the browser. There are things about the app that do not seem quite complete yet. Would be good to have the Brower experience first.
Notice the view controls at the top of the page. I like New rather then Active. Also you can select Subscribed, Local, or All for scope. Once you setup your subscriptions I prefer Subscribed. You can set permanent defaults for these in settings.
Also notice the Communties section. Go there and setup your subscriptions. Prefer local communities, then search for others in the search box.
