if you want to post links or discuss Reddit over the next while, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy, thanks! (a more formal body may be forthcoming, but that’ll come in the morning if so)
if you want to post links or discuss Reddit over the next while, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy, thanks! (a more formal body may be forthcoming, but that’ll come in the morning if so)
Try using the Progressive Web App (PWA) instead. I’m on iOS and haven’t found a good app for Lemmy yet but the PWA has helped me get used to Lemmy on my phone in place of Reddit. You just open the site in your phone’s native browser (Safari on iOS, probably Chrome on Android?) and choose “Save to Home Screen”. Now it looks like any other app and behaves like it too, even though it’s secretly just the web page.
Give wefwef a try. It’s a third party PWA app already looking very similar to Apollo.
hi, do you think you could walk me through how to download something like this or point me in the direction of a guide or something that could? i’ve been using lemmy just on browser but would be interested in something like this, i’ve just never installed anything like it before and don’t quite know what to do :) thanks!
Open https://wefwef.app in your mobile browser, open the share slid out menu or however that menu is called and click on “add to home screen”. That’s it.
One thing to be aware of is that it should probably be done with the original system browser, so Safari on iOS and Chrome / Samsung Internet on Android. At least I didn’t seem to get the option to add to home screen from Firefox on Android, and I’m also not sure every iOS browser will have add to home screen in the share sheet.
There’s an “Install” button in Firefox in the menu.
OK, thanks. Guess I must have overlooked it when I searched for it (because I started in Firefox). I still think it’s worth to be aware of in case people use some really specialized browsers with certain limitations.
Go to wefwef.app in your browser. Now open the options menu of your browser (the three dots, if on Android, the square with the arrow pointing up, if on iOS) and find the option to put a bookmark on your home screen (in iOS it’s called “add to home screen”)
This will create a sandboxed version of wefwef.app, tap it and it should load like a normal app. (this is what Apple envisioned as apps way back when, before they realized that they could make money selling apps)
When the page has loaded, in the bottom middle, tap on “lemmy.world”, and log in to your Lemmy instance.
Enjoy.
One thing to be aware of. If you have selected more than one language in your Lemmy profile, wefwef fails to post comments because you need to select which language you typed in, and you can’t select that (yet?) in wefwef.
Just tossing this out there, I’m commenting from memmy (iOS) and it’s great. Still beta and incomplete but really nice UI and themes. New features being added literally daily. Feels much more native and usable than the web interface.
I just use a browser tab. Same as PWA but with refresh buttons etc.
Second the PWA, it’s pretty decent.
I think on Android you can do it with any browser that supports it (I do believe Firefox has the support too). On iOS Safari is the only browser anyway, the others are cosmetic and functional improvements, but have to use Webkit for the actual website displaying stuff