Hi all, looking for an iOS app I can use for Lemmy.world. Mlem is absolutely not the answer, at least not anytime in the near future. Thanks for the help! Any navigation tips for mobile browsing would be much appreciated as well!

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Why are people expecting Mlem to be Apollo when it’s only been in development for a little over a month? Lemmy is fairly new, so prepare for lots of missing features, but also being along for the ride and watch the community and apps shape themselves.

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Because Mlem sucks. It is an RSS feed viewer with commenting when it doesn’t crash.

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used to be remmel, but seems that development has stopped - it does not work with newer Lemmy versions.

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Ok that makes sense why it had come up a few times in my search. Thank you!

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There isn’t really an alternative to Mlem at present, so the only thing you can do is to make due with it for now and / or use the website. I mainly use the website at present because Mlem doesn’t have a compact mode.

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Ok thank you! Any suggestions on how you more smoothly navigate the website on mobile?

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What problems are you facing on the website exactly? I’m just accessing my instance’s website via Safari and it works pretty okay. I’d just recommend opening threads in a new tab, perhaps.

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I’m mostly running into loading issues. I am also struggling to navigate and find “my feed” if you will. And I have noticed I have to click things several times before it acknowledges the request.

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Afaik, Mlem is the only option on iOS right now. I believe it will improve quite a bit in tje next weeks. Until then, the web app is the only other option.

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Ok thank you! At least I know not to keep searching google 😅

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The short answer is there isn’t one. You got Mlem for iOS and Jerboa for android

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I’m on Jerboa currently. I’ve been finding it very useable.

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Yea, Mlem will get there I’m sure. Going off the fact Jerboa is on build 33 (0.33) I imagine its gotten a decent amount of stuff ironed out over the last 6ish months, Mlem is only on build 6 (0.0.6) so its still fairly rough. It works, but its got a bit before it is better than just using the mobile site through browser.

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That’s kind of what I thought, it feels good knowing I was on the right track. Thank you.

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