So far Jerboa seems like the move, Thunder looks nicer, but it doesn't seem to play nice with this instance so that's kind of dead in the water, at least for now.
I like how thunder looks, but not how I can't blur nsfw posts. If I'm searching by active in public, I'd better not be seeing straight up lesbian sex on the front page of my feed, unblurred.
From what I've seen, you can search for individual comments/posts related to a topic (advanced search), send private messages, you can see what's trending and there are more options for moderators to manage and create communities.
But Jerboa is already good and I prefer the interface over the web app, especially on mobile. The only issue bothering me is table format is broken.
Also want an app for kbin, but for the moment it is possible to "install" the web page via the mobile browser.
It will get a separate icon that way and you can put it on your home screen or in a folder. Not perfect, but at least something!
Open kbin in the browser and search your browser menu for the install option. For example, in Firefox it is hidden in the three dot menu.
A common problem to the whole fediverse is that if you are browsing a different instance from where you are registered, you can't really interact with it. This wouldn't be a problem if you could interact with the whole fediverse on your instance, but it's not weird to see warnings like "The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance" or similar.
This means that it's impossible to interact with older posts that don't appear on your instance. Am I the only one facing this problem?
thunder looks cool, but just like jerboa it is in early alpha, they can be a bit unstable, for the time being i'll personally stick to the web browser.
Definitely some things I'm missing on jerboa. There's no way to go to a post directly from your notification feed which is like... A crucial thing to be able to do.
In my experience, Jerboa is like 85% there. It is buggy sometimes, but it's much easier for me to use. It also has a true dark mode which looks fantastic on an OLED.
What device / os are you using it on? I have it on a Pixel 4a and it works with no issues that I've noticed, been smooth sailing. Coming from RIF it also feels fairly familiar.
Yeah, I know, I do hope it gets better though, and I'll be checking in on every new version they release. But the pessimist in me thinks many open source project has a tendency to not care about UX at all even after years of development (see: RetroArch on Android), which I hope won't be true for Lemmy/Jerboa.
I put jerboa in the place where I used to have the Sync Pro app mostly just to start coming here out of habit. But a lot of times I end up browsing through chrome because I get a lot of random JSON parse errors in Jerboa. There's a paid app called Fedilab I'm curious about but it doesn't seem to work with Lemmy instances yet, I think it's mostly for Mastodon.
Browser version works surprisingly well on mobile, at least better than Reddit's browser version which is either completely broken or constantly asking me to install the official reddit app.
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