Because 3rd party apps provide a native app experience to the mobile. Its far nicer to browser with all kinds of gestures than be limited to a 3rd party web browser
I personally prefer Raccoon at the moment, but the gestures are starting to wear on me, so I might be switching back to Thunder. Honestly, can’t remember why I left it. I’m a persnickety bitch about apps sometimes lol
To anyone new wondering about phone apps for Lemmy, I use “Thunder” and it works great.
Also, feel free to say Luigi without getting banned.
Voyager also work good.
Or if you like it simple I can only recommend Jerboa
Yup that’s what I’ve been using. The only downside is it’s hard to know who responds to whom.
Just stay on the right side of pineapple on pizza.
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Insta-ban!
I love that neither of us made it a point of which side is right :P
You can just browse lemmy in a mobile browser like waterfox just fine…
Why would anybody want to install unnecessary third party apps? That sounds awful.
“Hello, HR!”
I’ve just looked at my instance on both my app (Voyager) and my mobile browser (DDG)
The difference in presentation is stark.
Because 3rd party apps provide a native app experience to the mobile. Its far nicer to browser with all kinds of gestures than be limited to a 3rd party web browser
I havent used many instances but I’ve never used one which didn’t have a mobile site.
Luigi!
I personally prefer Raccoon at the moment, but the gestures are starting to wear on me, so I might be switching back to Thunder. Honestly, can’t remember why I left it. I’m a persnickety bitch about apps sometimes lol