this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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I don't know if you've noticed this, but threads or comments about Lemmy or the Fediverse get downvoted a lot on Reddit and trolls who claim that it's "dogshit" and "not going anywhere" get systematically upvoted.

Some of those trolls get then exposed when you ask them what Lemmy instance they tried and one of them with whom I had a surreal exchange answered with something like "yeah ofc I used Lemmy, this is the instance: join-lemmy.org" πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

It's frustrating that these trolls keep contributing to the big lie that "Lemmy is not ready yet" and that there's "no viable alternative to Reddit".

This and the overwhelming number of comments being "against the mod protests" just prompts me to question whether there isn't some brigading being organized straight from the Reddit HQ.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe. It's not like there's a Lemmy app (for iOS) that's as good as Apollo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Have you tried Jerboa for Lemmy? It is not Apollo but it is comfortable and ads free

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Jerboa is for Android. Apollo is for iOS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Memmy is in TestFlight if you fancied being a tester.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same with mlem. It’s a little ahead of memmy in development right now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mlem has become really good since they updated the app two days ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They really need to fix some of their accessibility issues. Comment text cannot be resized which makes it impossible for me to use the app. Memmy respects the dynamic text sizing in iOS, so I’m using it for now. It’s not up to feature parity with Mlem but the developer is doing a great job with adding features.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Memmy also works natively on iPad. Mlem has just a zoomed iPhone version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Beta full unfortunately at the moment it seems

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What I am using for android and its not RIF but it is not bad and allows me to join this community on mobile which is how I use social media.

I do constructive things on PC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Legit surprised how good Jerboa is tbh