I use Jerboa on Android and even though it's in early development it's already very nice! Reminds me of boost for reddit.
I've heard of mlem(?) for ios but know nothing about it.
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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I'm beta testing mlem...still missing a lot...looks good thus far.
Memmy is also a promising alternative, but it’s even newer than Mlem, although development is going very fast.
I'm using Jerboa on Android and Firefox on Linux and neither experience is all that great. Jerboa keeps putting my comments in random places, not refreshing, and doesn't have accurate comment counts.
Biggest issue with Firefox so far is that it likes to randomly refresh while I'm in the middle of browsing, so I'll go from a few pages down back to the top without warning.
Both have problems following links to other instances without bringing you to a login page. Adding new communities is obnoxious because you have to copy and paste them into your search bar. Both also seem slow and clunky to me.
It'd also be great if there was an easy way to block communities. I like using the All option so I discover new ones, but a lot show up in languages I can't read or are niche porn subs I'm not into.
It still very much feels like I'm a beta tester.
I would start in the browser. There are things about the app that do not seem quite complete yet. Would be good to have the Brower experience first.
Notice the view controls at the top of the page. I like New rather then Active. Also you can select Subscribed, Local, or All for scope. Once you setup your subscriptions I prefer Subscribed. You can set permanent defaults for these in settings.
Also notice the Communties section. Go there and setup your subscriptions. Prefer local communities, then search for others in the search box.
I always use Lemmy on a browser. I think the default browser is the most stable, that would be Safari on iOS, Chrome on Android, although I'm currently using Brave on iOS without noticing any issues.
The browser lemmy-ui clients have more features. But Jerboa is a decent mobile experience and getting better. I finally put together a version in my fork last night that includes the latest contributions like comment sorting with other regressions fixed (and also supports Android 5.0+ too)
Miem is a lemmy client for ios i havent checked it out cuz im android