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Megathread for Reddit News & App Shutdowns (self.technology)

submitted 1 year ago by alyaza to c/technology

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[–] anji@lemmy.anji.nl 37 points 1 year ago (21 children)

If they really do shut off API access I'll go into partial link aggregator withdrawal. My Lemmy instance still isn't upgraded to the latest versions which are compatible with apps, so I don't browse on my phone.

[–] Isildun 40 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Try using the Progressive Web App (PWA) instead. I'm on iOS and haven't found a good app for Lemmy yet but the PWA has helped me get used to Lemmy on my phone in place of Reddit. You just open the site in your phone's native browser (Safari on iOS, probably Chrome on Android?) and choose "Save to Home Screen". Now it looks like any other app and behaves like it too, even though it's secretly just the web page.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Second the PWA, it's pretty decent.

I think on Android you can do it with any browser that supports it (I do believe Firefox has the support too). On iOS Safari is the only browser anyway, the others are cosmetic and functional improvements, but have to use Webkit for the actual website displaying stuff

[–] Fenzik@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Just tossing this out there, I’m commenting from memmy (iOS) and it’s great. Still beta and incomplete but really nice UI and themes. New features being added literally daily. Feels much more native and usable than the web interface.

[–] 1chemistdown@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Works great with kbin.social

[–] hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m on iOS and I just tried this but I don’t have a back button when I open lemmy that way.

Do you also have that issue? I’ll probably use it anyways but I’m pretty sure I’m on iOS 17 beta so I wanted to ask

[–] Isildun 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is no back button. You swipe left-to-right (from the left edge of the screen) to go back.

[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 2 points 1 year ago

I just use a browser tab. Same as PWA but with refresh buttons etc.

[–] HorseFD@lemmy.buzz 1 points 1 year ago

Join the Memmy TestFlight. We’re getting updates pretty much every day.

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