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What’s the best way to browse Beehaw/Lemmy? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m new to the whole fediverse thing, and how Beehaw and Lemmy all interact is still something I’m wrapping my head around. I’m very used to how Reddit worked and would always browse it using Apollo on my iPhone or old Reddit with RES on my laptop.

My question is, how can I get a more customized Beehaw/Lemmy experience? Is that a thing? Like is there an app at this point for Lemmy that works with instances like Beehaw? Or is that kind of a silly question and I should expect to always access Beehaw via a standard web browser? And if that’s the case, do any browsers work better with Beehaw? Like, could I run into more bugs if I use, say, Safari instead of Chrome? For instance, I notice when I’m browsing comments on a post, sometimes my page shoots me back to the top and I can’t tell if that’s a bug caused by my browser or what.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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.