This. I've been using Jerboa ever since making the switch to Lemmy. There wasn't much of a learning curve and it basically does what I want, so I'm happy with it.

I started off using jerboa. Just installed sync to see what the fuss is about. At the core it's pretty much the same. One thing sync does better, at least on my phone, is smoother loading/rendering of content. There were times id actually use Lemmy web instead.

With that said, my favorite reddit app Boost, is working on a Lemmy client too. So I'm looking forward to that as well.

Am I ditching jerboa? No, not yet.

I put this in a other thread, but am genuinely interested in getting feedback.

I'm currently on Jerboa and downloaded/installed sync yesterday. As a former RIF user, I don't have a horse in this race. I am more familiar with Jerboa, but find the overall feel of both (admittedly, without a lot of use), to be pretty comparable.

That said, I kind of like some of the ideas in Jerboa more? For example, tap to minimize comments and their children on Jerboa is quite a bit faster. I'm kind of sad that both make selecting some of the text in a comment hard and miss the dedicated RIF collapse/expand comment tree button. Jerboa also matches the font size of everything else in my UI better than Sync. For example, the font size of this reply and my keyboard are the same in Jerboa. In Sync the in-app font size is quite a bit smaller.

At the end of the day, I think that both apps are going to be largely comparable for a fairly casual user like me. I bet both offer more functionality than I'm using, but so far I don't feel like I'm missing anything.

I've tried a few apps (Liftoff, Wifwif or whatever it was called, and now Sync). I've not stuck with any of them, despite the fact I used RiF and later Boost both for years.

They just feel too early stage. Eg, Wifwif was super sluggish and I accidentally cancelled multiple long comments I typed up by trying to scroll, which is a big oof. With Sync, I noticed the comment hierarchy was messed up and when I went to post about that, I couldn't do it from within the app because posting isn't supported yet (feels like a big thing to be missing).

So for now, I'm still just using the website. And not with the PWA, because support for multiple tabs is really great and avoids weirdness with scrolling when going back.

Side note: why do literally no apps support tabs????? Number zero feature request I've ever had, for every single app. I even noticed that Sync has a long press to open posts in background, but it's only for posts and it is rather convoluted cause it's more like opening a second instance of the app. The back button goes to my Android home screen (not back to Sync) and it is hard to navigate to what you just opened.

Mobile Chrome's tab groups feature is absolutely amazing. I hate using "normal" tabs anymore, cause the tab groups having the tabs accessible at the bottom of the screen is unbeatable.

I've been using Liftoff but Sync feels a lot more polished except what it does with the comments sometimes - showing child comments with no parent. Liftoff would show the parent comment so I don't know what's up with that.

Long time RiF user but no LiF 🤷‍♂️

Because third party apps are literally the point that drove a lot of people to Lemmy in the first place. It's classic selection bias.

Most of us were like that, but the sudden excitement we all had for the app release caused a counter-surge of people annoyed at our excitement and sometimes exaggerated statememts, which caused a lot of us to dig in our heels against the backlash in defence.

Add to that a user base used to no ads and no fees, with a user base who is okay with either, you've got the perfect ingredients for the mud soup we've found ourselves in.

I don’t understand why this gets so much talk

Because proprietary software is unethical.