I’m desktop-only user and never had any experience with Reddit/Lemmy apps, and the sentiment towards them confuzes me.
I can imagine that the third-party apps for Reddit were better (?not bugged?) than the official one. But what made you to love them? Was the experience even better than desktop use?
Feel free to write about both Reddit and Lemmy apps in your responses.
I’m a desktop browser user as well. I can understand the draw to phone apps, but I only use mobile where I have to. I’m actually pretty old so I grew up on desktop and laptop PCs. Never been drawn to using mobile apps for much. I do have a proper Android phone and the only app I installed on it myself is Zoom though it came with a bunch and there’s a few others I use once in while.
Anyway mobile apps do a better job presenting content on the limited screen real estate of a phone or tablet. Though if you wanted you could access Lemmy from a mobile browser. It’s just not optimized for mobile and can actually be kind of painful. People have published website apps for desktop browser, but really there’s not much reason to use one. You get optimal presentation on desktop browser natively.