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.
A lot of people use reddit/Lemmy on the transit to work/school/university, and on mobile the official reddit app stinks, especially the video player. Other then that third party apps provide a lot of customisation, for example filters and different displays methods. What you see on desktop is a card view by default and list view when using the old website or compact view, on for example “boost for reddit” you could have cards, list, gallery and swap views. You could have a different view and filters set for each sub, set it so when you save the post it automatically up votes it and much more.
Basically it was mostly because people like to have something personal, customised perfectly to thier needs and wants while the official reddit apps just didn’t provide enough.
This is it for me. I reddited on the train, while waiting for the bus, while on break at work, and yes, while ruling my kingdom (it’s okay, I have a waterproof phone, I just wash it when I wash my hands).