I hope this isn’t a question that’s already been asked to death, in app search for “mbin” isn’t all that helpful.

I’m still in the stages of looking for a permanent home here in the fediverse. So far mbin has really caught my eye because it’s basically Lemmy+ for all intents and purposes (at least for mine). I’m not all that happy with what looks like the only Android app though.

So I was wondering if there were any plans to add mbin functionality to any existing Lemmy apps? Even if I used a Lemmy app solely for the ‘Threads’ or Lemmy section of mbin, then used the web page or only mbin app for everything else, I would be fine with that.

I tried to see if I could sign in with the app that I’m currently using (Eternity), with the kbin.earth instance and no luck. So obviously the API is just that much different.

Are any devs here thinking of expanding their apps in future? Or is there one I’ve missed? I’ve seen more than one app with the description “For Lemmy and the Fediverse”, but what exactly is meant by “and the Fediverse” is unclear.

  • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Sorry for going on here but just want to say, reading through all of the features for Piefed I already like what I’m seeing very much. Before I’ve even tried an account. The approach and philosophy towards moderation in particular makes me confident that I wouldn’t be instance hopping much there based on those sorts of disagreements.

    Edit: also something nice is the ability to use the same import/export from Lemmy.

      • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Saying this here because I already double responded to the other post. I might be stupid and I’m not seeing an option to toggle views but one thing that I can see about PieFed that wouldn’t work so nicely on a mobile web browser (at least in my case) is no compact view.

        I’ve edited the title of my post here to include PieFed. It would be nice if some of these Lemmy app devs at least knew about the WiP Lemmy forks (if that’s even the right word).

          • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            Very nice! I actually just checked it out in Firefox Android and it’s actually not that bad, not at all what I was picturing in terms of large images taking up more than the screen lol. It does have a couple of graphical oddities that go away with a refresh but I’ll maybe reply to that email that I got when I subscribed with screenshots, like it asked. Later when I’m doing stuff at my desk.

            So if it takes a while for the app or I’m not satisfied or whatever, it wouldn’t be too painful for me to just use Firefox until something better comes along.

            • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
              3·
              1 day ago

              Yeah for now PieFed is web only. IMO the website works well enough on mobile.

              It’s quite easy to develop new themes so making a compact version for mobile would be easy for someone who knows CSS.

              • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
                1·
                9 hours ago

                I’m going to just try again here. I’ve woken up ill today, in a bit of a brainfog and right now just doing this from the Lemmy app that I use is the easiest. I’m going to get all of the text out of the way at the top of this post and put the screenshots at the bottom. First screenshot is the issue I’m facing when I first load the page. Second screenshot is what it looks like after multitasking for a bit and returning to Firefox (at which point the page reloads, reloading manually without the multitasking didn’t fix it however, so I’m assuming this a memory management thing?).

                I feel like I should also note that my phone isn’t great at all. And I’m running a custom firmware. So if this is an odd issue that no one else has ever encountered, I’m prepared to re-flash the vanilla firmware to my phone and try again.

                I also feel like I should just alert you that in your welcome email, you mention to reply to the email with any issues. However, the email is a ‘noreply’ that returns “address not found”. I’m guessing that the wording in the welcome email is from an earlier time and hasn’t been changed yet.

                Screenshot_20250121-212552_Firefox

                Screenshot_20250121-213000_Firefox

                • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
                  3·
                  27 minutes ago

                  No idea what’s going on with all those borders around everything, it looks like it might be an accessibility setting to make clickable areas more obvious?

                  The black background makes me wonder if you’ve got the high contrast theme chosen in your PieFed settings. Go to https://piefed.social/user/settings to choose a theme. Try “Card Shadow”.

                  • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
                    1·
                    8 minutes ago

                    Haha well this is odd. Definitely wasn’t on the high contrast theme.

                    Screenshot_20250122-214220_Firefox

                    And after switching to the Card Shadow theme, the entire thing just stayed the same with the very dark background and white boxes.

                    Screenshot_20250122-214311_Firefox

                    Using cropped images to reduce the size of my post but basically it looks the same as the first screenshot in my previous post, regardless of the theme chosen and saved. Including the home page outside of settings.

                    I definitely don’t have any accessibility settings enabled and haven’t encountered this on other websites (yet), although my usage of Firefox is pretty low these days because it’s fairly heavy duty for my phone. I’ll play around with my settings and try a few things though.

              • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
                2·
                24 hours ago

                I’m definitely going to give PieFed a proper go, I’ve even made an account there already. There’s just a couple of things I’m still doing and seeing here.

                The web UI on mobile really isn’t that bad, even with the full card view, unlike I thought it would be. I do have an odd issue though where on first load, the page is darker than it should be and text and pictures are surrounded by a white box. And seemingly if I switch to another app and back to Firefox again causing it to reload, it loads correctly.

                I’ll send a screenshot from PieFed maybe in a couple of hours or my tomorrow. Been trying to upload an image here in this reply for the last who knows how long but there seem to be server issues.

                  • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
                    1·
                    11 hours ago

                    I think I may have come down with a mild (that hopefully stays mild) case of covid. And it pisses me off because I’ve got this far without getting it. Apparently it’s doing the rounds in my country and while I can vaguely understand not wanting to shut everything down again and making everyone bankrupt again, they haven’t even bothered with precautions this time or making supermarkets follow certain protocols. So it seems like the fucking anti-vaxx, anti-lockdown, head in the sand idiots have won here.

                    Sorry for offloading this, just saying that I’m probably going to be even more delayed at checking out PieFed now in the next couple of days. Feeling pretty woozy and lacking in the energy to much else other than scroll.