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
    2·
    2 days ago

    Nice, thank you very much! I’ll definitely be checking it out. As long as I can access these forums or something similar with decent activity and users, I’ll be happy.

      • 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·
                  21 hours 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·
                    5 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

                  • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
                    2·
                    20 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.