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For me, it's critical to have a mobile app. If I have to access kbin via the web on my phone, then I won't use it very much. I'll poke around, and see what I can find.
I don't think kbin has a mobile app yet, but there's at least one Android and one iOS app for Lemmy. Normally, you can participate in a kbin community using Lemmy, but kbin.social seems to be experiencing a DDoS right now and the countermeasures it's using are causing problems with federation.
I'm curious as to why you require a native app. It's obvious when the site isn't mobile-optimized, as was the case with Reddit when third-party apps first showed up, but that doesn't seem to be true for Lemmy or kbin.
Valid question. I think it's just a usability thing. Easier to hit an icon on my phone to open an app rather than launch the browser, find bookmark, etc. It may seem trivial, but it makes a difference when you're in a hurry.
Don't know how you do it in Android, but in iOS you can tap share and then add to home screen to, well, add a website to your home screen.
Android also supports this.
In Chrome, Firefox and close relatives thereof, it's Menu -> Add to Home Screen.
Yeah, I just need to do that. Thanks for the reminder.
I feel the same, even though I don't use the YouTube app and instead always use the mobile site in a browser (with extensions, obviously).
Would it help having a shortcut to the mobile site directly on your phones app screen? Chrome and Firefox both allow that.