Other than a few people who work for Reddit, basically everyone was blindsided by Reddit doing the API thing with such short notice. There’s all of like two people developing Lemmy, one also is responsible for the Jeroba app and I think the lemmy.ml instance, and thousands of people just showed up and started trying to use various instances including having so many people sign up for Lemmy.ml it had stability issues. Apparently Reddit managed to hug itself to death during the Digg Exodus, it’s not a big surprise it’s happening here too and I think Reddit was a bit bigger than Lemmy when shit hit the fan on the previous platforms. There’s some growing pains and some problems to work though, but the big ones like the scrolling thing will likely be solved fairly quickly.

I use Jerboa and have this refreshing issue much less than I did with the browser interface, but it does still happen occasionally. It seems to be related to my Internet connection - if my phone switches between the shitty cell service at my house and the only slightly more reliable home wifi, the thread I’m reading (or community I’m viewing) refreshes as soon as the connection is reestablished.

Idk what to do about that except be patient for more stability in future versions 🤷 if I understand the situation correctly, we’re using barely-beta stuff here on Lemmy, there are gonna be some hiccups. The general vibes of the various communities I’ve interacted with here has been so fucking awesome that I’m willing to deal with the hiccups, I think it’s totally worth it.