I didn't like Lemmy at first, possibly because it had this weird auto-refresh thing and other issues. I found mbin instead and have been with it since. I may check out Piefed at some point. My instance recently has been struggling with donations and I can't really help right now.

I don't use an app for mbin, just browser. The one thing I will say is that images are broken on mobile (Android) as there is no X to close the image, annoyingly.