TLDR: Tap and hold on a comment to collapse it.
I was missing the feature from RiF that let you hide and collapse comment chains. I only just figured out how to do this on the Connect Android app.
By pressing and holding on a comment you hide that comment and all replies to it letting you easily skip down to the next parent comment.
It’s not exclusive to Connect though.
I use Mlem @ iOS and I can collapse comment too.
So does Jerboa. I keep hitting it by accident.
I keep collapsing the sub-comments because I keep thinking long pressing on the main comment = the context menu of the comment
Same with wefwef.
I’m glad to hear that other apps have this too. Connect is the first one I’ve tried and the feature makes browsing alot easier