Can anyone here get Gboard to gesture type "Lemmy"?

Mango@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 14 points –

No matter what I do, it's like Gboard is specifically avoiding it. It'll instantly learn any bullshit word I make up like "aprifnid" but can't type "Lemmy". I suspect shenanigans.

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Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent lent Levi's left Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent Lenny Kenny Kent Lenny

Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy

Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent

Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy

Lemmy lemmy lemmy. Lemmy. Kenny Kent lent

lemmy lemmy lemmy.

Lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy

Lines in italics were typed, lines not in italics were swiped, bold was swiped then selected from the suggested word list. It took a little bit but I managed to train it to do it.

Lemmy

Nope for me it works, I'm using the openboard fork with gesture typing

Is that a privacy focused alternative? Where's the APK?

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.dslul.openboard.inputmethod.latin/

This is the official package that is now unmaintained, I use the fork of one of the original devs: https://github.com/Helium314/openboard

It supports adding an external swipe type library, and sadly the only working one is the gboard one, that works like a charm however

It is not on fdroid (yet), so you can install it manually or using obtainium

I deleted "Kenny" and now it seems to do it fine if I double boop the M.

Kelly Lent Lent Lent Lent Lenny Lent Lent Lent Lent Lenny Lent Lenny Lent Lent Kelly Lent Lenny Lenny Lent Lent Lent Lenny

Ok you win

My first try yielded "Kelly" but was about to get "Lemmy" on my second try. I recommend trying to touch the space to the right of the "L".

Lemmy

Holy shit, it worked!! Took 3 tries though.

lemme lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy, yeah seems like it works for me.

I can't really try because I've set up the lemmyface to show up whenever I type lemmy by swiping. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Works for me. Make sure you scribble on the M while you're over it.

Is that a thing? I've noticed better results with some words when I make sure I make a hard turn or pause on a letter.

Just to confirm you're not crazy, I tried the standard method of adding a word by manually typing 'lemmy' and then tapping the same word on the suggestion bar, which didn't work.

Tested adding other nonsense words like treypses which worked as expected for swyping, but to get Lemmy to work I had to add Lemmy in Gboard's personal dictionary

Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy

I'd a circle on the 'm'

Works here. I can never get it to swipe type "Mastodon" though.

Mastodon

First try.

I've learned that pausing a bit on letters helps and also extending a bit further past the ones on the ends.

Am I using this place incorrectly, or is it just kind of dead? There doesn't seem to be much activity, or else maybe I don't know where to look yet. I really wanted it to replace reddit.

Go to lemmyverse.net and load up your subscriptions with more active communities, and I'll bet you will barely notice that reddit is gone aside from less/slower (but better IMO) content and lower upvote counts.

I'd recommend sticking around a bit and subscribing to more places. A lot of people have been able to replace Reddit (and waste similar amounts of time here)

My tips are

  • Subscribe to more communities. After searching for something on LemmyVerse, if you find 3 communities that might be interesting, subscribe to them all.

    • On Reddit, a community with low subscribers is usually dead. On Lemmy, there is a lot more engagement on the content so even the dead looking community will give you interesting content over time

  • Feel free to comment and post more. People are more likely to respond here

It isn't a 1 to 1 perfect copy of Reddit, it's different :)

You can also pop in to !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca to ask questions or say hi :)

My advice is try "Hot" sort and "Top Day" (or 6/12 hours depending on how you like to check). And set the scope to "All" instead of "Local".

The default Active sort has always been kind of meh to me. Hot is more like Reddit's Rising feed.