Site is https://steamdb.info/ (database of steam games) if you were wondering.

Did you just discover this? It's a Microsoft site after all.

There's tons of memes and stuff, but I was never into that, so meh. My thing was specialized nerd groups and they are mostly not here yet. With time, maybe they will come.

Dang, FSF shop temporarily closed. https://shop.fsf.org/

To change the main sidebar they apparently first got control of an admin account, oops.

I'd say run a local imap server rather than dealing with the weirdness of storage shares across multiple OS's.

I'd like the feed to be adjusted so that if there are a bunch of posts from the same community not too far apart from each other chronologically, to group them all together. Alternatively, a way to block communities showing in your front page view without blocking them completely. It's not just memes, there are a bunch of other topics that also clutter up the front page constantly. Even things like news reports in Dutch, which are perfectly legit except I can't read them, would be less annoying with this type of feature.

Propeller beanies as formal and business attire.

Psychologists are therapists. Just specifically trained.

Nah, there are psychologists who measure axon potentials in rats and stuff like that. Therapy is an area in clinical psychology, which is a subfield of psychology, but you can get a psychology degree without ever going near that subfield. You get to be Dr. Rat Maze or whatever. But who knows, you might end up training the next Algernon who then takes over the world.

Source: had a grad student housemate doing that type of research. He said when people heard he was studying psychology, they thought he was getting trained to be a marriage counselor. Nope, nothing of the sort.

Yes I mentioned that, I don't want to use the setting to hide all NSFW content everywhere. I am ok with NSFW content in places other than the front page. Even on the front page, so far it looks like enough to be able to block the porn communities as they show up there. I don't know of any that I would visit on purpose.

I also brought this up in my Jerboa write-up, but I notice it also appears in the web interface, so I started a thread here.

If you can manage programmers, then yes. Everyone says that's just like herding cats.

The only way I see to block a community is to visit the community first, which is an annoying interruption because of the additional screen navigation, plus you end up ironically visiting the very community you want to block. So I'm asking a way to block the community after seeing the main page link. That is, add a "block community" button similar to the existing "block user" button. The community name and instance (lemmynsfw.com) together are usually informative enough to tell me whether I want to block.

scrutinize the protocol beforehand.

Sorry but that buys into the data miners' self serving myths. It implies the protocol is ok unless some failure makes it leak more information than was intended. In fact it's invasive even if it works exactly as hoped. "Tracking" is a misnomer too. It's hostile surveillance even if it's at population level. (Any nonconsensual surveillance that produces info to be used by people you don't like is hostile by definition. And it's near guaranteed that some of the buyers-advertisers, political campaigns and funders, govt agencies, whatever-will be people you don't like). So shut it down.

I didn't notice a setting in Jerboa, and the porn was visible on the front page of lemmy.world. I don't want "hide NSFW" which hides it everywhere. I only want to hide it from the front page. If an on-topic post in some relevant community happens to be NSFW, I still want to see it.

Sort by newest first.

How well do you think the federation model is working, in terms of cultural dynamics, more defederations than I would have expected to see, etc.? I'm not counting technical glitches that I assume will get sorted out over time.

Ok, I installed the 0.34+hotfix .apk since lemmy.world is still running 0.17.something. I was able to connect and look around at some posts. Then I tried to add my lemmy.ml account. I entered my username and password and clicked "login" and the app immediately crashed (Android error box saying Jerboa has stopped, or something like that). I tried again and it crashed again the same way. Then I tried lemmy.world (since it is running the earlier server version) and interestingly, that let me log in.

Comments from less than a minute of playing with it:

• Scrolling posts around is slow and janky compared to RedReader. That might not be a fair comparison since Jerboa is pic heavy while RedReader is all text. But, a nice settings option might be to not show the pictures if that speeds it up. If the user wants to see a picture, they can click something.

• Figuring out how to log in took some messing around. Clicking the profile and home icons said "log in first" but didn't say how. It would be good if they provided some kind of hover or hold-down link to log in.

• The profile "about" screen shows your username but not what instance you are logged into. It would be nice to add that. Screen space permitting, it could also be nice to display the username under the profile icon, instead of the uninformative word "Profile".

Thanks for the backport!!! Can I ask what the purpose of the fork is for, other than the backport? I hope that you can send your changes upstream and that upstream will accept them.

I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it again. /Darthvader

Wait you mean you don't cook the oats? Oats (the old fashioned 30 minute kind) cook nicely for me in 4 minutes in an instant pot, but no cooking sounds even better.

You weren't around for Usenet. It was great, then social media took over.

Aha, thanks, not sure how I managed to miss it before. Hmm.

It would be cool if there was a way to move a post from one community to another, so the poster gets notified and maybe the old link redirects. Some BBS systems support this.

Thanks, I noticed Lemmur while looking on F-droid for Lemmy but saw it hadn't been updated in 10 months so figured it was out of date. I just installed it and tried it and I only see a spinner icon, including when I select Lemmy.ml in the pulldown. I can try Lemmynade if there is a .apk on Github but I think building Android apps takes more tools and stuff than I want to deal with at the moment.

Edit: I installed Lemmynade from Github but something very similar happens, it starts with a spinner, and when I try to connect to lemmy.world (the only specific host offered), it fails with an SSL connection error (failed certificate verification). That may again be an Android version comptibility problem, if the .apk is signed with a cert from a CA that isn't in Android 7's root store, or something like that.

I hope issues like this can be sorted out. RedReader installs and works on my phone without problems. Lemmy in general seems to be more "modern" than Reddit in a not-good-way, using a lot of shiny but unreliable tech, thus the constant fails logging in, posting, etc.

Simplest is use /etc/hosts to set up names, if there are just a few.

Wow thanks! I'll try.

Thanks!!!! I'm now running 0.34+hotfix1 on Android 7 and logged into lemmy.world from it (0.17.x server). As mentioned in the other thread, I can't log into lemmy.ml (0.18.x) but I'm fine with just using lemmy.world for now. I do wonder what will happen when lemmy.world updates to 0.18. The backport is much appreciated! Lots of us out here are using older phones, and I'm unable to log into either instance through the web interface at all.

I've never used anything like that and don't feel like I've missed anything. I do have a contactless credit card. It works out about the same way, I think.

Thanks, it's hard to tell how many users are still on Android 7 but it seems to be fewer than I had expected. Still, if supporting the old versions isn't difficult, I hope that upstream will accept it. Meanwhile I will try to be a little more open to getting another phone.

I do, see https://www.covidisairborne.org/ for tons of info on why we all should.

Large ones can be a pain and I've generally converted those to other formats even it's at some cost in disk space.

Well what phone is it? There are tons of music playing programs on f-droid. Why not just run one? I've been using Vanilla Music. I don't like it that much, but don't feel like derping around trying more and more of them. Vanilla is better than some others that I tried.

There is already a subscribed tab, and I use it most of the time when I want to catch up on selected topics. I use the local or all feed when I want to browse a wider view of what's going on in general. Right now the total amount of Lemmy traffic is small enough that browsing that way is tolerable, which it wouldn't be e.g. on reddit.

I do think that the Lemmy software design is more meme-oriented than I'd prefer, because of stuff like the thumbnail pic with every post in the main feeds. The more interesting parts of reddit to me were text-only and we don't have that here.

This seems to be different and is geared towards directly looking after other humans. Hactivism as I'm used to the term, can often be technocratic.

Find some interesting blogs and subscribe to those. The ones that don't try to churn out content every day are the best. They only post when they have something interesting.

Thanks, yeah, or maybe the devs will see it here on lemmy.ml. I'd rather not make an account on that Microsoft site just to file a feature request. I find it unfortunate that Lemmy is hosted there while at the same time unironically mocking "embrace, extend, extinguish" in its own memes community, heh.

Thanks, yeah, F-droid has some kind of proxy for that too, but I just figure anything that came from the Play store is malware, so I'm reluctant to install it even indirectly.

OP, who are you and why are you asking this? Search is one of my things (solrize :: solr.apache.org) so If you're one of the Lemmy search devs I can discuss search stuff with you here, but I would rather not sign up on the Microsoft code hosting site for that purpose. If you're a regular Lemmy user trying to get other users to brigade a dev ticket, that is not very nice, and I think it's better to discuss search stuff here on Lemmy.

I would also like this, though I was thinking of it as a feature for gnus.el, an emacs subsystem with existing backends for usenet, rss, email, and a few other things.

Yeah, plus downloading some threads and pm's before the api closed, that sort of thing.

If you look at the petapixel article, they complain about the speed (10mb/sec not 100) and have serious doubts about the reliability. Using this for backup or for security cameras sounds like a bad idea. It could still be good for some things like carrying your movie library on your phone, while still having a stable copy at home.