Amazingggg, never thought of the YouTube use case, I’m gonna try it myself. I’ve been using NewPipe and Libretube, but they just don’t cut it for me hahaha.
Yep, the UI can be a bit tricky. If I swipe a few times it usually figures out that I’m trying to refresh, and does so.
My thoughts exactly! I plan to use Native Alpha mostly to give the devs ample time to improve Jerboa, and will eventually jump ship (I think)
On mobile website, just click the hamburger menu from the top right and click “Create Community”!
Oh nice, I’ll try this too!
I think you’re right in that the structure is confusing. Personally, I think it’s less confusing than it is “novel”. Like in a world where the fediverse was the norm, centralised apps would’ve been confusing.
Either which way, I think you’re correct – part of it is because we don’t really have a good analogy for how this whole thing works.
This is how I see it: Lemmy is like a house party hosted in a huge venue that has hundreds of doors (i.e. instances). The doors have some slight differences (maybe some are huge, some are tiny, some have bouncers, some let you bring your own costumes etc). But for the most part, it doesn’t really matter what door you enter the party through, as all doors open into the same common space.
However, the door you choose does make you physically closer to one cluster of people than the rest of the party. That’s how I see the “local” filter. But if you’re just interested in getting into the party asap, just pick any instance and join.
This still isn’t a perfect analogy though – if a door shuts down, you don’t magically disappear from the party. But if an instance goes down, you do. Still, for the uninitiated, I feel like this is a sensible enough analogy.
I think I’m going to stick to Lemmy and use Reddit only to promote Lemmy. I’ve been created a few new communities here and will plug them to Reddit users.
Hey! You can also post this to [email protected] if you fancy :)
49 rapes by ONE cop. Never forget.
I want to say this makes me happy but who am I kidding, the Met’s obviously saying this to justify demanding more police funding.
Yep! The main caveats are:
But in general, most instances do allow it. One possible workaround if you’re “stuck” on Beehaw might be to sign up on another instance, create your community, and then make your Beehaw account a mod on it. This way you don’t have to ditch you Beehaw account if you’re keen on creating communities.
Alternatively, if you’re still quite new here, maybe creating an account on another instance might not be a huge loss to you just yet.
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Cheers! Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Better to have an empty community (for now) than none at all.
I stand corrected!
In terms of functionality, I’d love to have a search feature such that I can search for individual posts matching my search query. I don’t think we can do that currently.
Does the federated structure make this difficult/impossible though?
Judging by the thread over on their GitHub, I don’t know if they’ll actually close down in 7 days. Let’s see.
Does this only work from a browser, or can one do it via the apps e.g. Jerboa, as well?
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