klu9
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- Comment on An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon 37 minutes ago:
Thanks for explaining that, now I can eventually see the OP.
I want more like the second picture by default (although I wish the tap would take me direct to the OP instead of to the reply and then I have to scroll up).
I don’t want to see a main feed full of replies I don’t understand because there’s no context and have to decide whether it’s worth tapping and scrolling up dozens (hundreds?) of times a day to find out what it’s about.
I want by default to see the OP with replies underneath (perhaps the replies collapsed or collapsible). Then I can decide based on the OP, not guess by the reply, if I want to read through that thread or scroll past to the next.
Maybe it’s cuz I’m new and all the content is new. Once I’m in, perhaps I’ll want to see unaccompanied replies. But for now, I want to see OPs first, then replies once I’ve read the OP.
- Comment on An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon 5 hours ago:
Good idea. I wanted to search their Github Issues to see if they already have a request for this but then I realized I don’t know the correct technical terms to describe this. “Show OP with replies below directly in timeline”? Or “feed”? Or “home page”? Whatever is the porper Mastodon term for what it shows me when I load the main page.
- Comment on An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon 6 hours ago:
Unfortunately, it looks like Fedilab is a mobile app only.
Also, I’ve installed it on Android and the default does not show the OP above with replies grouped below.
Looking at its settings, maybe one might affect completely missing OPs, “Remote Conversations”. I’ve enabled it and will see how it goes.
I can’t find any setting to make it show replies grouped below the OP.
- Comment on An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon 8 hours ago:
Phanpy
First impression: “That’s more like it!”
But then: “Wait… it’s still not showing me the OP followed by replies.” It shows me a reply, with some faded text above. I click on the faded text above, and still don’t get the OP, eventually click on a group of microavatars with mouseover text “Go to top” and an up arrow, and at last see what the hell it is people are talking about, with replies below. I try going through settings, find no way to get it simply show me the OP in the first place.
I guess I’ll have to keep trying out front-ends until I find one that works
in a way that is not obviously maddeningthe way I need it to.I’ll try Ask Lemmy. lemmy.ca/post/44479417
(And wondering again if I should try Mbin or Piefed, and what the difference is.)
- Comment on An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon 9 hours ago:
Well, I’m confused. And has it caught on?
Disclosure: I’ve tried it out on my computer, not the app. Is the app more user-friendly?
E.g. I only just realized now why I’ve been so confused by Mastodon; the web page shows you replies before showing you what’s being replied to, without the UI making it obvious that’s what it’s doing and what’s connected together. Does the app fix that, and is there a way to get a fix in a web browser?
- Comment on Labour is set to formally declare it believes trans women are men, says leaked NEC paper. 1 day ago:
What next, Labour? Reintroduce Section 28?
- Comment on Lemmy needs AI. 3 days ago:
We need to find a way to fund the cost of implementing this. Perhaps a series of NFTs?
- Comment on US to start European troop withdrawal discussions later this year, US NATO ambassador says 4 days ago:
Another item crossed off Putin’s wishlist.
- Comment on We gonna fight 6 days ago:
- Comment on How can I federate my ghost blog? 6 days ago:
I don’t think their blog is about ghosts, I think their blog is created with Ghost, not WordPress
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 1 week ago:
New game:
“AI or Putin? You decide!”
- Comment on Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature 1 week ago:
And getting rid of regressive VAT for progressive income tax would probably be a vote winner, too.
- Comment on Harassed by Assassin’s Creed gamers, a professor fought back with kindness 2 weeks ago:
I’ve gotta see that movie, sounds great.
- Comment on Harassed by Assassin’s Creed gamers, a professor fought back with kindness 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think there’s an acted movie, maybe documentaries, TV shows etc. And he has a podcast.
- Comment on Harassed by Assassin’s Creed gamers, a professor fought back with kindness 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of Daryl Davis.
In 1983, he was playing country western music in a “white” bar in Frederick, Maryland, when a patron came up to him and said it was the first time he had “heard a black man play as well as Jerry Lee Lewis”. Davis explained to the man that “Jerry Lee learned to play from black blues and boogie-woogie piano players and he’s a friend of mine”. The white patron was skeptical and over a drink admitted he was a member of the KKK. The two became friends and eventually the man gave Davis contact information on KKK leaders.
A few years later, Davis decided that he wanted to interview Klan members and write a book on the subject, to answer a “question in my head from the age of 10: ‘Why do you hate me when you know nothing about me?’ That question had never been answered from my youth”.
Davis eventually went on to befriend over twenty members of the KKK, and claims to have been directly responsible for between forty and sixty, and indirectly over two hundred people leaving the Klan.
- Comment on China turns on ‘minors mode’ to keep kids safe online 2 weeks ago:
But don’t worry, folks in the free world, this won’t apply to you! Douyin (Tiktok in China) may restrict what kids see, but Tiktok abroad will still serve up to your tween daughter videos that tell her if she isn’t pretty enough, she might as well kill herself.
- Comment on does patrick stewart’s head look like a football with a face? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on A List of Social Media Platforms that Still Permit Free-Speech 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the details.
- Comment on A List of Social Media Platforms that Still Permit Free-Speech 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the info. I’ve heard of it but never tried it.
Does it at least have easy ways for users to filter what they don’t want? E.g. block lists that users can subscribe to.
- Comment on A List of Social Media Platforms that Still Permit Free-Speech 3 weeks ago:
Ay, there’s the rub.
Even the article’s author chooses to exclude some types of content, like porn.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 26 comments
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 4 weeks ago:
{sneaks up behind Trump with a folding chair}
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
whispers to border agent “Btw, I level up characters for Elon.”
Border agent waves you through.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel 4 weeks ago:
Switzerland, however, seems to be taking a less confrontational approach. The message seems clear: Switzerland has no interest in provoking Washington.
WTF? Simply not taking your regular phone is “confrontational” and a provocation?!?
- Comment on Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump’s latest tariffs 5 weeks ago:
Damn! And I just built $500-million-dollar factory bringing jerbs back to America!
- Comment on ‘Average man from Derbyshire’ shocked to find photo of tattoo celebrating child’s birth was used to deport migrants 5 weeks ago:
“Open source material has depicted TdA members with a combination of the below tattoos”. Except I sincerely doubt the images are actually open source. Someone please, on top of all the gazillion other suits, sue the US govt for copyright violation.
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 5 weeks ago:
Baghdad Barbie: “This isn’t Linda’s fault… it’s Sans Serif’s fault!”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
No sure whether to crosspost this to c/NotThe Onion or c/NaziOnion
- Comment on Approving US-made cars would make UK roads less safe 5 weeks ago:
I think one of the articles I looked at said the Focus estate is their last estate and is expected to end production this year or the next.
