Is there a reason that the Tasks doesn't work for you? You can make Tasks in the Calendar app and they appear inline with other events, and notifications work as you describe them from what I can tell
I was skeptical at first, but it’s great! It properly parses repos, it shows you a preview of where you’re about to download from, and if there are multiple assets in a release it lets you pick the right one. And then it does auto-updates just like an F-Droid client!
It just has so many unique features. Like sharing a comment or post as a screenshot including a customisable number of comments above it and the post itself. Very useful for quickly sharing or saving comment chains with context, without fiddling with collapsing comments and cropping. Or categories for your saved posts and comments so you could organise. A reminder function built into the app. A subreddit watcher that alerts you whenever certain keywords were posted in a sub. And many more. Lots of things that required more than just developing an app to access an API and display stuff. Gestures were the best I ever used. UI was clean and useful without fiddling with customisation. I was on Android until last year and tried many apps, Apollo beats them all.
But I think it was at the centre of attention because the developer is very responsive and Apollo is the app for Reddit on iOS. On Android you have users spread out across Sync, Boost, RiF, Joey and many more.
The official app is just featureless in comparison. I’m left-handed and you can’t even move the pictures of the posts to the left in compact view so I can access the picture/link/Video without reaching all the way across my phone. Might sound insignificant, but it’s something very simple that every Reddit app I used had and a deal breaker for me.
Not for any particular reason, but for a variety of reasons that work together to make it even better. I have listed just a few of them. Feel free to add to the list as you see fit.
No king of the hill.
No hidden corporate interests.
No karma system.
Rejection of toxicity. The flow of conversation is civil and has a good vibe.
The Federation functions as an engine of accountability.
A bunch of people who actively contribute to making this a good place.
A vocal community that actually determines what content is important.
The initial difficulty to make sense of it all (call it a "barrier to entry" if you will) acts as a natural deterrent to those who are less engaged.
Lurkers who sign up quickly feel comfortable posting.
The ability to sign up for a particular instance and leave if for some reason you find it's going in a direction you do not agree with. Lemmy's decentralized nature saves the day.
The influx of refugees includes experienced people with a lot of knowledge to make this an even better place.
The prospect of a quick release of reputable third-party apps. Since these developers bring solid knowledge from previous developments, their new Lemmy apps will immediately translate into a smoother user experience.
MORE reasons to enjoy the federated aspect. I am ALL for each instance having their own rules and protocol. I’m not a fan of removing the down voting but the fact that it is something that can be chosen by a group feels really good to me.
It isn’t for no reason other than that. Granted, that is a reason. However, without a clear ratio of upvotes to downvotes, there’s no differentiating between good vs bad. YouTube removed their dislike button, but you can still see how many views a video has. If a video has 1m views but like 3k likes, you can see a ratio there. On here, there’s no ‘views’ per comment. So a use case would be that, say I posted something objectively false that supported a narrative. If others come along and support the same narrative and upvoted it, that post would look relatively credible. Downvotes allows for democratic running of social media. Which is what Reddit once was, and what lemmy is trying to be.
I know it’s a shit thing to say, but if your posts always get downvoted to oblivion, it’s probably moreso you that’s got a skewed outlook vs everyone else. (Not you as in you but you as in the general person)
do you have any youtube video that can explain fediverse, lemmy, etc so far the explanation video i have found is already old and not that clear for me
It was one of the most well polished apps I’ve ever used. It was constantly being improved without changing the core of what it did.
Think of it as an Apple product. It did loads of clever things in the background, powerful and easy to use while maintaining a slick aesthetic. The content was the style and the UI was satisfyingly plain. It never broke.
Media player was great and No ads ever.
Lots of gestures to make it simple and quick to browse Reddit. My favourite was the swipe to the right to hide all the posts I’d seen above.
The echo chambers are here, they’re just not quite as obvious. And, there are competing echo chambers so sometimes the whiplash between posts is a bit intense lol.
It’s probably because of the instances that some of the subs I’m subscribed to are in lol.
Tangentially, does anyone know why we stopped having cool words for different kinds of software? We used to have daemons and wizards. Now everything's an app, and it's lame.
undefined> Postman to be paid for performance. Postman to be paid for performance. I don’t think that works.
If it did, flyers and phonebooks (back when they were a thing) wouldn’t be found dumped in hedges in bulk. Post is a little different, but not that much. and there have been many cases where bags and bags of undelivered mail have been found stashed in postmen’s homes because they couldn’t be arsed to deliver them.
The problem is - except for tracked parcels, nothing is traced and there’s so many ways for something to go missing between sender and recipient. Hard to measure performance if you can’t rely on that.
As I wrote. I’m talking a radical rethink. Not using existing work practices and systems. There’s absolutely no reason that each item can’t be tracked through Royal Mail. In fact it’s quite surprising that they don’t already.
But they could track them from the postbox to measure how the service is performing in general, and how each stage performs including the final sort and delivery.
This is not tracking as in people seeing where their letter/packet/parcel is but as I mentioned in an earlier post, tracking to see how the service performs.
BTW I just noticed your username… that’s the punchline to my favourite awful joke ('What do you call a Frenchman in sandals?"), don’t think I’ve ever seen it in the wild before!
Is there a short video introduction for first timers looking to join? Trying to explain this to a friend is difficult, much easier to just send a video to them.
instances: can also be called servers, anyone can host a lemmy code.
community: synonym for subreddit
federation: instances can federate (connect) to each other and their users can interact with the connected instances, they can also defederate (disconnect).
When I stop plugging Paradise Killer it will be because I am dead and in the ground. Absolute masterpiece of theming and plot. It's a mystery game without the clunky logic puzzles-- just your patience and intuition. And my God, the music. I've been obsessed for over a year now.
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