bobagem

joined 1 year ago
[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

I could be wrong, but my impression is that there is less politics and less bias involved in defining words and and providing pronunciations and etymologies then there is an articles about history and politics and people.

I especially like Wiktionary from the point of view of exploring cognates between languages and etymologies that cross language boundaries, in a big dictionary that covers many languages all at once.

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago

This is the underlying article written by Caroline Giuliani: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/caroline-giuliani-trump-kamala-harris

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Seems like it should be an easy fix for Sync for Lemmy to use post_ids instead of post_id.

In the meantime, I guess I'll poke around for an alternate Android client.

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

It once worked magically for me to watch television.

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

That fixed the problem, yes. I discovered it when I tried to toggle and save that setting and was told there was trouble saving to my account.

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Here's my additional feature request:

Allow me to scroll until all posts are read.

I assume that this would be accomplished by letting me scroll past the last post.

If you felt uncomfortable about the empty screen (I don't), you could add some simple background effect or even a dummy "you've reached the end of the internet" post or two.

Context: I don't want to be scrolling Lemmy all day. I want to be able to view the top posts of the day, scroll through them, get to the end, and know it's time to stop. If I open Boost again later, I don't want to see anything that I've seen before.

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

As I scroll, the posts I scroll past are dimmed, based on the dimming setting.

But they are still there.

Even after a refresh.

My account setting has Show Read Posts disabled, and that's been working for some time in other Lemmy apps.

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When I search for this setting in Sync it shows up.

But when I click on it it goes to a page that does not offer the setting either at the top level or buried inside of anything else.

When I go to look for this setting again in my home instance, I find that it is in fact now correctly set. It was not correctly set when I posted. So my fix stuck.

I assume, as someone else suggested, that there's some caching going on somewhere, either on the transmitting end or the receiving end.

That's fair: as far as Lemmy knows it was posted by a self-declared bot, even if that puppet later became a real boy.

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thank you. I'm going to try again now.

I'm using sync on Android and I don't believe that I can change the setting there. I can change the setting for whether I filter bot accounts, and so that confused me for a bit about whether I was misinterpreting that setting.

I did find the setting in a web browser on my home instance. And I thought I corrected it, and I thought I saved my change. Updates and screenshots to follow momentarily.

Is this a setting that defaults to bot‽

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I did not know. Thanks for telling me. Fixed.

 

Sorry for a photo of a phone screen. I had trouble screen capturing the notification shade.

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