Awesome! Thank you for your superb app and support!

Hi there! I had to reinstall the app because the app crashes when the homepage was set to “All subscribed” before the update. “Subscribed” and “All subscribed” are also missing from the left menu, but can be accessed from the top header menu after clicking the feed name. They work, but make the app crash on restart. I reset All subscribed as my default home feed in settings, but that reintroduced crashing on startup.

I pretty much only use the subscribed feed, so this is a huge bummer!

Reproduction update: cleared app storage, restarted app, logged in, set All subscribed as home feed, restarted app --> crash

Luckily, regular “Subscribed” seems to work fine, but is a bit hidden since the top bar community name menu has different options as opposed to the menu when swiping from the left.

Those TF2 class introduction videos are still top tier. The drill sergeant in Meet the soldier or the pyro one spreading joy… Ahh, good times!

Well, it’s meant as an introductory paragraph. I think such a general paragraph should not go to those lengths since the vast majority won’t be facing that issue. Most large instances that you would recommend for first timers are federated well enough that at least the civilised part of Lemmy is very accessible. I think that with:

• sensible defaults/suggestions
• easy to understand intro
• a help/link to a detailed article

you cover enough for users who can’t be bothered, who want to be informed, and those who want to understand what’s going on behind the scenes.

Yes, very much in favor of sensible defaults for first timers. Most frontends/apps support multiple accounts anyway so changing/adding more later on really shouldn’t be a problem

I think they should stick to the “email provider” analogy. Whole paragraph should be something like:

The only thing you need to start interacting with the Fediverse is an account with one of the many providers, just like with email! Providers are freely available across the globe: pick one that suits your location or interests best! You can start browsing the content of nearly the entire Fediverse from whatever provider you choose. Don’t worry, you can always create an account with a different provider later.

You could add a sentence or two about where to find sensible defaults or link an article that explains the more subtle things.

I think the emphasis on instances (and not naming them the more familiar providers) hinders adoption.

Someone’s been binging 30Rock

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But in the end it’s just as with email: providers, spam filters and clients. Some providers have stricter spam filters (~federation), some might prefer another client. Has there been any significant reason to deviate from that terminology?

Meaningful discovery is a major issue in adoption, though. Pro: no search/discovery algorithm that serves some evil plan of world enshittification. Con: no search/discovery algorithm.

This would make it an instant favorite for me! I think most people would be fine with limited developer interaction as long as they can post/discuss issues, but would be more comfortable with the project being open source.

Convince your uncles and aunts to join TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram /s but not really

So far scaled seems nice to get the little ones higher up. AFAIK you can’t pre-make custom lists as some communities are perhaps more fun if you go for newest (comments) but then the small ones might get lost in the chaos.

Ideally, I would set scaled top 6-hours or something?

A bit like CryptPad?

Perhaps some automated conversion with a warning when posting that it does this?

Even rondgekeken bij die stichtingsswebsite en die Stichting Activityclub zou wel eens kunnen zijn wat ik bedoel. Ze doen vooralsnog alleen mastodon van wat ik zo kan vinden, maar ik ga eens kijken wat de plannen zijn!

In het geval van migratie is je account / follows migreren natuurlijk een belangrijk deel van het vraagstuk, maar mocht een instance ooit ‘stilvallen’ qua admin of op een gegeven moment uitvallen dan verdwijnt alle content daarmee ook, toch? Vandaar dat ik benieuwd ben of/hoe er over opvolging wordt nagedacht.

The Eindhoven University of Technology?

Bow tie, lower on the neck and slightly bigger to make it more comical

It shouldn’t be too hard to have a backup domain point to the same resources. Could even be setup as a fallback mirror by default.