From a brief look at their public API, it only seems to users to GET stuff, and not POST stuff yet, so that would limit the possibility of apps.

Right now there are people who sign up with an instance like lemmy.world, who then create loads of communities, because they don’t fully understand the nature of things and can’t quite believe that the URLs for lots of different IPs are available. For Reddit, if you snagged the likes of r/starwars early on, that gave you some power. For Lemmy, it’s meaningless: if you just want to moderate 100 communities, and not spend time actually building a Community up, then you’ll just be overtaken by the Community at one of the many other instances.

It’s probably whatever my phone charger uses (USB C probably), but that’s mostly because I’m associating the little buzz my phone does when it starts charging with the connection. So yeah, purely fetishistic.

Oh right. I thought they meant this kind

God, no. That thing with the submersible shows we can’t even explore our own ocean without exploding.

It’s not just the same people, (re)posting whatever seems popular at the moment?

There was a point (only a few days ago really) when browsing All was a way of discovering new communities, but now, if it’s not memes it’s auto-generated bot content harvesting link from HN or wherever.

Everyone became convinced that ‘old memes’ were the new thing (possibly in response to the popularity of Antique Memes Roadshow) and they swamped out everything else on All

Block by user: the bot at lemmit online is the main offender.

Just start one (a community, that is). There’s not some marauding band of trolls out there, waiting to give you a hard time. If it’s niche enough, it’ll be a highlight just to see someone-who-isn’t-you post something!

Follow the link from the LinkFixerBot so it’ll load that community whilst keeping you logged in on your instance, and you’ll see a big “Subscribe” button.

For any weird, bigoted stuff, lots of downvotes and no replies is hopefully the message an OP needs to receive to get the hint that they should by plying their recruitment attempts elsewhere. Engaging them is probably the worst thing to do.

I’ve had to remember that there’s automatic hiding though, and do that manually.

Yes - in the same way that Truth Social (Trump’s platform) is a Mastodon instance that doesn’t federate with anything else

If you can find something to legitimately cross-post to or from, that’s one way for users of a bigger community to see you exist

I’m still transferring stuff between my phone and computer using FTP, like some caveman.

Snookered by Dan Deacon

As bad as that bot is, it’s made worse by just how random the stuff it pulls through is.

If you had to buy just one, a tractor or a forklift, for loading your palletised homelab, which would you go for?

Was this question really asked three years ago?!
(Maybe I’m reading it wrong or there’s an interface bug)

I don’t have iOS to compare it to Apollo, but WefWef is - so far - the best way I’ve come across to browse Lemmy. I’ve installed it on my Android phone, and it handled logging in and presenting a home screen with the communities I’m subscribed to better than the Jerboa, which was very flaky about logging in, and only wants to show me the communities that the instance I signed up to happens to have.

WefWef didn’t show any posts before I logged in, and it’s not super intuitive about how to do so, and once I’d figured out that I need to press the middle icon, it turns out I’d made life a bit harder for myself by signing up with a less popular instance (“don’t overthink it” they said!).

Anyway, I’m also using WefWef from my PC - the feed is a bit narrow obviously, but it’s worth mentioning that the app works well from Windows too.