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substill

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That is the main feature I’m missing, too.

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to have Washington on your side.

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I’ve found when that happens, single tapping the middle of the screen seems to fix it. The app doesn’t respond to whatever target you single tap in that circumstance. When you scroll or whatever after the single tap, it works.

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Any word on memmy App Store approval?

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Yeah I’m on a smaller instance and wefwef is snappy af

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Yeah I’m not sure what the algorithm is taking into account in deciding “hot.” Seems it is “recent views but only because the formula fed this old stuff to the last few rounds, too.”

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That and a limit of 3 per user per day seem rational.

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Unless I’m overlooking it, join-lemmy provides no essential info to choosing an instance. It doesn’t display uptime, location, number of users, age, or number of connected instances.

I used It and ended up on an instance that seemed to be missing many male** communities and was on the other side of the planet from me (though fortunately did not have too many other users). Then I followed a different instance browser and found a much better one for me.

EDIT: ** was supposed to say major communities, not male communities. But I’m leaving it because

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Which is a problem. The onboarding for the fediverse - especially choosing a lemmy instance if that is the direction you want - is way too obtuse right now. Instances are definitely not all equal, and the icon and description are the least useful data points to rely upon.

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Dude, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate wefwef and your constant improvements to it. This is great.

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