After looking at this aussie zone Post i realise a fun functionality, that could also help new users understand the constellation of instances and how they're connected yet disconnected, could be another option in the level of instance engagement selection.

So we currently have,

• Subscribed
• All
• Local

Would it technically be feasible to introduce to that list a feature like below,

• Visit Instance

    - midwest.social ^
  
    - lemmy.ml ^
  
    - aussie.zone ^
  
    - feddit.org ^
  
    - jlai.lu ^
  
    - lemmy.ca ^
  
    - mander.xyz ^
  

....etc

^ denotes a text box expansion button with the about page for each instance.

Its very clear that the melting pot/reddit-esque environment in All is maybe similar to what someone from lemmy.world might see in their Local feed, but for more specialised instances like aussie.zone is completely different.

The Experience from my Local to All

To explain, my local instance (AZ) is full of instance specific posts, Australian specific mostly, and it's own familiar community of users. Most of this smaller scale activity is buried under all the other activity feeding into All, leading mostly to a totally different set of curated aggregated links between Local and All.

This functionality is so great, i can go on All have a look at whats happening in the wider lemmyverse/fediverse, when i get sick of the horrible shit (joke, kinda) happening in the world i switch to Local and see all the horrible shit (joke, kinda) happening in the instance i'm most related to.

The thing is i get curious about other instances. I get glimpses through All of whats happening on their servers, but not a very clear picture. This could be solved through being able to visit these other Local feeds of instances.

Leveraging the Difference of a Decentralised Platform in a fun way.

This would leverage the key point of difference between the fediverse architecture and centralised platforms like reddit.

Each instance to a more or lesser degree have their own communities and culture building up across those specific communities. I imagine Local on instances like lemmy.ml or jlai.lu, etc are quite different than sorting by All. As i say above, aussie.zone is a very different experience to All and it basically doubles the enjoyment of the platform.

Being able to easily explore different instances in their entirety might be analogous to going on a trip, especially with the location based instances.

It could also help with sorting and navigating communities for subject specific instances like mander.xyz, (an instance dedicated to nature and science).This could help with community discovery problems often discussed over on c/fedigrow.

New User's Understanding

At the moment new users, especially going on to sites like lemmy.world, seem to be having an experience largely analogous to that on reddit, maybe with a few more communists in the mix ;).

This is good because its familiar, but as the post at the beginning illustrates, probably doesn't help with understanding the network and its qualitiative difference.

Being able to select and visit feeds from connected Instances to your Local could help bridge that unfamiliarity gap, as new users can select and focus on a single instance and its foibles rather more clearly than the rat-run between different communities hosted on these obscure things called Instances.

This is just Jerboa

I understand that this would just be a change in functionality for Jerboa users, but if it were to be rolled out, tested, and liked on Jerboa, it might lead to wider adoption of the function.

If you read this far, thanks for being patient. I know i'm a wordy writer.

Since the latest update, I've noticed that images aren't displaying properly in two ways:

1. The thumbnails no longer display within the post body, I now have to click on them to view them
2. Images in comments are cut off rather than sizing to fit the screen

The screenshot below demonstrates both issues.

Came across this post,

https://lemmy.world/post/34827799

In the jerboa app the video plays automatically, but i can't see a way to pause the video, just a mute button.

I've never seen a video play like this in the Jerboa app, so i'm guess this was that update earlier this week?

Have i missed something? Is there a pause function, or something in settings that stops the autoplay?

Hey I just wanted to ask a question to the devs about the app notifications

I've been struggling to stay active in conversations on lemmy because the jerboa app doesn't support notifications apparently? I thought i was just not paying attention but, after doing some digging, I discovered the jerboa app actually blocks permission to send notifications? That would be fine, I can manage without push notifications. Its the fact it doesn't update while I'm using the app that has frustrated me to the point of making a post about it.

My issue is that even while in the app i dont see my notifications either. I have to physically navigate to my notification tab and refresh it to get updates. Its resulted in multiple occasions where I have several replies and dont see them for literal days because I log in and my notifications say the same number as yesterday.

Im unsure if this is an app issue or my personal settings but id appreciate any help with this as its really making conversing on lemmy nearly impossible. Ive left too many people unanswered for days at a time completely unintentionally.

I know of the "Search" feature at the bottom and the "Local" "All" feature at the top - where local refers to the server you logged into.

However, to discover new communities, I like listing all the communities of a server, select a community to list all the posts and then take a look whether some posts are interesting. I could see using this to find communities I would like to subscribe to.

Am I just blind or is this core feature missing? In the web version this can be done by selecting a server>communities>select a community>go through the posts.

I used to love to use Jerboa for my lemmy needs. However I made the jump earlier in the year over to piefed and I have been enjoying it ever since. I like the extended federation support, the flair, and multi-post comments features all rolled into one.

What does the community think of potential Piefed support?

Hi, since this morning I can't browse NSFW subs anymore. They just appear blank. There are also no NSFW posts in my feed.

When I find a user who posted NSFW content I can see their posts.

Did something change? Or does anyone else have the same experience?

I've got the NSFW option enabled. And using the latest version.

Anyone else? Is there a fix? On Android.

Most listed posts show a score of 100 or 96. If I select a post the correct number is shown. I don't see this behavior in the web client. I'm on lemmy.zip. Jeroba version 0.0.77-gplay.

I have searched the settings in the app, but didn't found such a setting. I want to have bigger thumbnails for posts with images and link previews. Is that available or if not can this be implemented? I have added a screenshot from "Thunder" with exact such bigger thumbnails. Can this be done?

I wanted to bring to your attention a feature from Voyager for Lemmy that could potentially be a valuable addition to Jerboa.

Voyager has a "Migrate Subreddits" tool designed SPECIFICALLY for Reddit users transitioning to Lemmy.

This tool streamlines the migration process by helping users easily find communities on Lemmy that are similar to the subreddits they've subscribed to on Reddit.

The process in Voyager is straightforward:

1. Users log in to their Reddit account and access their subscription list via the "multireddit of your subscriptions" link available in the sidebar.
2. They copy the link and paste it into Voyager, allowing the tool to automatically search for corresponding communities on Lemmy.

This feature SIGNIFICANTLY lowers the friction for users migrating to a new platform by minimizing the effort required to find and rebuild their communities.

Has Jerboa ever considered incorporating a similar "Migrate Communities" feature?

It could be an excellent addition to assist new users transitioning from Reddit, making it easier for them to rediscover and reconnect with the communities they care about most.

Such a feature could also enhance Jerboa's onboarding process and attract a growing audience of users exploring alternative platforms.

If this is something Jerboa could implement, it might be worth exploring further.

Image of "Migrate Subreddits" Feature on Voyager:

EDIT:

The way that it works is: when you enter the Multireddit link, it will show up like this:

And if you then tap on the link that you just added, you will get this:

And then, if you tap on one of them, depending on whether or not there is a Lemmy community alternative to the subreddit: you will either get this:

This:

Or this:

Links to external sites don't seem to be working. For example, looking at a Not the Onion post, tapping anywhere I'd think should take me to the referenced article just briefly highlights the post (it's clearly detected), but does nothing else. I'm running in an up-to-date Android 15 (Pixel 6) with an up-to-date Jerboa.

Sorry, this is a little embarrassing lol. But my notification bar with the clock and battery don't show in Jerboa any more. Is this some full screen option in the app I've accidentally turned on or something in Android itself I've enabled for this app?

Thanks!

Jerboa sorely lacks the absolute basic feature of searching for keywords in posts. It only supports searching for community names. I can't think of any other Lemmy app that does NOT support general search.

I came to know that there is an issue open in Github for over 3 years now, but no clue as to whether it is been worked on.

Totally respecting the personal times of the volunteer developers who are making Jerboa an awesome app - at the same time the lack of this basic feature stops me from calling Jerboa my favorite.

Anyone else having this issue? When scrolling on the app I can't see the clock or battery or notification icons and can't seem to find a setting to disable this

Does anyone else deal with initial load times that take forever? Once it logs me in it seems to be a bit snappier, but half the time the request times out.

I figured the issue was with my instance, but I can access it via web browser with no hiccups. Usually a refresh or two fixes it so it isn't much of a problem, but I'm mainly posting as a sanity check I guess.

I noticed that the last release was in September 27th, which is almost 5 months ago.

Does anybody know if they're going to release a new version soon?

I'm writing a Lemmy bot. (No spoilers. I'll publish it one day.) To test it, I'm running a local Lemmy instance (via Docker) on a computer on my LAN and pointing my bot at it. That method works great, mostly. I can use Lemmy-UI just fine on my computer. I can also connect to that computer from a browser on my Android phone via http://192.168.1.199:1234/. I can also connect to Lemmy directly from my browser on my Android phone via http://192.168.1.199:8536/ and get a JSON payload (rather than an HTML page) with some information about the instance. So I'm certain I can connect to both Lemmy and Lemmy-UI from elsewhere on my LAN.

I also want to see exactly what posts made by my bot look like in Jerboa, but I haven't been able to figure out how to connect to it from Jerboa. On the "add account instance" interface, you can select an instance from the dropdown, but you can also type whatever you want into the dropdown field.

I've tried typing in:

• 192.168.1.199
• 192.168.1.199:1234 (Lemmy-UI is HTTP port 1234.)
• 192.168.1.199:8536 (Lemmy is HTTP port 8536.)
• http://192.168.1.199:1234/
• http://192.168.1.199:8536/

(And, yeah, I figure port 1234 is probably not correct because probably Jerboa doesn't go through Lemmy-UI, but rather directly to Lemmy itself. But I figured I'd include those experiments here for completeness's sake.)

But I get the error message "Couldn't connect to the instance."

I'm running Jerboa 0.0.77 and Lemmy 0.19.8.

Thanks in advance!

Or is this not possible on Lemmy generally?

Is there a way to only show English posts when in All? I love our friends around the world but I can only read English right now

I'm looking for a way to filter by text in Jerboa, for example hide every post if the title starts with "Trump“

Don't know if I just can't find it or if it doesn't exist. If it's the latter, this would be a welcome addition.

I would love to have a button on images in Jerboa that would completely invert the colors of an image. My retinas keep getting burned when I'm opening a post on my dark themed phone that is of a white image with text. It would be great to be able to view/read the image this way.

PS double tapping an image zooms it in waaaay too far. It should zoom to 100% size. My biggest pet peeve when trying to enlarge images.