Florisboard has decent swipe typing from what I remember, and should be available in F-droid.

EDIT: after checking, I see Floris has not been updated in two years on f-droid. :(

Grist Magazine is pretty good, mostly focuses on environmental news

I would probably use gals in your specific example, but personally, I would use guys if addressing a group of girl friends, but that’s just how I perceive the word. I guess once you add ‘the’ or ‘some’ behind guys, I perceive it as masculine, but it feels totally neutral to me in other contexts, such as “C’mon guys, let’s go X!” or “Guys, check this out.”

If you’re talking about the two that I think you are, I agree. I suspect my pleasant experience is due to my instance defederating completely with those, which is pretty swank.

At least in the communities I’m subscribed to and interact with, I’ve still seen it mostly be positive interactions.

For anyone still not able to access slrpnk.net, here’s a copy of the help thread in the slrpnk meta community:

It seems like there is an issue with the upgrade from Lemmy version 0.18.5 to 0.19.2 where the old login cookies are not accepted any longer and right now the only way to fix it is to manually delete the old cookies for slrpnk.net from your browser storage and log in again.

For Firefox: Settings > Privacy & Security > Manage Data… > Deleting Slrpnk.net

For Chrome: Settings > Privacy and Security > Third-party cookies > See all site data and permissions > Search for slrpnk.net > Click trashcan icon

For Edge: Settings > Cookies and site permissions > manage and delete cookies and site data > See all cookies and site data > Search for Slrpnk.net > Click little ‘v’ dropdown arrow > Click trashcan icon

For mobile apps: Log out fully and log back in again.

The Lemmy devs identified the issue and it will require another bugfix release that will hopefully happen soon.

How would a video hosted on youtube use up a lemmy instances resources?

Thanks man :)

Shameful plug: !buyitforlife@slrpbk.net & !mealtimevideos@lemmy.world

I try to keep mealtime videos stocked with interesting content, but BIFL could use some more folk to keep it active.

Replacing your landline with a an obitalk box, which let’s you use google voice with a normal landline phone and answering machine, making your landline totally free as long as you have internet! :D

Huh, I’m note sure why it wouldn’t allow you, it should be available to anyone, and I seem to be able to subscribe to it with my alt Kbin account. You might want to send a message to either the lemmy.world or lemmy.ml admins for help.

You’re welcome ^^

Is it saying you’re not logged in when you go to it? Or is the subscribe button just grayed out?

I was surprised to find the main Linux community here to already have noticeably better content, and equal or more comments on most posts compares to r/linux. It’s been a complete replacement for me 😄

Yeah, r/mealtimevideos officially adopted Discord, and when I brought up Lemmy to the mods, they said none of them knew much about it, so they skipped over it I guess.

Thankfully we do have !Mealtimevideos@lemmy.world and !mealtimevideos@lemmy.best, which I try to keep stocked with interesting stuff.

I guess as I’ve been using Lemmy more, I see that this is actually a fairly large issue. When I post to, say, a Videos community, I crosspost the link to every other Videos community I can find on the lemmyverse. But that’s clunky, and if anyone is subscribed to all of those communities for redundancy, it shows up in their feed multiple times, which is likely a little annoying.

It does seem like the community recognizes this is a problem, and there are open issues for it on the github page. I have to assume that at some point the devs will address this issue, it seems odd that they would purposefully choose to ignore it.

I mean I wouldn’t mind a multi-reddit sorta feature like you describe, but I actually like that there are silo’d instances, I don’t always want to see EVERY post about a subject on the fediverse if my own community has higher quality content of that subject. Also, not every instance needs to be a generalized place with every topic, I like that many of them cater to certain themes.

I would like the option to see everything of a certain subject at once, don’t get me wrong, but I see the small silo’d instances as a feature, not necessarily a bug.

Speaking for myself, my home instance of slrpnk.net is still quite small with only around 600-ish members, but seems active enough to be engaging and certainly worth posting and commenting in. It’s not terribly different from posting in a small niche sub on reddit.

If there really was only a dozen members in an instance, I could see where there likely wouldn’t be much activity unless it was a group of friends, but I don’t see how it wouldn’t still function as an effective portal to the other bigger servers, if account creation is ever closed on those.

Are you sure these growing pains will never be addressed? I don’t really see why the Lemmy devs would be inclined to not eventually fix these issues. Do you feel the kbin devs would be more receptive to these ideas?

First because now everything goes through federation, which was a design afterthought for Lemmy, and that means stuff outside the instance always takes second place to what is inside the instance.

At least for me, that hasn’t seemed to be a problem. I found everything I wanted to subscribe to from my smaller server via Lemmyverse.net, and now when I look at my subscriptions page, I see all the newest posts from all those different communities. Unless you mean that it prioritizes local content on the ‘All’ page instead of subscriptions.

First you have to actually go to other instances and find them. They won’t show up until at least one person subscribes.

That isn’t ideal, I will admit. Without Lemmyverse.net it would be difficult to find everything that interested me.

But first, the devs so not want to test down this barrier, si they won’t do it.

If Lemmy won’t, then I suspect that would leave the door open for Kbin to implement.

Can you elaborate on this? How does it not care about those things?