Hello people of fedi,

I've just saw someone in my timeline coming from www.minds.com.

I've known minds.com, which was at the start since it was annouced a few years back and even joined, but soon realised it was not for me and too few people... So I left.

It was just a social media with a weird crypto associated to it. But I remember liking their UI and design a lot back in the days.

But now it seems they activated ActivityPub support, doed anyone knows anything about this? Is this recent and we missed something or am I out of touch with Fediverse news? 👀

I got this old server and I always like to fiddle with old hardware, so I took a lot of pictures and shared them on my blog with some explaination!

Feedback always appreciated ^^

Yesterday someone asked if one could do something like this, here is my version, in case you missed it !

Here is the list of all the softwares in this picture :

• Friendica
• GNUSocial / Mastodon
• Vernissage
• Wordpress / Writefreely / Pixelfed
• Loops
• Jlai.lu (French lemmy instance) / Lemmy (with the lemmy.world logo because it's more colorful than the plain lemmy logo)

Feel free to share it anywhere you want :)

If you have any idea for other meme of this type for the Fediverse, please send me a DM and I might make a nice graph like this for you !

Why this post ?

I've been using a Linux phone for fun for a few months now, and this is all the annoyance that prevent me from being daily-drivable (And some other small thing that I found here and there)

I am using a Redmi Note 9S, I've been mainly on GNOME Mobile because I love GNOME tech, and I am building apps for GNOME too (Which are mobile friendly 🥳)

I also tried Phosh and other DE but I always come back to GNOME. I am using PostmarketOS. There are some striked things, which are the things that got fixed when GNOME 48 was released on PMOS! I might edit this post in the future to say what have been fixed (or do another one, we'll see)

State of Mobile Linux and missing apps:

• no good Bitwarden client
  • GoldWarden just crash and seems abandonned
  • eventhe web app is not responsive...
• Finamp could work well but have no arm build
• No discord app:
  • we have Dissent, which is decent, but login in is aweful and no voice chat support (we can't even see the online status)
• no jellyfin player app:
  • Delfin is decent but seems.abandonned... 😟
• GS Connect works, but needs a tweak and UI is not good on small screen
• No lemmy apps
• waydroid don't have internet by default, we need to run a command everytime we launch it to add a route.
• No good Youtube client (newpipe is bad for the moment and Pipeline just doesn't work OOB
• no tutanota app (no arm build)

State of GNOME Shell

• Saving dialog in.text editor.is not good
• ~~Somewhat laggy compared to Phosh~~ (Not anymore since GNOME 48 🎉 )
• OSK is bad, it needs to be replaceable easily
  • we could have multiple keyboard installed and switch between them
  • No recent emoji view 😭️
  • Since GNOME 48 it doesn't even adapt to the locale now... (I have AZERTY set in the setting but the keyboard is now qwerty)
• Quick setting should be smaller, android style round icon instead, to fit more on small screen (same goes for Phosh)
• We need a OLED theme for GNOME shell mobile
• ~~Accent color doesn't work in the quick settings~~ (Gnome mobile shell use gome 46 as of 21 feb 2025) (Fixed since GNOME 48! 🎉 )
• we need a way to bring up the OSK like on Phosh (holding the botto bar for a sec for example, maybe itcould be customizable too?)
• no app icon in the overview of running app, and sometime its hard to know what app is running, especially when havng multiple instance of the same app
• would be cool to be able to uninstall app from the app grid (phosh got this in 0.45 iirc)
• The power menu when holding the power button just open the quick sretting menu, we need somethng like phosh with a real menu to reboot/turn off the phone
• ~~Some apps don't close correctly and just crash, i will add them here when.I encounter them:~~
  • ~~GNOME Solitaire, after clicking on the topbar menus~~ (Fixed in GNOME 48?)
• auto rotate doesn't work (but it does on Phosh)
• No pattern unlock

State of Phosh

• what is wrong with the emoji keyboard?? it's bad
• gestures are bad, they need to take the same.gesture as gnome shell mobile!!
• We NEED to press the unlock button after typing our code (would be neat to have the code automatically unlock the phone when we enter the same amount of characters as our passcode)
• Haven't used it intensively, especially because of the bad gesture

State of apps

• GNOME Mines needs to be ported to libadwaita and better support smallscreen
• timers in gnome clock are bad (it's just one beep and if the sound is off, it doesn't alert me)
  • alarms doesn't turn off when clicking or swiping the notification.. we need to unlock the phone.... and the buttons to turn off are way too small...
• gnome calculator bring up the keyboard, which is weird, ~~and it goes on top of the actual app keyboard~~ (Doesn't go on top anymore, but still shows up...)
• gnome software have bad UI when clicking on the size of an app to get the details

The obvious but we know this already

• Camera support is rudimental, needs works, and I can't wait.for it to become better!
• No fingerprint sensors support

Device specific : Redmi Note 9S

• camera support (same as above)
• charging indicator doesn't work and battery reporting is hit or miss (go up and down)
• No fingerprint sensors support
• top speaker don't work
• no vibrations

Questions

if you have question about x or y app or any feature that you'd want feel free to tell me in the comments ! :)

or even If I missed things feel free to correct me!

p.s. This list has been made on the linux phone and I'm sorry for the bad english or misspelling of words!

Source - Posted with Reddy

This release bring some nice enhancement :

• Hashtags
• Explore
• Pin Loops to Profile

And fix the login issue some people have been encountering!

It's still not perfect, but we getting there :)

You can download the APK named app-release.apk from this post's link.

Source - Posted with Reddy

Source - Posted with Reddy

From a great french guy (video is in english)

Lots of people were asking for a WebUI to share link and view them in desktop etc.., and it is now available! :)

Okay, this is not a secret light theme per-se, just a bug where colors get inverted, I have no idea how it happened, it just did, and even tho I think it looks pretty neet, it's quite bright...

I had to force reboot the watch (after 144 days of uptime... damn...) to get it fixed.

It is a known issue, and the next version of Infinitime should fix it, it seems (https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniTime/pull/2046)