I don't want to directly be responsible for another community on top of admin stuff.
Yes, as a noob here, I'm realising that another thing to consider is that certain instances might just not have the capacity or work force to take everything on at once. So that's quite an understandable position to take. It would be nice to see though, if someone felt so inclined.
I'm going to just try again here. I've woken up ill today, in a bit of a brainfog and right now just doing this from the Lemmy app that I use is the easiest. I'm going to get all of the text out of the way at the top of this post and put the screenshots at the bottom. First screenshot is the issue I'm facing when I first load the page. Second screenshot is what it looks like after multitasking for a bit and returning to Firefox (at which point the page reloads, reloading manually without the multitasking didn't fix it however, so I'm assuming this a memory management thing?).
I feel like I should also note that my phone isn't great at all. And I'm running a custom firmware. So if this is an odd issue that no one else has ever encountered, I'm prepared to re-flash the vanilla firmware to my phone and try again.
I also feel like I should just alert you that in your welcome email, you mention to reply to the email with any issues. However, the email is a 'noreply' that returns "address not found". I'm guessing that the wording in the welcome email is from an earlier time and hasn't been changed yet.
I dunno but I always get the impression that these fucking people that are too cool for school and need to loudly tell everyone how little they care about downvotes every chance they get, are probably also the people that go around using downvotes in bad faith and making the platform a little less welcoming for everyone.
My advice would probably be to just stay away from instances that are populated with the kind of people that use downvotes as a 'disagree' button or panic button to make themselves feel better when reading something they don't understand. Those were always the worst people on Reddit that dragged the experience down for everyone. And it sucks that they're all here too. And in a smaller pond, they're going to be making a bigger splash.
I'd find a nice instance and / or communities to spend 90% of my time in and only actually go to places like Ask Lemmy in world when you actually feel like dealing with smart alecs and neckbeards.
Edit: and downvoting people for talking about downvotes isn't actually funny, it's just proof that you use downvotes for the wrong reasons. For the meme and 'disagree' button.
I think I may have come down with a mild (that hopefully stays mild) case of covid. And it pisses me off because I've got this far without getting it. Apparently it's doing the rounds in my country and while I can vaguely understand not wanting to shut everything down again and making everyone bankrupt again, they haven't even bothered with precautions this time or making supermarkets follow certain protocols. So it seems like the fucking anti-vaxx, anti-lockdown, head in the sand idiots have won here.
Sorry for offloading this, just saying that I'm probably going to be even more delayed at checking out PieFed now in the next couple of days. Feeling pretty woozy and lacking in the energy to much else other than scroll.
I'm definitely going to give PieFed a proper go, I've even made an account there already. There's just a couple of things I'm still doing and seeing here.
The web UI on mobile really isn't that bad, even with the full card view, unlike I thought it would be. I do have an odd issue though where on first load, the page is darker than it should be and text and pictures are surrounded by a white box. And seemingly if I switch to another app and back to Firefox again causing it to reload, it loads correctly.
I'll send a screenshot from PieFed maybe in a couple of hours or my tomorrow. Been trying to upload an image here in this reply for the last who knows how long but there seem to be server issues.
I'm aware of ask transgender, but what I had in mind would be a lot more general purpose, like Ask Reddit / Lemmy. Just in a better environment.
Reading that previous post made me remember how intimidating it could be joining forum sites and trying to fit in and find your way at first. I'm pretty sure I was intimidated by Reddit at first way back in the day too.
And Ask Reddit style place is perfect to break the ice in that case. I get the impression that a couple of people that are new(ish) to here are trying that and getting edgy and (maybe unintentionally) abrasive responses. And getting scared off. Which made me think of this instance having a section for noobs or people who just like to ask random questions and chat.
Either way, I'm no moderator as I said. So it's just a suggestion anyway, for anyone that might think it's a good idea.
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Very nice! I actually just checked it out in Firefox Android and it's actually not that bad, not at all what I was picturing in terms of large images taking up more than the screen lol. It does have a couple of graphical oddities that go away with a refresh but I'll maybe reply to that email that I got when I subscribed with screenshots, like it asked. Later when I'm doing stuff at my desk.
So if it takes a while for the app or I'm not satisfied or whatever, it wouldn't be too painful for me to just use Firefox until something better comes along.
Saying this here because I already double responded to the other post. I might be stupid and I'm not seeing an option to toggle views but one thing that I can see about PieFed that wouldn't work so nicely on a mobile web browser (at least in my case) is no compact view.
I've edited the title of my post here to include PieFed. It would be nice if some of these Lemmy app devs at least knew about the WiP Lemmy forks (if that's even the right word).
Just joined from my recently created Piefed account. Not sure that I see an option to join / subscribe from my Lemmy account.
I see, it was an app issue. Both of those links show an empty community for me via Eternity. But jumping onto my laptop quick, I see that the working link leads to the Piefed interface (duh), which obviously isn't compatible with apps currently.
I've also been given the "I've always suspected" thing (not diagnosed) from certain people, family to be specific. And while, fair enough, so have I; when I start thinking about certain treatment and button pushing that I've gone through, and the fact that no one ever bothered to get me professionally assessed growing up so that maybe I could've had a better quality life; it makes my mind start going to dark places. And I don't like it because maybe it's all in my head.
Edit: although to be fair, I do believe that I have become quite unintentionally good at putting a mask on throughout the years. And maybe it's only really starting to show now that I'm older and still the way I am.