Fedi.TipsJan 19

If you know someone who wants help using this place, feel free to ask, I can answer their questions directly. This account aims to be an unofficial help desk, especially for new or non-technical people.

If they're having trouble signing up, they can email me at email@fedi.tips

Also, please tell new people about the website at https://fedi.tips (especially the Quick Start section at the top). This has lots of non-technical advice for beginners and will help them get started.

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An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

Show threadIαηJan 20
@FediTips
Is there an android client where you can reverse the scroll direction?
It doesn't make sense seeing the very end of long posts first. Quite peculiar.
Thanks for the really helpful work.
Show threadFedi.TipsJan 20

@ianp5a

I'm not sure, I'm going to boost your question in case others can offer suggestions.

By the way, when you say "end of long posts first", do you mean the final posts of threads?

Show threadrsp
@FediTips @ianp5a I think this is what they're asking for: chronological vs. Reverse chronological.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22667
Jan 20 at 12:54pmWeb
Show threadIαηJan 20
@rspfau @FediTips No this does not specify whether chronological should be upwards or downwards.
Show threadrspJan 20
@ianp5a @FediTips Are you on Android? If so...https://pachli.app/pachli/2024/08/30/2.8.0-release.html
Pachli 2.8.0 released

Pachli 2.8.0 is now available. This release introduces experimental support for reading the timeline in reverse order and significantly improves notification reliability, as well as the usual bug fixes and other small improvements.

Pachli
Show threadIαηJan 20
@rspfau @FediTips
Thanks. That looks promising.
Sadly they confuse the option by saying "newest first" and not newest at top or bottom. As First could be anywhere.
Show threadrspJan 20
@ianp5a I'm curious...do you sort emails newest on bottom?
Show threadIαηJan 20

@rspfau
It's because I read from top to bottom. (weird!).
Imagine reading a Kindl or a long web page. I will scroll it upwards, so the text moves upwards. more text appears from the bottom of the screen. Chat clients do it that way too. So does Mastodon inside threads.

Maybe very short posts don't have an issue. But people post long posts a lot.

Show threadrspJan 20
@ianp5a Oh, I wasnt being critical. It has me wondering why things are the way they are and what is optimal.