Droppie [infosec] 🐨    ​3d ago
tis a test-toot written back in my masto phanpy [don't ask; sigh], to learn what happens when it gets upvoted/liked/faved, but with me having removed the notifications column [does some popup appear? some alarm? nada?]   oh zarquon, now i remember one of my passionate dislikes of #phanpy; it has only custom emojis, not also standard emojis, sassen frasen rassen
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ha, ta @frogglin you fiendishly fast frog, heehee. so. sans actual notifications column, there's... nada... at first blush, but later if one haplessly wanders into the settings options menu thingie, there's a teensy weensy widdle dot next to the notifications button, which when clicked, generates an overlay for notifications. i mean, that's cool, sure, but what if one does NOT happen to wander into that menu, given it gives no external indication of a new event?

why is it so hard to find MY Fedi? masto [incl. with clients statuzer & phanpy], sharkey, friendica... all have good points, but all also have fatal flaws, damnit, bwaaaaah

Mar 20 at 12:01amWeb
Show threadDroppie [infosec] 🐨    ​3d ago

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand so, here be me, back yet again almost* at the beginning, the wheel not so much having turned full circle perhaps as derailed from the track & buggered orf into the scrub & mulga, startling the emus & irritating the yowies. 🙄🤦‍♀️

* Masto again, yes, but not the actual Masto web UI itself, given it's just too painful & a bit ugh, but instead, one of the #FOSS front-ends for it, being #Phanpy, notwithstanding its UI still has all the stuff that historically kept making me drop it. sadly, i'm here not so much out of explicit favour for it, but simply as an exhausted fallback position coz all these months & years have shown me that all the alternatives are on balance worse [& just for fun, each specialising in different aspects of "wrongness"].

  • Phanpy [for Masto] still irritates me for its

    • weird Notifications UI,
    • stubborn refusal to include an emoji-picker for standard emojis,
    • disruptive habit of auto-reloading the timelines when scrolled to near the top rather than letting me manually choose,
    • inability to globally suppress boosts in Lists,
    • irritating need to open an overlay just to fav a post...
    • BUT it wins major brownie points with me for its
      • success in letting me see posts' video thumbnails & play them without having to jump outside P to the original source site PLUS
      • its apparent ability to let me create hashtag lists for more than merely five as limited by the actual Masto UI, AND it seems to do a fine job in fetching ample numbers of so-tagged posts from across fedi

  • #Statuzer [for Masto] had my heart for many months over recent years, at the times i would try Masto again, but today when i tried it again i could not see any way to create any dedicated timelines for nominated hashtags

    • CORRECTION: my silly error, it can indeed do this, yay

  • #Sharkey is aesthetically gorgeous, has a great array of settings options, a really clever flexible UI, brilliant hashtag timelines capability... but

    • it uses #MFM not #Markdown & i find this frustratingly limiting
    • yesterday i realised that if not all then a significant majority of others' posts, & all of mine, that include videos [eg, youtube & dailymotion], neither provide any graphical thumbnail nor allow said videos to be played directly in the UI [as i said, some do, which is great, but most don't]. Reference thread; https://blahaj.zone/notes/ak1ohqcgacpa0007
    • additionally today i discovered a distressing perplexing problem, by chance; a strayan account that whilst not actually following does frequently appear in my hashtag-follows in all the other fedi SW, simply does not appear at all in my Sharkey timelines, & if i try manually searching for them [once alerted to their existence via the hours of comparison i have been doing today & am here summarising], the searches fail with cryptic errors. this has rocked my confidence in Sharkey in that by extrapolation & inference, how many other posts have been hidden from me when i've been using Sharkey?

  • #Friendica is a complex love-hate story; over the past 3.5 years i've tried many F instances, with my original sense of overwhelm gradually subsiding into understanding & enjoyment. i really do like it, but recently left my active instances yet again, coz:

    • compared to Masto-original, Statuzer, Phanpy, Sharkey, every Friendica instance's UI is lethargic in responding to various UI-navigation interactions, but
    • the worst problem has become terminal; i follow large nos of hashtags no matter which fedi SW & instance, but Friendica uniquely suffers the major problem that small instances simply do not adequately federate such that large swathes of my hashtags fetch few hits & many fetch none, whereas on larger instances though the hit-rate is acceptable two separate Admins, ie two different instances, told me that following large nos of tags causes them severe problems at their servers, which news shocked me & made me feel terrible for being an unwitting problem to them. Nonetheless, i "must" have my hashtags, ergo sadly Friendica & i have again fallen out of love it seems

i don't for a minute expect this to be the end of the story, given my history... 🥺

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Show threadDgar3d ago
@MsDropbear42
I haven’t been able to kick Feditext.
Show threadDroppie [infosec] 🐨    ​3d ago
@dgar coz your ACL injury, i presume? 🤷‍♀️😜
Show threadDgar3d ago
@MsDropbear42 🤨😝😄
Show threadPeter3d ago

@MsDropbear42

#FediLab for me, for now. The implementation of markdown annoys me, though; I can see when others use it, but it doesn't (seem to) have a way to *create* markdown posts. Unless, of course, I'm doing something wrong.

Show threadTΞX3d ago
@MsDropbear42 i saw this post because i actualy have one dedicated timeline for the #statuzer hashtag in my statuzer ;)
Show threadDroppie [infosec] 🐨    ​3d ago

@textoo well hello -- it's ages since i last bothered you [i've been using friendica & sharkey instances for many months].

oh this is great news, & i apologise for my incorrect statement in my post [which i shall fix in a minute]. when i looked this morning, a few times, i could not see any option to create a hashtag timeline [ideally i'd like to have multiple tags in a timeline, like i have now setup in Phanpy]. i'd better go look again now...

Show threadDroppie [infosec] 🐨    ​3d ago
@MsDropbear42 @textoo aha, i found it... now setting up some tag timelines in my #statuzer -- many thanks! 🤗
Show threadTΞX3d ago
@MsDropbear42 you never bothered me ;) no worries for your statement, i just couldn't let you miss out on this feature :)
Show threadDroppie [infosec] 🐨    ​3d ago

@textoo

couldn't let you miss out on this feature :)

🤣 👍

tbh now that i found out how to do it, i feel quite silly for repeatedly overlooking it this morning, sigh 🙄🤦‍♀️

whilst you're here, pls... something i've never solved before, but now it's become really quite annoying... i have a list whose name i changed, back in Masto, a few years ago, but in Statuzer all this time it somehow retains the old, unwanted, name, even if i delete that timeline & try to create it fresh. when i do that, the selector of which list i want to use, shows the correct name, but after then picking it & creating the new timeline, it shows the old name all over again. why does it do this, & how can i finally fix it, pls?

Show threadTΞX3d ago
@MsDropbear42 nice one :) i'll investigate !