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The problem of cross-community posting

https://lemmy.world/post/38541993

The problem of cross-community posting - Lemmy.World

Fediverse projects are maturing and adoption of them is trending up. I’m excited for the further development of the underlying technologies as well as the apps being built to leverage those technologies into even more integrated, user-friendly experiences. With any developing tech, small annoyances are found and ultimately patched or worked around. It’s to be expected that no user experience is ever perfect, even for matured ecosystems. Typically, some smaller annoyances are tolerated when balanced with the overall utility and usefulness of the tech. One of the issues I’ve noticed (and I’m sure I’m not the first or only), is that when posts are relevant enough that the OP decides to cross-post into multiple communities, the comments and engagement stays with each community post leading to separate conversations. The existance of separate conversations itself isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Maybe you post a recipe for Pot Roast in a general cooking community and also a community that helps refine recipes to improve them. It may be that the two separate conversations make more sense as the nature of discourse is focused on two different aspects of the content posted. If they were combined, it would be more difficult to sift through chatter to get at the discussion you were looking for. This concept is true for different communities as well as different instances. Maybe the Pot Roast recipe conversation generated on carnivores(at)lemmy.instance is substantly different from the conversation at vegan-curious(at)lemmy.instance and the existance of both is bolstered by the cultures and seneabilities of the different instance/communities. That could create usefull and/or thoughtful discourse that maybe wouldn’t have happened if everyone was mixed together and talking past each other. However, there are plenty of informative posts attached to very similar communities on a given instance as well as posted to mirror-communities across separate instances. Each individual post is a separate entity and i find myself jumping in to different conversations of the same content to see what’s being said in each. In addition to general replies often asking the same questions across all of the posts, unique engagement is diffuse and not connecting. I imagine that an OP would have trouble keeping up with all of these different interactions and likely defaulting to paying their attention to only one or two while the remaining posts are left to fend for themselves. Even if the OP stayed on top of them all, I assume they’d often have to answer the same questions multiple times. _The question I pose is: _ What is the solution to myriad and diffuse conversations around cross-posts? Is there a way to handle this situation thru lemmy-ettiquette or does it require a technological solution? Maybe we handle it thru culture and expectation. If the decided upon method was to post once and then link that post to other communities for exposure, maybe that funnels everyone into one post to interact (when that’s what OP wants). Is there a software solution on the app developer level that combines like posts together? Is it a protocol level solution thats required? Maybe something that allows a single post to essentially ‘tag’ different communities for exposure, while only posting once? Can we associate posts to an individual user rather than associating the post to a community, so all replies come to the user post rather than in a community? I don’t know what the solution looks like and I’m not savvy enough to understand the protocol/software side to know if any of my examples are realistic. I also don’t know if this is an issue for anyone else, or at least one that lemmy-ites actuallly care about enough to try and solve. Does anyone know if work is being done to address this? Am I focusing on something that is simply not a priority? I welcome your thoughts. …I tried to choose what I thought was the best place for this post, but I’m open to moving it if I was in error. (Ironically, something that might be easier if posts were handled differently). :) _edited to make the community examples formatted as from the same instance instead of two separate instances _

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borZ0 the t1r3D b3aR Apr 8, 2024

… Is technology the wrong channel for cache-clear messages, are we not reminding to clear cache anymore, or is my tone being misinterpreted…? Truely interested

borZ0 the t1r3D b3aR Apr 8, 2024

Your app isn't slow, CLEAR YOUR CACHE!

https://lemmy.world/post/14062088

Your app isn't slow, CLEAR YOUR CACHE! - Lemmy.World

… This has been a public service announcement. I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming of… I’m guessing… memes, Pr0n, and political posts devoid of context…?

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borZ0 the t1r3D b3aR Feb 20, 2024

My daily driver is a zFold 4. The device itself has as much to do with a keyboard being useful as anything else. I put up with Swype not handling a foldable well because of it’s other features. I can say that Samsung’s native keyboard (obviously) handles being used between two different screens well, but if Swype began magically working again, i’d drop the native keyboard immediately.

Phone - Samsung zFold 4
Primary-use Keyboard - Samsung Keyboard
Preferred Input Style - Swipe, Gesture
Preferred number of hands involved in typing - One (mostly have to use two with Samsung keyboard)

borZ0 the t1r3D b3aR Feb 20, 2024

Smartphone Keyboard Information Bonanza: What's available and what's best for your needs

https://lemmy.world/post/12171392

Smartphone Keyboard Information Bonanza: What's available and what's best for your needs - Lemmy.World

Howdy. I wanted a central place for information surrounding smartphone keyboards since there have been some changes recently to a few of them. I hope to keep this post afloat over the long term so we can share experiences, information, news, etc to find the perfect smartphone keyboard for ourselves and help others do the same. Smartphone keyboards are unique apps. How a person interacts with the device they probably use more consistently than any other is a big consideration. Add to that the potential for direct data theft through the keyboard itself potentially being a fancy keylogger and it makes sense to pay more attention to the app that many of us dont give a second thought to. To that end, i think we should crowdsource 1st hand usage experience coupled with news and information to make a list of keyboards. Everyone has different priorities, use cases, and needs. The list should reflect that diversity. “Why now borZ0, whats the big deal?” Well, i used Swype (which is the greatest of all keyboards in ever forever) until the most recent version of OneUI came out and borked it. (…to be fair, from what i understand, no development has been done with Swype since it sold years back and this was bound to happen) Since my precious keyboard was ripped from my hands I’ve been trying very hard to like samsung’s native keyboard… trying so hard… but am open to something that better fits my use case. I’m more privacy and security focused now and would prefer a keyboard that wasn’t feasting on my user data. If this thread gets enough data, maybe we can put together a spreadseet listing multiple data points…? I’m writing this from a coffee shop and will add more of my own experiences and collected data over the next couple days but wanted to get the ball rolling. Please post your own experiences, links to articles, wikipedia, inevitable Lemmy posts that have aleady talked about this (even links to the site which shall not be named are useful) and we can start getting a list/ table together. Tldr: Smartphone keyboards are important and often lame. Thoughts?

borZ0 the t1r3D b3aR Sep 20, 2023

GRIPE: When I switch home-ships, all my display gear gets dumped together with everything else.

https://lemmy.world/post/5436095

GRIPE: When I switch home-ships, all my display gear gets dumped together with everything else. - Lemmy.world

To start, I’m glad that your ship inventory follows you when you switch home ships. It would be a pain to have to transfer everything manually and end up with multiple ships housing forgotten inventory forcing you to search ship after ship in your fleet to find specific items. However, my primary ship is built out to have an armory with cool things I’ve found displayed in weapon cases, on racks, etc. When you switch your home-ship, everything is dumped in to main inventory on the new ship, and even if you switch back to your original ship, the items are again dumped in to the main inventory. Not only does this hamstring the coolness of being able to display gear on a ship, but it can screw you over if the display items put your total inventory overweight in main storage. Over the course of certain questlines, you need to switch ships for the story, or maybe you come across a ship you decide to “liberate”, or maybe it’s a ship is a quest reward, regardless, your inventories get jumbled up. It seems to me, that your items could be tagged by the game to indicate which storage they were in (main, captain’s, other, display) so that as they move from ship to ship they can be better located. Additionally, I think the game could save the state of your inventory items and when they go back to a ship you’ve already set up, they would default to where they were before. I guess we’ll have to see what the modders can do. TLDR: Why would I take the time to display my items if it’s all going to get thrown in to main storage anytime I switch ships…?