Why do apps reload constantly? - Lemmy.world
Android user for several years, many versions, now on 13 with a Pixel 5. I’ve
never been able to understand why when switching between apps, sometimes
returning to an earlier app causes a full reload of the app - like it forgets
where you were, what you were doing, and completely reloads an interface,
webpage, or whatever. I get the sense it’s purging every app from RAM as soon as
it thinks it can get away with that, and the result is a noticeable time and
continuity penalty. What gives?!? Is there a way to fix this behavior?
YouTube videos opening in browser?
https://lemmy.world/post/1194648
YouTube videos opening in browser? - Lemmy.world
I’m glad liftoff is opening web links in Firefox now, but I want YouTube videos
to open in revanced so as to avoid ads. Slide used to have a built in YouTube
viewer, which was great (no idea how it worked but it played zero ads too).
YouTube broke it recently before Reddit broke the API, but there’s always
Vanced/Revanced… Any chance we can get that working?
Lemmy apps open external links with ads?
https://lemmy.world/post/1192914
Lemmy apps open external links with ads? - Lemmy.world
On Android, several apps I’ve tried open links in an internal browser which
defaults to Chrome. Any external news/whatever link is ad-riddled and I have no
way to redirect them to Firefox. In addition, video links open in the official
YouTube app instead of revanced, and imgur links open the website instead of an
internal image viewer that views the direct image (or something like
imgurviewer). At the moment, using Lemmy though these apps is much worse than
using slide for Reddit was. I almost forgot how terrible the web is for mobile
use prior to getting on Lemmy - it’s unusable! Are any app developers working on
this problem?
Wouldn't the fediverse work better if it was like a drive array rather than independent communities on independent servers?
https://lemmy.world/post/1033231
Wouldn't the fediverse work better if it was like a drive array rather than independent communities on independent servers? - Lemmy.world
I get the impression that we’re headed for the same issues that pop up when we
put all our eggs in one basket with Reddit/FB/whatever. People flock to the
largest instance, and someday that instance could go down due to cost or the
host losing interest. I’m wondering whether it would be technically achievable
to have servers/instances and federation where the communities are essentially
mirrored or have broadly distributed existence - maybe even with user storage a
la torrents. If there’s a large [email protected] community and a small
[email protected] community, all of the discussion, images, contributions to
lemmy.here die if the server goes down for good. Yes, the users can relocate to
lemmmy.there - even under the same community name - but it’s not the same as
having full continuity of a completely mirrored community. I realize this
concept has technical hurdles and would involve a reimagining of how the
fediverse works, but I worry we’re just setting up for another blowup at some
TBD date when individual sysadmins decide they’ve had enough.
What is causing this pattern in the first layer?
https://lemmy.world/post/948765
open in desired app? - Lemmy.world
Thunder is working well for me so far, but one of the consistent issues is that
it uses an internal chrome-based browser to open links and may not be using
Android’s settings. Chrome for Android has no plugin support and links are ad
riddled compared to Firefox with uBlock origin. Other apps that skip the bloat
of loading a web page like imgurviewer aren’t used. Is there a chance this will
get changed anytime soon?
