Forest is a simple step counter that shows you the steps you did today, with a little extra info.

Doable is a tasks/reminders app. It’s not the most feature rich, and notifications are only in beta, but I love the design and it does what I need well.

Data Monitor shows you how much data you’ve used in your current plan, and you can see which apps use the most data (or wifi).

Quillpad for notes.

LibreOffice Viewer lets you open word documents and the like.

Squawker lets you open Twitter links more privately, and even follow users to see all of their posts, but requires you log in with an account.

Breezy Weather is a really nice weather app.

Sideloading is quite bad. If you’re in the EU, I know you can use AltStore PAL, which costs money (~€1.50 a year), but all you’ll be getting is emulators, virtual machines, clipboard managers, and torrent clients.

There is another method for sideloading that works anywhere and lets you download modified apps, but it is very limited, tedious, and probably insecure. I’ve done it, it’s not worth it. Better to stay on android or use a browser with adblock or something.

I don’t think iOS has any specific limits to do with NSFW stuff, I’ve never heard of anything anyways.

Pirating games is probably not going to be worth it either since you have to sideload apps with the second method.

Other types of piracy are probably fine. If you have AltStore PAL you can get a torrent client and an emulator.

Moshidon is really good for android. I especially like that you can have custom timelines for basically anything

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It’s probably more expensive and inconvenient.

Also it might only take one report for an active mod team to ban a server. How long can that take? An hour? Less? If they’re on servers that real people use, bots have to be banned one by one, so the spam can last a lot longer and reach more people.

you can’t move that account somewhere else.

That means you can migrate between servers and keep all your friends and followers, something that’s currently not possible in the Fediverse.

It absolutely is possible to move accounts between instances on the fediverse. I’ve done it multiple times.

It does have some quirks tho. Posts aren’t migrated to your new account. (Some fedi software lets you migrate posts, but from what I hear it’s kinda jank).

It’s not seamless, but the option is there, and you won’t lose any friends or followers (unless they’re defederated or something)

Bluesky accounts seem like they’ll be more portable than fediverse accounts but I don’t know much about it

It’s a crawler that ports things from one platform to another without consent from the user. If either of them are unethical and should be blocked, then both should be blocked.

I understand blocking this bridge, but if admins do that, they should block other bridges too, like bird.makeup

The process got easier in mastodon 4.2.0, now you just have to type in your instance and it takes you to it directly.

By the way, Awesome Lemmy Instances shows monthly active users, not total user counts. Your point still stands that lemmy.world has many more users than all the other ones tho.

Here is a list that also shows total users: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

According to lemmy.world admins, the downtime is caused by DDOS attacks, not big user count. I still think the large user count is part of the problem because I imagine it’s easier to DDOS one server with 120,000 users than 12 servers with 10,000 users

We are guilty as aspecies of tending to choose the most popular option because it offers the most interaction.

I don’t understand what this means. If I compare the All tab between lemmy.world and a smaller instance like lemmy.ca, they are both pretty much identical. I don’t feel like I’m missing any interaction.

For small instances I can see why it’s a problem since at least one person needs to be subscribed to each community to federate the posts, but there are many instances that are big enough to not really have this problem.

If you’re willing to go through the pain of sideloading on iOS and you’re ok with giving a random app your Google account, uYou+ is pretty good.

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Open the Lemmy Redirect app, open the ‘Set Up Link Handling’ dropdown, then click ‘Settings’.

You should see this screen. (You can also find it from App Info)

Then click ‘Add link’ and you should see this screen.

You can manually select all 1504 of them if you want to, but I don’t think anyone wants to do that

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The app I use, Moshidon, is able to open shared links in the same way infinity does. Maybe some other apps can do this too.

There’s also an app similar to Lemmy Redirect called Mastodon Redirect (IzzyOnDroid) (GitHub). The app says it works with the “official” Mastodon app, Elk, Fedilab, Megalodon, Moshidon, Subway Tooter, and Tooot.

You can also copy the link and paste it into the search bar in the app you use.

I think it’s because the release is tagged as pre release in codeberg, not because it’s below 1.0

I agree in a lot of ways. Lemmy does feel very beta at times. Mastodon does feel much more finished, except for the fact that favorites and boosts don’t federate properly a lot of the time.

But this specifically feels perfectly fine to me. The fact that they’re interoperable at all is more than I’d expect. Lemmy and Mastodon are so different in how they show content that I can’t think of a much better way to do it (other than maybe having communities boost only posts and not comments when seen from mastodon).

How do you think they should be reworked to work better with each other?

Only somewhat. Lemmy Communities show up as users when viewed from mastodon, that boost every single post and comment in the community (so browsing it is near impossible, and there is no sorting). Mastodon users can interact with posts (but can’t downvote), and they can post by @-ing the community.

You can’t follow mastodon users or view mastodon posts from Lemmy. I heard kbin had some functionality to do with this tho

No way to do this I don’t think, but you can paste the link into the search bar and that shows you the post on your instance so you can interact with it.

It’s a bit janky but it works.

I think you can paste the permalink into the searchbar and that would show you the original post that you can interact with

I don’t see anything wrong with mod bots. I don’t advocate their use I an ‘authoritarian role’, but they can be used for things like preventing duplicate posts, making posts fit guidelines, removing spam, etc. They’re just a tool to make moderation easier, it doesn’t change anything about the way a community is moderated.