I have a really out of the loop question that will probably make me sound like a troll, but really I’m just old and out of the loop:

What exactly are the unique features of Tumblr? as far as I recall it was just a blogging site with support for specific post formats, right? Did it get more complicated than that?

With our increased accuracy and feather-light touch we will take over the world!

Or, judging by this thread so far, maybe we already did…

I don’t even have big hands, just regular lady-hand sized. I still don’t really get the palm thing, just tried it and it feels so weird! Maybe depends on the shape of the mouse too, since some can be quite a lot taller than others.

TIL I’m a fingertip gripper

Take a breath. Scaled sort is coming in the next version.

Pretty sure they were on about making a LotR MMO at some point? No idea what else they were up to though.

I think some of the mobile apps do actually have this feature. But also it’s an account setting in lemmy core, look for “show read posts” in your settings.

You know, this has actually genuinely inspired me to add a new task to my end of week review. Maybe I can just start closing the pointless ones once a week and the habit will grow from there? We can but dream, we can but dream…

But how do you tell the difference between things you’ll need in the next day, and things you just think you’ll need?

Real question, my phone has given up even counting the open tabs, please help.

No worries! Feel free to ask if there’s anything else you’re still hung up on.

Check out lemmyverse.net/communities, it’ll let you search (almost) everything without being limited by your instance, and you can sort by whatever criteria you want.

feddit.uk is all primarily UK stuff, I think there are Australia and NZ instances too.

Personally as a British person I hope to avoid as much UK news on here as possible so it’s nice of them to keep it mostly to one instance (big exception for UK content is UKCasual on .world, it’s nice having that hosted away from all the politics etc on .uk)

I believe there’s a more recent instance positioning itself as gaming themed but the name is escaping me, might be searchable on lemmyverse. Update: it was lemmy.zip

My other account is mostly concerned with crafts, so a craft focused instance would’ve been nice. But it’s sort of already too late as small communities for various niche hobbies are becoming established and trying to disrupt that just for the sake of tidiness seems silly.

Once we have some kind of community grouping feature I think this will be even more of a non-issue than it already is.

Ooh, nice

If you link some sort of resource on this, you could literally save nerd lives.

At the rate the app devs are moving, I imagine a month from now they’ll be a bit more on par feature-wise and things will be more consistent. Then maybe I can pick one and uninstall the other hundred or so that currently live on my homescreen for tech support purposes!

This was basically my first sub on my first day here lol, can confirm everyone Lord of the Memes is where it’s at.

Knew I recognised that name 😄

The number one tip is to search for interesting communities through lemmyverse.net/communities, rather than your home instance’s search. This will let you find communities that are small or new and haven’t been synced to your home instance yet. You can set your home instance with the house icon at the top right, and then all links will open in your instance so you can easily subscribe.

It also lets you search Kbin magazines to subscribe to (through the top right hamburger menu) although federation between Lemmy and Kbin is sometimes a bit patchy.

Other than that, just remember all of the mobile apps are extremely new and if you’re struggling to do something, it might just be because it’s not supported in wefwef yet. Lemmy was clearly built by people who prefer to use desktop, but the mobile website is very functional and gives you full access, so that’s a good place to check if you can’t find how to do something within the app.

Looks like you’ve already got stuck in and been commenting a lot so keep it up, and welcome to Lemmy! 😊

Feeling very called out here.

I’ve spent the last month of my life basically glued to Lemmy, answering support requests and posting threads in communities I wanted to see grow. My work output may drop to zero, my marriage may fail, but goddammit there are people who don’t know how to sub to communities on another instance and they need my help!