Thank you! After leaving Reddit, browsing Lemmy was a chore and Summit changed that. I wouldn’t have stayed here if not for your app. And you kept improving it day after day, and made it available to everyone for free. I can’t express with words the respect and appreciation that I have for you and your work!
Thanks a lot for making Lemmy a better place :)
Sequels are made when creators don’t have faith in new ideas and want to attract customers using existing IPs. This is especially true for sequels to stories that are already complete: there was no need for a sequel, they are just making it because the IP is popular.
Exceptions to the rule exist (Toy Story 2) but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Looking at the list of upcoming Disney/Pixar movies and seeing just a bunch of sequels (Inside Out 2, Zootopia 2, Frozen 3) just speaks of corporates choosing the “safe” route of betting on popular pre-existing IPs instead of new stories and original settings.
It depends on how thorough the blacklist is, but I usually avoid using those, because I fear I may be losing interesting discussions that only tangentially mention the topic I’m blacklisting. Or maybe they are discussing that topic from a different perspective that I may find interesting.
It’s not like Lemmy has so many discussions to choose from, anyway. Among the communities I’m subscribed to, the most active ones only have three or four discussions per day, at most. I don’t feel like a (albeit temporary) blacklist is useful when there’s so little content to parse through. If there were a hundred posts per day, and I was interested in hiding half of them to better highlight the ones I’m interested at - but with so few posts, I can ignore them just fine without the help of an automatic blacklist.
It doesn’t matter though whether Homer is a single person or many, real or fictional. What matters is that we’ve not lost the context of the story.
We literally did. We don’t know how much - if anything - written in the Homeric poems is true. If it did happen, we don’t know when, only rough estimates.
For hundreds of years those poems were thought to be an accurate retelling of history, to the point that political diatribes between ancient Greek cities could be settled by consulting the Iliad.
If our civilization falls, there’s no guarantee that our common knowledge survives. It could very well be that people see a lightsaber and think that we had the technology to build one.
It’s not just about losing history, but also mixing it with incorrect/wrong retellings of the story and fake news.
For example, you mentioned Homer, the writer of the Iliad and Odyssey who lived 3000 years ago. Homer’s existence is hotly debated, and even if he did exist, “he” probably didn’t write both poems. It’s far more likely that the Iliad and Odyssey were created as part of an extensive oral tradition by multiple travelling bards, who independently added, changed or removed verses; the story we know today as the Iliad is just one of many who happened to survive for a variety of reasons.
We also know very little of the broader trojan cycle (Cypria, Little Iliad, Sack of Troy, etc…) of which only fragments have survived. It would be as if, 1000 years from now, only the original SW trilogy survived, and only pieces or fragments of the other movies/TV series in the expanded universe remained - And to be fair, even this example is wrong, because it compares the Iliad/Odyssey to the “original” trilogy, but there’s no consensus about the relationship of the two Homeric epics with the broader epic cycle: as far as we know, they could have been created independently, and later edited to flow from one to the other seamlessly.
Ah, yes, my gamer instincts™, very similar to a soldier’s.
You have posted cringe, Master.
Of course! I should’ve included a video from the beginning, sorry.
Hi, I found a small bug. I’ll mention it here since it’s related to the settings page, which you are working on for this update.
If I tap on Settings -> Misc -> Customize post quick actions, all the other options on the same page are deactivated.
Thank you a lot!
And extra thanks because this was a request I made some time ago. I really appreciate you going back to add it.
Thank you so much for another great release
Unfortunately I don’t think that the edited time works as intended. To me, it seems it just repeats the publish time.
Oh, sorry, I thought I was replying to the other person, I didn’t realize it was you! Anyway, I also noticed the same thing, so I have a few suggestions:
What are you looking for, exactly? What is it that you are finding confusing?
In the top left corner of the screen is the current page. I think by default it’s either All or Local. Tap on that and select Subscribed.
When you are on the page you want as your home page, tap on the three dots on the bottom right corner of the screen -> Set as home page.
Since this is the fine-tuning release, I figured I’d mention this small issue I’ve had with the app since its inception.
If an image is too tall, the app won’t display it clearly when tapping on the image. I have to click on the post first to actually see the image in high res. The recently added long-tapping also works fine. Video showing the bug.
Wow, very useful. Thanks again for another wonderful update! :)
Oh, does it mean I can finally link to users/communities outside of my main instance? It’s the one thing I really hate about Lemmy.
How does it work?
Damn, I totally fell for it! Ahah
I didn’t like it and I was even writing a reply asking why and how the app was collecting so much data without the user’s consent. I eventually decided not to send it because it sounded a bit negative and I really enjoy the app and what you have accomplished so far, although I wasn’t okay with it.
I’m glad it was just a joke, and now I feel dumb! :D
Lemmy doesn’t deserve you.
If I understood the request correctly, you should be able to do it by tapping on the three dots on the bottom right of the screen -> Settings -> Posts feed -> Post appearance.