The emoji picker is incredibly slow for me when it comes to previews. Can I cache all the emojis so it becomes useable?

Anyone have suggestions for a good mobile Lemmy app? Or do people generally just use their browser?

I'm using boost right now and its fine except that it shows usernames instead of display names so I can't see anyone's pronouns

Hello users of hexbear, we have started discussions with an admin of lemmy.ca regarding potential refederation. Lemmy.ca had added hexbear to their blocklist about a year ago: https://lemmy.ca/post/3326347

With the recent changes in lemmy features as well as a maturing fediverse the mods/admins of hexbear and lemmy.ca are open to trying again, but before we put lemmy.ca on our allow-list we wanted to open up discussion and voting to the users of hexbear.

This vote will be binding with regard to adding lemmy.ca to our allow-list. In addition, the idea of including sh.itjust.works in this discussion was raised but was voted down by a majority of mods from inclusion.

https://lemmy.ca/c/canada and https://lemmy.ca/c/pcgaming are the instance's top two communities but there are a few other small, niche communities. A community that may be removed from hexbear is the https://lemmy.ca/c/fediverselore so please indicate your opinion on this community if you have one.

As usual please use

if you would like lemmy.ca to be added to our allow-list

if you would like lemmy.ca to not be added to our allow-list

We will leave this post unlocked for a few days before making the decision, thank you. Users may also use this post for a general discussion on federation including naming instances for federation/defederation or feedback for the hexbear admin/mod team.

I noticed while creating a new post that if I provide a Thumbnail URL with an external (not hexbear.net) URL, then the original image gets used when viewing the post. I first noticed it on this post where I added a youtube thumbnail icon (check it in the browser console).

I tried researching if there's a bug for this in upstream Lemmy:

This one seems like it would have fixed it: LemmyNet/lemmy-ui: Update post listing to prefer local image when available

And see also this: LemmyNet/lemmy: Add initial skeleton of image proxy improvements for feedback

Unfortunately I'm not that familiar with the Lemmy codebase, but how possible would it be to proxy+cache thumbnails? I don't quite mean store it permanently in the database, just proxy the source image and cache it for performance reasons. Otherwise, maybe we should disable the thumbnail URL for now until this support is added upstream?

Take for example my banner image. On mobile you can see Isabelline standing at the opening of whatever the fuck that is, looks great. Roughly a 16:9 window, maybe 1.85:

On desktop she is cut out scope asspect ratio looks awful. Mods pls

502 errors, 502 errors everywhere

Hi folx

Not much has changed since we last brought this up half a year ago, which is probably a mistake as link trackers have become more ubiquitous, and the corporations that know our names and addresses have built up shadow profiles on us, but better late than never.

Anyway, cutting to the chase. This bot will warn you in DMs when you share a tracking link. That's it. Post over.

Read on if you want to see my unhinged tracking link rants.

Share any feedback or thoughts, I'll take it into consideration.

I understand that the beautiful french Sandy Bridge hexbear server is very busy and hexbear does not want spam. But I gotta post!!!

It's just my inbox hexbear, promise I am not doing spam... I just gotta reply to 40+ messages...

I think it would be really really really really funny

Canvas is starting in 4 days from time of post on the 12th of July. looks like they did it last year, too (see thumbnail).

i can't find any discussion on it on Hexbear, so i'm assuming this hasn't been properly discussed before. i think it would be really cool imo and we could do what was happening on PixelCanvas but w/ more Hexbear stuff ig

It would be like the dunk tank but without rule 8. People don't have to subscribe to it. I will continue not posting to it, but you can feel free to make me a mod. I will be there like an absent father.

Also I don't really know where this post should go, I guess we got rid of the user union at some point.

I just went to enable them only to realize they've been enabled this whole time. I only recently got email working on my website after six months of troubleshooting, so I know the struggle. Do they work on lemmy-ui?

The bot creation for Lemmy seems easy. I just dont know how to proceed from there.

This is clearly the superior way to post

1. Can this use a fixed-width font? Currently, the timestamp jumps up and down a line depending on the combination of numbers.
2. Can the date be formatted as yyyy-MM-dd or dd.MM.yyyy? The current format of MM/dd/yyyy is reminding me of America and I don't like it

I found this website that is a leftist alternative to YouTube but has a separate community instead of just reuploading YouTube videos without ads or tracking like the websites in the Tankie Reply Bot on Lemmygrad.

Hi, my name is Kody and I am extremely new to being homeless. My food stamps have run out and I don't get more for another week or so. I was wondering if anyone could possibly PLEASE HELP me out with a little bit of relief cash so that I can feed myself. I assure you that I really do in fact need help with food. I promise that every cent will be used for food and only food. Just to be completely honest, I am a recovering alcoholic for 4 years now and I am clean and sober off of opiates for two years. I've recently been through an unfortunate string of events that has through no fault of my own landed me homeless. I just need a hand up. So please, if anyone can help just a little bit with a few dollars then I would be forever grateful. My cash app cash tag is KodyMartinGerba. Thank you

idk how this would even work but there should be a little button where i can click a little picture of Sartre and it posts the entire "absurdism of the antisemite" quote. Or the "America is a one party state with 2 parties" or anything john brown ever said

There's something about learning loads of useless trivia that draws people, and TIL is really popular. Not only that, but TIL is an organic way to educate people, even on the most commonest of things. The reactionary-TIL has posts like "TIL about the tank man who resisted tanks with his bodie" and "TIL about stalins big spoon" resurfacing every few months, which serves to teach newcomers the lore of the liberal world, and the creation of its based counterpart here would teach the vibes-based ML worldview instead.

may haps i will request it... later

Put your dukes up, let's go.

In my inbox

1. I marked everything as "read".

2. I went to "All" and I can't upvote or comment. Clicking on the upvote or reply icon just makes them shake. But if I open a reply in a new tab - everything is normal. I can upvote and reply.

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Edit

Clearing my cache solved the problem.

db0 and Unruffled have both been banned for reactionary behavior and, in the case of the former, DM harassment.

Due to these irreconcilable differences we thought it only right to allow the community to weigh in on defederating immediately.

According to this person "tankie" is anyone that criticizes the privilege of white westerners in the imperial core who have been privileged and comfortable their entire lives off of the backs of colonized people.

Further context can be found in this thread

https://hexbear.net/post/2484423

As always, use to vote for federation and to vote for defederation.

We got active, new, hot, controversial (which is useless because theres no downvote button why not BOGO?