I can’t speak specifically to Avelon because I don’t know how it handles (or if it even does handle) uploads, but for posing a picture on a third party site like tinypic, the markdown structure is:
I'm only aware of one app that can do this: Boost. But unfortunatly, it's proprietary.
Thunder currently has an open issue for this, the dev is quite open to working on it. They want to rewrite the post area of the app anyway, so that's when they will probably add swiping between posts.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !boostforlemmy
You can save posts, at least in the web view of Lemmy but whether a particular app has it or not I don't know. In the web view it's the star icon to the right of the reply button.
I'm using Sync and when it was Sync for reddit I believe it was possible. Perhaps it's now a premium feature, idk. But I'm not paying for premium when the developer goes dark between updates. Not saying his development method is wrong, but it's just not for me.
Connect does. Think it's having issues with loading from catbox right now though. Not sure if that's a connect issue or catbox api issue because it's happened before.
The dev is probably on a break. Either way, hopefully he comes back. It's still working for me though. Are you using it directly via alexandrite.app or via your instance?
It's still too early to tell anything, hope they come back too!
The Lemmy ecosystem is weird because there are so many Lemmy tools maintained by a single person yet at the same time the majority of Lemmy's user base is tech-savy (we're mostly nerds working in the IT field) and we should be inclined to collaboration rather than competition, considering the amount of criticism about western capitalism here.
The reason may be that many projects started out as experiments/for fun, or that we are unwelcoming to new contributors, who knows...
Combining comments is out, because these are different posts that live on different communities, each with their own members and mod policies.
Lemmy-ui already has a "post-deduplicator" that simplifies viewing cross-posts on the same page, that should probably be replicated in a lot of UIs. But that seems to me the best way to handle it.
This would be a bad user experience for certain communities. Imagine the same news article is posted in /c/cars and /c/fuckcars. It is not desired nor expected to have all comments combined.
But I do think there may be some room for combined comments, like when Lemmy has a method to group communities, maybe those comments could be combined from the grouped communities.
A generalization, but it sounds like you're trying to fix Federation, by making things defederated, to make things more centralized.
Federation has good points, and bad points. I don't mean to discourage you from your conversation, but I think you need to consider the meta of what Federation is.
Having said all that, I recently participated in a conversation about EA putting ads in their games, and there was three different posts in three different communities, on the same subject.
I literally had to add links in my comment, that I was duplicating, to the other two duplicated comments of mine, so they were all cross referenced. It was definitely a pain in the butt to do so.
Having said all that, I recently participated in a conversation about EA putting ads in their games, and there was three different posts in three different communities, on the same subject.
I literally had to add links in my comment, that I was duplicating, to the other two duplicated comments of mine, so they were all cross referenced. It was definitely a pain in the butt to do so.
That's basically the hassle I'm trying to address (won't go so far as to call it a problem, just an annoyance). I wouldn't say I'm attempting to centralize things, just bring multiple conversations together into one view.
When I think of centralization, I think of something that makes the aggregation point a load-bearing facet. In this case, it'd just be detecting that there's 3 posts for the same item (from the cross_posts list from the API) and pulling the comment trees from all 3 into one UI display. Each still exists as its own, and nothing relies on the UI doing the merging.
That said, it wouldn't do much in your scenario unless other UIs did something similar (i.e. you'd still need to cross-reference you comments to accommodate other UIs that view them separately). It would just make it easier on you to participate in conversation on 3 posts simultaneously. I guess it would be a bit easier to cross-reference your comments since you could do it from the same page, though.
That said, it wouldn’t do much in your scenario unless other UIs did something similar (i.e. you’d still need to cross-reference you comments to accommodate other UIs that view them separately). It would just make it easier on you to participate in conversation on 3 posts simultaneously. I guess it would be a bit easier to cross-reference your comments since you could do it from the same page, though.
You're right, and something else to consider, I use the Lemmy web client, not a mobile app client.
The app I develop is a web app that also works as a mobile PWA. I try to keep the number of "apps" to a minimum on my devices lol. Half of the icons in my app tray are PWAs I run myself :)
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