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Jerboa is a native-android client for Lemmy, built using the native android framework, Jetpack Compose.

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Can we get a "Follow Person" option? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The user in this screenshot is just an example. I'd love to be able to receive updates when my favourite users post. Also, this has been a great app to use, and I'm looking forward to future development!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No. Thats not how Lemmy works. Reddit added this feature a while back to make it more like other social media sites.

We dont need to emulate that.

Mastodon is designed for following individual people.

Lemmy is designed for following communities. Mixing one with the other now will only slow development and confuse new users.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I think it is creepy to be followed. As long as it's opt in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There is absolutely no reason that a community based system should follow users. This is something reddit only did to try and get "influencers" and drive ad revenue. Not having any of that crap is what made reddit great in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a bad take. There are some users that regularly write outstanding content or even just a series of posts that you don't want to miss the next installment of. Examples on Reddit were /u/Gambatte in /r/TalesFromTechSupport and /u/SqwrlTail in /r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just have them create their own magazine/community and post there.

Then you can subscribe to the Community/Magazine.

Easy Peasy... I think, I still don't really understand this enough to speak 100% confidently, but from what I think I understand it should be.

They're just basically subreddits right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's funny because I use RiF and Apollo and I never did see any kind of followers or anything

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly. I like seeing the same people around every so often, and I liked knowing when I updated the same person a lot (means I should probably trust what they say more).

However, I don't want to follow any of those people specifically. So if we had anything close to that, it should be limited to the RES feature that tracks upvotes by user.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Kbin mixes them and I haven't noticed any problem with that, despite being a user who has no interest whatsoever in the Twitter-like side of things.

Kbin actually presents me with a "follow" option when I view your profile. I've never tried that so I don't know what it does. Here in the Fediverse I don't think it's going to be possible to prohibit others from adding features. You just have the option to not use those features yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As far as I can tell, following someone via Kbin is for either getting their microblog posts (Mastodon-style) or for more generally getting their activity federated to your instance (if it’s like the general ActivityPub concept).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I see what you're saying. I don't think it would be a bad feature for a minority of users who are content creators on the platform, though. I'm looking for a way to stay connected with other platorm related, content creators on the platform, to keep it going. I want to see this platform succeed, from both the social engineering perspective, and the technical side. I also want to follow my favorite followers as they migrate here, but I recognize I'm pivoting.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's probably more of a Lemmy feature request than a Jerboa feature request.

Edit: TIL if I've left a Lemmy page open in my browser, I should refresh a page before replying to make sure I'm not restating posts that beat me to it that I haven't seen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No need to refresh. Duplicate replies are a fact of life on federated sites or threads that get a lot of activity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's something that has to be implemented into Lemmy itself first, so there's an API that Jerboa can take advantage of.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do not think that this is Jerboa specific but rather Lemmy related. You can use Mastodon to follow fediverse users:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Lemmy still doesn't have that option, but I believe it's in the works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's not a feature of even Lemmy itself, so how do you expect Jerboa to pull it off?

Kbin has it, if you want that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's not a feature of even Lemmy itself, so how do you expect Jerboa to pull it off?

From a technical standpoint, I'm pretty confident that it could be done client-side via polling the list of followed users. Lemmy does expose their comments.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That seems massively out-of-scope.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm on kbin and have subscribed in this way to Ernest, the admin of kbin.social, but still don't ever see any notifications about anything when he posts. I always just find them naturally while scrolling the front page because everyone else boosts the hell out of his posts.

So either I'm an idiot or the feature is currently nonfunctional. Pretty solid 50/50 odds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That because following only gets you their microblog posts. Posts to their own feed.

You don't get to see all the posts they make to magazines, which is what I assume Ernest is doing, posting to some announcement mag.

Edit: hm, no, maybe you need to enable it in settings? Or is there some other feed for the people you follow?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In the end it is an open source client =). You can check the Github Repository https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa for open feature requests/issues and may also submit a new one.

Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Would be nice, agree.

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