Just to confirm you’re not crazy, I tried the standard method of adding a word by manually typing ‘lemmy’ and then tapping the same word on the suggestion bar, which didn’t work.
Tested adding other nonsense words like treypses which worked as expected for swyping, but to get Lemmy to work I had to add Lemmy in Gboard’s personal dictionary
I think a lot of people thought there was some sort of money to be made by staking a claim on community names and then having bots fill them with Reddit reposts.
Also the search functions Ive found to be pretty terrible.
As a moderator who did that and stopped, that’s not the case. What it actually was: we didn’t want to go back to Reddit ever again. So, we desperately tried to lift the quality posts and communities from stubborn holdouts to have that quality come with us.
IMO, it was a failure because people were so anti-bot. But that’s why I was taking part in moving everything over from there. I had no financial motives. I was just hoping to 100% boycott Reddit and was looking to draw their communities away from that utterly enshittified platform.
I think it was an overall failure (not blaming you specifically or anything) because it feels forced. The majority of “content” is just reposted memes, there’s no real people to go along with it.
Most Lemmy communities don’t feel like communities. They’re just meme repositories - as if we needed 10 places all hosting the same pictures in a different order
Yeah I like it. It reminds me of how Ask Reddit used to be.
Ever since Ask Reddit removed the body section of posts, just leaving people with the title section to work with, I feel like it’s mostly been generic dull questions where everyone says basically the same thing and doesn’t elaborate.
Prime examples:
Q: Men what is something we can all agree on?
A: We’ve all fantasized about being the hero in some daydream scenario.
and
Q: What is the most basic thing you are terrible at?
A: Holding a conversation.
I’d rather hear about someone’s struggles to install Arch Linux
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