No matter what I do, it’s like Gboard is specifically avoiding it. It’ll instantly learn any bullshit word I make up like “aprifnid” but can’t type “Lemmy”. I suspect shenanigans.
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Lemmy
Nope for me it works, I’m using the openboard fork with gesture typing
Is that a privacy focused alternative? Where’s the APK?
This is the official package that is now unmaintained, I use the fork of one of the original devs: https://github.com/Helium314/openboard
It supports adding an external swipe type library, and sadly the only working one is the gboard one, that works like a charm however
It is not on fdroid (yet), so you can install it manually or using obtainium
Worth pointing out that openboard doesn’t support gesture typing. The fork I believe @tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social is talking about is:
https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/releases/tag/v1.4.5-gesture-typing
I use this one.
Am I using this place incorrectly, or is it just kind of dead? There doesn’t seem to be much activity, or else maybe I don’t know where to look yet. I really wanted it to replace reddit.
I’d recommend sticking around a bit and subscribing to more places. A lot of people have been able to replace Reddit (and waste similar amounts of time here)
My tips are
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Subscribe to more communities. After searching for something on LemmyVerse, if you find 3 communities that might be interesting, subscribe to them all.
- On Reddit, a community with low subscribers is usually dead. On Lemmy, there is a lot more engagement on the content so even the dead looking community will give you interesting content over time
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Feel free to comment and post more. People are more likely to respond here
It isn’t a 1 to 1 perfect copy of Reddit, it’s different :)
You can also pop in to !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca to ask questions or say hi :)
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My advice is try “Hot” sort and “Top Day” (or 6/12 hours depending on how you like to check). And set the scope to “All” instead of “Local”.
The default Active sort has always been kind of meh to me. Hot is more like Reddit’s Rising feed.
Try Sync for Lemmy.
Lemmy
first try on open board with gboard swipe type
Lemmy
Lenny
My first try yielded “Kelly” but was about to get “Lemmy” on my second try. I recommend trying to touch the space to the right of the “L”.
Lemmy
Holy shit, it worked!! Took 3 tries though.
I can’t really try because I’ve set up the lemmyface to show up whenever I type lemmy by swiping. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Kelly Lent Lent Lent Lent Lenny Lent Lent Lent Lent Lenny Lent Lenny Lent Lent Kelly Lent Lenny Lenny Lent Lent Lent Lenny
Ok you win
Kelly
I deleted “Kenny” and now it seems to do it fine if I double boop the M.
Swipe for lemmy works fine here, but I’ve tap-typed it a lot.
Works for me. Make sure you scribble on the M while you’re over it.
Is that a thing? I’ve noticed better results with some words when I make sure I make a hard turn or pause on a letter.
Both are indeed things.
Lemme Lemmy
2nd attempt.
Lemmy
First! And I actually did quite poor…
Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy
Yep
