Completely agree! Gnome is nice but never been able to move past KDE if I had to pick a full blown DE.

https://piped.video/watch?v=FQM5fU7V-MM

Just as an aside, donating does not have to be monetary. Helping (if possible) with development, triaging issues or helping with support/forums of any kind, along with in general filing good issues goes miles for FOSS projects, especially larger ones with only a few developers.

Serious thanks for all of your hard work, as well as everyone else working on Lemmy through software of running instances.

Memmy is ready 👍

Another word on a more upbeat topic.

First, I have a Giphy implementation in the works to add to Memmy. In terms of privacy, I have taken steps to mitigate tracking that comes along with the use of a Meta product while also helping to allow users to communicate with more than just text.

Giphy has a SDK already made for React Native. Unfortunately, it has some “analytics” wrapped in. The API itself can be used without those analytics, but that comes at the cost of the almost certain tracking they do with just the searches and your IP.

As a result, this is what I came up with:

1. You submit a search for a GIF (think Discord’s GIF search
2. The request is sent to a Memmy server which then processes the request for you
3. You receive a response with both the direct URL to each of the GIF results as well as a proxy URL. All of the results are displayed to you through the proxy.
4. When you select a GIF, the direct link is added to your post or comment as an image embed.
5. In a future update, there are plans for Lemmy to offer built in proxying of images. Hopefully this will be available soon. However if it is not, for 30 minutes the GIF you added to the comment will continue to be proxied through Memmy so as not to create an immediate link to you creating the request for the image.

This is somewhat similar to the Signal implementation of Giphy some time ago. I’m focused on cleaning up some other issues right now, but I’d like to add this in sometime in the near future. Will keep you posted.

A sincere thank you for the kind words :)

As I mention above, the second half of this message is not intended for the vast majority of users. And even for the users it is geared toward, it isn’t meant to be rude at all but to be informative.

I completely get how easy it is to forget that large projects are often times the result of a handful of people all with their own daily lives to deal with. I’ve run into a number of projects recently that have absolutely blown my mind when it comes to the difference in the size of the team vs the size of the product.

Should be fine now. (Assuming that you’re on TestFlight. Waiting for Apple for the App Store.

I am a single person working on this right now. I am totally fine with you using whichever app you need to use, and I understand that if it wasn’t working for you that you’re going to switch. I have my own life commitments as well that I have to make, and managing issues through email, GitHub, and Lemmy is not feasible in the slightest.

That said, these issues are fixed now. If you want to update and use it, that’s great. If you prefer voyager that is fine too.

I will work on it over the weekend. Thanks.

Wow, a whopping 100k from Shopify, that’s awesome!

At least a potato would keep their mouth shut.

I’ll look into it. Thanks.

Surprisingly I was just looking and there are a ton of active mods still in development. Pretty cool.

Yes!

This reminds me of how upset I was to break my Battlefront CD when I was younger. One of those games you had to enter the CD for to start. Needless to say, that was what started my torrent and crack experience.

Such a great game. The mods and third party maps were awesome. No edition after the first ever lived up to that, especially this new crap they came out with.

I checked the bird site so you don’t have to: yes the inciting article is being shared by people on both sides. The comments are almost solely defending his suicide and the hatred that sparked it.

Yea, existing extensions get things wrong sometimes. I’m sure this will be the same - especially if sites start changing things to temporarily circumvent. Needs to be an easy way to grab the real URL just in case.

If Google is investing in creating a non-WebKit browser for iOS and given all the heat they are getting for Safari and WebKit, we might see this sooner than later.

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/04/google-working-on-browser-that-would-break-rules/

My plex server is the best streaming experience I ever had. Only stopped running it because I just wasn’t watching anything for a good bit. More time on my hands now, so time for a revival.

https://feddit.de/post/5246281