Can anyone here get Gboard to gesture type "Lemmy"?
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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Right? Like fuck Google and all, but can you imagine how many absurdities would have to have happened in order for it to be blocked?
Riot games changed groovy Zilean to look like a cranked out meth head specifically because the CCP wanted drug culture to look bad. A major social media player making it slightly more difficult for their competition to be typed is not outlandish. It means Lemmy is less visible.
I think what they're saying is that it's POSSIBLE, but it's not that likely that real energy was spent on making this change because Lemmy isn't that big of a deal yet.
I'd say it's more likely that Lemmy a term that isn't commonly used, while also being similar to other words. So more people are trying to type out "lemme" or "Lenny" than "Lemmy". Same reason why certain names are often misspelled on mobile
I can't really test it myself because I don't really use swipe typing
Aprifnid isn't a common word either. I literally made it up.
I don't think it's likely that Google is trying to silence this term, but I am saying that I wouldn't underestimate the petty lengths large organizations go to for their desired effects.
Turns out that we can actually finagle the keyboard to say Lemmy if we're crafty about it.
Yea overall agreed
My guess for why Aprifnid worked better was because it's not similar to other words, maybe
Yeah that's my theory too.
Are you that naive? Why are you defending Google anyway? Google most definitely has a backdoor filter to block FOSS and communist apps like Lemmy and fediverse in general. I also tested Gboard and I can't gesture type Lemmy. This is proof Google is doing some shenanigans. And I challenge you to try it yourself, stop shilling Google dude!
Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent lent Levi's left Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent Lenny Kenny Kent Lenny
Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy
Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent
Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy
Lemmy lemmy lemmy. Lemmy. Kenny Kent lent
lemmy lemmy lemmy.
Lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy
Lines in italics were typed, lines not in italics were swiped, bold was swiped then selected from the suggested word list. It took a little bit but I managed to train it to do it.
We need you in my QA department.
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?
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.dslul.openboard.inputmethod.latin/
Worth pointing out that openboard doesn't support gesture typing. The fork I believe @[email protected] is talking about is:
https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/releases/tag/v1.4.5-gesture-typing
I use this one.
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
Lemmy
first try on open board with gboard swipe type
Kenny Kent Kent Kent.
Nope
I deleted "Kenny" and now it seems to do it fine if I double boop the M.
Lenny Lemmy (on AnySoftKeyboard)
Lemmy
Kelly
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.
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
Lenny Lemme Lemmy, got it :D
I can't really try because I've set up the lemmyface to show up whenever I type lemmy by swiping. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
lemme lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy, yeah seems like it works for me.
Swipe for lemmy works fine here, but I've tap-typed it a lot.
Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy
Yep
My attempts: Kent Lenny Lemmy Lenny Lemmy lemmy.
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.
Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy
I'd a circle on the 'm'
Lemme Lemmy
2nd attempt.
Lemmy
First! And I actually did quite poor...
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
Adding to the various dictionaries didn't work for me, but this guy's suggestion did! https://lemmy.world/comment/6948861
Worked for me after about 3 uses.
Works here. I can never get it to swipe type "Mastodon" though.
Mastodon
First try.
I've learned that pausing a bit on letters helps and also extending a bit further past the ones on the ends.
Go to lemmyverse.net and load up your subscriptions with more active communities, and I'll bet you will barely notice that reddit is gone aside from less/slower (but better IMO) content and lower upvote counts.
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
Subscribe to more communities. After searching for something on LemmyVerse, if you find 3 communities that might be interesting, subscribe to them all.
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 ![email protected] to ask questions or say hi :)
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.