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Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy
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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?
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 @[email protected] is talking about is:
https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/releases/tag/v1.4.5-gesture-typing
I use this one.
Kenny Kent Kent Kent.
Nope
Lemmy
first try on open board with gboard swipe type
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
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 deleted "Kenny" and now it seems to do it fine if I double boop the M.
Lemmy
Lenny
Lenny Lemme Lemmy, got it :D
lemme lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy, yeah seems like it works for me.
I can't really try because I've set up the lemmyface to show up whenever I type lemmy by swiping. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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
Yep
Swipe for lemmy works fine here, but I've tap-typed it a lot.
Kelly
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.
Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy
I'd a circle on the 'm'
Lemme Lemmy
2nd attempt.
Lemmy
First! And I actually did quite poor...
My attempts: Kent Lenny Lemmy Lenny Lemmy lemmy.
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.
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.
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
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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 [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.