Hi! I’m a developer for the Mlem iOS client. Join us on !mlemapp@lemmy.ml!

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Cake day: October 5th, 2023
  • Sjmarf@lemmy.mltoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Hurts, don't it?English
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    4 months ago

    Mlem dev here. Tagging is a feature implemented by Voyager and some other clients, Mlem doesn’t have this feature. It isn’t an official feature of Lemmy - clients store the tag information locally on-device rather than on the Lemmy server.

    In Lemmy 1.0 (an upcoming version) they’re adding support for adding notes to users, and Mlem will be adding support for it at that point.

    TL;DR switch to Voyager or wait for Lemmy 1.0.

  • Sjmarf@lemmy.mltoFedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com•(Mlem, but the warning is everywhere) would it be possible to edit the warning to remove the fact that the application has to be accepted (seems like LW automatically processes those anyway)? English
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    9 months ago

    Mlem dev here. Mlem shows this warning for instances that require registration applications to be approved first (which, these days, is all instances).

    The aim here was to make it clear to users that they won’t be able to use their account immediately after signing up - otherwise, users may be confused that they can’t log in. I do agree that it’s a little scary though… we’ll think about some ways to tone it down. I’m open to suggestions for better wording.

    I wasn’t aware that lemmy.world automated their process. It’s possible that we could provide a different UI for certain instances that use similar systems, but we’d have to hard-code each case which isn’t ideal.

    The ability to sign up in Mlem was only added a month ago - before that, we directed users to the web browser to sign up. Our current implementation leaves much to be desired, but is more user-friendly than requiring the user to visit a website. I’m planning to make some improvements to the system in future. I was reading this Lemmy post the other day, which I think has some good ideas.

    Here’s an overview of our current sign-up flow, fyi:

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    When the user first opens the app, there is no full-screen onboarding flow. They are not asked to choose an instance - instead, they are connected as a guest to lemmy.world. This avoids scaring the user away with the concept of “instances” before they have the chance to see any content. Here’s the first thing the user sees:

    If the user taps “sign up”, they are shown a list of instances ranked by their score on lemmyverse.net. This is one of the areas that I think needs the most improvement - we don’t currently tell the user what an instance actually is, and the way that instances are sorted means that most users probably choose Lemmy.world, which isn’t ideal.

    And finally when the user taps on an instance they get shown the page you’ve already seen a screenshot of:

  • Sjmarf@lemmy.mltoFediverse@lemmy.world•A Request to the Fediverse CommunityEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I use Ice Cubes for Mastodon.

    I’m one of the Mlem developers; I’m glad you’re enjoying it :) You could also consider trying the Mlem beta if you haven’t already. It’s about 8 months’ worth of development ahead of the App Store version. The reason why we haven’t updated the App Store version in so long is because the beta version doesn’t have all of the moderation tools yet (due to it being a full rewrite), and we don’t want to take those tools away from moderators who use Mlem.