After a post of shame where I found out this is where I look for support, I now have multiple questions
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How do I delete a post?
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How do I follow a user?
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I use thunder, is it just missing following ppl and dm’ing or am I blind?
To delete a post in Thunder, click the … on the post, the “Post”, then “Delete post”.
You can’t follow users on Lemmy, only communities.
And it’s not just you, I can’t work out how to DM people in Thunder either 🤷
Thanks man
DM writing in thunder is not implemented (yet). I use the webui.
Reference: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/issues/1697
About following users, that can be somewhat achieved with RSS - Lemmy provides a feed for each user’s post history.
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I am not familiar with fediverse apps, but you could pick the feed for a given user, put in a RSS reader, and open new entries if the app can pick links for a given instance.
As for the feed itself, for example, for your profile directly on Lemmy World, it’s the signal icon to the right of the interrogation symbol at the bottom has the link for it, and you put the link in the RSS reader:
Truly, each day I realize I have less knowledge than I thought.
Kind sir, I dont even understand what I dont understand from what you wrote 😂
RSS feeds are a way to receive posts without having to access a site directly.
The “RSS reader”, a program to display posts fetched from RSS feeds, usually gets new posts through the feed’s link you provide.
This link updates the contents it delivers each time a new post is made.
RSS readers often have the option to open a post’s original link through your default browse or a custom browser.
If the app you use can open links from Lemmy, a functionality from Android apps, you can use the RSS reader to get new posts from users you want to follow.
Does it make more sense now? Not asking angrily, btw. (absence of tone in text is a bit of a PITA "<.< )
Alternatively, to follow users, you could try using Friendica and/or Mbin. Both are compatible with Lemmy communities, and can follow users as well. However, I am not aware of any apps for them, meaning you’d need to use them on browsers.
Okay let me get this, so RSS feeds get posts without having access to the site, but how do they differ from the app I use “Thunder”, like from what I understand the RSS reader is an app aswell, and you somehow embed I believe certain links into it so it auto fetches them? Or like embed communities and it auto gets posts?
In the scope of the post, I was commenting about following users specifically. But yeah, RSS is generally an “app”, a program aside from the others. And you you embed links, yes.
