Are you the bot author? If so have you considered using Lemmys alt text field directly? This would display the text with the image is some clients like voyager. It would also federate to Mastodon (post body doesn’t federate). You could also keep the text in the post body and do it both places :)

Maybe considered in https://www.w3.org/2025/03/26-mse-text-tracks-minutes.html?

I will probably investigate after Lemmy v1 is released, no promises though. Support for two platforms would add a significant amount of development overhead.

For losing your position, I recommend enabling and using the hide posts button. You can always temporarily unhide and/or reset by long pressing the hide button. 🙂

I’d say about 50% of reloads is an iOS bug where indexeddb crashes. Apple is aware of that one but they haven’t fixed it yet… so should get a bit better eventually.

Looks like it loads flakey. Issue with the image host maybe? Here is screenshot of Lemmy-ui via Lemmy.zip also not working.

That would be super cool! I think it could be accommodated in Lemmy API. Have you tried making a feature request there?

The strikethrough you posted works fine in Voyager. If something specific doesn’t work, please post in !voyagerapp@lemmy.world (or better yet, a GitHub issue) so I can fix. :)

Not sure what’s going on with hexbear, but I doubt they block those users in app. Maybe you’re using an instance that is defederated from them or something.

I’m the voyager dev and you’re using the voyager app :)

Voyager blocking behaves exactly the same as in jerboa, since both let the backend do it.

As for markdown, what do you mean? Like a WYSIWYG editor? If so, Voyager prefers to write markdown directly. Fun fact: it was actually one of the main design goals of markdown!

Okay, because looking at all topics+English+random appears truly random on my device (no weight) and hexbear/grad are rarely first. Which is why I was thinking it’s possible that your sort reverted to politics due to that bug I found

Iirc they even said they would remove .ml, they didn’t.

If you have the receipts, I’ll gladly make a pr for this! Lemmy devs are pretty receptive to issues and PRs in my experience

Can you confirm that you are looking at all topics and not the politics option on refresh? I noticed a bug where if you select politics then go back to all topics and then refresh the page it goes back to politics.

There seems to be a bug where the category type doesn’t update in the URL when you go back to all topics after selecting a specific category

Interesting, although selecting a politics based server is also an interesting choice for signup lol. Do you have any coding experience? You could try making a PR, the Lemmy devs have seemed quite open to help on the site in the past.

Could you share a screenshot? I see it defaults to a random order of listings.

rebranding join-lemmy.org as a software package, not a political statement

What do you mean by that?

I’ve mostly seen it recommended by random reddit users, not lemmy users. And to be fair it has decreased as a recommendation as its traffic has also decreased relative to other instances, especially since the reddit exodus.

Abandon or spin off lemmy.ml to folks not on the dev team

lemmy.ml is an important testbed for new releases at scale. Many many issues have been caught by the dev team deploying there. lemm.ee too for that matter.

I do agree that Lemmy.ml should never be recommended as the “official” Lemmy instance, but (correct me if I’m wrong) the Lemmy devs don’t do that. They just say “A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers“ which is fair to disclose (although maybe that could remove that. Idk). join-lemmy.org doesn’t handle or recommend Lemmy.ml specially.

I think usually it’s random users saying “join Lemmy.ml it’s the official instance” and we need to nip that in the bud… but it’s not Lemmy devs’ fault.

Where did you hear this? Voyager has excellent markdown support with an implementation that closely matches Lemmy-ui.

Voyager keeps Lemmy links in app. What problem are you experiencing with that?

I’m happy to add a “contrast”/“colorblind” theme too if none of these work for you. Just lmk a list of hex codes that work in light mode (dark mode darkens them).