cobysev

Yeah it was my Reddit app too. But when I switched over to Lemmy, there were a lot of initial issues with the app, and the dev would vanish for months before responding to complaints.

He was very reactive when he came back, addressing every issue people pinged him on. But then he’d just be gone again and any further issues were stuck until he decided to return.

I remember that being a problem I had with his Lemmy app in the beginning. I specifically remember webm files didn’t load at all, until I pinged him right before he pushed an update and he added it to his patch. But then his patch broke a few other things and nobody could reach him for another 3 months.

I still can’t remember what the final straw was for me, but I had an ongoing issue that had no resolution until the dev decided to show his face again and I decided that was it. I needed an app with a more reactive developer.

When I was living in Japan for a few years, I ended up dating a Filipino lady for a while. But she had no concept of colloquialisms; she took everything I said 100% literally. I quickly discovered that the English language is riddled with colloquialisms and we use them constantly.

One evening, she had called me maybe 6 times over the course of a couple hours. On the next call, I picked up and said, “Damn, you’re killing me!”

She immediately broke down crying. She wailed, “Why would you ever say that?! I would never want to kill you!”

It took maybe a half hour to calm her down and get her to understand that this is an English expression and not meant to be taken literally. She finally agreed that I didn’t mean it, but she told me I’m not allowed to use that expression again, because it hurts her heart to hear me accuse her of wanting to kill me.

I actually switched away from Sync. I forget why, it’s been a while, but something about that app was bothering me, so I shopped around and ended up on Voyager.

The lack of profile pictures and custom username fonts is probably the only downside to Voyager. But I love everything else about it. And it’s free; I had to pay for Sync to get rid of ads and other junk in the app.

I turned 24 in 2008. I had been serving in the US military since I turned 18, and in 2008, I was stationed at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, my second military assignment after 3 years at Misawa Air Base in Japan. I got orders in 2008 to relocate to Osan Air Base in South Korea for a year, with a follow-on assignment to Germany.

In January the very next year, I would marry my wife and she would join the US Air Force as well, leaving for her basic training literally 5 days after our wedding. Oh, and we got married over webcam, from opposite sides of the globe. I was stationed in South Korea and she was living in Nebraska at the time, so we mailed the marriage license back and forth to pre-sign it, then we did the ceremony over Skype from our respective bedrooms. We would meet up in person later that year in Germany for my fourth military assignment (and her first).

I’m turning 42 this year and have been retired for almost 4 years now, after serving for 20 years in the military. I’m fully retired, as the military kind of beat me up physically and mentally. My wife and I both qualified for the coveted “100% Permanent and Total Disability” through the VA, so we can afford to be retired at such a young age.

I used to see you everywhere. Then I got the “Voyager for Lemmy” app. Now I rarely ever notice you.

Voyager doesn’t do custom username fonts or icons, so everyone’s username is just plaintext. You blend in with every other user in my feed, and I rarely look at usernames, so I tend to miss users that I haven’t specifically tagged myself.

I’m pretty glad to not see my name popping up in any of these comments, ha.

Same here. At one point, I tried to be known for providing a certain type of content here, to help fill out a then-quiet community. But I’m kind of glad no one really recognizes me until they see a post by me. I’m here daily, but I mostly lurk, so I don’t particularly want to wake up to hundreds of comments in my inbox every day.

And yes, I’m still trying to provide that content despite my apparent hiatus. I’m just dealing with seasonal depression (as well as all the national news drama going on in my home state 20+ minutes from my home), so it’s hard to get motivated to be creative lately.