Xylight (Photon dev) @ Xylight @lemmy.xylight.dev

Try the [Photon for Lemmy](https://phtn.app) client!

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an ELI5:

When you set up a lemmy instance, it has no idea other instances exist. It's like throwing you into a web browser with no search engine. You don't immediately see every single website, you have someone tell you about a cool website you found, and then you type it into the address bar, and save it.

It's kind of the same thing with Lemmy instances and communities. Once a user types this syntax into the search prompt:

!community@instance.com

It will try and contact instance.com for that community. If it exists, the user can subscribe and the instances will now receive and send new posts to each other.

fun fact: !important !important is essentially !importanter, and you can go even further if you want a hell of a css hierarchy

This is actually bad for the instance. It costs a lot more resources to send and fetch submissions from a bunch more instances.

As an AI language model, I cannot reveal if I am a chatbot.

Privacy tools is not recommended, use https://privacyguides.io

Honestly, I think the UI looks okay. I dislike the trending boxes which makes my brain think they are ads.

I'm feeling lucky

Update: You can now donate here

You can now donate here

Cash app is only available in the US and UK afaik.

Both are possible already! You can resize with the little thing on the bottom right of the navbar, and the collapse button is on the top left of the navbar.

Yeah, this is desktop-first, and meant to be a replacement for lemmy-ui, not mobile apps like Sync.

I'm a minor and can't setup a donation link legally. You can support me by reporting bugs and sharing Photon though!

Woah there! You're presenting facts and logic to this circlejerk community!

That wouldn't look great though, as it's a menu, not exclusively a log in button.

I've added a hamburger menu icon there. Should hint that it's a menu better

I'd prefer to keep the empty circle, but an icon to put there would be better. Should I put the login icon in the empty circle?

Never considered that people might want that. Will add soon™ though.

Update: Manual dark toggle added in v0.5.7!

Update: Manual dark toggle added in v0.5.7!