The main reason is SSR so sharing in messages provider the preview image and whatnot. Also more control over the onboarding, and avoiding confusing the PWA with the native app. That’s a nice alternative though!
Universal Links that are verified, like go.getvoyager.app, will automatically open in the app. The Lemmy links are there, but are “unverified” and won’t open in the app unless the user configures them to. Also, adding unverified domains isn’t possible in iOS. So this is a much more universal, zero-config option.
Mastodon redirect is great and works with voyager, but is more of a power user thing. Go.getvoyager.app works out of the box :)
This service requires knowing that the other party also has and exclusively uses Voyager.
Well, kinda. It is one click to open the Lemmy link directly. I’ve also thought about adding config options to the service to auto redirect to the Lemmy instance, to make it unobtrusive for other app users. The code is open source so I’m happy to hear suggestions to make it work better!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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).
Have you tried resetting hidden posts?