I am very new and very dumb. kitty-cri

Please give me directions that are /srs

I will most likely not detect sarcasm and struggle without explicit instructions. creature

I am on mobile currently. I'm supposed to be asleep. I am not asleep. I'm hyperfixated on new internet place.

I haven't quite figured out the UI yet but it might just not be optimized for mobile. Is there an app or should I just wait until I get back on my PC?

  • blight [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    Hello and welcome!

    You can set your pronouns in top right hamburger menu - [your name] - settings, and then pronouns should be the first thing in the list. You need to scroll down a bit for the Save button.

  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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    Welcome! Personally I use the mobile site, and there's no mobile app for Hexbear specifically. However, Hexbear is part of a network of sites called Lemmy that can optionally federate with each other and see each other's posts/comment on each other's sites. Which instances federate with each other is a whole bunch of drama, but I digress. There are some Lemmy apps that you can use to browse Hexbear, but we have some custom features like pronouns and the emoji picker that may or may not be supported.

    Jerboa is a popular Lemmy app, I think

    • propter_hog [any, any]
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      1 day ago

      Jerboa is by far the best mobile app. I had to set my pronouns on the mobile website, and it shows up in Jerboa after that.

    • Pandantic [they/them, any]
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      1 day ago

      I use Thunder, on which I can change my display name. Are there still some that can’t show Hexbear emojis?

      • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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        1 day ago

        You'll be able to view the emojis fine because they're just linked images. It's just that we have a lot of them, and there are features that will allow you to search for them and automatically add them into your posts/comments that don't work in (most? any?) of the mobile apps

        • Pandantic [they/them, any]
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          1 day ago

          There were some apps when Hexbear first federated that didn’t display them or displayed them poorly, messing up the formatting. I was on Memmy, but switched to Thunder because Memmy can’t handle the formatting (I just checked, it still can’t).

  • Carcharodonna [she/her]
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    1 day ago

    Hi Mawdy! Welcome to hexbear!!! ralsei-wave

    I think blight answered the pronouns question, but if there’s anything else you wanna know, don’t hesitate to ask.

  • AshenWolf [she/her]
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    1 day ago

    Is there an app

    There's actually an app I use (on android) called Jerboa, and I feel like it makes the site much easier to use. The only downside is that custom emojis can't be used unless you remember the codes, but it's not the worst thing in the world and the UI is so much better. Jerboa's also developed by the same developers that work on Lemmy.