Penguin_1024
@Penguin_1024@lemmy.sdf.org
I work in I.T. and am interested in every sub-field. I also study English, Spanish, German, French, Koine Greek, Latin, Mandarin & Swahili. I’m interested in human culture.
I like Linux, but mainly use Windows because of work.
- Comment on How can I see the avatars/profile pics of posters and commenters on Lemmy.world? 5 weeks ago:
Each client app looks slightly different. They are all just front-ends for whatever Lemmy instance you’re on. You are on the lemmy.world instance. I’m on the lemmy.sdf.org instance.
Lemmy is federated software. It works kind of like email. You can have a Google address or Yahoo or whatever and send email to anyone else. In the same way, everyone on lemmy.world can see what everyone on lemmy.today or europe.pub or most other instances posts and usually vice versa. Some instances are not federated with others because of philosophical disagreements between their users, but mostly everyone can see and respond to each others’ posts and comments, no matter what instance anyone is on. There are many instances so that there is less work for each instance administrator and so that no one group can decide what everyone else sees.
- Comment on How can I see the avatars/profile pics of posters and commenters on Lemmy.world? 5 weeks ago:
Which client you choose depends on your preferences. For Android, searching Lemmy app in the app store gets me the most popular ones. Boost, Voyager, Summit, Connect, Thunder, etc. I don’t have an iPhone, so I’m not sure what clients are available for them.
- Comment on How can I see the avatars/profile pics of posters and commenters on Lemmy.world? 5 weeks ago:
On Boost, I had to click on the post, then the username. On the other clients I can see the avatars from the comments.
- Comment on How can I see the avatars/profile pics of posters and commenters on Lemmy.world? 5 weeks ago:
I downloaded and logged into Boost, although I’m using Summit as my main client. If you click on a username or will show you the avatar. On other apps including Summit, Thunder, Jerboa and Connect you can see the avatar from the post, although some of them you need to click through to the comments to see the avatar.