Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world Mango @lemmy.world 10 mo. ago

Can anyone here get Gboard to gesture type "Lemmy"?

No matter what I do, it's like Gboard is specifically avoiding it. It'll instantly learn any bullshit word I make up like "aprifnid" but can't type "Lemmy". I suspect shenanigans.

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I suspect shenanigans.

I seriously doubt that google gives the slightest shit about Lemmy, and if they did give a shit they would absolutely use more meaningful "shenanigans" than stopping you from swipe-typing the word 🙄🙄🙄
- Right? Like fuck Google and all, but can you imagine how many absurdities would have to have happened in order for it to be blocked?
  
  Riot games changed groovy Zilean to look like a cranked out meth head specifically because the CCP wanted drug culture to look bad. A major social media player making it slightly more difficult for their competition to be typed is not outlandish. It means Lemmy is less visible.
- Are you that naive? Why are you defending Google anyway? Google most definitely has a backdoor filter to block FOSS and communist apps like Lemmy and fediverse in general. I also tested Gboard and I can't gesture type Lemmy. This is proof Google is doing some shenanigans. And I challenge you to try it yourself, stop shilling Google dude!
Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent lent Levi's left Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent Lenny Kenny Kent Lenny

Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy

Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent

Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy

Lemmy lemmy lemmy. Lemmy. Kenny Kent lent

lemmy lemmy lemmy.

Lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy

Lines in italics were typed, lines not in italics were swiped, bold was swiped then selected from the suggested word list. It took a little bit but I managed to train it to do it.
- We need you in my QA department.
Lemmy

first try on open board with gboard swipe type
Lemmy

Nope for me it works, I'm using the openboard fork with gesture typing
- Is that a privacy focused alternative? Where's the APK?
  
  https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.dslul.openboard.inputmethod.latin/
Kenny Kent Kent Kent.

Nope
Lemmy
Lenny
Lenny Lemme Lemmy, got it :D
Kelly
My first try yielded "Kelly" but was about to get "Lemmy" on my second try. I recommend trying to touch the space to the right of the "L".
- Lemmy
  
  Holy shit, it worked!! Took 3 tries though.
I deleted "Kenny" and now it seems to do it fine if I double boop the M.
Lenny Lemmy (on AnySoftKeyboard)
lemme lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy, yeah seems like it works for me.
I can't really try because I've set up the lemmyface to show up whenever I type lemmy by swiping. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Kelly Lent Lent Lent Lent Lenny Lent Lent Lent Lent Lenny Lent Lenny Lent Lent Kelly Lent Lenny Lenny Lent Lent Lent Lenny

Ok you win
Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy

Yep
Works for me. Make sure you scribble on the M while you're over it.
- Is that a thing? I've noticed better results with some words when I make sure I make a hard turn or pause on a letter.
  
  Both are indeed things.
Swipe for lemmy works fine here, but I've tap-typed it a lot.
Just to confirm you're not crazy, I tried the standard method of adding a word by manually typing 'lemmy' and then tapping the same word on the suggestion bar, which didn't work.

Tested adding other nonsense words like treypses which worked as expected for swyping, but to get Lemmy to work I had to add Lemmy in Gboard's personal dictionary
- Adding to the various dictionaries didn't work for me, but this guy's suggestion did! https://lemmy.world/comment/6948861
- Worked for me after about 3 uses.
My attempts: Kent Lenny Lemmy Lenny Lemmy lemmy.
Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy

I'd a circle on the 'm'
Am I using this place incorrectly, or is it just kind of dead? There doesn't seem to be much activity, or else maybe I don't know where to look yet. I really wanted it to replace reddit.
- Go to lemmyverse.net and load up your subscriptions with more active communities, and I'll bet you will barely notice that reddit is gone aside from less/slower (but better IMO) content and lower upvote counts.
- I'd recommend sticking around a bit and subscribing to more places. A lot of people have been able to replace Reddit (and waste similar amounts of time here)
  
  My tips are
  
  Subscribe to more communities. After searching for something on LemmyVerse, if you find 3 communities that might be interesting, subscribe to them all.
  
  On Reddit, a community with low subscribers is usually dead. On Lemmy, there is a lot more engagement on the content so even the dead looking community will give you interesting content over time
  
  Feel free to comment and post more. People are more likely to respond here
  
  It isn't a 1 to 1 perfect copy of Reddit, it's different :)
  
  You can also pop in to !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca to ask questions or say hi :)
- My advice is try "Hot" sort and "Top Day" (or 6/12 hours depending on how you like to check). And set the scope to "All" instead of "Local".
  
  The default Active sort has always been kind of meh to me. Hot is more like Reddit's Rising feed.
- Try Sync for Lemmy.
Works here. I can never get it to swipe type "Mastodon" though.
- Mastodon
  
  First try.
  
  I've learned that pausing a bit on letters helps and also extending a bit further past the ones on the ends.

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