No Earl Grey, hot, on the table in front of her? Just a highball of [squints at glass on table] watered down Andorian ale?
For those who have fallen for the myth of "New" Zealand:
Car starts playing "Faith of the Heart", I walk away like it's not mine.
Re Kid Rock, suspect is not hatless. Repeat, not hatless.
Not the Onion: Kid Rock's Restaurant Closes to Avoid Trump's ICE Raids
Kid Rock and Steve Smith (the MAGA businessman running the restaurant chains in the article, not the son from American Dad!) still at large.
Good idea. I wanted to search their Github Issues to see if they already have a request for this but then I realized I don't know the correct technical terms to describe this. "Show OP with replies below directly in timeline"? Or "feed"? Or "home page"? Whatever is the porper Mastodon term for what it shows me when I load the main page.
Thanks for the in-depth info.
I'm kind of amazed they released a system that shows replies but not necessarily the OP! But presumably there's all kinds of technical reasons over my head.
I've installed Subsitoot and am browsing regular Mastodon (not phanpy) with it... and I can't tell yet if it's making a difference. I'm still thrown by the bass-ackwards layout.
OK, I think I get what I have to do now to see the OP of seemingly orphaned replies, and also to see all replies to an OP, below the OP.
- Click on a reply (just any random area of the reply text, not on a specific button, took me a while to work that out)
- Scroll up (again, took me a few goes to work that out, as it often places that reply at the top of the screen)
- Click on the top post (again, random area, not a specific button)
That finally shows me both the OP, at top, and all replies, below.
So, a bit of a palaver but doable. Thanks! Hopefully, future versions of Mastodon will make getting posts and displaying them properly grouped in the main timeline easier.
Unfortunately, it looks like Fedilab is a mobile app only.
Also, I've installed it on Android and the default does not show the OP above with replies grouped below.
Looking at its settings, maybe one might affect completely missing OPs, "Remote Conversations". I've enabled it and will see how it goes.
I can't find any setting to make it show replies grouped below the OP.
Phanpy
First impression: "That's more like it!"
But then: "Wait... it's still not showing me the OP followed by replies." It shows me a reply, with some faded text above. I click on the faded text above, and still don't get the OP, eventually click on a group of microavatars with mouseover text "Go to top" and an up arrow, and at last see what the hell it is people are talking about, with replies below. I try going through settings, find no way to get it simply show me the OP in the first place.
I guess I'll have to keep trying out front-ends until I find one that works ~~in a way that is not obviously maddening~~ the way I need it to.
I'll try Ask Lemmy. https://lemmy.ca/post/44479417
(And wondering again if I should try Mbin or Piefed, and what the difference is.)
Well, I'm confused. And has it caught on?
Disclosure: I've tried it out on my computer, not the app. Is the app more user-friendly?
E.g. I only just realized now why I've been so confused by Mastodon; the web page shows you replies before showing you what's being replied to, without the UI making it obvious that's what it's doing and what's connected together. Does the app fix that, and is there a way to get a fix in a web browser?
Oh, has he become a good person?
Oh sure, it starts out all fun and games. But it ends in...