I’m using Jerboa and I sometimes see symbols next to peoples’ username. One looks like a “no message” symbol, and the other looks like a “no person” symbol in red. What do they mean? Are there more symbols?
I’ve tried a web search but I only found results related to Motorhead and some kind of desert rodent.
Also, is it possible to search the content of posts on Lemmy? At least in Jerboa the search function seems to be only to search for communities by name. Surely someone has asked this before but I couldn’t figure out how to search posts.
Thanks!
Edit: added an example of the “no person” icon
The one you attached means that they’re banned.
If theyre banned, how are they participating?
It might be a temporary ban - those do not retroactively remove comments of the person in question IIRC.
Who? They haven’t even gave us a user@instance.
Banned from the server where their comment with that icon appears?
I’m still trying to grasp federation; sorry if it’s a stupid question.
Banned from your instance. What user are you looking at? If they’re banned on their home instance it federates everywhere as far as I know.
One of the icons may be the bot account indicator.
That’s a robot head icon, right? It would be nice to see a list of all the icons and their meaning.
Took a couple of days to get familiar, but you should switch to Voyager if you want to search the content of posts across lemmy. I used Jerboa for 6 months and finally decided to check out Voyager after a few bugs in Jerboa and comment sorting default not being a thing.
It’s been much better since switching for me. Text formatting needs work but that’s pretty minor in the grand scheme of things to me.
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
Recent convert here. Voyager is leagues ahead of the others IMO. I was struggling with Lemmy until it was suggested to me.
Aye. Switched over from Liftoff a week ago and I am so happy with the improvements!
(yes, I am aware that Liftoff’s dev is busy af, I do not fault him for not being able to/not wanting to keep it constantly updated and adding more features)
You, like me, want a decent user experience though, I imagine.
Like stinkyhat said, I’m seeing user avatars to the left of usernames, and community icons to the right of usernames. Those are all going to have individual meanings, if they aren’t set to the default.
As for search, I’m in a web browser, and I don’t find the UI to be very user friendly, either.
Do you mean the user’s avatar?
This isn’t the right community for tech support questions, you should try your app’s community or !techsupport@lemmy.world instead.
No, not the avatar. I added an example of the icon to my post.
Thanks for the suggestion! Is it possible to cross-post? I don’t see the option here.
B - Bot
A - Administrator
M - Moderator
OP - Original Poster
Where do you see those?
Nice! Is that a web browser or an app that you’re using? It doesn’t look like that for me on Jerboa.
Standard browser view. Apps change the appearance quite a bit.
