Onihikage

A chat program owned by Roblox Corporation is not my idea of trustworthy.

Unfortunately that setting seems to be broken in Jerboa, at least for me. I have it set to Subscribed but the app still opens in local view every time. Website works correctly, though.

A web browser, yes, but you should be able to use your sopuli.xyz account just fine. For example, to get to the Jerboa community we’re having this discussion in, you would go to the URL https://sopuli.xyz/c/jerboa@lemmy.ml in your web browser. What that does is basically tell sopuli.xyz to show you the community named “jerboa” hosted on the domain (instance) named lemmy.ml. Without the @lemmy.ml, it would look for /c/jerboa on sopuli.xyz, and get a 404 because it isn’t hosted there.

If you’re signed in to sopuli.xyz on that web browser, you can subscribe to the community from there, and then you would be able to get to it from within Jerboa. My account is with beehaw.org, so if I wanted to do the same, I would go to https://beehaw.org/c/jerboa@lemmy.ml. It’s a bit weird, but not that complicated, and it will quickly seem normal once you get used to it.

All that said, one thing I’ve noticed is if a community from a different instance than the one you’re using has 0 posts, it will 404 if you try to go to it from your own instance, and it also won’t show up in a search within Jerboa. For example, animanga@lemmy.ml has 0 posts as of this writing, and will 404 if I try to view it from Beehaw or sopuli; it only shows up if I view it directly at lemmy.ml/c/animanga, which doesn’t help much since I don’t have an account with lemmy.ml.

Sorry for the late reply. STAR stands for Score Then Automatic Runoff. The idea is every option is scored by voters from 0-5 stars, and the scores are added up from each voter to get the top two scoring options. Then those two options are ranked according to which was preferred (scored higher than the other) by the greatest number of voters. There’s a website about it, along with entries on Wikipedia and Ballotpedia.

As a newbie, having some way for a community to democratically replace a moderator definitely sounds like it would be an improvement over most (all?) non-federated social media services, but I think there needs to be some kind of election framework for community leadership positions in general, and that would be how bad moderators get replaced. At the very least, I hope any voting would use the STAR method.