Cadenza

Lucky you’re not on lemmy.world… ^^ I had to switch to liftoff after jerboa 0.35 and the strange choice they made of enforcing lemmy v0.18 while it wasn’t even out. Were now locked out of jerboa for weeks if not months while were the largest lemmy instance ^^

I’ll be changing my old phone in two weeks but my heart stays with people who, for whatever reason (e.g. : broke), are stuck on older phones capping at Android 9.

I know I know, I was being salty. Still a weird way to do things, and one that should be avoided imo, I suppose it’s useful to say it out loud. But you’re right.

Well in case it helps anyone and despite my current saltyness, I found my way back.

I went to lemmy.world on my mobile browser. Dced from my wifi/data. Long press on a post. Share => Select Jerboa from the app list. Jerboa succesfully opened. Back to its main menu. Go to Login. Enter credentials. Reconnect to wifi/data. Login.

It worked for me. Maybe it’ll help someone.

Hopefully, better and more respectful android apps will be out soon.

All the more so since lemmy.world will skip 0.18 and wait for 0.18.1.

This and clunky mandatory UI translation (for poor people stuck on older android).

I wish it worked. But no.

This update to a still non existing version of lemmy basically locking your whole user base except lemmy.ml from using your app and relying on black magic to hope to downgrade. Way to tell said userbase to f off.