Can anyone here get Gboard to gesture type "Lemmy"? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by Mango@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[+] AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 37 points 7 months ago

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[-] ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone 7 points 7 months ago

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?

[+] Mango@lemmy.world -9 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think what they're saying is that it's POSSIBLE, but it's not that likely that real energy was spent on making this change because Lemmy isn't that big of a deal yet.

I'd say it's more likely that Lemmy a term that isn't commonly used, while also being similar to other words. So more people are trying to type out "lemme" or "Lenny" than "Lemmy". Same reason why certain names are often misspelled on mobile

I can't really test it myself because I don't really use swipe typing

[-] Mango@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

Aprifnid isn't a common word either. I literally made it up.

I don't think it's likely that Google is trying to silence this term, but I am saying that I wouldn't underestimate the petty lengths large organizations go to for their desired effects.

Turns out that we can actually finagle the keyboard to say Lemmy if we're crafty about it.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago

Yea overall agreed

My guess for why Aprifnid worked better was because it's not similar to other words, maybe

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah that's my theory too.

[-] PatMustard@feddit.uk 3 points 7 months ago

A major social media player... which Google isn't. If you look up "Lemmy" I think you'll find plenty more information about Lemmy Kilminster than a comparatively tiny news aggregator that Google almost certainly couldn't give a shit about. Even if they did there's a colossal difference between a government ordering a change and corpo management trying an elaborate psy-op.

It's good to question closed software and ask what it might be able to do, but this is full-on conspiracy theory stuff.

[-] fitjazz@lemmyf.uk 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

We need you in my QA department.

[-] 18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Kenny Kent Kent Kent.

Nope

[-] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 7 months ago

Lemmy

Nope for me it works, I'm using the openboard fork with gesture typing

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Is that a privacy focused alternative? Where's the APK?

[-] meekah@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.dslul.openboard.inputmethod.latin/

[-] ABasilPlant@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Worth pointing out that openboard doesn't support gesture typing. The fork I believe @tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social is talking about is:

https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/releases/tag/v1.4.5-gesture-typing

I use this one.

[-] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 7 months ago

This is the official package that is now unmaintained, I use the fork of one of the original devs: https://github.com/Helium314/openboard

It supports adding an external swipe type library, and sadly the only working one is the gboard one, that works like a charm however

It is not on fdroid (yet), so you can install it manually or using obtainium

[-] milkytoast@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago

Lemmy

first try on open board with gboard swipe type

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Lemmy

[-] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

Kelly

[-] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I deleted "Kenny" and now it seems to do it fine if I double boop the M.

[-] bert_macklin_fbi@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

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".

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Lemmy

Holy shit, it worked!! Took 3 tries though.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Lenny

[-] Toes@ani.social 2 points 7 months ago

Lenny Lemme Lemmy, got it :D

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Lemme Lemmy

2nd attempt.

[-] take6056@feddit.nl 1 points 7 months ago

Lemmy

First! And I actually did quite poor...

[-] ani@endlesstalk.org 2 points 7 months ago

Lenny Lemmy (on AnySoftKeyboard)

[-] Nanomerce@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

lemme lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy, yeah seems like it works for me.

[-] meekah@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I can't really try because I've set up the lemmyface to show up whenever I type lemmy by swiping. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[-] weird_nugget@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

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

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy

Yep

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago

Works for me. Make sure you scribble on the M while you're over it.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

Both are indeed things.

[-] CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Adding to the various dictionaries didn't work for me, but this guy's suggestion did! https://lemmy.world/comment/6948861

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

Worked for me after about 3 uses.

[-] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

Swipe for lemmy works fine here, but I've tap-typed it a lot.

[-] ma11en@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy

I'd a circle on the 'm'

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

My attempts: Kent Lenny Lemmy Lenny Lemmy lemmy.

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 0 points 7 months ago

Works here. I can never get it to swipe type "Mastodon" though.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] myrdinn@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 3 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

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 :)

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Try Sync for Lemmy.

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