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With the logout one, if I click Account, the three dots, then Logout, it doesn’t appear to do anything. I close the app, reopen, pull down to refresh, and I’m still logged in. I can log into a second account and log out, but the first account that I’m still signed in with, does not appear to log out. I can take a video if that helps, but that’s pretty much the gist.

For the direct clicking images, that might be something that is not broken but just something I’m used to coming from other apps. Someone else can chime in if they prefer a different experience, but I personally like having a post not have the username or community clickable until I open the actual post (as in not clickable from the feed). Otherwise I end up clicking the username by accident instead of opening the post. But for images, if I’m scrolling on Compact view and just want to get a better look at the image, I’ll click the image to open only the image (not the full post), but what happens currently is image does not open and the post dims to show “read.” Really not a big deal, I just open the post and then click the image. I just kind of noticed myself naturally clicking the image sometimes and found out that is how I interact with image post from the Compact feed.

Does that help at all?

Follow up question, what do you use for an abrasive fluid? I’m pretty new to sharpening and just bought diamond stones and lapping fluid, but the fluid is semi-expensive. I’ve seen about anything from just water, Windex, Krud Cleaner, and then all sorts of replies saying that each of those wreck the stone in some way. Is there a cheap alternative that you use, or should I just keep buying the lapping fluid?

I’m not sure how the app and website interact, but in my experience, I turned on hide read posts and my own posts were no longer visible until I disabled that. In the actual Lemmy settings it’s phrased opposite, “Show Read Posts” must be enabled, otherwise your own posts become no longer visible.

So I guess, however you changed that, try changing it back and reloading the app, and see if your posts become visible. Are they visible if you log into Lemmy on a browser? 

It’s a Lemmy thing not an app thing. I just had this issue. So if Hide Read Posts is enabled, it also hides your own posts, because they are all “read” by you. You just have to disable that setting to see your posts.

Depends, am I a horse-sized duck? I might have some people to fight

Maybe try clearing the cache: Settings > General > Advanced > App Cache > Clear Cache

That’s a fair point. I guess only one or two I knew said they didn’t use it because of the aluminum, but I didn’t get to ask more about it.

It’s not integrated into any of the apps I use, so I use a mobile browser. There’s a shield icon that appears next to the notification bell icon. It’s essentially another inbox that shows the reporter, reportee, post, community, and reason for reporting. I still have to manually click the post and decide what to do (ie, remove, ban, nothing), and then go back to the mod inbox and click a Resolved (like a “read”) button.

Sweet lord baby Jesus, I freaking turn off Show Read Posts for the feed. I didn’t realize it would hide my own posts. I feel like an idiot haha. Thank you

All spot-on advice above. I don’t work in IT but just wanted to add that I learned that the hard way, many managers are simply not good at their job and know they can pull a bait-and-switch with newer employees. It takes a little bit of experience to feel confident enough to say “That’s not what I agreed to.” In the nursing world they call that someone’s nursing voice.

What helped me and might help you is reassuring yourself that what you’re currently doing is not what was originally discussed, and you are looking for a role doing X. It’s nothing personal toward them, it’s simply “I am looking for this certain role and quality that is not available in this current role.” I personally hated confrontation, so sticking with objective aspects helped make that uncomfortable change.

I guess I didn’t explicitly say it, but that was actually the moment that I went from could exist to must exist. I know it sounds pretty crazy to commit to such an irrational thing. I have a better understanding now of why it’s called practicing a faith, because you don’t just immediately do it and you’re done. It constantly gets tested. So, there wasn’t one moment that just flipped all the way from not believing anything to believing everything, it’s a spectrum.

For me it was ironically a theoretical physics video that made a religious belief really make sense. It was a video explaining how we can conceptualize 11 dimensions that would be possible on the information we collectively know now as humans. The way it made me really think about how truly expansive space and time are really made me think that “that’s not impossible to think that there is a 11th dimension being that has some agenda that we cannot understand.”

I imagine it’s like a child trying to understand something beyond their comprehension but it doesn’t change how true it is, like “brush your teeth because it lowers your risk of gums bleeding and leaking bacteria into your bloodstream and eventually causing vegetative infective endocarditis.” They’re just not going to understand that yet, but still reap the benefits later if they brush their teeth. I think it’s much easier and safer for the kid to say, “I’m just not going to brush my teeth.”

Bottom line is, I think that’s why it’s called faith, because it’s just not definitively provable or disprovable. I have personally had many tangible positive benefits in my life from having a faith but don’t think that should be forced upon anyone.

And I know many people in western cultures equate religion to Christianity, but just a quick reminder that there are many many faith systems that exist in the world.