Sailfish has Aliendalvik for android app support, it's proprietary. I've read good things about it: https://blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2023/12/20/a-dive-into-jolla-appsupport/
I know this, but a lot of people don't understand this difference. The point was comparing lemmy to email doesn't necessarily help regular folks, who has no idea how email work.
I don't like the email analogy, because people don't think about email like that, they are not really familiar with how email works. I like to summarize that differently: they only have to register on one instance and they can see every post in every other instances from that account, that's all. I read from people who thought they have to register on each instances separately, or they can login on a different instance with the same credentials. (Like you can login in the outlook app with your gmail and yahoo account, see the email analogy doesn't even true)
Don't recommend lemmy.ml to newcomers. Some instances already defederate from them, and they don't defederate lemmygrad and hexbear. Just pick any other general instance instead, lemmy.zip, sopuli, lemmy.ca etc is much better experience for new users.
This post also has some really good points for a general tips writeup like this: https://lemmy.zip/post/31641809
Nothing special, that's how urls with unicode, non ascii chatacters look like. It's called punycode, more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
Emoji domains work the same, e.g. ❤️🍺.ws is the same as http://xn--qei8618m.ws/
Did you used piefed's new migration feature? I don't know how that works, but federation of old posts is slow. Wait max 1-2 days and they should show up, you just started the commomutiy today. New posts should show up instantly. Ask about this on piefed_help
Different instances of the same software. Like all lemmy instances running the same software, all piefed instances run the same piefed software. But it's not important.
The technology lemmy and piefed runs on is very interesting and complex, I don't like to overwhelm users with the tech gibberish when I explain what is lemmy. The important thing: they don't have to register everywhere, only at one instance, and they can read everything from that account, even if it's ona different instance. For mobilapp use voyager for lemmy, intetstellar for piefed and mbin.
Later when they explored the fediverse they will find the tech writeups organically, you don't have to start with that.
I think just links for help communities where users can ask technical questions and find answers would be enough. You don't know what your followers use, they can read the piefed community from a lot of places, you can follow it from lemmy or mastodon, so it's possible that piefed related help would be irrelevant for most of them. These kind of technical writeups are common in "main" or "meta" communities, where you can assume your users are on the same instance as you, as the topic of the community is the instance.
For general piefed help there is !piefed_help@piefed.social
I found a better article about this story: https://thedesk.net/2025/06/kayla-mae-wikipedia-lawsuit-sinkule/
The woman, Kayla Mae — who also goes by the name Kayla Morgan — employed the same attorney and law firm in a discrimination case brought against a Texas-based company called Security Brands, where she alleged ongoing workplace abuse and harassment because of her sexual orientation.
In her first lawsuit, Mae said she worked as a senior software developer for Security Brands in 2020. From the moment she was hired, Mae says she was subjected to harassment because of her gender identity as a “lesbian female who presents as masculine.”
“She is sometimes perceived as transgender, although she is not,” the complaint read.
That is different from what Mae alleges in the case against Wikimedia Foundation, where her complaint identifies her as a “transgender female” who was subject to “gender stereotyping.”
It sounds like she is gaming the system deliberately. 2 times getting fired from 2 different companies for similar reason? Sounds fishy.
Mae says the Wikimedia Foundation ultimately sustained certain complaints made against Mbuguru. But, despite those policy violations, she was still required to work on his team, which led to additional harassment and discrimination that was the basis for further complaints.
Months into her employment, Mae was reportedly asked to speak with two Wikimedia Foundation human resource directors, Tatiana Tompkins and DeJa Hamilton, and a senior software engineering manager named Sai Suman Cherukwada. After speaking with Mae about her complaints, Cherukwada fired her over Zoom, the lawsuit alleges.
She was fired during she made the complaint? With the pot stirring comment and this background I'm mostly convinced she is a the problem here, she is looking for drama everywhere. These kind of individuals don't help the trans right movement, and lgbtqnation.com should do a better background check on people they report about.
What I tried to say, it might be just some curiosity at the beginning, from someone who heard anti-gay propaganda his whole life, not necessarily malice. Wikipedia should have handled the situation better.
After repeatedly being denied transfer to another team, Mae was asked to meet with managers so that Wikimedia could “learn more about your recent experiences.”
E.g. it's not clear why they didn't let her transfer to another group. After this it should have become clear that they can't work together, why it was better to fire her than to move her to a different group.
Mae was warned that one of her managers was “a ‘fixer’ who goes after employees that were seen as stirring the pot.”
So others noticed the she may be a problem as she seemed like stirring the pot.
The article is one sided, it would help if wikipedia would clarify what was going on, what they saw. Maybe we can learn more about this from the lawsuit, if it will be public.
Her direct supervisor was based in Kenya. [...] Among other things, her supervisor asked her inappropriate questions about her sexual identity and inquired about her medical history. In emails to HR, Mae characterized other behavior by the supervisor as “transphobic microaggressions” and “ableism”.
This sounds like it's a clash of cultures in part. I guess in Kenya you can rarely meet openly gay or trans folks as it's punishable with prison there.
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I've heard people saying they don't switch to Firefox from Chrome because they use Gmail and other google services. I've seen people who had multiple email apps on their phones for different email addresses, and they were shocked when I told them they could use a single one.
We live in a very tech related bubble here on lemmy, a lot of people just wants to get the job done, and don't care about how things work under the hood.