Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]

Thumb-Key, hands down!

My recommendation is PeerTube.

I noticed this last night. Playing videos not from YouTube still works fine. This affects Piped as well.

This had happened previously a different time, which is why I tried reconstructing my music playlists with Soundcloud uploads until YouTube started working again.

The key just to the left of the # key, i.e. the A key in the default Thumb-Key layout, should have a ▲ for the upward swipe. That swipe is how you get into shift mode. Swipe up on that key again to enter caps-lock; swipe down on that key to release the shift/caps-lock.

That’s a bit mean, I think Lemmy is pretty good all things considered.

is there a point where I will be so comfortable as to not need to fear misspelling something without this crutch of autocorrect?

I can’t speak for how long it will take you specifically, but yeah, I absolutely think you can get to that point. I don’t really remember how long it took me to learn, but it couldn’t have been more than a few weeks, and I think I had some factors which were working to my advantage, anyways. Have you adjusted any of the settings?

• Thumb-Key — A flick keyboard for mobile phones; a FOSS alternative to MessagEase created by Lemmy’s own Dessalines. It’s not perfect, neither was MessagEase, but for what it is it’s pretty damn good and definitely beats using a mobile QWERTY keyboard.
• Ibis — A federated wiki created by Lemmy’s own Nutomic. It’s currently pretty barebones with little activity, but I’d like to see more interest in the project so that it can grow and improve. I think it has a lot of potential.