Notices by Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social), page 4

@simsa04 Thank you! Yes, I noticed I could not follow you either. Yours was one of the first accounts I tried to follow. I hope this gets resolved soon. Sad to see GNUSocial getting left behind in the fediverse.

@mattl
Congratulations, doctor! :)

@simsa04 GNUSocial now supports ActivityPub. So the problem has been solved from the other end :) And that is why you and I can communicate like this, GS < > Mastodon.

Btw, I am launching my own single-user instance on Sunday. Will share details and stuff, so anyone can replicate it if they like.

@Gargron Thank you!

@simsa04 @fu I gave it a try from this side. But Mastodon fails to identify it as an account (or anything that I can subscribe to). This is a known situation with Mastodon.

Hello from Fedora 36!

Not only that, I have decided to be a good citizen and beta test the next release, and hopefully make sure that Sinhala Unicode input support will continue to work without any issues. \o/

I have become an involuntary distro hopper (a distro refugee?) because all the mainstream distros tend to break Unicode input support for my language with each release.

@simsa04 Unfortunately, #fedgroups don't work for those who don't use #GNUSocial @administrator

@simsa04 *Waves at !rain *

I am unable to cross the ActivityPub stream to join :(

@simsa04 It's been raining cats and dogs here. I'll be happy to send more of it your way :)

@simsa04 Hurrah! The Rain Appreciation Society welcomes this development! \o/

Considering the amount of time I spend each year, investigating into it and helping my friends and strangers with getting their first language going in a GNU/Linux system, I am starting to think that I can save time and energy by doing my own distro that has out-of-the-box Sinhala and Tamil input support. Then I can recommend that distro.

It's that time again! One of my friends has decided to use one of the latest GNU/Linux distros, obviously because people tend to like shiny new things. So she goes ahead and installs Ubuntu 22.04. It is the usual story. Like each and every mainstream distro, they have fixed things that are not broken. For the umpteenth time since 2005, we cannot find how to enable Sinhala Unicode input with the most widely-used keyboard layout. It's the same story with Fedora 36, Debian 11 etc.

@simsa04 oh noes @andyc

@andyc What is happening?