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Why are all basic app settings tied to the Lemmy account/instance? (lemdro.id)

submitted 1 year ago by PurpleTentacle@lemdro.id to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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Why on earth are most, if not all (?), basic and general app settings tied to the Lemmy account@instance?

It really doesn't make sense to me that stuff like "base font size" and virtually all app usability and appearance settings are reset to their defaults every time I add or switch Lemmy accounts/instances.

Even if there are good arguments to be made that the app *should *look completely different for each account@instance and not share any settings between them (and I'm struggling to think of many), why would that be default behavior?

I'm pretty sure my app's font size and media handling didn't change every time when I switched accounts in Sync for Reddit.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Like I said, it may not meet your preferences

[–] PurpleTentacle@lemdro.id 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Like I said, this isn't about personal preference, this is about general preference.

You can't tell me that "people with different eyesight, and who inexplicably don't want to use Android user profiles, sharing a poop tablet" is a larger subset of users than those who just want (and reasonably expect) the damn font size to stay the same when they switch Lemmy accounts. Right now, the app exclusively caters to the first group and doesn't even give the second group an option.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't tell me

Neither can you tell the opposite without doing a serious research. Did you?

[–] PurpleTentacle@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

I'll start my extensive poop tablet research as soon as my grant has been funded.

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