No matter what I do, it’s like Gboard is specifically avoiding it. It’ll instantly learn any bullshit word I make up like “aprifnid” but can’t type “Lemmy”. I suspect shenanigans.

      • Mango@lemmy.worldOP
        211·
        11 months ago

        Riot games changed groovy Zilean to look like a cranked out meth head specifically because the CCP wanted drug culture to look bad. A major social media player making it slightly more difficult for their competition to be typed is not outlandish. It means Lemmy is less visible.

        • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          I think what they’re saying is that it’s POSSIBLE, but it’s not that likely that real energy was spent on making this change because Lemmy isn’t that big of a deal yet.

          I’d say it’s more likely that Lemmy a term that isn’t commonly used, while also being similar to other words. So more people are trying to type out “lemme” or “Lenny” than “Lemmy”. Same reason why certain names are often misspelled on mobile

          I can’t really test it myself because I don’t really use swipe typing

          • Mango@lemmy.worldOP
            12·
            11 months ago

            Aprifnid isn’t a common word either. I literally made it up.

            I don’t think it’s likely that Google is trying to silence this term, but I am saying that I wouldn’t underestimate the petty lengths large organizations go to for their desired effects.

            Turns out that we can actually finagle the keyboard to say Lemmy if we’re crafty about it.

            • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
              4·
              11 months ago

              Yea overall agreed

              My guess for why Aprifnid worked better was because it’s not similar to other words, maybe

        • PatMustard@feddit.ukEnglish
          41·
          11 months ago

          A major social media player… which Google isn’t. If you look up “Lemmy” I think you’ll find plenty more information about Lemmy Kilminster than a comparatively tiny news aggregator that Google almost certainly couldn’t give a shit about. Even if they did there’s a colossal difference between a government ordering a change and corpo management trying an elaborate psy-op.

          It’s good to question closed software and ask what it might be able to do, but this is full-on conspiracy theory stuff.

    • ani@endlesstalk.org
      18·
      11 months ago

      Are you that naive? Why are you defending Google anyway? Google most definitely has a backdoor filter to block FOSS and communist apps like Lemmy and fediverse in general. I also tested Gboard and I can’t gesture type Lemmy. This is proof Google is doing some shenanigans. And I challenge you to try it yourself, stop shilling Google dude!

  • fitjazz@lemmyf.uk
    6·
    11 months ago

    Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent lent Levi’s left Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent Lenny Kenny Kent Lenny

    Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy

    Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent

    Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy

    Lemmy lemmy lemmy. Lemmy. Kenny Kent lent

    lemmy lemmy lemmy.

    Lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy

    Lines in italics were typed, lines not in italics were swiped, bold was swiped then selected from the suggested word list. It took a little bit but I managed to train it to do it.

  • bert_macklin_fbi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    My first try yielded “Kelly” but was about to get “Lemmy” on my second try. I recommend trying to touch the space to the right of the “L”.

  • CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Just to confirm you’re not crazy, I tried the standard method of adding a word by manually typing ‘lemmy’ and then tapping the same word on the suggestion bar, which didn’t work.

    Tested adding other nonsense words like treypses which worked as expected for swyping, but to get Lemmy to work I had to add Lemmy in Gboard’s personal dictionary