Some non-Lemmy Groups that are interesting or might get interesting:

PieFed: [email protected]
MBIN: [email protected]
PeerTube: [email protected]
WordPress: !dbzer0.com@dbzer0.com
NodeBB: [email protected]
a.gup.pe: [email protected]

How well they backfill and inter-op is very platform-dependent, obvs (your platform and the remote platform)

Sorry. That’s my bot. There’s comments in the latest post it made about why it died (the SD card on which it was running went read-only). If it’s not pissing it down, and the thought of it all doesn’t seem overwhelming, I’ll mooch into town and see if any cheapie shops are selling 'em.

I have a version of Thunder compiled for desktop, and it’s surprisingly easy to change the number of columns for Tablet Mode. There’s probably other places too, but the line I changed (from ‘2’ to ‘4’) is here

Screenshot:

Full-size image link: https://postimg.cc/hzsFj4rj

I realise you might not want to compile your own version, but it suggests that the developers could add ‘number of columns for tablet mode’ option relatively easily.

Whatever the tradition choices are (e.g. Birmingham, Hull, etc), I’d happily watch a TV show that was set there. But I had to stop watching a show called ‘Criminal Record’ because of the god-awful accent Cush Jumbo is doing in that. So my vote is for whatever that grating ‘Lahndun’ accent is.

It normally publishes about midday (UK time), but if the crawler fails for that edition, it picks up the next one at roughly 6 p.m., and then it gets into the habit of publishing then every day until I remember to set it back to midday.

Anyway, it looks like it’s just missed today’s 6 p.m. edition, but it might get the next one due around about now.

naked mole rat as their fursona

Would probably lead to your application getting rejected. I’ve just looked, and they’re also known as ‘sand puppies’, so it’d be better go with that.

Not real, no.

More abuse of this post for testing PieFed user mentions (sorry if you seeing this)

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It’s interesting that ‘less’ and ‘more’ have both been mentioned - when I was first starting with Linux, the fact ‘less’ is the newer, more advanced version of ‘more’ is the kind of jokey stuff that I couldn’t get my head around.

Anyway, depending on the output, another useful option can be piping it to ‘column’. There was a fun video about this the other day at https://piefed.social/post/401865 (the video itself is hosted by PeerTube).

Heretic (the one with Hugh Grant in it). I’m not sure any of it stands up to much scrutiny after watching, but it’s an enjoyable watch when it’s happening.
I’m halfway through Black Doves. It’s recognisably a Joe Barton affair (the last thing I saw of his was The Lazarus Project, and BD has the same character archetypes, and the same strangely old cars).
The latest episode of Silo. Continues to be slow-paced, and stupid at times. Like the book, it feels like Young Adult stuff masquerading as something mainstream, but I’ve said that in the past, and been strongly disagreed with.

If an admin bans a local user, they’re banned once, but if they ban a remote user, the way Lemmy currently handles it is to ban them from every community they’ve subscribed to. There’s an Issue about it because it’s a hacky and incomplete solution. As such, the ‘banned 20 times’ thing isn’t something that people should read too much into.

That link shows loads of apps I’ve never heard of, but visiting their repos suggests that they’re dead.

Since that site helpfully breaks down platforms by programming language, it might be best to target something familiar (or maybe something you want to learn).

This community is hosted by Lemmy (Rust), and most of the posts and replies will be made by people using that, but they’ll also be some by people using PieFed (python) or MBIN (PHP).

The 4K Blu-ray remux of Andor Season 1 is 230 GB. This new government might be shutting down the internet, but I doubt that they’re monsters, and so surely wouldn’t expect me to re-watch it in any lower quality. Fortunately, I’ve worked out that the Aldanhi arc and the last 2 episodes are 102 GB, so it should be manageable if some recaps are cut.

I assumed that was there because there are some sites (e.g. reuters.com) that make it difficult to automatically grab a thumbnail image to go with the article. So if you’re posting a link to somewhere like there, you’d find a relevant image manually, and use that field so the post you make will be more engaging.

I don’t think it’s for posts that are an image - in that case, the software can just use that to create a thumbnail, so it doesn’t need the extra help.

Is there a more modern alternative to embedding videos in plain HTML? It’s easy to use them for embeds from youtube and peertube, streamable, etc.

Ah, I see now, thanks. That makes more sense than my previous theory, that MBIN users were pathological liars or something. Also, now my previous comment makes me look like an idiot. Oh, well.

It’s interesting what MBIN does - making the user click a button gives it an extra chance to query the remote site, so it can render it correctly. That’s not the same as taking the markdown and rendering it as HTML, but the end result is nice.

Elsewhere (like on PieFed), Youtube embedding works well because the URL is in a nice dedicated field, so it’s easy to process, rather than parse through the text of a comment to find it. No idea what’s happening with Tesseract, but it’s just a front-end for Lemmy (albeit a sophisticated one), so my guess is that your link would fail, but since the comments aren’t there, it’s a bit moot.

I’d be surprised if that test worked on any platform in existence. You’re using the markdown to render a static image, and sticking a youtube URL in there. PieFed supports it if the URL ends in something like .mp4, but that’s only because Lemmy have fudged it, and so now people expect it. There’s meant to be a 1:1 relationship between markdown and HTML, metadata transformed into metadata - nothing should have to look at the actual contents to know what tags to produce.

As for ‘works for me embedded in mbin’ … eh? It looks like this in mbin:

That’s literally just a external link to youtube. It ‘works’ because it doesn’t - same as for the screenshot itself - instead of embedding it, it just coughs up the link to a remote site. Everything else is rendering it as it is - a broken link to an image that doesn’t exist.

(maybe ‘originallucifer’ has some fancy app that takes a youtube shorts URL, works out the embed code, and then puts it in an iframe … but like I say, I’d be surprised).

A fair bit of Mastodon content doesn’t fit well on Lemmy. One mundane technical reason is that their posts don’t always split up well into the post title / post body that Lemmy expects. A cultural reason is that Mastodon users have a much higher tolerance for other users promoting things like their patreon than Lemmy users do. Even if the posts split well, and is content that Lemmy would like, bringing in the replies to it opens up a spam vector.

Lemmy let’s you impersonate other users. I used to do that with https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected], but stopped because the above-mentioned reasons made it tricky to automate (and because I got bored with it)

I think you’re remembering wrong. The communities that have moved so far have been a manual affair: a post on the old community with a “We’ve moved” post, locking that community, and starting up brand new somewhere else. It’s a fresh start - nothing is migrated. It’s very likely to be technically impossible to move communities in the way you’re imagining.

Skirt + poncho = double skirt
Denim skirt + denim poncho = double denim double skirt.