Andrew

As Admiral Pat mentions, embeds are easy enough. I don’t know how Tesseract does it, but a low-tech solution is to just replace ‘watch’ in the URL with ‘embed’ and stick it in a iframe. From Lemmy’s GitHub, it looks like there’s been work on this, but I’m not familiar enough with it to know whether it’s for future versions that haven’t been released yet.

New videos used to come in to Lemmy as expected. There’s been some regression that stopped it. It’s possible to bring them in manually though (by searching for the URL), and - like with embeds - it’s possible that it’s been fixed but not yet released.

PT’s videos channels are ActivityPub Group types like Lemmy’s communities, but it doesn’t handle federation the same way. It does it in a way that’s more compatible with Mastodon. Lemmy’s communities Announce everything they receive (posts, comments, votes, etc) and so if you receive that Announce, then as long as you trust the community, you can trust that the contents haven’t been changed and process it. PT’s video channels only Announce new posts (so on Mastodon, it appears as if the channel has Boosted content by the channel owner), but for everything else, it’s a combination of sending out a ‘post update’ (which is essentially an invitation to query the outboxes it provides for votes and comments), and just flinging out the comment as is, without the HTTP signature. If you get that comment, then you can either use the LD signature that Mastodon includes to verify, or you can look at the ID, and fetch it from it’s source. As such, Lemmy’s federation model is mostly Push-based, whereas PeerTube’s is a bit of Push, and a lot more Pull.

It depends on what youtube is willing to provide. It seems more likely to provide a thumbnail if you use a youtu.be link than a youtube.com link.

Instances running Lemmy from 0.19.4 onwards (I think) provide the option of providing a separate thumbnail manually, which is useful, but your instance is on 0.19.3.

Yeah. ActivityPub has a type called ‘Announce’ that’s used to make your followers aware of activity by another account. Mastodon uses it only for ‘boosting’ another user’s content, but Lemmy’s communities use it for everything (‘Andrew has posted this comment’, 'Andrew has Liked this post’s, etc). Most of Lemmy’s activities are ignored by Mastodon, but the Announce of a post or a comment is interpreted as a Boost.

It sort of works as a way to follow a community on Mastodon, but the individual boosting of all comments makes it annoying. I doubt anyone has set up a different account - you should be able to see the details of which actor is doing by clicking on it or hovering your mouse over it.

Anyway, speaking of jokes, have you heard how many MBIN users it takes to screw in a lightbulb?
Answer: 10. 1 to screw in the bulb, and 9 to tell you how great the software is. (I’m just kidding - there aren’t 10 MBIN users, it just seems like there are because it evidently comes with a massive crowbar used to derail every thread to bollock on about it).

Brian Cox is too canny to be taken in by this kind of show, so you may as well throw a dick joke in there.

It’s doesn’t seem like feddit.online is aware of the other community (forumlibre@jlai.lu), so it doesn’t have a copy of both posts, so it doesn’t know that they are cross-posts.

If you bring that community into feddit.online, then create a post with the same URL as a recent post (e.g. https://files.catbox.moe/pebvir.jpeg), then they’ll show up.

The picture (or whatever external resource a post is pointing to, like https://bbc.com/news/article.html)

The post you mentioned (‘melting is tough’) isn’t picked up as a cross-post on PieFed instances because the dates are too far apart. A restriction that Rimu wanted was that they should only be detected if they were within 7 days of one another.

However, if you take that URL (https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/91f96cc8-a194-4cb8-abc6-505261e65420.jpeg), and make a new post with it, then the post you mentioned now shows that it has a cross-post.

A cross-post is just a post that links to the same URL as another post. The codeberg Issue that Blaze linked to mentions an exception, but other than that, there’s not a convenient button that copy-pastes a post’s title, body, and URL into a new ‘Create Post’ form. You can do it manually though, and everything that receives it will detect it as a cross-post, because everything is just looking for matching URLs.

Photon came up in this discussion amongst the Lemmy developers.

Maybe it was Neon Modem Overdrive, or this TUI app.

But, yeah - shell browsers like the ones you mentioned don’t support JavaScript, so won’t work with Lemmy (as it currently is - it might be different when they start using the leptos-based UI). There’s places where they’re not great with PieFed either (e.g. link2 -g can’t deal with WEBP images), but it’s completely theme-able, so a theme could easily be added by someone suitably invested to overwrite the existing HTML and provide a better experience.

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.

Yeah - I was disagreeing with the OP. I quoted BB because later on they said “I’ve not even HINTED at banning you [from the community]”

If you continue to report opinions and simple disagreements as misinformation, we will take action against your account for report abuse, same as we would any account.

It doesn’t seem unreasonable to me to interpret that as a threat to ban the account.

I haven’t seen it, and I’ve no BTS info, but I imagine it was like Star Wars Acolyte: it cost so much and ended up looking shoddy for the same reason - it’s had the living shit reshot out of it. For reshoots, they use smaller stages and everyone involved has had less time to prepare, and it creates continuity problems when it’s stitched back in with the original photography.

Typically, Disney knows when something isn’t working, and their first strategy is to order rewrites and reshoots, and when that doesn’t work (as is often the case), their second strategy is to seed the idea that it’s ‘woke’, and use the predictable nerdrage from the usual grifters as cover for any legitimate criticism.

(I’m not being entirely serious with the suggestion that Disney seeds the ‘woke’ idea, but it’s certainly so useful for them it’d almost be more crazy for them not to)