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  • The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC

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  • Whatever the views are about MBFC, Tesseract integrated it better than LW's bot. If you don't like MBFC, it's just an option in your user settings to turn it off for Tesseract, whereas the bot caused a bunch of problems that weren't even related to concerns about accuracy and bias. Drive-by bots can be annoying, because it leads people to believe there's legit content where there isn't, and not every client respected LW's bot use of spoiler Markdown, so they ended up with a massive comment from it that dominated the screen.

  • Severance - Intro Title Sequence / Credits / Opening 4K ( Apple TV+) Official.(1:26)

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  • For Season 1. (Season 2 has different credits.)

  • What's your favourite non-Lemmy community (Magazine/Group etc.)?

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  • [Weekly thread] Which communities have you discovered lately?

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  • It's okay. I got brave and looked at my bank account, and things aren't as bad as I was imagining. I'll buy one tomorrow.

  • Five Confusing Fediverse Things

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  • As things are atm, Lemmy users will likely also need to also fetch this video by pasting the URL into search (there's no backfilling, and channels still don't seem to automatically update - e.g. see https://lemmy.ml/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com?dataType=Post&sort=New).

    If Lemmy / PeerTube inter-op was better, there'd be less need for Lemmy users to be doing what they're currently doing with posting them separately. (It's good that more people will see this video, but it effectively leeches votes and comments away from the original creator).

  • Infuriating update to the broken lift plea. Signatures were added two days ago. And now someone has added a note.

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  • Fasting (for Ramadan)

    Not sure about "slow poisoning"

  • Fights about Lemmy.world policy changes explained

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  • The first link in the cross-post chain is to https://piefed.social/post/413111, which is for the channel, and shows that it was made 4 weeks ago, and includes a comment from the main LW admin.

    Your suspicions about this video seem off, but if you want to keep them, they should be directed at person who posted this old video into Lemmy, not the video's author. As well as a PeerTube instance, Jeena has a PieFed instance, and it seems reasonable enough for him to use his own channel to discuss things that have affected him and are relevant at the time.

    What's even weirder is that this video was already posted to !videos@lemmy.world by Jeena a month ago, and OP commented on it then. It doesn't get picked up as a cross-post (by either Lemmy or PieFed) because PeerTube has 2 different formats for its URLs (a recent change to PieFed means they get they will do from now on, but it doesn't apply to old posts).

  • Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

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  • I think they still need a separate user account. For one thing, a PeerTube channel is 'attributedTo' the user account, in the same way that Lemmy communities are 'attributedTo' the moderators. A Group belongs to at least one Person, it can't belong to itself. Another is that it allows for creators to comment on videos, and either be recognised as the 'OP', or as a fellow content creator.

    In terms of rendering things like Likes and Dislikes, it has the info in the backend, so it may as well. They don't Announce votes like Lemmy does, you have to activitely fetch them, so the channel as it exists on PeerTube provides a definitive source. Likewise, there's all sorts of reasons why comments get out of sync, so the channel provides an authoritative place where you should be able to see them all.

    There is a friction though. I like the idea of a place that only open to people willing to create content, and isn't interested in signups from 'lurkers', but providing a mobile app doesn't seem compatible with that.

  • Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

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  • they seem to only give accounts to creators

    That doesn't seem unreasonable to me. I'll get in trouble for saying it, but I think that PeerTube is for video channels what Lemmy should be for communities. It should be that if you want to start or moderate a community, then you sign up to Lemmy, but if you just want to interact with one, you use a user account provided by software that's fully geared up around users (e.g. Mastodon).

    Ignoring for the moment that Lemmy's federation model hasn't been widely adopted, and that comments from Mastodon that appear in Lemmy often have annoying Hashtag / Mention spam, my fantasy version of a post in a Lemmy community would look something like https://tilvids.com/w/wjTD7fp9qy4KmTkBdSoWyc, which was created by a PeerTube user, but has been commented on and voted for by users from Mastodon, Sharkey, PieFed, other PeerTube instances, and MBIN.

    Amongst those subscribers, commenters, and voters should be Lemmy users, of course. In this thread, it feels like PeerTube is being criticised by people who want to use it in a way that it's not designed for, because they can't interact with it from their Lemmy account. If inter-op was better, there'd be no need to create a new account anywhere, and it would have a network effect - the channels that people are trying to discover would already have been brought in by other users, and findable through a conventional Lemmy search. Also, the votes and comments from Lemmy users that are currently going to whoever takes a PeerTube video and posts it in the likes of !videos@lemmy.world, would instead be going to original creator. This would also aid discovery (since people would be more likely to see the channel in 'all'), and might have also some incentivising influence on the creator.

    Basically, I blame Lemmy.

  • Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

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  • That view of The Linux Experiment is quite similar to the view from lemmy.ml, with the latest post also being from 9 months ago. I wonder if your PeerTube instance and Lemmy 0.19.x have the same problem, where "something changed" at PeerTube, and new videos stopped appearing at federated sites that didn't change to accommodate the update. Are you running an old PeerTube version?

  • LemmyLink - A Reddit to Lemmy Bridge Bot

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  • alien.top got people's ire because it created a different bot account for every Reddit user, but this one just looks like it posts everything as 'LemmyLinkBot', with the Reddit user as the first line a post / comment.

  • Removed

    This was not a Netflix trailer or an ad. This was a masterclass.

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  • It's certainly visually impressive.

    It might be serving a dual purpose though - it's a more dynamic experience for the viewer, than just a list of the upcoming shows, but it's also a technique that allows them to repeatedly lean on the mega-hits (Stranger Things & Squid Game), while yadda-yadda'ing the rest of the content (consisting largely of stuff purchased from broadcasters, mid films, and a graveyard of cancelled TV shows).

  • How does Piefed compare to Mbin

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  • Yeah, PieFed is more geared up for what ActivityPub terms 'Groups' (communities on Lemmy, magazines on Mbin, video channels on PeerTube, categories on NodeBB, certain type of blogs on WordPress, a.gup.pe groups, etc.).

    Whenever we see someone from a platform like Mastodon, it's because they've interacted with one of the above Group-types. There's already a bit of inter-op that you don't find on Lemmy - e.g. you can create a Poll for the people following you as a user, and they can vote on it - but there isn't the ability to follow them in return, like on Mbin. I believe improvements to things like this are on the 2025 Roadmap.

  • Relaunching PeerTube.wtf

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    Bot hates lemmy

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  • Let guess: Bot wants to use "it / its" pronouns. The same as 'DroneRights' did, who despite the similarly in name to 'DragonRider', and despite the fact that all these accounts are an obvious, boring, attack on trans rights, are all, like, totally different people.

  • Trending Communities for Monday 20th January 2025

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  • 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.

  • NodeBB has started federating, new communities you can follow

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  • If you fetch a community that your instance hasn't previously heard of, you can typically query the community's 'outbox' collection to get recent posts. So in Lemmy, you get 50 old posts, and then - once someone has subscribed - new posts start coming in.

    Different platforms have different formats for their outboxes - Lemmy uses Announce/Create/Page, a.gup.pe and PeerTube use Announce, with a URL that leads to a Note or Video, wordpress uses Create/Article. Because Lemmy already understands its own outbox format, it's able to get old posts from other Lemmy instances. It doesn't get old stuff for a.gup.pe, PeerTube, or wordpress though.

    So you might be wondering what outbox format nodebb uses - to which the answer is none. The outbox leads nowhere useful (they're in good company with MBIN on this). Anyway - this is why fetching a nodebb community won't come with any of its existing posts (but - as mentioned - new stuff will come in for subscribers)

  • Music @beehaw.org
    Andrew @piefed.social

    Loïc Nottet - Mr/Mme (Bruxelles)

  • Why does it seem like every TV series I've ever watched gets cancelled/rushed/incomplete ending, while movies (even those in a film series/trilogy) rarely face the same problem?

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  • Season 3 of a TV show comes with a significant wage increase for everyone involved, so 3 seasons (at least) is something that the sellers of a show always want, but the buyers are trying to avoid.

    On Netflix, it's become a pattern of all shows only getting 1 or 2 seasons, unless they're mega-hits, or dirt-cheap to produce in the first place.

    How well a show wraps up after 2 seasons often depends on how much the writers want to do the streamer's job for them. Tokyo Vice was a (rare) example of a good, self-contained, 2-season show.

  • By the way, you can have Markdown in Lemmy post titles

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  • A comment here distinguishes between the 'plain text' that's allowed by the spec, and MarkDown as a markup language (it's confusingly named, I guess, but that's what Wikipedia categorises it as too)

  • Do I really need one account per service?

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  • Lemmy mostly federates with Lemmy, but everything else out there (PeerTube, PixelFed, etc) has been developed to work well with Mastodon (sometimes to the Fediverse's detriment), so your Mastodon account should be all you need.

  • Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. @slrpnk.net
    Andrew @piefed.social

    Hurricane Helene Isn’t an Outlier. It’s a Harbinger.

    www.motherjones.com /politics/2024/10/hurricane-helene-new-normal-future-destruction/
  • Videos @lemmy.world
    Andrew @piefed.social

    Every Frame a Painting: What would Billy Wilder do?

  • Interesting Shares @lemmy.zip
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    Article

    “Secondhand Is Feckin’ Grand”: How Clothing Swaps Took Off in Ireland

    www.motherjones.com /environment/2024/10/ireland-fast-fashion-mary-fleming-clothing-swaps-change-clothes/
  • Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. @slrpnk.net
    Andrew @piefed.social

    The shifting jet stream has magnified wildfires and plagues. What’s next?

    grist.org /science/jet-stream-study-climate-change-wildfires-plagues/
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    Andrew @piefed.social

    Busybox 1.37 is tiny but capable, the way we like Linux tools to be

    go.theregister.com /feed/www.theregister.com/2024/10/04/busybox_137/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Andrew @piefed.social

    Not just AI datacenters needing own power: Taiwanese server-maker Quanta has bought microgrids

    go.theregister.com /feed/www.theregister.com/2024/10/04/quanta_buys_microgrids/
  • United Kingdom @feddit.uk
    Andrew @piefed.social

    'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls'

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/ce3zxx1gek1o