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akkana (@akkana@fosstodon.org)
Lately, when I try to watch a #video in the #mastodon web app, if I click on the Fullscreen/Maximize button at lower right, instead of going fullscreen it turns into a small window (smaller than the original embedded video) in the right sidebar, with an 'x' that deletes the little window but also stops the video. I can't find a way to get videos to size reasonably for my screen any more.
Is there any way to get mastodon-embedded videos to actually play full screen, like they used to?
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dleszcynski (@dleszcynski@hoosier.social)
I don’t check out the #local timeline as often as I should.
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item (@item@hub.netzgemeinde.eu)
@Ben Pate 🤘🏻 Well, I'm used to having not only full native data portability, but even live, hot, bidirectional, real-time updates of entire Fediverse identities that contain stuff which 99% of the Fediverse doesn't support. Natively without an external application. Available for longer than Mastodon itself. Between any number of independent servers. So I'm not easily impressed.
I would be kind of impressed if LOLA managed to move a Mastodon account into a brand-new, virgin Hubzilla channel
- automatically activating all necessary apps from PubCrawl to Privacy Groups to Superblock to NSFW if the Mastodon account has at least one hiding filter
- activating all features that are either hard-coded or switched on on the Mastodon source account, but off by default on new Hubzilla channels
- (optionally) setting the channel role to Custom and configuring it in such a way that Hubzilla behaves as closely to Mastodon as possible, permissions-wise
- translating all followers and followed into Hubzilla's system of Facebook-style mutual-by-default contacts
- reconnecting all followers and followed on their end
- translating each Mastodon list into a Hubzilla privacy group, all members included while keeping the default "Friends" privacy group and adding all contacts to it
- converting followed hashtags into FediBuzz contacts (Hubzilla cannot follow hashtags, but we want the Hubzilla destination channel to be as close to the Mastodon source account as possible)
- translating not only the entire timeline of the Mastodon source account into a Hubzilla stream, but also importing entire threads behind and around each post in the timeline (this is absolutely necessary for the Mastodon user to keep their replies to other people's posts because a Hubzilla comment cannot exist without the start post and the entire branch of the conversation that led to it; also, it's a Hubzilla killer feature over Mastodon that you always see entire conversations instead of single-message piecemeal)
- transferring all posts, replies and DMs with all media in them
- converting Mastodon's loosely-tied threads, no matter who has started them, into Hubzilla-style enclosed conversations as per FEP-171b Conversation Containers with unified permissions for all messages within a conversation
- translating mentions and links into Hubzilla-specific markup
- translating faves into thumbs up
- translating Mastodon 4.6-style quotes into Hubzilla-style shares, automatically recognising which Hubzilla version the destination channel is running on and deciding which Hubzilla share format to use
- translating CWs in comments into
[summary][/summary]tags (this would require Hubzilla to actually fully support summaries in comments which it currently doesn't because that doesn't make sense from a Facebook/blogging POV) - translating Mastodon's post visibility settings into Hubzilla's permission system as far as that's possible (only for start posts, that is, because comments always inherit their permissions from the start post; also, this will have to be done after taking care of all contacts because "followers only" Mastodon toots will have to be converted into non-public posts which grant permission to see them only to the "Friends" privacy group, and likewise, DMs will have to have the contact(s) to whom they were originally sent assigned as those who are permitted to see them)
- importing all images, videos and other attached files into the Hubzilla channel's file space, including appropriate permission settings and, ideally, sorting them into Hubzilla-style "year-month" folders
- converting all media attachments into embedded links to the locations of the respective media files in the file space, including adding alt-texts to the embedding code
- importing the block list on the Mastodon source account into Superblock (that is, Hubzilla cannot block entire servers, but maybe this could automatically be translated into filter lines)
- converting blocking filters into channel-wide filter lines, converting bare keywords into regular expressions if the whole word option is set for these keywords on Mastodon
- adding the keywords of hiding filters to NSFW, converting bare keywords into regular expressions if the whole word option is set for these keywords on Mastodon
- translating the selected languages on the Mastodon source account into channel-wide filters on Hubzilla (even though this probably won't work exactly identical because Hubzilla neither sets nor knows per-message language settings)
- recognising the contents of Mastodon's free-text profile fields and moving them into the appropriate ones of Hubzilla's several dozen purpose-bound profile fields
- populating Hubzilla's keyword field with all hashtags found in the profile text of the Mastodon source account
- setting your channel language according to the language that most of your posts are in
- bonus points for entering Mastodon's colours into the Redbasic colour settings and changing the PDL layout settings so that the look of the Hubzilla destination channel is closer to that of the Mastodon source account than by default
Even that wouldn't give you a 100% identical copy of your Mastodon account. Hubzilla doesn't support quote-post control; the only way to make your posts non-quote-postable is by making them non-public (something that Mastodon can only understand as a DM), and you have no control whatsoever over the permissions of your comments on other people's posts anyway. Also, as I've already mentioned, Hubzilla currently doesn't support summaries (= Mastodon CWs) in comments.
However, vice versa, it'd be even harder to shoehorn Hubzilla's wealth of features into a new Mastodon account.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #Hubzilla #NomadicIdentity #LOLA
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markmetz (@markmetz@sfba.social)
Eugen Rochko:
“The most basic answer to the question is that there needs to be more knowledge about what the Fediverse gives you, and that requires more knowledge about what the other platforms take away from you. I think there are promising developments on this front because more and more people care about digital sovereignty. People no longer want to rely on US tech companies, especially if they live in Europe, Asia, or anywhere else on Earth. And what Mastodon and the fediverse offer is a social media platform in your country, local to you, not subject to whatever is happening in the US or to any third-party developers of the software. And I think as more people and organizations realize this, the easier it becomes to convince others to join and use Mastodon on a personal and organizational level.”
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markmetz (@markmetz@sfba.social)
Amen
“Mastodon is my social network now. I don’t use anything else because I don’t want an algorithm showing me what it thinks I should see, rather than what I want to see. I follow people for a reason. I turn on notifications for people for a reason. I prefer to experience social media that way, rather than every time I come here, it’s just like, “Oh my god, it’s always the same people and the same topics,” which is a bubble, and I don’t want to be part of it. There are other things, too, like the lack of advertising, which is fantastic.”
#Mastodon
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markmetz (@markmetz@sfba.social)
I agree with this 100%
“I can honestly say I love using Mastodon. I follow interesting people, my mental health is much better without X and Meta (Facebook, Instagram, etc.), and the absence of performative posts is refreshing. I follow and engage with whom I want, easily block bots, spammers, and annoying people, don’t care about my follower count, and enjoy an algorithm-free feed without ads or people posting things for disingenuous reasons.”
#Mastodon
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markmetz (@markmetz@sfba.social)
Excellent insight into the state of #Mastodon right here. Some great talking points to bring people on board.
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bipbop (@bipbop@mstdn.forfun.su)
📝 Daily report 📈
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#cybersecurity, #smarthome, #mastodon, #devops, #foss
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JazzyKindaFella (@JazzyKindaFella@zirk.us)
❤️New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
https://x.com/taliaotg/status/1994808344494969103
#NewYork #ice #immigration
#resistance #unitedstates #politics
#geopolitics #america @socialmedia
#migration #nokings #democracy #antifa #antifascism #trump #maga #ice #usa #police #authoritarianism #policebrutality #mastodon #protest #racism #chicago @socialmedia @democracy @povertyandinequality @law @BLKNewsNow #migrants #labor #labour @UnicornRiot
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jbc (@jbc@mathstodon.xyz)
@jaredwhite I think this is very interesting what you're saying, and it reminds me of this, I wonder if you've came across it:
https://dynamicland.org/2024/Is_Realtalk_open_source/
The whole set of ideas behind #dynamicland, and somewhat seperately to that the the ideas around #permacomputing (#collapseos / #uxn / #malleablesystems / probably lots of other things in that general area...).
I think the #FreeSoftware movement and many derivative (but no less important) movements have been and continue to be essential - what would the computing world look like if it weren't for all the people who've been rallying around those ideas and contributing their time and efforts since the 80s. Would things like #Mastodon exist at all? Would #Wikipedia have happened?
Still, especially the thinking behind #dynamicland and the work of @bret pushed me to look at this more broadly - imagine everything was #FOSS, no proprietary software anywhere. How free would we be, if the means of communication was still centralised in the hands of corporations who can censor and revoke access at any time? Would we have won something, if in people's actual lived experience in their communities we were still all sat at home, disconnected from each other, pawing at different-shaped glass screens?
That's one thing I got from learning about dynamicland, anyway. Maybe the "personal" computer was the mistake. I think it actually goes much further than the web, too - it's such an amazing and revealing question to ask: can we have all the power of computing *and* actually bring communities physically together?
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hollifra (@hollifra@todon.eu)
Tolles Programm und super Präsenz von @inforadio auf #Mastodon #2911 #gießen #gießen2911 #wiedersetzen
@inforadio https://freie-radios.org/@inforadio/115631487479767097
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