I’m hearing murmurs of YouTube blocking browsers that support ad blockers.
You know where you don’t have to worry about such things? Host your videos on a #PeerTube instance and use #Owncast for your live video streaming needs.
@stardust I'm not sure how captions would work on livestreaming, but Owncast has a Twitch-style text chat window at the side which the livestreamers can type or paste text into?
Wouldn't the people uploading videos to youtube get money from ads running on their videos, so they'd be in favor of preventing ads from being blocked?
@chewyadupp From what I hear, the amount video makers get from ads on YT is very small nowadays? That's why so many of them have a sponsor featured in the video itself.
@tio made a 5 hour documentary (divided into 4 parts) that he'll upload to his #Peertube instance. He made it all by himself and only using FOSS programs like #Kdenlive, #Inkscape, #Krita, etc. Here's the trailer for the documentary if you're interested - videos.trom.tf/w/uzsWV9z42KKG6…
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@tio made a 5 hour documentary (divided into 4 parts) that he'll upload to his #Peertube instance. He made it all by himself and only using FOSS programs like #Kdenlive, #Inkscape, #Krita, etc. Here's the trailer for the documentary if you're interested - videos.trom.tf/w/uzsWV9z42KKG6…
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires. Climate change? Who cares!
A one-marble world, floating in a giant soup of stars and planets, clustered in donut-shaped galaxies.
What are these humans living for?
In a 5 hour, 4 parts documentary, we try to explore their world, to understand what makes them human, what makes them enslave their kind, destroy their habitat, and be unaware of their place in this universe. But also what makes them so special.
Through the lives of 5 humans, we look at the culture that creates them, their struggles growing up on this planet, and where they are headed toward.
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I have extensive skills in Agile, SDLC, Jira, Confluence, Smoke and regression testing, Postman, documentation and more. I’m in the US (NY) and am looking for something remote / WFH.
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Got fired from working maintenance at Disney World because every time I found something that needed to be fixed I would yell out “What kind of a Mickey Mouse operation are they running around here?!?”
Alright #CalcKey junkies, I'm a Mastodon instance admin and I'm an engineering group lead at Automattic (think the company of WordPress' founder) who is leading the work to add Mastodon as a supported service for our Jetpack Social product.
That said, what's the sell to get me to spend more time here?
it could be a few different things. What we've added/adding for Mastodon is a "Share to Mastodon" button ( see an example at kraft.blog/2023/02/joining-the… ) and we're adding support for our auto-post function where when you publish a blog post, an excerpt, some media, and a link is published on your socials.
For Twitter, we also had things like tweetswarming where we'd suck in a thread and import it into a new post for those who did huge Twitter threads and realized it should be on their site. Also, had the reverse. Write a post and have it auto-posted as a Twitter thread with sensible breakpoints.
Those latter two were really because of the char count limits of Twitter which I don't think would apply to the Fediverse platforms I've checked out so far.
He's working now on integrating it for all WordPress.com sites and making it a better experience.
Right now, it isn't feature-complete enough for me, personally, to say it's ready for folks who aren't early adopters and okay with rough edges.
The sharing and auto-posting is a bit easier to do since there is the existing model of doing it on legacy social media platforms.
On the Tumblr side of the company, same thing. Want to get it to be ActivityPub-compliant. I don't work over there but I imagine that's a pretty big effort and I don't know where it stands off hand.
Long answer but yes. Having a site published using the ActivityPub protocol is on the horizon.
heh, yeah. Mastodon, at least, had a common share intent URL (e.g. instance.tld/share?title=blah or whatever it was) so we went with Mastodon instead of generic. If all Fediverse had the same URL scheme for share intent, it would have been a no brainer for a generalized button!
could we make this work somehow? And get @dansup@mastodon.social from Pixelfed on board, and Akkoma and Misskey and whoever else makes software for this magic place?
@kainoa@kraft@dansup@mastodon.social So, already a significant part of the fediverse (outside mastodon) supports this! On second thought, I'm not sure if a Share button for articles applies to Pixelfed, since it's a photo sharing platform. But if this is supported by a few more other major platforms, like Lemmy and Akkoma, then this would mean any "Mastodon share" button would practically work as a "Fediverse share" button! This is something we need to standardize. I wonder if @evan@cosocial.ca has any thoughts on this, if there is a way to achieve a standard on that front. I found this project github.com/Uden-AI/fediverse-s… but I think that it would be better if we could somehow have an official (or unofficial, but widely used) universal way of doing it, so that other sites could add Fedi share buttons easily.
That said, I think the most practical option for Automattic would be to ask for your Mastodon API server, let you log in, and then save your key for future likes/shares/whatevs.
Impacted plugin Jetpack What The Mastodon sharing button works well with Mastodon, but could be extended to support more Fediverse platforms How This is something we had discussed when we first int...
@kainoa Could you expand on that? I'm not sure I understand where the API would fit in here, so I'm guessing I'm missing something obvious :)
To me, API means that the visitor aiming to share the post would have to authenticate to their ActivityPub instance to be able to push an update there, but I do not imagine folks would be interested in entering private credentials on sites that are not theirs just to share a post.
Or do you think we should provide the service that would cover all of that? You'd click on the share button, a modal for a service hosted on WordPress.com would open, and there you'd authenticate, then modify / customize the message you want to post, and hit send?
@kainoa That's definitely something worthy of discussion!
As far as I know there is no FEP for this yet, but we have been discussing introducing a standard for a set of ActivityPub protocol handlers in this issue (the first issue in the fediverse/fediverse-ideas repo!).
Instead of Web Intents, we were discussing custom Web-based protocol handlers, that would be useful for all kinds of ActivityPub actions:
Share, like with a "Share to Fediverse" button.
Like
Follow: this would greatly improve the user experience when following new folks.
## Idea
We all are familiar with protocol handlers, e.g.
```html
Email
```
The idea here is to use [Web-based protocol handlers](https://developer.mozilla.
Thank you all so much for your input! With new fedi platforms emerging or gaining traction, the sooner we find a way to standardize things like that, the better it will be for the success and wider adoption of the #Fediverse.
@kainoa I love this idea most (besides the WebIntents) because it is not only independent from Mastodon, but also from the fediverse and a generic solution that sadly never established.
@kainoa these are very specific to ActivityPub and the fediverse, I would suggest to be way more general with web+share: or web+follow: or web+subscribe: to not be compatible with any kind of service/website/cms/blog/… as @paul suggested in his blogpost
The Social Web Incubator Community Group (also known as SocialCG, or SWICG) is the successor of the Social Web Working Group, which ran from 2014 to 2017.
## Idea
We all are familiar with protocol handlers, e.g.
```html
Email
```
The idea here is to use [Web-based protocol handlers](https://developer.mozilla.
it is a tragedy that we are discussing the same problems over and over again. I just had a look at my blog and realized that I started writing about WebIntents and Custom Protocol Handlers over 10 years ago notiz.blog/?s=web+intents (I maybe should install a multi language plugin and translate all of this). In most of the cases it ends with someone "having a better idea" and years later we start over again ;)
a weblog mainly about the open, portable, interoperable, small, social, synaptic, semantic, structured, distributed, (re-)decentralized, independent, microformatted and federated social web
When will people realize he does this shit primarily to stay in the news cycle? When will they stop reacting to these pronouncements like Pavlov's Dog? #ElonMusk #MuskIsADick #BillionairesShouldNotExist
Hands in chains for a fist full of dollars Who do we blame for the holes in our knowledge? The past you know has been written by the victor So I ask you now, who is it writing your future? The butcher, the liar, the thief or the killer? Your freedom died quiet in the halls of power Starved for peace, we'll eat war until it kills us Six feet deep with a belly full of bullets
Blender Tip: When clicking and dragging on input boxes in Blender, many of them have hard limits, but most can be bypassed by typing in the box instead. These limits are around to help prevent accidentally grinding your computer to a halt, but don't let that stop you. If you need 10 levels of subdivision, go ahead, click on the box and tell that modifier who's boss. #Blender3D #B3D
Technically, they're called soft limits. The hard limits are the ones you can't go beyond even by typing in the field. Soft limits are not always there to prevent long computations but often to prevent most users from using physically inaccurate values (e.g. a diffuse shader with RGB values > 1 or < 0), but still give artistic control to those who want to break the laws of physics.
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I've never felt more positive about Ed Sheeran. He definitely gets copyright right.
"Copyright was designed to benefit the middlemen and gatekeepers, such as the record labels, over the artists themselves. That’s why the labels have a long history of never paying artists. ... modern copyright is stifling rather than incentivizing music creation — directly in contrast to what we’re told it’s supposed to be doing"
To hear the recording industry tell the story, copyright is the only thing protecting musicians from poverty and despair. Of course, that’s always been a myth. Copyright was designed to benefit the…
The sponsors of the EARN IT Act and the STOP CSAM Act have made it clear they want to surveil user messages. We can still stop these bills, if there’s enough public pushback. The Senate is listening. eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/dang…
Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted, for a third time, to advance the dangerous EARN IT bill (S. 1207)—a law that could lead to suspicionless scans of every online message, photo, and hosted file.
We all have the right to have private conversations. They’re vital for free and informed self-government. When we want to have private conversations online, encryption makes it possible. Yet Congress is debating, for a third time, the EARN IT Act (S.
The US makes clear that it's fine with End to End encryption, as long as it can listen in on at least one of those ends.
Next time you think "end to end encryption" at least think about who's controlling those ends. You're not controlling one of them, and soon you may not control the other either. So you're doing E2E encryption... but to what end?
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Did you know that the hardware database #hNode has detailed instructions on how to identify the hardware in your computer? Use the commands to see what's in your computer and whether or not it is compatible with #freesoftwareu.fsf.org/3uiu.fsf.org/3uh
I just announced legislation to limit use of guns by security guards. We must amend local law to prohibit guards from drawing weapons just to protect property. Human life is more important than property.
I will probably get slammed for this but a remote storage is just a remote storage. The main difference is that GitHub is repackaging your code and offering it as their product.
I don't care if BlueSky gains popularity over Mastodon. At this point, I don't wanna be on the dance floor with the cool kids, imma be in the side room with the five weirdos I like.
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"#Indigenous people are guaranteed exclusive use of natural resources on these lands, viewed by scientists as a bulwark against Amazon deforestation - a major challenge in the fight against climate change."
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday decreed six new Indigenous reserves, including a vast Amazon territory, after a freeze in such expansion under his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.
Jen
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PeerTube has captions, yes. For example this video has many languages captioned, click on the ⚙️ to access them:
fedi.video/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYKn…
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in reply to Chewy A Dupp • • •From what I hear, the amount video makers get from ads on YT is very small nowadays? That's why so many of them have a sponsor featured in the video itself.
Rokosun
in reply to Owncast • • •@tio made a 5 hour documentary (divided into 4 parts) that he'll upload to his #Peertube instance. He made it all by himself and only using FOSS programs like #Kdenlive, #Inkscape, #Krita, etc. Here's the trailer for the documentary if you're interested - videos.trom.tf/w/uzsWV9z42KKG6…
@tio made a 5 hour documentary (divided into 4 parts) that he'll upload to his #Peertube instance. He made it all by himself and only using FOSS programs like #Kdenlive, #Inkscape, #Krita, etc. Here's the trailer for the documentary if you're interested - videos.trom.tf/w/uzsWV9z42KKG6…
Tio
2023-05-10 14:50:31
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