From his Mastodon, it looks like OP (Cory Doctorow if it’s not showing in whatever app you’re using) is doing talks in Serbia at the same event as Bruce Sterling, so it’s as likely that he wrote the ALT text for the image himself.

Just posting to nag you about this: can [email protected] be added as an exception to the automod?

Lemmy doesn’t seem to get much recognition in the wider Fediverse - it tends to get bundled as part of ‘other apps’. Mastodon is much bigger, so better integration with Lemmy probably gets deprioritised below their own issues and feature requests (e.g. I was reading today that Markdown support is often requested, but the base version still doesn’t have it)

I don’t think it’s technically impossible - all the information that another site needs to properly interpret some activity is in the JSON that’s sent. I get the sense that it might be unrealistic to expect Mastodon to make the necessary changes though. It seems more of a political issue than a technical one.

It’s partly an issue of keys. Every fediverse actor has a private key and a public key. When my instance sends this to [email protected], it’s signed by my private key, and lemmy.world uses my public key to verify it. When [email protected] sends this comment out, it uses it’s own private key to sign it. It can’t just re-transmit my comment, because it doesn’t have my private key. All it can do is Announce that I’ve made the comment (and sign the Announce).

Mastodon treats Announces as Boosts, so every post/comment is interpreted as a thing that [email protected] has boosted, so you get all these un-connected posts appearing. I think it’s mostly up to Mastodon to remedy.

It works better if a Mastodon actor posts into a Lemmy community, then you get the mix like you imagine. e.g.: https://mastodon.world/@Flash/112095241193510662 (this particular post was crowbarred into Lemmy via [email protected], but it would be the same if the author had done it.)

I might wait until lemmy 0.19.4 to post more, as I’ll be able to include ALT text in a tag with with picture, rather than dumping it into the post body as an ‘image description’. The problem with the current approach is that more people see it (and potentially respond to it with something snarky) than what was ever intended.

One of the reasons it’s inconsistent is that Lemmy tries to balance the media it serves locally vs. the media it lets remote hosts serve. Also it’s a bit naïve about image conversion. So if you link to an actual GIF at giphy.com (for example), it works consistently across the most the most platforms if Lemmy leaves it alone. If it doesn’t, it’ll bring it in and convert it to a WebM file, which not all clients know what to do with. Even if they do though, looping isn’t always on by default for video, so the effect of a GIF that relies on looping might be nullified.

It’s probably best to focus on the clients with the biggest user-base, rather than try to target them all. For lemmy.world/c/gifs, the most popular posts have been uploaded to imgur.com - which convert most GIFs to MP4s - and the post’s author has linked to the inline version at i.imgur.com.

print('single-line of code')

fenced-code-blocks on

(is confused by a [] after the three backticks)

if this
then
that
else
other_thing
endif

Code Block (no lang): [4 spaces and an escaped newline]

if this [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    
then [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    
that
else
the_other_thing [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    
endif

(no spaces before newlines for next block)

fenced-code-blocks off

Code Block (no lang): [4 spaces and an escaped newline]

if this [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    
then [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    
that
else
the_other_thing [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    
endif

(no spaces before newlines for next block)

fenced-code-blocks on

Code Block (no lang): [4 spaces and an escaped newline]

if this [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    
then [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    
that
else
the_other_thing [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    
endif

(no spaces before newlines for next block)

Single line of code: [4 spaces and an escaped newline]
return [4 spaces and an escaped newline]
New paragraph [2 escaped newlines]

Code Block (no lang): [4 spaces and an escaped newline]

if this [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    
then [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    
that
else
the_other_thing [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    
endif

(no spaces before newlines for next block)

Code Block (python):

if this is not None:
    that
else:
    other_thing

Assume follow worked

{
  "actor": "https://programming.dev/c/test",
  "to": [
    "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
  ],
  "object": {
    "id": "https://programming.dev/activities/create/5a782f4a-c892-4eeb-abca-05127db50929",
    "actor": "https://endlesstalk.org/u/freamon",
    "to": [
      "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
    ],
    "object": {
      "type": "Page",
      "id": "https://endlesstalk.org/post/27782033",
      "attributedTo": "https://endlesstalk.org/u/freamon",
      "to": [
        "https://programming.dev/c/test",
        "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
      ],
      "name": "Code Blocks",
      "cc": [],
      "content": "<p>Single line of code: [4 spaces and an escaped newline]<br />\n<code>return</code> [4 spaces and an escaped newline]<br />\nNew paragraph [2 escaped newlines]</p>\n<p>Code Block (no lang): [4 spaces and an escaped newline]</p>\n<pre style=\"background-color:#ffffff;\">\n<span style=\"color:#323232;\">if this [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    \n</span><span style=\"color:#323232;\">then [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    \n</span><span style=\"color:#323232;\">that\n</span><span style=\"color:#323232;\">else\n</span><span style=\"color:#323232;\">the_other_thing [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    \n</span><span style=\"color:#323232;\">endif\n</span></pre>\n<p>(no spaces before newlines for next block)</p>\n<p>Code Block (python):</p>\n<pre style=\"background-color:#ffffff;\">\n<span style=\"font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;\">if </span><span style=\"color:#323232;\">this </span><span style=\"font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;\">is not </span><span style=\"color:#0086b3;\">None</span><span style=\"color:#323232;\">:\n</span><span style=\"color:#323232;\">    that\n</span><span style=\"font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;\">else</span><span style=\"color:#323232;\">:\n</span><span style=\"color:#323232;\">    other_thing\n</span></pre>\n",
      "mediaType": "text/html",
      "source": {
        "content": "Single line of code: [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    \n`return` [4 spaces and an escaped newline]     \nNew paragraph [2 escaped newlines]\n\nCode Block (no lang): [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    \n```  [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    \nif this [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    \nthen [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    \nthat\nelse\nthe_other_thing [4 spaces and an escaped newline]    \nendif\n``` \n\n(no spaces before newlines for next block)\n\nCode Block (python):\n```Python\nif this is not None:\n    that\nelse:\n    other_thing\n```",
        "mediaType": "text/markdown"
      },
      "attachment": [],
      "commentsEnabled": true,
      "sensitive": false,
      "published": "2024-03-17T07:49:13.596948Z",
      "language": {
        "identifier": "en",
        "name": "English"
      },
      "audience": "https://programming.dev/c/test"
    },
    "cc": [
      "https://programming.dev/c/test"
    ],
    "type": "Create",
    "audience": "https://programming.dev/c/test"
  },
  "cc": [
    "https://programming.dev/c/test/followers"
  ],
  "type": "Announce",
  "id": "https://programming.dev/activities/announce/create/1047a16d-6393-4c2f-a5cc-9eeba4eb43db"
}

No settings page (as far as I’m aware), but you can use the API to get everything (posts, comments, etc):

step 1: get login token -

curl --request POST \
     --url https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/user/login \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '
{
  "username_or_email": "2br02b",
  "password": "YOUR-PASSWORD"
}
'

step 2: use login token (big long string starting with ‘ey’) to get data -

curl --request GET \
     --url 'https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/user?username=2br02b&page=1' \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'authorization: Bearer YOUR-JWT'

Increment page number until you have everything. source: https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/get_user

Edited to account for blahaj updating to 0.19.3 … hopefully that’s the last big instance to change.

It’s been about a week since sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world updated, so results from those instances will start appearing again soon.

Voyager has a setting for “No subscribed in All/Local” that does this. It’s better on than off, obviously, but it doesn’t turn All or Local into some kind of goldmine.

I get the sense that, unless you’re willing to do it yourself, feature requests for Lemmy don’t have much chance of being realised.

Bit mad, as in a bit strange - e.g. “it’s a bit mad to take a single word out of its obvious context for such a desperately cheap shot”.

As another Brit, it’s not, no. It’s too good a word for any country to keep to themselves. On Mastodon someone suggested Chinook was British too, but I only know about that 'cos of the helicopter.