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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.

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

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.

Regarding the ‘Unresolved questions’ part, the ActivityPub activity for Reports is:

{
  "actor": "http://ds9.lemmy.ml/u/lemmy_alpha",
  "to": ["http://enterprise.lemmy.ml/c/main"],
  "audience": "http://enterprise.lemmy.ml/u/main",
  "object": "http://enterprise.lemmy.ml/post/7",
  "summary": "report this post",
  "type": "Flag",
  "id": "http://ds9.lemmy.ml/activities/flag/98b0933f-5e45-4a95-a15f-e0dc86361ba4"
}

From this page. I imagine it’s up to lemmy where this actually gets sent (in the sense that if a community has 1 moderator, it goes to 1 inbox, but if it has 2 moderators, it goes to 2 inboxes).

Can confirm. Just looked at Boost and there they all are. Pretty neat. (Boost is the only app I’ve seen that notifies you of comments too)

In Lemmy terms they’re at ‘RequireApplication’. Open is completely open. PixelFed have automated something that lemmy.world did for feddit.nl a while ago - defederate from them until they changed their application policy.

Manual approval isn’t the only alternative to Open Registration - the main one involves requiring an email address, and/or solving a captcha

It’s not a one-click solution, but lemmy admins can check other instance’s registration policy. e.g.
curl https://lemmy.world/api/v3/site | jq -r .site_view.local_site.registration_mode

Other Fediverse apps will reveal it in different ways of course. Nothing to stop an instance that was set up just for spam from lying about it of course.

Suggested setting: give up after X number of days if no real person from that instance subscribes. Whoever added the community is free to try again.

The short answer is that you have to ask blahaj.zone to resolve it. lemmy.ml has it as post id 11470168, but it’ll be different for other instances - whatever the next number was in their database when the post was announced.

You get different answers depending on whether you’re logged in or not though.
From endlesstalk.org, I can search for that post in the web-ui: Communities -> paste the post url into Search -> Change the Type from ‘communities’ to ‘posts’
Alternatively, using the API, I can resolve it with
curl --header 'accept: application/json' --header 'authorization: Bearer MY_LOGIN_TOKEN' https://endlesstalk.org/api/v3/resolve_object?q=https://lemmy.ml/post/11470168

I’m not logged into blahaj.zone though, so it won’t resolve it. The web-ui only gives me this post as one that mentions the thing I’m searching for, and the API returns ‘not found’

Replayed Uncharted 4 for the millionth time. Now on The Lost Legacy. Not enjoying it as much (it’s harder, for one thing). Interesting to see the developments that would go into The Last of Us 2 though (e.g. experiments with more open-world levels, and the attempt to redeem a character that’s previously been portrayed as a villain).

I think it’s difficult to know where we really are in the release cycle for this console, as it’s been disrupted so much by initial unavailability and COVID. Normally, we’d be due a Pro version this year, but it could be this year, it could be next year, it could be never.

Last generation I was happy with a standard PS4 until I played Control, and could see that it was struggling. I’m not sure there’s any PS5 games that are known to stress the hardware, and would do anything with the extra resources.

I’d buy one now if I were you. Worse case scenario: you’ll want to trade it in for an upgrade in a year or two.

I haven’t yet got a PS5 but I’ll likely buy the upgrade from the website, for the sake of a tenner.

Interesting that they’re advertising it now how they probably should have done initially (as a game with 2 protagonists).

Nope, the crawler at lemmyverse has been failing

If the crawler keeps working, the next post will be on the 13th (which I kinda needed to wait for anyways following lemmynsfw’s change to how it calculates active users)

Stats for Programmer Humour:

2023-11-24: 0.00% programmer_humor@programming.dev 824 Active Users
2023-11-25: -0.04% programmer_humor@programming.dev 818 Active Users
2023-11-26: -2.15% programmer_humor@programming.dev 776 Active Users
2023-11-27: -0.32% programmer_humor@programming.dev 760 Active Users
2023-11-28: 58432.75% programmer_humor@programming.dev 7424 Active Users
2023-11-29: 4.51% programmer_humor@programming.dev 7607 Active Users
2023-11-30: 8.68% programmer_humor@programming.dev 7864 Active Users

28/11 is when they changed how active users are counted on programming.dev. That 54K percent increase will continue to effect the 7 day average for the next few days.

I don’t know much about federation issues with programming.dev, but I think the reason why there’s so many results from that instance is they’ve changed how active users are calculated for their communities. Instead of it being just users who post and comment, it’s now users who post, comment or vote on anything.

I saw a post about it yesterday (in their Meta community I think), and wondered how it would affect these lists. I’ll have to see what it’s like in the coming days (that instance will seem way more active than every other instance, but each community’s activity growth should stabilise, hopefully)

Nothing on here should really be abandoned: if it seems so, it’s usually either for language reasons, or because your instance’s copy of a community isn’t (yet) showing everything that’s on the original. I often look at the original (i.e instance/c/community, not myinstance/c/community@instance) to determine what’s going on.

Crawler at lemmyverse has been failing for the past few days, so today’s results are over a wider gap than normal

Oh right, so contrary to my comment the other day: feddit.uk aren’t changing - it looks like a group of people got financially and emotionally invested in creating a new instance, only to have the rug pulled out from underneath them by the return of the original admin.

I think everyone using Boost currently has that issue, but I found a post: https://lemmy.world/post/6738630 over at !boostforlemmy@lemmy.world that says it’ll be fixed for the next version.