Another update

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/111223281476633764

Having to sit at a desk (with a computer) to access the Internet, rather than being able to bring a device with you, to access the Internet wherever you want.

Internet speeds.

More than a decade ago, this was the canonical pirate video for the English speaking Internet:

Lazy Town | You Are A Pirate Music Video

Enjoy 🙂

At least for Pixelfed — it looks like it may have been addressed:

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/111214711097226588

I was able to put the Fediverse ID for the group at the end of the post, and it still worked.

Here is the test post:

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/111203098045116059

And here is where it appeared on the Threadiverse (on a Lemmy server instance):

https://lemmy.ml/post/6229064

Some Lemmy servers on the threadiverse seem to have a theme (and are not general generic servers).

For example, https://programming.dev/ focuses on (computer) programming and other highly technical topics related to (computer) programming.

I think for a themed server, they would probably want to pick and choose which communities from other Lemmy (or Kbin) servers they syndicate to their home-page or wherever (in addition to their local communities).

I do think syndicating communities from other servers is beneficial — but I don’t think just all or nothing is a good approach.

I think Lemmy should let Lemmy sysops pick and choose which remote communities they syndicate on their home-feed or wherever.

Is that one of the versions of the Neca street diorama?

According to this, Pixelfed post scheduling was supposed to have been added to version 0.11.2 of Pixelfed:

https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/107174690236616545

I have a Pixelfed server running Pixelfed version 0.11.4, and — I am not noticing a way to schedule posts.

I wonder if the feature actually made it into the v0.11.2 release of Pixelfed — or if it was deferred to a later future release.

Somewhat related —

Mastodon has an HTTP-based APIs for scheduled posts.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/scheduled_statuses/

It doesn’t seem to be used in the offical Mastodon UI.

But many 3rd party Mastodon apps makes use of it. (For example, Tusky.)

Currently you just have to replace the writefreely binary with the postfreely binary — and it should work.

If the configuration files or database tools ever become incompatible, our intent is to write an import tool.

…

So — currently it works. And our intent is to keep it working (one way or the other) in the future.

The answer is going to depend on where the videos are coming from.

Are these videos (you want to mirror) —

• on YouTube?,
• on the threadiverse somewhere — on a Lemmy or Kbin server?,
• somewhere else?

I had no idea that !korea@lemmy.funami.tech existed until you posted about it.

I am in Korea regularly. I joined the community.

Another archetype I’ve noticed is what I’ve called —

Technical SysOp

The way I would describe these people is —

This is someone whose responsibility is the operations of the software and the hardware.

They often want to install, configure, run, monitor and automate things. They also will need to update things from time-to-time.

They sometimes use 3rd party tools to help with this.

They sometimes write their own tools to help with this.

Some want web-based systems. Some want terminal-based systems.

Another archetype I’ve noticed is what I’ve called —

Information Managers

The way I would describe them is —

People who use these tools to help them think better.

• They want to take notes.
• They want to write their thoughts.
• They want to comment on articles.
• They want to quote things (from texts, audios, and videos).
• They want to record conversations.
• They want to write evergreen summaries.
• They want to post photos.
• They want to post videos.
• They want to post links.
• They want to tag, categorize, re-tag, re-categorize things (including other tags and categories, and not just the quotes and articles).
  • So this would mean hierarchical tags
• They want to link between posts.
• They want useful and helpful visualizations of all this.
• They want to search all this.
• They want to be able to filter things by tags and categories.
• They want to be able to filter things by the intersection of multiple tags and categories.
• They want version control.
• They want to rename things (and they don’t want links pointing to that to break).

Some of them will talk about “second brains” or the “zettelkasten method”. Although many (maybe most) will have their own method that they came up with.

Another archetype I’ve noticed is what I’ve called —

Smallneter

The way I would describe them is —

These are people who want to make their content simultaneously available on the Fediverse and the “smallnet” alt-protocols such as finger, gemini, gopher, HTTP (restricted), mercury, nex, and others.

(Note that PostFreely already has gopher support built into it.)

Another archetype I’ve noticed is what I’ve called —

Org Onboarders

The way I would describe them is —

They aren’t Fediverse users yet.

But want to get their organization onto the Fediverse.

Most don’t know much about the Fediverse.

Another archetype I’ve noticed is what I’ve called —

Rich-Textists

⚠️ NOTE that this is a different archetype from the “Rich-Text Typists” ⚠️

(Maybe it needs a more distinctive name‽)

The way I would describe these people is —

They are people who have used Mastodon — but wish they could add some “richness” to their posts —

• bolding,
• color,
• embedded images,
• embedded videos,
• headings,
• hyperlinks,
• italics,
• tables,
• etc.

(Unlike the Rich-Text Typist archetype) this archetype is OK with using the mouse or trackpad when writing.

And thus would be OK with tool-bars, pop-up tools, and even WYSIWYG editors, etc.

Another archetype I’ve noticed is what I’ve called —

Long Post Wanters

(Maybe this needs a better name 🙂)

The way I would describe these people is —

These are people who are already experienced with Mastodon if not the broader Fediverse.

They like Mastodon but want a way to write longer posts.

They still want most the usual Fediverse related features of Mastodon — but want to be able to write longer posts.

I think more research as — there is other Fediverse software that lets you create longer posts. Why choose one over the other?

Another archetype I’ve noticed is what I’ve called —

Markdownists

The way I would describe these people is —

They have already decided they want to type in markdown.

Whether that be micro-blogging, blogging, commenting, writing books, or whatever.

They are looking for tools to enable them do that.

I think more research is needed to understand —

• what flavors of markdown are popular with these people, and
• if there are any features missing from the flavor(s) of markdown they have been using.