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@ andrew_s @piefed.social

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  • [SOLVED] What is the maximum username length for a Lemmy account?

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  • It seems to be set per-instance - you can find out through their APIs:

    curl -L http://lemmy.world/api/v3/site | jq -r .site_view.local_site.actor_name_max_length (26)

    curl -L http://sh.itjust.works/api/v3/site | jq -r .site_view.local_site.actor_name_max_length (50)

  • Do you have a favourite Peertube instance? If so, which one?

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  • Removed

    This was not a Netflix trailer or an ad. This was a masterclass.

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  • It's certainly visually impressive.

    It might be serving a dual purpose though - it's a more dynamic experience for the viewer, than just a list of the upcoming shows, but it's also a technique that allows them to repeatedly lean on the mega-hits (Stranger Things & Squid Game), while yadda-yadda'ing the rest of the content (consisting largely of stuff purchased from broadcasters, mid films, and a graveyard of cancelled TV shows).

  • How does Piefed compare to Mbin

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  • Yeah, PieFed is more geared up for what ActivityPub terms 'Groups' (communities on Lemmy, magazines on Mbin, video channels on PeerTube, categories on NodeBB, certain type of blogs on WordPress, a.gup.pe groups, etc.).

    Whenever we see someone from a platform like Mastodon, it's because they've interacted with one of the above Group-types. There's already a bit of inter-op that you don't find on Lemmy - e.g. you can create a Poll for the people following you as a user, and they can vote on it - but there isn't the ability to follow them in return, like on Mbin. I believe improvements to things like this are on the 2025 Roadmap.

  • Relaunching PeerTube.wtf

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  • How to follow someone, but in a good way

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  • It's not following users in the same way you'd follow communities though - other users have a 'bell' icon in their profile, and if you click that you get notified when they make new posts.

    If you want to follow users in the ActivityPub sense, and have their content appear in your feed the same way that new posts in a community do, you'd need to use a platform geared up for it (e.g. MBIN, Mastodon, etc).

  • Are there any communities on Lemmy for learning languages? French specifically

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    Bot hates lemmy

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  • Let guess: Bot wants to use "it / its" pronouns. The same as 'DroneRights' did, who despite the similarly in name to 'DragonRider', and despite the fact that all these accounts are an obvious, boring, attack on trans rights, are all, like, totally different people.

  • Trending Communities for Monday 20th January 2025

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  • It normally publishes about midday (UK time), but if the crawler fails for that edition, it picks up the next one at roughly 6 p.m., and then it gets into the habit of publishing then every day until I remember to set it back to midday.

    Anyway, it looks like it's just missed today's 6 p.m. edition, but it might get the next one due around about now.

  • It's... odd

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  • I read that tweet as something that wasn't really about Fallout: New Vegas, and more as something using it as a vehicle for a joke (about adult women being nostalgic for the games they played as teenage boys).

  • Deleted community in hopes of renaming it

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  • That community is deleted as far as anyone else can see (try your link with Private Browsing, or when logged out). It will remain visible to you, to allow you to change your mind and restore it, for 7 days I think.

    Therefore, you should be able to start up a new community with the name you want, and just forget about the old one.

  • NodeBB has started federating, new communities you can follow

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  • If you fetch a community that your instance hasn't previously heard of, you can typically query the community's 'outbox' collection to get recent posts. So in Lemmy, you get 50 old posts, and then - once someone has subscribed - new posts start coming in.

    Different platforms have different formats for their outboxes - Lemmy uses Announce/Create/Page, a.gup.pe and PeerTube use Announce, with a URL that leads to a Note or Video, wordpress uses Create/Article. Because Lemmy already understands its own outbox format, it's able to get old posts from other Lemmy instances. It doesn't get old stuff for a.gup.pe, PeerTube, or wordpress though.

    So you might be wondering what outbox format nodebb uses - to which the answer is none. The outbox leads nowhere useful (they're in good company with MBIN on this). Anyway - this is why fetching a nodebb community won't come with any of its existing posts (but - as mentioned - new stuff will come in for subscribers)

  • The girlfriend-zone rule

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  • I think it can happen for a number of reasons.

    One is that location plays a distressingly familiar role in romantic relationships (we fall in love with the people who happen to be around us). Another is that casual intimacy goes out of the window for many boys after a certain age - their friends and family have stopped touching them, so if a girl treats them as they normally would another female friend, and does something meaningless like gently squeeze their elbow, it's the most amount of intimacy the boy has experienced in a while, and it gets elevated beyond its intent.

  • Why does it seem like every TV series I've ever watched gets cancelled/rushed/incomplete ending, while movies (even those in a film series/trilogy) rarely face the same problem?

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  • Season 3 of a TV show comes with a significant wage increase for everyone involved, so 3 seasons (at least) is something that the sellers of a show always want, but the buyers are trying to avoid.

    On Netflix, it's become a pattern of all shows only getting 1 or 2 seasons, unless they're mega-hits, or dirt-cheap to produce in the first place.

    How well a show wraps up after 2 seasons often depends on how much the writers want to do the streamer's job for them. Tokyo Vice was a (rare) example of a good, self-contained, 2-season show.

  • Better get my yiff on...

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  • naked mole rat as their fursona

    Would probably lead to your application getting rejected. I've just looked, and they're also known as 'sand puppies', so it'd be better go with that.

  • By the way, you can have Markdown in Lemmy post titles

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  • A comment here distinguishes between the 'plain text' that's allowed by the spec, and MarkDown as a markup language (it's confusingly named, I guess, but that's what Wikipedia categorises it as too)

  • Do I really need one account per service?

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  • Lemmy mostly federates with Lemmy, but everything else out there (PeerTube, PixelFed, etc) has been developed to work well with Mastodon (sometimes to the Fediverse's detriment), so your Mastodon account should be all you need.

  • By the way, you can have Markdown in Lemmy post titles

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  • Another commenter (who's contributed code to Lemmy) pointed to a link that provides the specification for that field: "A simple, human-readable, plain-text name for the object. HTML markup MUST NOT be included."

    So in this case, it's more that the JSON looks a bit ambiguous: 'mediaType' is only referring to the format of the text in a post's body, but - unlike me - you'd also need to be aware of the spec to know that it doesn't apply to the title.

  • By the way, you can have Markdown in Lemmy post titles

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  • Oh, wow. Thanks.

    For clarity, I wasn't intending to say that PieFed treats that field as HTML (it treats it as text), I just meant that if you were looking at that JSON, and being a bit lazy like me and not looking at specs, then it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that the 'mediaType' field also refers to 'name' (rather than a 'content' field which this post doesn't happen to have).

    Anyway, this seems to be even more reason why MD shouldn't be put in titles, and front-ends shouldn't be encouraging the practise by rendering it.