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meldrik

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The maintainer of “What the Fediverse” and an avid Guild Wars 2 player.

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A veto will only postpone the bill.

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I wonder what the authorities could use the recovery email for? Did they gain access to the Protonmail through the recovery email?

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Kevin just wanna sleep with ya!

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This is a setting by the admin of that Pixelfed instance. Try another instance, if you are unhappy with the quality.

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Not natively in Pixelfed.

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Also consider that Instagram uses aggressive image compression and then you import from that to Pixelfed, which also does its own compression. No wonder the quality is questionable.

Have you tried adding an original image to Pixelfed?

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You can disable P2P.

You will only see content from other instances, if your instance federates with them.

However, some instances allow “global search”, which means you can practically find everything through search, from all the other instances.

It’s also possible to subscribe to channels from other instances, even though your instance does not federate with said instance.

If you go to the About > Network page, you can see which instances is federated with yours.

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This is how the settings look like for a PeerTube admin, regarding global search and subscribing to remote channels:

https://lemmy.wtf/pictrs/image/096c6369-29f1-4b65-bd6c-c5eada44cbc0.jpeg

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https://lemmy.wtf/pictrs/image/4ed40aff-f8b0-47d0-94e6-b3f6aa306acc.jpeg

Look for this, under the about page of the instance.

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Who need that much storage on their phone? Honestly asking.

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That make sense. Thanks.

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What do you use all that storage for?

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Thanks. That sounds pretty cool.

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It doesn’t work if you use iCloud or a custom domain with iCloud.

I ended up using Protonmail.

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Can’t find the answer via a search engine though. You first have to find out where to look for the answer, before you can ask it.

What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you'd love alternatives for?

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Discord. And no, Matrix/Element isn’t an alternative.

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It’s missing voice channels.

I didn’t know about Revolt. It sounds awesome and does indeed look like a Discord clone, but while you can self host it, instances can’t communicate with each other. The devs of Revolt actually recommend NOT to self host.

Signed up for Revolt, but still waiting for the email confirmation…

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That doesn't look like voice channels to me, like in Discord?

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What do you mean by safe?

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https://briarproject.org/

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Tragic how the abused has become the abuser.

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I see it as an opportunity to tell people on Threads to leave Threads and use an open platform, such as Mastodon, instead.
Then eventually Threads will shut down, because everyone moved :D

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No, but it is possible to follow a PeerTube channel.

Are you sure you can follow Lemmy users from Mastodon? Is it not only communities that you can follow from Mastodon?

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It's going to be awesome when we get an official PeerTube app for Android and iOS!

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Well, the OPi Zero 3 only has USB 2, which is slow.

You could attach something like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403740942791?hash=item5e00d5e1c7:g:I1AAAOSwQgJits1E

Don’t expect it to be fast.

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Who are they?

Has a date, or ETA been announced, or rumored for the release of Lemmy 0.19?

I hope that this post doesn't come across as impatient, or demanding -- I fully understand that Lemmy is donation funded, and is created out of the benevolence of the devs. I am merely curious if any announcement has been made in regards to a specific ETA. I am certainly excited for its release, but I also completely understand...

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Last I heard is that they are testing 0.19 on Lemmy.ml.

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No, you cannot.

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    meldrik ,
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    Give them a trip to Auschwitz in Poland and they’ll soon believe it existed.

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    What do you actually think? 🤔
    Field trip.

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    It really should.

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    You can already see how many posts and comments users make. Isn’t that the same?

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    True, could be nice to see data on content consumers, and not just the content creators.

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    That’s crazy! User/month goes from only 7.5k active to 27.8k. And that’s just people voting. What about people who only read a post?

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    Wouldn’t you need a publically available IP? DuckDNS is only for dynamic IP’s that is public, yes?

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    Data send via HTTP is not encrypted. That’s bad.

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    Yea, that is also what I thought. To bypass this, you would need something like Cloudflare Tunnels or setup a VPN on a VPS, that redirects traffic to your homeserver.

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    My only wish is that they support sharing bandwidth without having to host a peertube instance.

    Remote runners for transcoding video already exists, so I think it’s plausible that we could get something for redundancy / help with bandwidth as well.

    Bandwidth is just not really that big of an issue on PeerTube. If multiple people are watching is watching the same video, they share bandwidth and lots of PeerTube instances have redundancy enabled.

    A much bigger issue is storage.

    What’s even worse, they are removing the possibility to share bandwidth without hosting a peertube instance:

    Hardly any instance uses webtorrent, as HLS provides a much better viewing experience. HLS also support P2P.

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    You’re missing the point: if I want to contribute bandwidth, I need to host an instance or watch the exact same video somebody else is watching.

    That’s why I said we can hope they expand on the remote runners, so that people can easily install a runner that could share bandwidth. Just like now we have runners, that are very easy to install, that can transcode videos.

    Finding a nice video on some random instance but being unable to watch it because it can only provide 100KB/s or worse says you’re wrong.

    Bandwidth is not one of the bigger issues with PeerTube and that’s coming from someone who hosts a PeerTube instance. Obviously you will have issues, if you host PeerTube on a slow internet connection.

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    Which instances have you looked at? Most of the big instances federate with others. Except for Tilvids.com. You can still subscribe to other channels though.

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    Take a look at this list: instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=totalVi…

    Sort by most followings and select the first with signups.

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    I would recommend you use this list: instances.joinpeertube.org

    You should use an instance that has enabled global search and uses search.joinpeertube.org. This way, you can find content, even though the instances is not federated.

    Also, TILvids and Blender Videos are instances for specific videos, for “general purpose” instances to follow. Most of the above instances also use very old versions of PeerTube. We are at verison 6.0 now. So I think they might be inactive, therefore not following more instances.

    Here’s an instance that does follow spectra.video > peertube.wtf (my instance), but I also only follow a select few instances, because there is a lot of crap being uploaded to the videoverse and that just makes for a worse experience.

    There is nothing however that would keep you from searching for or following any channel, on peertube.wtf because global search is enabled.

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    There’s The Linux Experiment on PeerTube.

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    Can’t say if federation will work, but it should run just fine without it on I2P.

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    Thank you for your awesome work, @Framasoft! I especially think storyboards is a really nice QoL feature.

    However, how do I keep it from using all CPU cores, when creating the storyboard? 😅

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    I illegally downloaded this video to my PeerTube instance. The guy is gonna come kick down my door, any minute now.

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    Couldn’t resist doing Mr. Kim’s accent, as I read it.

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    Nice try, Hollywood!

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