It is annoying in #mastodon to still keep missing a lot of interesting posts by people in my list, which live in an almost specular time zone. although I have put them in dedicated lists, if I forget to check them regularly, their stuff is just lost to me.
So the only thing is to click on the 🔔 for each of such profiles. That however messes up with the notifications.
ffff....
I'm mostly at my standalone GoToSocial server these days. I tried migrating this account again, and this time I figured out the problem: I'd misconfigured my server's proxy settings and everything was getting rate limited.
So next time it should finish - but I have to wait another 29 days for the cooldown. Meanwhile, if you'd like to see what I'm up to lately, feel free to follow me at @kelson
I'd like to use a workflow where each #Mastodon message that gets bookmarked by me is automatically screenshotted to PNG, archived in a local directory and its text content + image descriptions get added to a text file (preferably #orgdown) together with a link to the screenshot and the original message URL.
@wikinaut@publicvoit have you taken a look at whether mastodon-archive can help? haven't used it in ages, but i suspect it'll archive e.g. bookmarks only, with media. it has lots of options (that i don't much know about). https://pypi.org/project/mastodon-archive
wouldn't be too hard to get ~80% of the way there with elisp/mastodon.el (all the data you need can easily be obtained with point on the toot concerned). but i've no idea about automated screenshotting.
It's been a minute, #Mastodon Alright, I wrote a lil post for the #Obsidian forum on my crusade against #Dataview (not literally; it's a great #plugin ) Here's the link if any are interested:
@apolaine Could you expand on what you mean by that? I'm guessing that you are using it more as a supplement than a main component, which I think is wonderful, but if you could give me an example of how you go about that I would love to see it.
@spinecracker sure. So I try to populate properties/metadata in the YAML for notes that I know I’m going want to interrogate in future. I don’t really keep a proper PKM but for my coaching notes I always have date, coachee name, etc. Then I can use a small a Dataview snippet to list out all the previous sessions in my current session note, so I can quickly check back during sessions.
The direction of computing today (AI, everything is a damn ad/influencer bs, etc) is why things like #oss, #Mastodon, #meshtastic and #SelfHosting in general are so important. I say that even as an apple user but of all the big players I dislike them the least.
UI differences are a big factor in the success/failure of decentralised federation of diverse platforms and content
And this seems a good example: bridged #mastodon posts onto #BlueSky which has a lower character limit than Mastodon.
So, just like #lemmy posts on mastodon, you don't get the full content of the post (which ends with an abrupt ellipsis here) and have to take a link to the original platform.
However powerful the underlying protocols, this isn't far from screenshots.
This is how #Mastodon will whitewash their censorship. While #MastodonSocial now actively bans and hides the profiles of people advocating for Palestinian liberation citing “Holocaust inversion” they put someone on their board to appear like they care, who does not in fact, have a mastodon account:
Is there a #mastodon client (iOS or mobile web) that has a followed #hashtags feed? I’ve seen many that allow you to see a list of the hashtags you’re following and drill in to any specific one. But I’m looking for a consolidated feed that is made up of matches to any/all followed hashtags.
#TheMetalDogArticleList #Loudwire
The Band Name Kerry King Wanted to Use Instead of His Own Name
In this interview, Kerry King reveals he had 40-50 ideas for a new band name and there was one he really wanted to use.
Just a reminder that the whole point of federated social media shouldn't be that you need to be on #Mastodon, AND #Bluesky, AND #Threads, AND whatever other platform
Are there any #mastodon apps that have built-in #gif integration? Giphy now serves an ad before letting you download and I am not here for it :blobfoxsad:
