We have a new Experimental Feature on @elk Canary (https://main.elk.zone) -- Don't forget to turn it on and provide feedback! 🙏
Sharing PeerTube, SoundCloud, YouTube, and even links to Mastodon posts with media attachment will bring up an Embedded Media Player so you can just watch/listen on your timeline. :)
“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.” — Edsger Dijkstra
They obviously gamified twitter like an MMO. You can be f2p (free to play) but the experience is incomplete. Even p2w (pay to win) players will have complaints because the model is “toxic” by design to provide more motivation to “win” the game (therefore to pay)
> "Posting an image on Mastodon causes hundreds or thousands of federated servers to fetch the preview details all at once, causing a high load for the target server and effectively creating the by now well-known "Mastodon DDoS" effect. For static websites this may not be much of an issue but it routinely brings down larger pages or those which have dynamic server-rendered content."
I kept my twtr account for a while because brands I occasionally reach out to were still exclusively there. It’s now no longer the case so I put the account down for real :)