@Gargron I only use Spotify on my laptop. The web player on Firefox is great! By that I mean it's barely functional and breaks all the time, but I can use an adblocker on it, so it's brilliant. Suck my ass Spotify, no ad money for you!

@Gargron MP3's on a local USB drive FTW.

@Gargron Hi! Do yo know why videos added via youtube links always change? the link remains original, but the video embedded in the post changes to random video.

@Gargron On this topic, you might want to check out SimplyTranslate: https://simplytranslate.org

It has an API that supports several backends (Google, DeepL, LibreTranslate), and provides a layer of privacy for users.

https://simple-web.org/projects/simplytranslate.html

@Gargron what I see in the timeline global/local, is a lot of publications with different languages, what I would like is for there to be a filter that separates those publications in their corresponding language, so that later in the search engine I can search for the language that interests me and see all posts in that language

@Gargron It is interesting, how the local/global timeline is composed, with publications in different languages, I do not want that to be modified, only that there is a filter option in which I can choose the language that interests me, to save time in finding a publication in my language

@Gargron currently using Metatext and I am quite content with it.

@Gargron How about Android?

@Gargron Awesome!!!!!

@Gargron Devin should get angry again and kickstart S.Y.L. again.

You are quite a genius. The United States 🇺🇸 , Venezuela 🇻🇪 and the world 🌎 🌏 🌍 are proud of you, dear friend. @Gargron 🙌 . Editor. Graduate. Carlos Armando Sánchez López. ✍️ 🎓

@Gargron any plans to focus on improving Mastodon's compatibility with plain ActivityPub services?

@Gargron Wow, just reviewed the release notes. Seems like a huge release. Congrats.

@Gargron Hope things are okay in Berlin.

@Gargron
When release

@Gargron yea, i know

@gargron good post, eugen

@Gargron The pen is blue! The pen is blue! 😭

@gargron the body is round

@Gargron Wish there were a better way to federate content in.

@Gargron it's so important that content creators, viewers, data analysists and technology enthusiats alike to come together and start investing in smaller websites and social media outlets

@Gargron snap, I might be guilty of this (I have Twitter-Mastodon crossposting enabled).

Should I turn it off?

@Gargron this is the way

Hier Nutzer aus Deutschland zu finden ist echt schwer. Gibt es einen Trick wie man eine höhere Reichweite für den deutschen Sprachraum erreicht?

@Gargron poll end notifications should appear…

@Gargron Yeah about that 🤣🤣

@Gargron Good to know it's a bug
I was so confused xD

@Gargron

> sanctions [against Russia] are "some kind of tax on independence"

Um... you do know how invading another country works, right? *Literally* trying to remove the independence of another country! 🤦‍♂️

@Gargron the sad reality is that there is some truth to this. Not the US, but the world forgets events and only studies popular history, which is written by the victors. Examples like Churchill's genocide in Asia, US invasions of multiple countries in the middle-east and Israel apartheid are all great examples.

@Gargron Declarations like this make me sick and angry. The situation is dire and on top of it you come with shit like this.
It seems one cannot be an accomplished statesmen w/o coming with something like this. And, the worst part, is not an isolated case.

@Gargron I must disagree, especially if/when you want to melt it..

@Gargron I mostly eat plant based food but vegan cheese needs more work tbh

@Gargron I've heard that the individually wrapped "cheese" slices are 1 molecule away from being plastic. They call it "cheese food". I never knew cheese needed to eat. 😋

@Gargron I missed the poll, but I use it a bit. I would probably use it more if there was a way for people to categorize their account by topic and you could filter by topic in the directory.

@Gargron
Thanks for introducing this new feature with the poll, now I can show people that i am famous on mastodon 🤣

@Gargron

Woo, it's fixed! Thank you 👍

@Gargron Permission given for permission

@Gargron 👋

@Gargron I hereby volunteer.

@Gargron So is it wrong to say both Russia and Ukraine are bad? In one hand it appears Russia is liberating Ukraine of as many neo-nazis as he can. Along with all the US biolabs and on the other hand Ukraine was bombing 2 provinces and terrorizing the people for a couple of years or so because they are Russians mostly. I'm pro neither country but am pro truth and really hate legacy media. Should I toot negative toots about Ukraine along with Russia or will that get me kicked off this platform?

@Gargron I have not seen any. I think administrators can block access to certain instances. You've developed a great product to handle situations like this at the admin level

@Gargron is there any way for you to somehow plug in links to articles from independent factcheckers? Eg see https://fullfact.org/about/automated/

Since Mastodon culture is wary of risks associated with crawling/search etc., I was wondering about other ways for fact checks to be connected up with problematic postings, to provide an alternative perspective. Should factcheckers make accounts and solicit tips for where to engage?

@Gargron 👀

@Gargron :amogus:

@Gargron Nicely done! :clapping:

@Gargron if anyone sides with Russia, they would've sided with Hitler. Remember these people. They are sociopaths.

@Gargron It's worrying the number of Pro-Kremlin accounts I've seen on here, though with Birdsite now blocked in Russia, I guess it's not the biggest surprise...

@Gargron Same here.

#StandWithUkraine

@Gargron Lucky for them they're perfectly capable of defending themselves. Just ask Stalin.

@Gargron this whole affair sounds quite similar to the Cuba crisis, when the Soviets put missiles close to the States, and the States did the same to the Soviets. In the end, both sides retreated.

It's just that Russia really hates having NATO's rockets close by, which is sort of understandable. I'm not justifying Russia's actions, of course.

Disclaimer: I don't know much about politics, these are just my intuitions. As you're native, you probably know better.

@Gargron let them join then

@Gargron If I wanted this effect, I would silence the word "@user"

@Gargron So, what is the actual behaviour?

@Gargron It's not expected, but would be a good optional feature for those who want it.