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Eugen Rochko

What the hell is the <link rel="canonical" href="null" /> tag on #YouTube shorts pages and where are the OEmbed discovery links?

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@Gargron Google does weird things with HTML just as a rule. Every page has at least one "What? Why would you have it like that?" bit of markup.

Eugen Rochko

Oh, they turned the fondant cake meme into a Netflix game show? What's next, "Is this dress blue or yellow?"

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@Gargron Putting baked beans in things that should not have baked beans in them: the Netflix original!

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@Gargron Is "troll physics" still relevant? I'd personally be okay with a comedy where the protagonist does that.

Eugen Rochko

"Select versions of the massively popular 'node-ipc' package were caught containing malicious code that would overwrite or delete arbitrary files on a system for users based in Russia and Belarus"

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Do not do this

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peturbg

@Gargron
General message for WHAT happend IN PEARL HARBL. that united states of america KILL INOCCENT PEOPLES. what happend in IRAN, IRAQ. Other day my mastodon was flooded from developers of mastodon for not working. Very bad.

Eugen Rochko

"#Spotify draws up plans to join #NFT digital collectibles craze"

ft.com/content/9e77bf41-5814-4

Looks like I switched away at the right time (using Tidal at the moment)

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Evil Roda

@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!

SIBIRIAK

@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.

Eugen Rochko

Translate button in official iOS/Android apps:

Anonymous poll

Poll

Yes, please!
337
74.6%
I don't care
115
25.4%
452 people voted.
Voting ended 18 Mar 2022 at 6:51.
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MasterOfTheTiger

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

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

simple-web.org/projects/simply

4kfoki

@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

4kfoki

@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

Eugen Rochko

Devin Townsend / Leprous at the Royal Albert Hall in April 👀

TiKXI

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

Eugen Rochko

I'm so excited about 3.5! It's been a lot of work :catPOWER:

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Licenciado (Graduate)

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. ✍️ 🎓

marius

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

Colin Devroe

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

Eugen Rochko

Anyone know if Apple's Smart App Banners appear in PWAs already added to the home screen?

Eugen Rochko

Turns out around 700 GB of media storage on mastodon.social was being consumed by multiple Twitter "bridges" running on different domains, reposting Twitter users' tweets into the fediverse as far as I'm aware without their (the Twitter users') participation or knowledge.

That's 10% of our media storage accumulated over 6 years. At least cross-posters set up their own accounts, that's still legit use. This, it just feels so wasteful. How Twitter even gives out API keys for this, I don't know.

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Tim Chambers

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

Damian

@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

eons Luna

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

Should I turn it off?

Eugen Rochko

Deployed a change that makes profiles load so much faster.

logikchecker

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

Eugen Rochko

There's a bug that seems to make the poll ending notification re-appear many times. Sorry.

Eugen Rochko

‘Russia thinks West will “get over” Ukraine war, calls response “hysteria”’

newsweek.com/russia-thinks-wes

The audacity of this 🤦‍♂️

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Wayne Werner

@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! 🤦‍♂️

Sadman 🎵

@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.

mihai_zainea

@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.

Eugen Rochko

When they were talking about sufficiently advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic they were talking about vegan cheese

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Michael Zeevi

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

Geotechland

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

flutergork🌻️🇨🇦️ 🇺🇦

@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. 😋

Eugen Rochko

Do you use the "profile directory" feature?

Anonymous poll

Poll

Yes
129
29.4%
No
310
70.6%
439 people voted.
Voting ended 3 Mar 2022 at 22:35.
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Nyaa

@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.

maksu

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

Eugen Rochko

I'm curious how other server administrators are handling users' reports of various degrees of pro-Russia content at the moment. Despite my personal position on the matter, I don't think any of our current server rules cover this situation, and while I am not certain if they should, the reports do keep coming.

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PaullusiveMan

@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?

GSUGambit

@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

danbri

@Gargron is there any way for you to somehow plug in links to articles from independent factcheckers? Eg see 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?

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