@mxtthxw - who boosted Eugen's post.

You gotta know he's muted that thread *years* ago and none of the recent commentators are talking to each other. Just to him.

All just replying to the thread, including only Gargron as a CC, and he definitely has it muted. Surely.

They're not even replying to each other.

I guess some people must be reading recent replies. I skimmed a few.

Quote-tweet function is not up to Gargon of course.

If you want it you can have it!

There are Mastodon forks that include it, and there are other ActivityPub systems which use it too!

You can even embed a post from mastodon in another mastodon post if you just copy/paste the URL of that post.

Are they doing the Fediverse equivalent of a quote-tweet, and doing a reply which they themselves boost?

The three randomly recentish ones I looked at hadn't done so.

So i guess not.

Unless you check their instance you'll won't know. Your local instance just might not have seen the boost. I sampled only three.

Anyway. What I'm saying is, almost everyone talking on this thread is talking to /dev/null right now except you and me. Coz I actually included someone who hasn't muted it yet.

And nobody else will see it unless you boost it.

@feditips @peertube @craftykat

Yes. And if you are hoping to post a lot of video you should totally use Peertube instead of Mastodon.

Hosting video is really expensive for the host and hard on the servers.

Peertube shares the bandwidth between the people watching in a peer to peer bit-torrent-ish way. Making the server resources needed quite a lot lower.

I started my own Peertube instance separately to my Mastodon instance because of that.

It's a massive cost-saving for hosting video, and the savings are bigger the more popular it is.

@darius

> "well you can just buy any old domain name and pretend to be whatever org you want"

And then that's how he came to buy Fedified.org and pretend to be whoever he wanted.

@Gargron If you linked to those commits in a list and added a shared spreadsheet you might well wake up with some of it done?

Looking forward to V4 and knowing what they all do.

@Gargron It feels different this time. Like people are finally realizing that they can currently just be bought and sold.

Like when Murdoch bought Myspace for half a billion dollars and then everyone just left.

@Gargron Great work! Surprised you have time for that stuff right now. Thanks. Look forward to the upgrade.

@dansup There are only Martian drugs if there is Martian life.

Drugs are all complex molecules built by genes in cellular machinery.

People could make new drugs in labs there, but no more easily than they can make the same molecules on Earth.

Maybe there's some you can only make in a lab in zero-g. Space-station might be the best bet for new designer drugs.

@dansup @pixelfed

Cool, though facebook-groups was always pretty crappy wasn't it? I'm sure you can find better ways to index and order posts than whatever mad algorithm they used.

@dansup :( Sad news. Hope you're doing okay Dan.

@darius Humm. When I installed Glitch there was a pull-request for it from Clare but it had never been merged, and it didn't work when I tried to merge it myself coz it was so old the codebase had changed too much.

Possibly things have changed since then but I can't see anything in any of the list settings.

@darius Hurray! I have been hoping for that for ages. Presumably it'll reach Gitch too.

@dansup @pixelfed

I massively prefer Vue, but one has to have some idea of and experience in both or you're a one trick pony with no real idea which is best.

So well done :)

@dansup yes, we should learn about their implementation, moderation policies etc and THEN rush to block them.

Gotta do it in the right order.

@dansup Would you really take the job? Going into the Facebook offices every day and working with Facebook people doing Facebooky things?

@dansup Okay, thanks. So the self-deleting part is important I guess. A story that doesn't delete itself is just a multi-media slideshow.

Inveneting new constructs sounds good. Hope it's a success.

@dansup I still haven't really figured out what the word Stories really refers to.

In Signal they say it's some kind of self-deleting semi-public message?

But they look more like a slideshow. A slide-show could at least imply a narrative which might fit the word "stories"?

What are they in Pixelfed? Sounds like it involves Video?

Do we also know what they look like in other Fedi apps?