The importance of the local feed shouldn't be underestimated - it's one of the reasons that the 'rglullis' communities have struggled (as discussed on https://lemmy.world/post/20236330)
There's a lot of drama in that Issue, and then, at the very end:
Thanks for sharing your concerns here. We have been progressing use of our SDK in more use cases for our clients. However, our goal is to make sure that the SDK is used in a way that maintains GPL compatibility.
the SDK and the client are two separate programs
code for each program is in separate repositories
the fact that the two programs communicate using standard protocols does not mean they are one program for purposes of GPLv3
Being able to build the app as you are trying to do here is an issue we plan to resolve and is merely a bug.
To my mind, the ideal would be that if you, as the person who wants to share some 'open-source' news, chose one community that you think is 'best' (based on what instance it's on, if the mods are real people and are active, participation levels, whatever you think really). And we, as subscribers, would do the same. This way, the 'good' communities would thrive, and the 'bad' ones would wither away. What happens at the minute, is that there's 8 communities for open source, and there'll always will be, because they aren't in competition with one another.
(this is mostly just a general point about cross-posting behaviour, it's not meant as a dig at you personally).
If you type a ! link using lemmy-ui, it auto-completes it so that MBIN sees it as an absolute link to the community on midwest.social (Blaze's link is without the auto-complete). Lemmy, like Mastodon, can be a bit "fuck you if you aren't us" at times.
I dread to think how many books GRRM's former assistants have smashed out in the time it's taken him not to write one.
Anyway:
James S.A. Corey's hit sci-fi series The Expanse was set in our own solar system, and leaned heavily into the politics of various human factions vying for dominance while an alien threat looms at the edges of awareness. Yes, the protomolecule was dangerous and mysterious and shook up the status quo, but at the end of the day it was always the humans and their decisions which drove the story forward. By contrast, The Captive's War feels more like Mass Effect, the sort of space opera which features a wide array of aliens where you never know what you'll see on the next page.
As a big fan of Mass Effect, this book sounds something I'd like to read.
MBIN makes upvotes visible, but PieFed doesn't. The thread you linked to is about PieFed anonymising votes, so they aren't revealed on instances like MBIN.
For 'Action Horror', I've liked The Hunt (2020), Ready or Not, Totally Killer and Strange Darling (technically not a horror, but it's about a serial killer)
I watched Red Rooms recently, and that's French (Canadian), so if anyone asks you what you watched recently, you can say 'Les chambres rouges' and sound all intelligent and stuff.
Bill Maher seems aggressively unfunny to me, but the gist of the video is that it's a open letter to Chappell Roan (who is pro-Palestine), saying that Israelis aren't colonisers, because the Bible mentions that they built a temple in that area before others in Middle-East settled there. It seems like a questionable claim to me, and there are plenty of replies to the video disagreeing with him.
In Lemmy terms, everyone here is a 'Person', sending a 'Note' activity for the fediverse@lemmy.world 'Group'.
With Castopod, it classes your podcast as a 'Person', and each episode as a 'PodcastEpisode'.
If Castopod classed your podcast as a Group, the same as PeerTube does for video channels, then integration would be relatively easy. A Group for a podcast would make more sense to me, but FunkWhale have made similar decisions, probably due to the dominance of Mastodon within the Fediverse.
As mentioned, you could probably tag your episodes with the address of a pre-existing Group (e.g. a community on Lemmy), but that pre-supposes that Lemmy knows what to do with the 'PodcastEpisode' type (a quick look on their GitHub suggests that it currently doesn't)
(if it didn't already have it, Lemmy would fed this out with a 'fuckcars' hashtag, so it's not like you guys are completely free of all this hashtag malarkey).
It's a trade-off, I guess. Admittedly, there's not much benefit the user (though they could be warned via email if their account is going to be de-activated). There is however a benefit to the community, in that it can provide more reliable data to see if it's trending in popularity (a 100 extra users isn't significant if it thinks it has 30k users, but it moves the needle if that number is at a more realistic level).
That it displays in some views but not others though, reinforces (to me) that the problem is with the app, not the post. I'd gently suggest (to the person I originally replied to) that if something isn't displaying, the first thing to do is see what it looks like in a browser, and if that's okay, report the problem to the app author, not reply to the OP. We should all just be able to post stuff, without worrying about every feasible way that someone might want to view it.
I recognize most of the users there even in the big communities with over 30k members
Communities with 30k members could really do with pruning the completely inactive ones. It's not like there's any commercial reasons to pretend that places are busier than they actually are.
I think that's the fault of whatever app / frontend you are using. On OP's instance (which is just rendering HTML), and on the community's instance (using lemmy-ui), this file plays. In both cases, it's a bog-standard MP4 inside a VIDEO tag with a video/mp4 type. If - for example - you're using Sync, then that app also can't play MP4s hosted by Mastodon either.
The importance of the local feed shouldn't be underestimated - it's one of the reasons that the 'rglullis' communities have struggled (as discussed on https://lemmy.world/post/20236330)