thegiddystitcher @ thegiddystitcher @lemm.ee

Proud multicrafter, making cool stuff and all over the Fediverse like a ras

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I'm completely with you on this, LD is clearly a hit with a lot of people and that makes me happy to see, but the show is just not for me. The characters are indeed way too hyper all the time which is tiring to watch, and I think it's a shame because the concept and even a lot of the plots could be funny, but the characters never grow or change or become any less the absolute worst, so it's kind of a wasted opportunity.

Anyway I'm not replying to dunk on LD. It's a tv show and I don't personally like it, whatever. I am replying to ask if you've tried The Orville.

Go with me here, because I assumed it was going to be just more of the kiddie style humour like LD. And it sort of is at first, so on my first attempt I bounced off the first episode and didn't go back for a year. But we seem to have basically the same taste when it comes to Trek and I can honestly say The Orville turned into some of the best Trek I've seen. It's got its weak points and annoying characters like anything else, but they're a bit more like real people who change over time based on their experiences and aren't just stuck in that typical animated show loop of being exactly the same again at the start of each new episode.

You might like it, you might not. Just a suggestion! :)

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Sure, I'm in

Yeah it works fine, once you know that's how it works. But I expect a lot of creators would be like me and assume the account name is just the account name, and videos will show as published by the channel name. So more of a PSA that everything gets published by your account and to be aware of that when setting things up :D

Thanks! It doesn't seem to have shown up on the PeerTube side sadly (neither in my notifications nor on the video itself). But let's see if it makes its way over there given enough time :)

It means as far as I'm aware, that ain't happening. You'd have to follow from something that supports following users (Mastodon is the obvious, but does Kbin do this? 🤷‍♀️)

It's because they're a user, not a community. Lemmy doesn't let us follow users (at least not yet).

Yeah the account vs channel thing was confusing as a new creator signing up there. On Mastodon you can follow either, but the videos are always posted by the account first and then just boosted by the channel.

Following an account means you're automatically subbed to all the person's channels so most prefer to do that anyway, whereas obviously following just a channel is just that channel. This has the vaguely amusing side effect of making channel sub counts absolutely tiny, even if the account has a lot of followers.

I kind of get the impression accounts were supposed to be analogous to YT channels, and channels to YT playlists. But then there's playlists too so honestly it's a bit of a mess. If any future PeerTube creators are reading this just make sure your account name is the actual brand! Don't make the same mistake I did lol.

Short answer: yes. But as with most things the exact mechanism depends on where you're at.

For example most people following my PeerTube account are on Mastodon. Those people see my videos straight in their Mastodon feed and can comment and favourite and boost as normal. Comments and favourites show up on the PeerTube side pretty flawlessly. The videos also show up in a hashtag search from Mastodon servers where I have a follower. Everything just works, it's great for discoverability.

On Lemmy, you can subscribe to a PeerTube channel (not a whole account, as far as I'm aware), but it doesn't seem to work as smoothly. For example here's my channel viewed through my Lemmy instance, lemm.ee. It shows up as a community in my subscriptions list, and new videos show up both in subscriptions feed and in All.

HOWEVER, as you can see there, new videos just sort of stopped federating a month ago. If we view it through lemmy.world instead, there are more recent videos but again not all of them, and some older videos are showing up with more recent dates.

Neither Lemmy server seem to be pulling in comments, just the videos themselves. I've not tested whether comments left here actually make it back to PeerTube.

So TLDR there probably is a way to view them on Kbin as well, I'm not sure what the exact mechanism to search for them would be but do bear in mind federation might not be super slick. If you're on Mastodon though, that's great for sticking all your PT subs into a list and having it all just right there.

I get that you saw a perceived problem and you're trying to fix it. I get that what you've built is cool on a technical level and it probably feels really terrible to have people be so negative about it. So first of all, none of this is personal at all. But I feel this comment illustrates exactly where the problem lies.

You want to "help people migrate away from Reddit". But I'm not sure what makes you think people need "help" at all, I mean if someone wants to stop using a platform they can just stop using the platform. I was a heavy Reddit user and was in plenty of tiny niche subreddits, but so what? I wanted to leave so I left.

So maybe the real problem is that so many people don't want to leave Reddit, and that disappoints you, and you want to try and convince them that they do? This I could definitely understand, but trying to convince someone you know what they want better than they do themselves is not generally a great tactic.

Most people will just stick with whatever the "best" platform is in terms of showing them content they want to see, and are slow to move to the next thing once the one they're on starts sucking. So if you really want to put your dev skills to use it would make more sense to get stuck in with Lemmy itself and help increase the pace of improvements. A lot of us are happy here, but a lot of people also bounced off due to the jank. And the more we can reduce that bounce rate, the more we can keep people around, the more we're in a position to capitalise whenever the next big wave of newbies hits.

Making stuff! Fibre crafts, gamedev, general tinkering. Occasional drawing despite being lifelong terrible at it. Making stuff for no real reason other than enjoyment of it is what life's all about!

The person who runs this whole thing was in here recently with a new "recommended alternatives to subreddits" tool. Conveniently failing to mention that the recommended communities they'd seeded it with were full of bots. So clearly given they weren't up front at all in that post they're aware it's not an appealing prospect to most people but are attempting to trick us into joining and talking into a bot-void anyway.

Honestly I'm very glad to see this thread. Saw the original comment this morning and was thoroughly bemused, it's probably been weighing on my subconscious all day.

I've never stopped believing in you, Pluto ❤️

In fairness I think that's because people make multiple posts rather than just using the crosspost feature. But some mobile apps don't have crosspost yet, so here we are.

I was going to suggest you might have bot posts turned off, as that seems to confuse the UI. But the other reply is not from a bot, and it's not a federation thing either since you and I are on the same instance and I see it just fine. Interesting!

On Mastodon I do have two accounts for my two main interests. But each account has some kind of "event" it joins in with once a week, that's different to the usual content. For those days I just use lists to create custom feeds and switch between them as necessary, no reason you couldn't expand that system to follow your ever-changing whims. (Edit: and now that you can exclude the members of a list from your home feed it's got even better)

Tbh on Reddit I'd never even heard of multireddits despite using the site for like a decade. Not sure how that one slipped by me. But turns out it is a useful feature, so until we get it built in to Lemmy core I keep the Summit app installed on my phone and have some custom multicommunities set up on there for the weekly event stuff too.

Not the slickest solutions in the world (especially the Lemmy once since it makes it phone-only). But technically this is already something you have a decent amount of control over if you put the time into setting it up.

CityStrides! It gets very confused if you don't actually live in a city, ours wants us to complete our entire county, but it's still fun anyway.

Studies suggest that autistic folks would be much more likely to stick to their morals. So there's that.

Went here on an unexpected holiday diversion over summer. It's genuinely the most beautiful place I have ever seen in real life. Weak mojitos, though.

(also technically not a fjord)