aka freamon@lemmy.world, freamon@feddit.nl, and any username from lemmon.website

This account is currently parked, and I’m using https://piefed.social/u/andrew_s

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Cake day: July 17th, 2023

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  • Mmmm. It’s the instance that people are on on that’s doing (or not doing) much of the work there. If you comment on a post, the instance will send 1 copy to me (who’s responsible for federating it out to other Lemmy instances) and 1 copy to Mastodon for the post’s author.

    If you reply to a Lemmy comment, it doesn’t send it to Mastodon because it’s not for the author (in much the same way that you don’t get replies to replies in your inbox if you’re the OP of a Lemmy post). For local posts, both Mastodon and Lemmy show the local comment tree, but neither can show every Fediverse interaction because they never hear about them.

    Likewise, if you reply to a Mastodon comment, your instance will send it to the comment author, but not the post author, so won’t appear anywhere under their post.

    As for Mastodon comments on Lemmy … it depends. I follow some accounts, so when I post them to Lemmy, top-level comments come through automatically (again, though, I never hear about replies to replies). Other content is just stuff I’ve seen and grabbed. I often post the existing replies, but not if they’ve turned Authorized Fetch on, and I don’t typically go back and check for more later.









  • I think it’s difficult to know where we really are in the release cycle for this console, as it’s been disrupted so much by initial unavailability and COVID. Normally, we’d be due a Pro version this year, but it could be this year, it could be next year, it could be never.

    Last generation I was happy with a standard PS4 until I played Control, and could see that it was struggling. I’m not sure there’s any PS5 games that are known to stress the hardware, and would do anything with the extra resources.

    I’d buy one now if I were you. Worse case scenario: you’ll want to trade it in for an upgrade in a year or two.




  • I don’t think catbox.moe has the bandwidth lately.

    It works, but it plays slowly (It took 90 seconds to download all 17.5 MB directly, which is longer than the gif lasts).

    I’ve been playing around with animated WEBP files. These are much more efficient than gifs (the linked WEBP is about 330KB), but am having a hard time making them work for Lemmy.

    Option 1: upload them directly to Lemmy, they get auto-recompressed and then often look like garbage
    Option 2: direct-link to external host, Lemmy copies it in and auto-recompresses it with the same effect
    Option 3: URL-link to an external host, which then people are reluctant to click
    Option 4: Include as an inline link in the body of a post, then it looks like a text post, and support for it is variable among web clients and mobile apps