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anyway from my brief time on this one friendica instance it seems that there's not really any way/expectation to flag things as being Very Problematic or to get any idea of what's blessed by the admins or whatever. Having your CoC be "This is a friendly place!" isn't very helpful and so far Friendica seems like it's really just trying to be Facebook But Decentralized.

As always, the actual problem with Facebook isn't that it's centralized.

Really wish there were a way to peek at an instance's timeline before signing up.

I just went through the rigamarole of finding a Friendica public instance, signing up for it, going through the whole song-and-dance to activate my account, and then looked at the timeline to see a flood of alt-right bullshit. Sigh.

@valrus @y6nH oh yeah, aquafaba is useful for a lot of stuff. It's generally a serviceable eggwhite substitute, although the stuff that comes in cans of commercially-prepared beans tends to have a bunch of salt and other flavoring agents in it which make it less desirable for that purpose.

@idesofmerch Do what feels good. Both approaches have merit.

The bean slime will add some starch and thickness but also some salt.

Apples are mal-icious

@anonny125 I like the take that all of the previous games were just the fantasy stories told by the people in BotW as they tried to piece together the weird artifacts that Link and Zelda found.

@porsupah gosh, I’m glad that’s an option for them but also deeply saddened that it’s an option they have to take.

And I say this as someone who went down that path in 2004, after researching it starting in the late 90s. Haven’t things gotten better since then?!

@x51 @somarasu peertube is overkill and the federation has been overrun by nazis. Better to just do static file hosting and run a script that converts your videos to HLS using FFMPEG, which is the only valuable part of what peertube does for self-hosting.

@craigmaloney @cb yeah bandcamp doesn’t charge the band for hosting, but they discourage $0 downloads by putting limits on them (which are based on the amount of revenue you’ve generated). It’s totally fair (and if your release is pay-what-you-want then there will generally be enough “tips” sent to keep you under the limit), but if you want to make a release totally free-not-even-tips, putting it on archive.org as well is a good idea.

@JennyFluff EXIF data would be the way to go about doing that but as you say, support for it is limited and inconsistent, and most things specifically strip it out for privacy (see the recent Parler privacy hilarity for why that’s a good idea in general).

Unfortunately there’s no general mechanism for out-of-band metadata to stick with a file, so it’s all up to the file itself to carry it along, and for tools to use it properly.

@anthracite @frameacloud same, also Musicbrainz can help with the tagging.