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Andrew

@ andrew_s @piefed.social

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  • Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store

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  • He's posted before that Day 1 sales covered the cost the device itself, so a decent chuck of everything after that will have been pure profit. It was probably always doomed, what with YouTube being YouTube, so it doesn't look like he's too shaken up about it.

  • A sorcerer appears and states that they will erase any one song from existence - which song would you choose?

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  • Hello sorcerer. Please erase "Man, I feel like a woman" by Shania Twain. It annoys me anyway, but it not like it makes being a woman sound especially inspiring either ("Colour my hair, do what I dare" - woah, slow down there Shania!). Thanks.

  • Lemmy federation protocol: How is the "posts from all communities" view sourced?

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  • Yeah. There's no wildcard call. One thing you could do to script it would be pull JSONs from https://data.lemmyverse.net - use one for the initial effort, then subsequent ones to track new communities. You'd definitely want to filter it - as you've noticed the vast majority of that 30k are dead or spam or something you wouldn't want for one reason or another (e.g. communities from instances you've defederated from).

    As for what bots do, it depends on how they were programmed I suppose. There's a bonkers one on https://leaf.dance that just seems to crawl comments and subscribe to any ! links it finds, but there are others (I can't remember their names) where it's more of a manual job (the mods of a community submit the details to it).

  • Lemmy federation protocol: How is the "posts from all communities" view sourced?

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  • is it in reality not “all” but only “all posts that at least one user of this instance is subscribed to”?

    Exactly this, yes. Not literally 'all' (a brand new instance would have nothing in its All feed). This is what was meant by 'partial data set' - everything for a subscribed community (from the moment it was subscribed to), but nothing for a community that no-one's subscribed to.

    Some instances run bots to populated their All feed more than what would happen naturally (with the idea being that the bot unsubscribes when a human does)

  • Movie(s) with best soundtrack?

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  • Since you've broadened it out to TV, I'll use that as an excuse and mention that I think Nicholas Britell's score for Andor is pretty cracking too.

  • Looking for an app to reorganize my old MP3 collection

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  • I use beets for exactly this.

  • GitHub - WinampDesktop/winamp: Iconic media player

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  • Crikey - it was only added a few hours ago and it's already all kicking off on their GitHub's Issues page.

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    How to ask Lemmy for a new Feature?

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  • where did you know about lemmy and why did you start using it

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  • Tildes website if you're interested.

  • What are your favorite examples of 'media within media' (e.g., shows, stories, or movies inside of other shows or books)?

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  • The "I'd buy that for a dollar!" guy from Robocop.

  • Follow posts and comments to be notified of new comments?

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  • Very late reply - the 'app' at the moment is just a PWA, so it requires a manual check

  • Are there any communities dedicated to product reviews?

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  • All the other comments except from that one are from alien.top (Reddit users turned into bots), which your instance is defederated from.

  • If you use Mbin, what's the difference between a thread and a post?

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  • Yeah - if you don't like a post you 'reduce' it, and if you do then you 'thicken' it.

    Only kidding: they use 'favourites'

  • If you use Mbin, what's the difference between a thread and a post?

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  • They call them 'reduces'

  • If you use Mbin, what's the difference between a thread and a post?

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  • I'm guessing it's an artifact of them supporting both platforms like Lemmy (who's users make Threads and Comments in Magazines) and platforms like Mastodon (who's users make Posts and Replies in Microblogs).

    If you don't like that, you're really not going to like what they call downvotes ...

  • Matrix let-down

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  • In my experience it looks like a case of matrix clients not doing a good job of communicating that things happening in the background haven't finished yet, and throwing generic error messages (a bit like lemmy-ui does sometimes).

    I've been able to join invite-only rooms on other instances - it said 'failed' at first, but when I went back later it turned out that I had actually joined.

  • Post upvotes are like github stars

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  • Yeah, it's the strange thing about engaging post titles - people seem to be so busy answering them, they 'forget' to also upvote them. In contrast, a meme that's funny but about which there's not much to say, is more likely to get an upvote as some kind of compensation for the lack of discussion.