Video yes. Text-only no, you would need an account on another platform for that.

https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/106617110297151132

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/3153

You could post a picture of text (with ALT text) from Pixelfed, though.

As I understand it, “the halls” got knocked out. He was “decked” by the “boughs of holly.”

All Pixelfed content is discoverable and followable up on Mastodon and has the benefit of allowing more attachments per post than Mastodon. So I would think for OPs use case of pushing media-focused content, without really needing the account to consume other peoples’ content, Pixelfed is a decent choice.

Is Facebook still a preinstalled non-removable system app?

Ever since the MS Surface I’ve been a big proponent of this sort of device convergence. Super excited to see this develop.

It’s literally rule 34 monster porn, but in print.

Bravdoe

2036 Could Be The Year of Linux!

why am I running a whole server stack when MPV can just directly play files from my NAS with zero setup

Because I want to watch the stuff on my TV, navigated with a remote.

https://howabout.no/

Aside from the hashtag hypothesis, there are multiple timelines on Mastodon: trending, local, and global for example. I’m assuming you didn’t suddenly accidentally start looking at a different timeline but still worth mentioning.

They… are … the same?

Are you looking at the drop-down for your comment? I’m taking about your account settings. Go to https://lemmy.zip/settings and there should be a list view for Languages that you can multi-select.

Posts and comments where the author doesn’t select a language use undetermined. So you need to also select that to see all those posts.

The language selection on a post/comment doesn’t alter how the content of the post or comment is published. It works in conjunction with the user-level language setting to filter what content other people see. So if you set the language to on your post to Spanish, then the only users who will see it are those who have added either Spanish or Undetermined to the Languages list in their user settings. For everyone who doesn’t have one of those two languages enabled in their settings your post/comment will simply not be displayed.

Just by keeping at it. Lots of posts don’t get a lot of comments, seems like a lot of lurkers. My front page only has one post with >10 comments and the rest are at 3 or fewer. But Reddit is still in the top ten more-visited web sites in the world. So can’t expect the same number of comments compared to the bigger subs there.

Because the Nazi’s were all in on trying to portray themselves as descendants of the Vikings, upon whom they attributed a white supremacist philosophy that never existed. Going so far as inventing their own runes to mix in with Futhark, and also various icons that aren’t found in any Viking-age artifacts or described in the surviving writings. Modern-day white supremacists have continued this appropriation. So for certain kinds of imagery, a lot of people will just automatically assume you might be a white supremacist. A good tattoo shop should double-check requested elements, to make sure something doesn’t slip through, but as a client you definitely want to research everything you’re getting regardless of the shop.

I learned to make straw yule bocks and got a non-Nazi Nordic-themed tattoo. I have Norwegian ancestry from both parents.

This is the one thing I really think Fediverse needs. I shouldn’t have to have a separate identity for each of Lemmy/Mastodon/Pixelfed/Mbin/Piefed/blahblahblah. In theory, ATproto has the PDS which holds your identity and posts and you can host independent from the rest of the platform. In practice, shenanigans on Bluesky over the last few days are showing that even with Blacksky, they are still centrally dependent on the main instance. There’s been quite a few Bsky users picking up on Mastodon, either new accounts or reviving old ones.

I don’t think I’ve tried a client that doesn’t. I just assumed they all do at this point.

This makes as much sense to me as complaining about people who “choose” to become gambling addicts or who “choose” to become homeless or who “choose” to engage in self harm, it just doesn’t work like that.

I can’t think of a single person I know who was disenfranchised out of voting. But I know multiple people who simply choose not to. The two most common reasons are “my vote doesn’t matter” and “none of the candidates represent my principles.” That is why I emphasize things like AOC and Mamdani, where the established campaigned hard against them but the voters turned up and beat the establishment. And why I point out that people can turn in a ballot with races left unselected as a way to protest the candidates while still being counted. And I emphasize doing so in the primaries, because that is when we are most able to take such a principled vote just to select the best candidate to nominate. Seriously, 2024 primaries, no state reached 40% turnout.

https://statesunited.org/resources/voter-turnout-since-2000/

So 60% of the eligible voters sat out and didn’t bother with any of the downstream races for US Senators, US House Representatives, State legislators, Governors, Lieutenant Governors, Attorneys General, judges (in Texas), city councils, school boards, etc. And then they say they’re not voting in the election because the candidates suck. Well fuck me my dudes, you had a chance to speak and you didn’t!

But even with that low turnout, like 4% of the Democratic ballots cast had “Uncommitted” for the presidential race. and that received massive news coverage, leading to [I believe] the first time a sitting President dropped out of the election after winning the primary (yes I know, no real challengers ran in the primaries). So it’s an excellent talking point to slap down in front of people who say their vote doesn’t matter or they don’t like the candidates. If we could get primaries up to the same turnout as the actual election, and all those previously non-voting ballots were “Uncommitted.” There’s no way that wouldn’t have a massive response in the candidates.

If people are “choosing” not to participate in your democracy either there’s a problem with your democracy

There is definitely many things wrong with our democracy.

they’re in some kind of self destructive pattern that is almost certainly not going to be improved by criticism.

That is why I try to be clear that I am only taking issue with people who are eligible to vote and are freely and deliberately choosing not to. Minorities who are being disenfrachised, people who have health issues (mental or physical), they need the rest of us to step up and defend their rights.

Moreover, how we define our problems leads directly to the sorts of solutions we end up with. If the problem is bad leaders, we can replace those leaders, and if it’s a bad system we fix that system, but if the problem is that many of our voters are bad people that starts suggesting the best solution is we just stop trying to involve them in the process and just ditch the whole democracy thing altogether, and that’s something I oppose almost as much as I oppose fascism/supremacist movements/genocide.

I don’t think they’re bad people for not voting. I think they’ve been conditioned and/or propagandized (like that Boomer Doomer guy) and they need to be convinced that their votes do matter, can make a difference, and they can simultaneously protest vote and be counted.___