Your instance rejects Follow requests from instances not on your ‘Allow list’, which is a pretty small list.

Edit: the list has since been expanded.

This is a great list. Note, though, that lemmyverse.net (and by extension, !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl) are less useful at the current moment than before because lemmyverse needs an update before it can crawl the increasing numbers of instances on 0.19.4 or above.

Please use your mander account to inform OP that their instance is wildly behind .world - see here

The delay and eventual deletion of comments and votes will have an obvious effect on mander’s “hot” and “active” algos.

If you look at this post on mander, it’s not got any of the comments, so there’s no point anyone using a .world community to answer OP’s question.

That’s great to hear. There’s zero API at the moment though, let alone a stable one. PieFed is a monolith, without the backend / front-end split that necessitates an API.

It easy to add one, pending the addition of some missing features and a code reorganization that needs to happen anyway. At that point, hopefully some interested app developers will also be involved, to shape the API into something they may wish that other app’s APIs were like.

There seems to be some decent channels that are local to that instance (some PeerTube integration was recently added to PieFed, so I’m going by the list on this post ). From there, you can watch stuff from other instances, if course.

I think it’s more just for discovery. They provide a guide here which recommends https://tilvids.com/ as a PeerTube instance you can sign up with.

https://fedi.video/ has organised a bunch of channels into playlists that has some crossover with your topic list.

It probably is. I’d tried Mastodon but found myself not going back. Phanpy re-invigorated my interest in it.

Thanks for this. I tried to watch a video from ‘shifter’ but there never seems to be enough bandwidth (even on 360p). I can see other people have managed though, so maybe it’s a location thing (I’m in the UK)

Accounts (which contain the private key that signs the headers in your posts, and the public key to verify) are required for ActivityPub to work.

https://fedi.video is a useful resource.

I’ve already added !andybalaam_lectures@diode.zone and !doc@peertube.biz to PieFed.

(Lemmy users may be interested to know that the Tesseract frontend also embeds the videos)

You can look at the git logs for any open-source project if you want to feel better about it: there’s usually a regular pattern of:
do this for all the things.
Followed by either:
hang on, wait. Not *all* the things.
Or:
Missed these out of all the things

Oh, okay. Citing the specs is a good argument killer.

There’s a Closed Issue relating to this at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3540
From there you can navigate to the right place to open a new Issue if you want.

Oh right, yeah. I was thinking more of the images that people link to with posts. Lemmy currently sends those out, with

"attachment": [
    {
      "href": "https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e798447e-a79f-45b2-b3da-3aa669cbc0e5.png",
      "type": "Link"
    }
  ]

But there’s nowhere in entire JSON for any alt-text. The plan is to add alt-text as a ‘name’ in there.

In-line images do prove a point for the OP, though. A Lemmy comment with one will be sent out as
<img src=\"[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9d483052-29b6-4d34-baaf-3ee092be9718.png\](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9d483052-29b6-4d34-baaf-3ee092be9718.png\)" alt=\"bear vs man in woods meme\" /> in the ‘content’ field, but Mastodon expects all images to be attachments, so it just completely ignores it. (compare https://lemmy.zip/comment/10342640 with https://mastodon.social/@Honytawk@lemmy.zip/112438348076482957)..)

That’s arguably the expected behaviour - for a discussion, ‘link’ effectively takes you to the comments, for an article (or a link to a image), it takes you there instead.

You could use ‘guid’ instead - that always links to the post on Lemmy, and it usually contains a useful thing on other sites’ RSS feeds.

That sounds like a tricky combination. Wherever you go, they’ll be a good chunk of users who are unaware of / indifferent to how well the app they’re using interacts with other Fediverse platforms. Mastodon has the userbase, and - as you say - is the place where the serious discussion of accessibility takes place.

As for Lemmy - it doesn’t yet support alt-text, but when it does, I believe that the plan is to follow Mastodon’s format (i.e. a ‘name’ field in the ‘attachment’ array)

Oh, right. Sorry. I’ve gone back and checked the post I was thinking of when I made that comment, and - yeah - it turns out I was misremembering / didn’t properly investigate the first time.

Yeah - I think anything the UI is doing, it’s getting the info from the API, so the poster would’ve had to use the ‘cross-post’ feature. There are some apps (e.g. Voyager) that try to wrangle cross-posts by title or URL, but title-matching can give false postives, and URL-matching usually assumes that one link hasn’t picked up some cruft, and it can’t do much for uploaded images if the poster didn’t cross-post (because it’ll be 2 different files with different URLs)

Pièces?