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   Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 21:47:47 JST Eugen Rochko

   • かき@GNUsocialJP

   Photographers and artists rejoice—just like in the official iOS and Android apps, pictures are no longer cropped to 16:9 on the web version of Mastodon. Link previews have also gotten a face lift, and will now show both the article date and author when available.

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     Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 21:51:38 JST Terence Eden

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     @Gargron looking really nice! It is picking up my blog's metadata perfectly.

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     Wonder of Science (wonderofscience@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 21:53:26 JST Wonder of Science

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     @Gargron I notice media is now showing included with toots in the notifications on the web, can this be toggled?

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     Chris Bond (vibracobra23@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 21:56:53 JST Chris Bond

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     @Gargron Link previews/cards look really nice and clean now. More informative too!

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     Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐 (rliblog@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 22:07:06 JST Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐

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     @Gargron That's why my links have huge thumbnails now.. Thank you 🥰 .

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     Leonardo Di Ottio (leonardodiottio@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 22:12:08 JST Leonardo Di Ottio

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     @Gargron Will link previews support WebP and AVIF?

     That’s becoming a bigger issue by the day as more sites choose to use those image formats for og:image and the Mastodon server doesn’t understand those.

     https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14983

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 22:19:49 JST FediTips has moved!

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     @Gargron

     What happens if it's a really tall image, will it take up a huge amount of the timeline or is there a limit?

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 22:26:06 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Xucaen ☮️💚🌿

     @Xucaen

     That's what concerns me :/ I can see why people want to move outside 16:9 but you'd think there would be some kind of limit?

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     Xucaen ☮️💚🌿 (xucaen@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 22:26:07 JST Xucaen ☮️💚🌿

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     • FediTips has moved!

     @feditips
     That's an obnoxiously tall image 😅

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     Liz Ellis She/Her🌳 (lizellisphd@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 23:37:37 JST Liz Ellis She/Her🌳

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     @Gargron oh, so this is why I have to now scroll to see a whole picture on my desktop? Very cool [/s]

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     mediocrequalitymeme (mediocrequalitymeme@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 23:48:05 JST mediocrequalitymeme

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     @Gargron awesome, just slap a limit on the max height so troll pictures get folded (click to unfold) and it’s perfect

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     Jef Poskanzer (jef@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 01:14:10 JST Jef Poskanzer

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     @Gargron Nice, thanks.

     For image previews, any chance we could get the 🔍↗ widget moved to a corner of the image?

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 01:54:56 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • ⁂Krafty⁂

     @tkk13909 @Gargron

     Yeah, this is more what I expected to happen. Otherwise trolls could sabotage timelines quite easily if there's really no limit at all?

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     ⁂Krafty⁂ (tkk13909@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 01:54:57 JST ⁂Krafty⁂

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     • FediTips has moved!

     @feditips @Gargron I like what #tusky does:

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     kcǃ (exkclamation@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 02:24:18 JST kcǃ

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     @Gargron fantastic news! Thank you

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     Brandon Taitt (btaitt@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 02:51:27 JST Brandon Taitt

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     @Gargron I mean, cool, but a more public response to the Stanford study of disproportionate amounts of CSAM on Mastodon instances seems maybe more important? https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23806093/mastodon-csam-study-decentralized-network

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     esch (dazedbwoy@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 02:55:58 JST esch

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     @Gargron please address the issue with the GIFs, as they currently display as videos, and the player used for videos is outdated by today's standards.

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     запаскобас (philgal@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 05:58:45 JST запаскобас

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     @Gargron thanks! in genera it would be nice if the platform became a photographers-friendly, so people could also move from instagram. For example, there it’s not possible to view high-res images. Posting some food - sure, enjoying art - meh.

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     Raoul (tejuino@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 14:31:04 JST Raoul

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     @Gargron I really like what you did with news articles — showing the headline in a more attention-grabbing format. It looks cool!

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 19:33:24 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Mark Dilley

     @MarkDilley @tkk13909 @Gargron

     It's a good question. And some people do genuinely create very tall artworks, some webcomics use a tall format for example.

     They assume however that the image will be displayed in a non-disruptive way. I don't know what will happen if every tall image is displayed uncropped and full width.

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     Mark Dilley (markdilley@union.place)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 19:33:25 JST Mark Dilley

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     • ⁂Krafty⁂

     @tkk13909 @Gargron @feditips several years ago, there was a meme shared on da’book- that did this and people felt like it was trolling. I didn’t, just playing with affordances. With this graphic, and the intensity of information presented, will people feel like it is trolling?

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 19:35:09 JST FediTips has moved!

     • Carolyn

     @CStamp @Gargron

     They removed that option, it seems. It used to be there on the previous version.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 19:39:53 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • ProtectiveHen

     @bok_bok_ba_gok @Gargron

     That was a highly misleading article. Mastodon isn't a network, it's thousands of independent sites.

     It's like the world wide web, you wouldn't hold Tim Berners Lee responsible because there are shady websites. All he did was invent the technology that lets anyone create a website.

     If one server decides to do something terrible/illegal, the other servers block it and tell other servers to block it. That's why you cannot see these problematic servers from your server.

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     ProtectiveHen (bok_bok_ba_gok@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 19:39:54 JST ProtectiveHen

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     @Gargron Hoping we can address the child sexual abuse content issue that Washington Post recently revealed.

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     ProtectiveHen (bok_bok_ba_gok@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 19:38:12 JST ProtectiveHen

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     • FediTips has moved!

     @feditips @Gargron Thank you for this, Fedi.Tips, but it does seem like there should be more ways to in the federation to catch or block this type of material - it should be like Gab. Stuff like that on the www gets pushed to the dark web at least. We are at a moment when we have an opportunity to truly be a non-corporate option for many people. Dorsey, Musk and Zuck are moving to "don't remove, just don't amplify" approaches which seem somewhat similar.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 19:38:12 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • ProtectiveHen

     @bok_bok_ba_gok @Gargron

     "Stuff like that on the www gets pushed to the dark web at least."

     There's no such thing as the dark web, there's just the web.

     Anyone can create a website and put anything they want on it. The way to deal with nasty content is to block the site and report it to the authorities, who will hopefully take it offline.

     Unfortunately if a site is hosted in a country where that content is legal (which is the case in Japan), then the only option remaining is blocking it.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 19:39:36 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • ProtectiveHen

     @bok_bok_ba_gok

     Musk and Zuck are running centralised servers so they have complete technical control over content.

     There is no centralised service here, each server is totally independent and no one has control over it except its owner and the authorities in the country where it is hosted.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 22:26:23 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • ProtectiveHen
     • [Yaseenist] Nikola Orsinov [Joseph Grimaldi]

     @orsinov @bok_bok_ba_gok

     It would be like blaming Gmail for content on Yahoo Mail servers.

     The two servers are both on the email network, but neither of them has any control over what the other does.

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     [Yaseenist] Nikola Orsinov [Joseph Grimaldi] (orsinov@our.unknowing.dance)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 22:26:31 JST [Yaseenist] Nikola Orsinov [Joseph Grimaldi]

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     • ProtectiveHen

     @feditips@mstdn.social @bok_bok_ba_gok@mas.to
     
     Essentially, the article is like blaming zuckerberg that facebook users can still visit mastodon instances hosting csam
     
     It's like
     Well what is he supposed to do about it?
     Well what are we supposed to do about it?
     The CSAM is not on our servers, is it?