Notices by Weasel (weaselx86@mastodon.social), page 2

@Mary625
@feditips
I'm new to fediverse also, so I'm not sure exactly, but I have an idea. It thinks you're not logged in, because my link you followed points to my account on mastodon.social, and you're on newsie.social.

Let's see if this works: can you click on my username at the top of this post and get to my homepage? Then click on my "Threads of poetry and lyrics", then "Threads of lyrics" at the bottom of that, then finally the "Insurrection Breath" link?

@Mary625
That doesn't seem right. What happens? Are the boost and like buttons greyed out for you?

@Mary625
Insurrection Breath
(To the tune of Locomotive Breath)

[thread]
https://mastodon.social/@weaselx86/110654214305215039

@feditips
I tried to reproduce the problem last night (leaving the tab open and idle for several hours) with the console open including the "network" option enabled. It did not recur.

But today there were not any omitted ("...") posts, either, which was part of what happened yesterday. (I don't really think that is likely to have had anything to do with it, but I don't know)

Until it happens again I'll assume it was a transient problem, probably load-related.

@feditips
That could be the same problem, though in that description the user was trying to post, whereas I was merely trying to read posts.

@feditips
Yes, if I correctly understand slow mode to mean I have to click on the "51 new items" at the top of my "Home" page to have them appear. That was the first click I did after several hours idle. The second click was on the "...", which resulted in the "rate limit" message.

(I think setting slow mode was what I did the other day to make it come back to the same spot I was reading when returning "Back" from drilling down into a post.)

@feditips
Yes.
(Firefox on Linux)

@feditips
On mastodon.social, after several hours away from my browser for sleep, I returned to see 51 new notifications pending. I clicked on that and a bunch of them appeared, but some were missing, replaced with "...".

When I reached the first "..." I clicked there and got some message at the bottom-left of my screen saying "Rate Limited, try back in [5 minutes]".

Why? Is that a bug? It seems pretty ridiculous to "rate limit" me for two clicks in eight hours...

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[thread]
https://mastodon.social/@weaselx86/110735532603549131

@feditips
For verification, what field do I put the link with rel="me" into on my github profile page?

@feditips
I figured out how to verify my mastodon account from my github profile page. There were two problems, solved thus:

(1) Just put the simple mastodon page URL into the github profile "webpage" field; do NOT use the html source mastodon gives you on the profile/verify page.

(2) After doing (1), delete the github URL from the mastodon profile and then re-add it, to force it to try again to find the link in the github page.

@feditips
Thanks, that works.
Is this sort of thing documented somewhere I could read to find other similar tricks?

@feditips
How do I search for all of my own posts (only) with some particular hashtag? E.g.

@weaselx86 and #lyrics

@feditips
I've been trying to reproduce this; it doesn't happen every time.

It only seems to happen when new material appears at the top of the feed while I'm clicked down into a post.

And it doesn't go all the way up to the top, unless I was near the top to begin with. Maybe it is moving up the feed the same distance as the amount of new material that was added to the top.

I think this might be why Twitter changed to make you click to see new tweets at the top of the feed.

@feditips
Firefox web browser on Linux at https://mastodon.social

@feditips
After clicking down from my Home page into a post, when I'm done and click the "Back" button, how do I get it to take me back where I was, rather than resetting me to the top of the (now updated) Home page?