Some background on this comic:

Hell yeah, it’ll be nice to have an answer other than “🤷” for people that want embedded loops 👍

Wow, that was quick, amazing! 🥳

Cool, that’s good to hear. The good news is that if it comes down to parsing the HTML, that’s pretty straightforward. I’ve been poking at it, and it’s nice and semantic (gets turned into a regular <video> element by JS:

<video-player
    poster-src="https://loopsusercontent.com/videos/85319640150794240/96649242004583579/8yjZniSLk64lxIPomBfUzr5SwMXRKGWXyHpTLruN.jpg"
    video-src="https://loopsusercontent.com/videos/85319640150794240/96649242004583579/8yjZniSLk64lxIPomBfUzr5SwMXRKGWXyHpTLruN.720p.mp4"
    username="thomasdorr"
    profile-picture="https://loopsusercontent.com/avatars/85319640150794240/v0.jpg"
    caption="Snowing in #DuluthMN"
    tags=""
    likes="8"
    comments="1"
    />

And hopefully it’ll get open source soon or have some way of filing bugs/feature requests. I saw that the dev created https://joinloops.org/ and is planning on putting a roadmap there soon.

Neat! Since it’s come up a lot in !loops@midwest.social, are there any plans on having loops embed as well? Do you know if that’s something the Lemmy devs would support once for everyone, or would every client have to add support for it?

Yeah, “flesh” is just such weird wording though. Like saying “reduces meat”

“Reduces flesh” is such odd wording. Whose flesh? What flesh?

What makes it nonsense?

Since I tried searching for the URL and didn’t find it, but happened to see this thread, you can see more info and sign up here:

https://surf.social/

join-lemmy.org should really just have a “Join Lemmy” button that load balances between whatever general-purpose instances opt-in to being defaults. Then there should be a “Wait, I care about which server I join!” button that does the existing UX flow.

It should also default to not showing the weirder instances like hexbear or lemmygrad. That’s going to turn a lot of people off.

C is definitely still king, but I wonder if crABI will eventually be able to dethrone it:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/111423

If they can define a useful ABI that manages to include lifetimes, that might just be enough of an improvement to get people to switch over from assuming the C ABI everywhere.

What don’t you like about Cargo? Is there another package manager you like more?

Yeah, it’s totally not ready for that amount of influx. To be fair, it’s not even out of beta. I don’t think even the dev would claim it’s ready for that scale yet. Hopefully it’ll be ready the next time an event like that happens

The cool kids are forcing people to read this at gunpoint nowadays

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_the_economy,_stupid

In elections, the economy is the base of the pyramid. Other things like trans rights or genocide of other people in another country are at the top of the triangle. Something you can sway voters with only if they feel the rest of the pyramid is stable for then. It would be nice if people as a whole could take a longer view of things, but we’re just advanced animals in the end

The new build 11 released yesterday lets you see only loops from people you follow. There’s also a “For You” option that I assume will eventually do what you’re looking for. Right now it shows loops sorted by newest, like before

Not going crazy. It’s always been intended to be part of the Fediverse, it’s just under heavy development and adding ActivityPub support is something the dev is working on right now.

TBH, I think this is a little counterproductive. It makes corporate social media seem like a delicious treat. Exhorting people to do the right thing like “eat your veggies” probably isn’t the best way to convince them. Something like this seems like a better comparison. Something bad for you and gross, but uses flashy marketing to convince you otherwise:

Copying my comment from the cross-post. Anyone here know enough about ActivityPub to know how much work it will be to make it interoperate nicely with Lemmy in addition to Mastodon?

Looks like it’s still a WIP. lemmy.world says that it can’t find the user, but my instance shows his profile:

https://midwest.social/u/dansup@loops.video

If you click on the full username, you get redirect to this page, which is the raw ActivityPub profile:

https://loops.video/ap/user/1

{
  "@context": [
    "https://w3id.org/security/v1",
    "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
    {
      "toot": "http://joinmastodon.org/ns",
      "manuallyApprovesFollowers": "as:manuallyApprovesFollowers",
      "indexable": "toot:indexable"
    }
  ],
  "id": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1",
  "type": "Person",
  "following": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1/following",
  "followers": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1/followers",
  "inbox": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1/inbox",
  "outbox": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1/outbox",
  "preferredUsername": "dansup",
  "name": "dansup",
  "summary": "",
  "url": "https://loops.video/@dansup",
  "manuallyApprovesFollowers": true,
  "indexable": false,
  "published": "2024-06-06T10:30:00+00:00",
  "publicKey": {
    "id": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1#main-key",
    "owner": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1",
    "publicKeyPem": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA1zzC7XBF81lhJV1o47AA\n9JgguOxygANanxzRUaGOA7BUC9kAWbXI2CoQtzVBTGRiSaiy84d8UgdKQOiAT49m\nmmPdkdnb7zeL7PUKVucv5ppxL5pjXvx11FfYDOIvy52TxjirDIEhvSCiau3BSYf7\nvXtIgsoGnVTkDaStoDauDMfEPGnf6E7eCWHKPOkbeuxF3B3k/Mz2qEmg2MXxegt/\njE4Y75E0BiPs+GeCcYBwri6QddGlQlfveUmj5ZGN2AZGaZdZBNE4FlvJK14GIiTi\n/xT1rYJgwEViFSvGdqXXeRWcWth6UzyzzQrUARLniAf9xcFyYFdx6oJmI3Mu4EWd\nMwIDAQAB\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n"
  },
  "icon": {
    "type": "Image",
    "mediaType": "image/jpeg",
    "url": "https://loopsusercontent.com/avatars/1/v0.jpg"
  }
}

Based on the mention of toots and mastodon, I’m guessing he’s focusing on that first. Hopefully interoperability with Lemmy will come quickly though. Being able to embed loops as posts would be really nice.

Yeah, I’ve been posting a few of the other ones, they all come from this book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prehistory_of_The_Far_Side