RxBrad

I get that you can technically post to Lemmy with Mastodon.

But, man, is it messy.

If you’re playing games, I’d actually recommend sticking to 640x480 if at all possible, and trying to increase the font size in any UIs you have running so they’re readable.

Most game consoles ran at odd resolutions that don’t divide evenly into 320x240, so you get weird scaling issues. I’ve had best results running at 640x480; setting a custom viewport in Retroarch & manually adjusting the x & y resolutions to fit the screen for each system; and then applying the sharp-bilinear-2x-prescale shader to every system.

If you’re in the US, I’d stick to NTSC 60fps. If you’re elsewhere like Europe, you’ll likely use PAL 50fps.

It’s likely that your HDMI adapter is probably converting whatever signal you pump into it to 480i, so I’d just pick whatever looks best between progressive and interlaced.

One nice thing about smaller instances… Fewer people to bully the admin into constantly defederating the Monster of the Week.

It seems like the bigger the instance, the more posts you see like this.

Even DISALLLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED_API_ACCESS can be easily bypassed by creating a client that logs into mastodon.social (for example), and just gobbles up the Federated feed.

It’s what the FediBuzz relays are now doing in order to keep single-user instances viable and not funnel everyone to the same 3 instances.

Unfortunately, if Meta wants to be shitty, they’ll be shitty. Even stuff like robots.txt & nofollow tags are just polite requests that can be ignored by shitheads.

Honestly, that looks about right for 800x600 content on a CRT TV.

Try bumping it down at least to 640x480. You may even need to go all the way down to 320x240. Really.

This was life in the 80s & 90s.

When I tagged them yesterday, I also browsed over to the user page for @tag-cars@relay.fedi.buzz. By doing that, the account federated with the instance I use.

The account still shows as having no posts. So, my guess is that Boosts from Mastodon don’t actually carry forward into Lemmy.

In all reality, it’s just way cleaner & easier to do Lemmy stuff on a Lemmy client/website, and Mastodon stuff in a Mastodon client/website.

I think we’re gonna need a picture.

Sounds like you may not be particularly familiar with CRT TVs, which had much lower fidelity than VGA monitors of the era.

640x480 resolution is more along the lines of a target resolution you’d be aiming for. And even that is pushing the limits. You aren’t going to be seeing individual pixels unless you go down to 320x240, and even that’s with some squinting and imagination.

What you’re describing may be completely normal for a CRT TV. Particularly one using composite cables (yellow/red/white) at any point in the chain.

If it’s truly your own instance and you’re the admin, it’s actually a bit cleaner to use fedi.buzz relays. Posts get fed into your Federation feed, and you can follow hashtags like you would on a bigger instance.

https://relay.fedi.buzz/

If you’re using a proper Mastodon client, hashtag following is a built-in feature, also, without needing these accounts.

For most clients, you tap on a hashtag in a post, and then there’s usually a follow button somewhere on the screen (upper-right, usually)

There are hashtag bots that may accomplish what you’re after (assuming Boosts make their way to Lemmy).

For example, if you wanted to follow the #cars hashtag, you’d follow @tag-cars@relay.fedi.buzz

Swap out cars for whatever hashtag you want to follow.

If all you’re looking for is eloquence and footnotes, this person in this post’s comments already has you covered…

https://kbin.social/m/fediverse@lemmy.ml/t/410613/-/comment/2032665

Without jumping through flaming hoops, though… does the “Threads” tab really ever talk to the “Microblog” tab? (aside from your kbin account being able to interface with both)

(I do find it funny that kbin’s “Threads” is their Lemmy/Reddit-like, and not their Mastodon/Threads/Twitter-like)

Technically. Yes.

But doing so is onerous enough that I can’t see it as any sort of “threat”.

And again… Defederating does absolutely zero to restrict Meta from being able to access your info. Defederating means you don’t see Meta. It doesn’t block Meta from seeing you.

You don’t even need to dip your toes into ActivityPub to scrape most of the data. It’s public – aside (I think) from just user IP addresses on Mastodon. And in the case of Lemmy, I don’t think there’s anything you can’t access from outside of ActivityPub.

For all the fucks’ sakes, people.

Yes, Meta sucks. But at least get your shit together before you all start falling over each other to say how these ToS changes mean that Zuck has now given birth to Time Travelling Baby Hitler or some shit.

Meta says, for Threads to federate, they access the same data any instance does when it federates.

And as far as LEMMY.world defederating from Threads… LEMMY. That’s like saying Twitter (or W, or whatever the hell it is now), shouldn’t put Facebook posts in its timeline. Threads is a Mastodon concern. Not Lemmy.

🤦‍♂️ Ya fuckin’ tinfoil hat nerds. I love you all. But God damn.

I like dogs.

My network is SIGHTHOUND.

My computers…

• GREYHOUND
• WHIPPET
• IGGY
• SALUKI
• BORZOI

Re: Favorites… You can’t see all of the favorites on another person’s post. They do see them all, however. It may look like it has 1 favorite when it actually has 50.

You don’t have to spam their post into your own timeline for them to know you appreciated it.

Also, if you tap the 3 dots next to a user, you can mute their Boosts. Sometimes it’s gotta be done.

You can. But if your app only checks every 5 minutes, it kind of defeats the purpose.

I don’t know, for sure, how Mastodon notifications work. But it seems like Tooot (not totally sure if it was this app or a different one) tried to make me jump through some special hoops to do the best approximation it could of true push notifications.

Does Mastodon have realtime push notifications? Seems like that would be vital for something like this.

I thought most of the apps have scheduled polling.

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

(Mastodon actually has the largest userbase in the Fediverse, by a long shot)

https://fedidb.org/software