I think I just had THE fediverse moment:Scrolling through my timeline watching text posts, photos, a peertube video...A short video.
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@MishaVelthuis well, Mastodon (usually) shows previews for external links, but that's still not an actual quote. A quote also directly mentions the user handle (clickable, without leaving Mastodon) and some other Fediverse markers like if the quoted post is public and when it was posted, that won't show in the preview of an external link.
Let me show you the difference:
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@MishaVelthuis here's (see the attached screenshot) how it showed in my editor/post preview: if I clicked the "x" to close the quote preview, the quote would have disappeared from my post, again.
I'm using Mastodon in my mobile browser. Depending on whether and which app you use, things might work slightly different, I didn't try that. Never used an app for Mastodon.
Maybe try again a little with copy and pasting, until the preview (like in my screenshot) loads.
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I think I just had THE fediverse moment:
Scrolling through my timeline watching text posts, photos, a peertube video...A short video."ah nice MTB video" , I thought. Until I saw the handle: someone@loops. Wait.. I see a loops here. This isn't just a video. This is a video on A DIFFERENT Service. And I can seamlessly interact with it.
A new service just integrated seamlessly into my timeline. No "connect your account", no "extra app", no "extra login", no, it's just there
This is #fediverse
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@MishaVelthuis here's (see the attached screenshot) how it showed in my editor/post preview: if I clicked the "x" to close the quote preview, the quote would have disappeared from my post, again.
I'm using Mastodon in my mobile browser. Depending on whether and which app you use, things might work slightly different, I didn't try that. Never used an app for Mastodon.
Maybe try again a little with copy and pasting, until the preview (like in my screenshot) loads.
@MishaVelthuis also make sure the URL doesn't contain empty spaces (at the end) in order for quote pasting to work. Also, you can't add a quote afterwards by editing a post, if that post didn't contain a quote already
And ofc also, some posts aren't allowed to be quoted due to privacy settings, but that's another topic.So, what's the other way/s to quote, if quote-pasting doesn't work? Generally: hit the share button and then choose quoting❞ instead of sharing
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@MishaVelthuis also make sure the URL doesn't contain empty spaces (at the end) in order for quote pasting to work. Also, you can't add a quote afterwards by editing a post, if that post didn't contain a quote already
And ofc also, some posts aren't allowed to be quoted due to privacy settings, but that's another topic.So, what's the other way/s to quote, if quote-pasting doesn't work? Generally: hit the share button and then choose quoting❞ instead of sharing
.@MishaVelthuis while this doesn't work for replies, cause it will create an independent, new post (containing the quote), there's a work-around (at least in the mobile browser, don't know if in the app/s):
1) normally reply where you want to reply
2) immediately leave the edit window, by going
in your bowser and search for the post you want to quote3) now choose the option "quote" (❞) via the share button
and, as a result, you'll have a reply with a quote
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@slothrop @elperronegro@shmg.online
Uh, just click on the profile or the video above and hit follow? Doesn't that work for you?
@elperronegro@loops.videoI'm using the Mastodon client and it really was that easy.
@hikingdude @elperronegro@shmg.online @elperronegro@loops.video Hah, that does work!
I went to the Loops page, and was looking for a Follow link there - which I couldn't find. Didn't think this through...
Thanks!
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@MishaVelthuis while this doesn't work for replies, cause it will create an independent, new post (containing the quote), there's a work-around (at least in the mobile browser, don't know if in the app/s):
1) normally reply where you want to reply
2) immediately leave the edit window, by going
in your bowser and search for the post you want to quote3) now choose the option "quote" (❞) via the share button
and, as a result, you'll have a reply with a quote
@MishaVelthuis and yes, Mastodon sometimes creates really nice previews for external links, that ALMOST look like a quote, like it did for your original post (which I screenshotted here). But:
- in this preview you can't click username handles and hashtags
- you can't start the video without leaving Mastodon
- Mastodon (or in this case: Loops) also doesn't "count" that as quotes (which you could see in the Loops post), plus the creator won't get noticed.
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I think I just had THE fediverse moment:
Scrolling through my timeline watching text posts, photos, a peertube video...A short video."ah nice MTB video" , I thought. Until I saw the handle: someone@loops. Wait.. I see a loops here. This isn't just a video. This is a video on A DIFFERENT Service. And I can seamlessly interact with it.
A new service just integrated seamlessly into my timeline. No "connect your account", no "extra app", no "extra login", no, it's just there
This is #fediverse
@hikingdude but it was like this all the time: you can upload videos even to non-loops, non-peertube platforms, and still watch it here.
This is what Internet was intended to be.
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I think I just had THE fediverse moment:
Scrolling through my timeline watching text posts, photos, a peertube video...A short video."ah nice MTB video" , I thought. Until I saw the handle: someone@loops. Wait.. I see a loops here. This isn't just a video. This is a video on A DIFFERENT Service. And I can seamlessly interact with it.
A new service just integrated seamlessly into my timeline. No "connect your account", no "extra app", no "extra login", no, it's just there
This is #fediverse
@hikingdude Yeah! This is one of the killer features for me!
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@hikingdude @elperronegro@shmg.online @elperronegro@loops.video Hah, that does work!
I went to the Loops page, and was looking for a Follow link there - which I couldn't find. Didn't think this through...
Thanks!
@slothrop Eh, don't feel bad - I had the same problem. Fedi integration is nice but far from seamless. Lots of paths to get to the content and profile, but not all of them offer the follow. Thanks Franz! @hikingdude @elperronegro@shmg.online @elperronegro@loops.video
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I think I just had THE fediverse moment:
Scrolling through my timeline watching text posts, photos, a peertube video...A short video."ah nice MTB video" , I thought. Until I saw the handle: someone@loops. Wait.. I see a loops here. This isn't just a video. This is a video on A DIFFERENT Service. And I can seamlessly interact with it.
A new service just integrated seamlessly into my timeline. No "connect your account", no "extra app", no "extra login", no, it's just there
This is #fediverse
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@hikingdude but it was like this all the time: you can upload videos even to non-loops, non-peertube platforms, and still watch it here.
This is what Internet was intended to be.
@xChaos sure, the difference to me is that loops integrates "all the possible content" into the fediverse, not just if someone decides to post a link.
Like this video. Sure I could have watched it somewhere else - but I wouldn't have known about it.
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@xChaos sure, the difference to me is that loops integrates "all the possible content" into the fediverse, not just if someone decides to post a link.
Like this video. Sure I could have watched it somewhere else - but I wouldn't have known about it.
@hikingdude I only wanted to say, that it is exactly same as Peertube. I don't mind being as much federated with everything, as possible.
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I think I just had THE fediverse moment:
Scrolling through my timeline watching text posts, photos, a peertube video...A short video."ah nice MTB video" , I thought. Until I saw the handle: someone@loops. Wait.. I see a loops here. This isn't just a video. This is a video on A DIFFERENT Service. And I can seamlessly interact with it.
A new service just integrated seamlessly into my timeline. No "connect your account", no "extra app", no "extra login", no, it's just there
This is #fediverse
@hikingdude I love how integration is going.
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I think I just had THE fediverse moment:
Scrolling through my timeline watching text posts, photos, a peertube video...A short video."ah nice MTB video" , I thought. Until I saw the handle: someone@loops. Wait.. I see a loops here. This isn't just a video. This is a video on A DIFFERENT Service. And I can seamlessly interact with it.
A new service just integrated seamlessly into my timeline. No "connect your account", no "extra app", no "extra login", no, it's just there
This is #fediverse
@hikingdude yup, the first time is particularly magic. For me it was with a PeerTube video, barely a few weeks after joining.
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@slothrop Eh, don't feel bad - I had the same problem. Fedi integration is nice but far from seamless. Lots of paths to get to the content and profile, but not all of them offer the follow. Thanks Franz! @hikingdude @elperronegro@shmg.online @elperronegro@loops.video
@coreysnipes @slothrop @hikingdude @elperronegro@shmg.online @elperronegro@loops.video what is the difference between posting videos on Loops versus on any Mastodon instance? Is Loops somehow optimized for video (storage)? Thanks!
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@coreysnipes @slothrop @hikingdude @elperronegro@shmg.online @elperronegro@loops.video what is the difference between posting videos on Loops versus on any Mastodon instance? Is Loops somehow optimized for video (storage)? Thanks!
@fedops @coreysnipes @hikingdude @elperronegro@shmg.online @elperronegro@loops.video AFAICT the Loops Ui is built along the same lines as TikTok: optimized for making, posting and viewing short videos.
I don’t know what the server side looks like.
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I think I just had THE fediverse moment:
Scrolling through my timeline watching text posts, photos, a peertube video...A short video."ah nice MTB video" , I thought. Until I saw the handle: someone@loops. Wait.. I see a loops here. This isn't just a video. This is a video on A DIFFERENT Service. And I can seamlessly interact with it.
A new service just integrated seamlessly into my timeline. No "connect your account", no "extra app", no "extra login", no, it's just there
This is #fediverse
@hikingdude Exactly This is the magic of the fediverse everything just flows together
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@coreysnipes @slothrop @hikingdude @elperronegro@shmg.online @elperronegro@loops.video what is the difference between posting videos on Loops versus on any Mastodon instance? Is Loops somehow optimized for video (storage)? Thanks!
@fedops That's the question I keep coming back to, for myself. If everything federates, why bother with multiple accounts? (I tried pixelfed but didn't see an advantage for myself.) Maybe it's just a matter of what you're used to. Started with Instagram? Pixelfed. Started with TikTok? Loops. Started with Twitter? Masto. etc.
cc:
@slothrop @hikingdude @elperronegro@shmg.online @elperronegro@loops.video
