tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org

#RunningSession 🏃 (cross-country fartlek among steep olive groves)
4.76 km / 28′52″ @ 10 km/h ≡ 5′58″/km
~346 kcal

@garrett @kappazeta @aral
#BrendanEich's (alleged or real) eccentricities and bigotries are orthogonal to the merits of #Brave wrt #privacy, or lack thereof. (In that vein, I'm surprised you didn't mention Eich is also anti gay marriage — but of course that's irrelevant here, too.)

@aral How Brave? Because of optional ads (rewards)?

https://www.vox.com/recode/22385570/instagram-for-kids-youtube-facebook-messenger
Read #JonathanHaidt @jonhaidt@twitter.com!
#Facebook #Instagram

Only justification: preemptive apologies when (miss)typing on small portable devices. But even then, you don't need to go with the default message: when I used to send e-mail from my phone, all my messages had this line at the bottom:

“Written on the go — please excuse brevity and typos.”

I can't stand the
“sent from my iPhone”
footer in mail, nor the
“REDMI NOTE 9”
watermark on photos, nor any of those stupid ads.
How come folks don't disable them immediately after unwrapping their new device?

“The most important thing in #life is that the most important thing is the most important thing.”

(apocryphal)

[#Spain #España 🇪🇸 #Madrid #elecciones #politics]

Estas son las opciones para #eleccionesMadrid2021 de las que estás oyendo hablar:
🔴🔴🔴⚫🔵🔵

Y estas son todas las opciones que tienes disponibles:
⭕⭕⭕🔴🔴🔴🔴⏺️⏺️⏺️⚫⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪🔵🔵🔵🔵🔘🔘🔘

De nada.

https://elecciones.comunidad.madrid/es/formaciones-politicas/listado-candidaturas-proclamadas

For reference (#Markdown), the source of https://qoto.org/@tripu/106098161630290544 is:

*This is _a test_.* (`MD`). /Ignore./
_foo_ *_bar_* _*baz*_ *qux* **quux**
line
line

* one
* two

1. one
1. two
1. sub1
1. sub2
1. three

```
code is neat
```

code is neat

```js
const foo = null;
```

> *Quoted _verbatim_ here*, including [a link](http://example.com/)


*This is _a test_.* (`MD`). /Ignore./
_foo_ *_bar_* _*baz*_ *qux* **quux**
line
line

* one
* two

1. one
1. two
1. sub1
1. sub2
1. three

```
code is neat
```

code is neat

```js
const foo = null;
```

> *Quoted _verbatim_ here*, including [a link](http://example.com/)


@freemo Thanks!

#QOTO: what's the exact flavour of #Markdown we support here?
A quick look at the “about” page and a search in source code and issues didn't give me the answer…

@aramloosman Yes, I exchanged once a toot or two with @dansup (not about Pixelfed, though), and submitted a tiny PR for Pixelfed a while ago.
I think some of my biggest complaints are about the Instagram UI itself — not about Pixelfed. So yeah, looks like I should be migrating to another image-sharing tool at some point (I'm not in a hurry). The problem is, there are lots of #Fediverse tools for audio, video, microblogging and writing; but not so many for images…

@aramloosman
https://qoto.org/@tripu/106091353468149241

#RunningSession 🏃 (cross-country fartlek among steep olive groves)
~31′

I criticise #Pixelfed from a place of love for #FLOSS, and gratitude towards @dansup and the rest of developers. I even contributed a tiny fix to the codebase myself a while ago.

Perhaps it's just that I dislike #Instagram and its UI so much that a copycat (even a free, open and federated copycat) simply isn't for me. I understand I should find an image-sharing project that better suits my preferences, and contribute to it, either with money or with code (my problem is: I haven't found any!).

Still, I felt like sharing my frustration about Pixelfed here — either to find agreement, or to be corrected.

✊ #Fediverse FTW!

#Pixelfed's major shortcomings, IMHO.
I realise some of these derive from the very proposition (ie, cloning #Instagram's horrible UI), and perhaps others are configurable or specific to my instance (#pixelfed.de). Still.

0️⃣ No distinction between “title” (short & descriptive; shown on media previews and thumbnails) and “description” (long text; on post pages only).
1️⃣ Images are too small (on my laptop, limited to 732 px in width); no “open largest size by default” or “full screen mode”.
2️⃣ Can't navigate between adjacent images; ie swiping or pressing →/← to move within a collection, tag, or profile.
3️⃣ Small thumbnails (mosaic on collection, tag or profile pages) don't show the (beginning of the) description.
4️⃣ Small thumbnails always indicate zero comments, even when there *are* comments.
5️⃣ Large thumbnails (entries on home page) aren't clickable; one has to click on tiny “x days ago” in footer.
6️⃣ New comments don't appear under “notifications” (/account/activity).
7️⃣ Collections are limited to 18 posts.
8️⃣ “Edit” action fails consistently.
9️⃣ Even short descriptions and comment threads are truncated/hidden (eg, 4 clicks are needed to reveal/expand everything on https://pixelfed.de/p/tripu/265782587476283392); text is squeezed in that narrow column.