Well using Libre.Video on NewPipe turned out to be a bust. It only plays Local video, everything on Recently added and Trending fails.
I tried to use Fedilab but it wont let me lurk, requires a login to use an instance which is not possible because Libre.Video has user registration disabled.
So now I’ve added Peertube 1312 to NewPipe, it appears to be following more instances and the Recently added, Local and Trending videos are all playing. I might be sorted.
I thought so too at first but if I’m reading the ‘Following’ filter on this page correctly then my best bet would be to go with Libre.Video (although the figures reported there don’t seem to match up with those reported by the instance).
It would be great if there was at least once instance that was federated to most of the other instances (except Nazis and porn) just so lurkers could keep track of what’s being posted via ‘Recently added’.
Does anyone know of an instance that does something like this?
It’s not the best integration though. Usually when someone sends a message I get a notification to ‘Mark as read’ or ‘Reply’.
The first reply I send is seemless. But it doesn’t start a messaging window or anything like that. If that same person sends a follow up message shortly after then the notification doesn’t really work the same way again, or at all. I forget.
Perhaps I’m meant to be running the SMS applicstion all the time, which is a seperate widget or something and part of kdeconnect. I usually don’t run this and I think it was because I ran into other issues with it (I think it tries to sync all your phone messages so perhaps if you have a GB or two of messages it struggles).
What I might do is keep it running today while working and see if that makes the integration work better, allow me to send messages from the computer on the fly etc.
It can do that. It’s just that the computer and the device sending the messages need to be on the same network. Not the device receiving the messages.
Reader mode in Firefox mobile fixes it for me. Seems to inline a lot of the pictures but I’m not sure if it catches all of them.
I’m sure other browsers and devices reader modes will do the same.
For anyone wondering this is from RoboCop 2.
Thanks for the heads up about FOSS pod. Had not heard of it before.
Bismuth working on my systems after 5.27 ( I know it may break eventually). Good to know about Polonium, cheers.
I haven’t used Mastodon since creating an account years ago but it’s good to know I can go down that route as an alternative.
I added your instance in NewPipe and Trending, Recently added and Local all work fine.