#dev 2023-12-08

2023-12-08 UTC
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fmlatghor Can you host videos on your site that are webms or is it too slow these days that you need a cdn or video hosting service that has all those algorithms and stuff
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barnaby what is video
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Loqi video is a type of post where the primary content is a video file (recorded movie, animation etc.) typically with audio, and has growing support on the indie web https://indieweb.org/Video
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barnaby at least for short videos, I experimented with a bunch of different encodings for publishing videos to my personal site and documented them there
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aaronpk some photos are now the size of small videos so you can get away with shoving a lot into a `<video>` tag
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aaronpk if you want to host an hour long video then you'll need to break it up using HLS but you can still self-host that too
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aaronpk what is HLS?
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "HLS" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "HLS is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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aaronpk darn
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aaronpk HLS is /streaming
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Loqi ok
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aaronpk good enough for now
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[jacky] https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/111546801143040674 some good notes re: the `audience` field for ActivityStreams that can serve as some hints for us
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[jacky] namely, for me, I'm considering having clients ask for the use of the field so there's _some_ indicator that it understands that it exists and wants to make use of it (and that'll enforce some checks on my site about the post - is it including people _outside_ of the audience for this post?)
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[snarfed] sadly I don't know that many/any fediverse developers understand AS2 audience targeting, or even know it exists, much less implement it fully and correctly
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[snarfed] she's right in general though, regardless!
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[tantek] are there tests for AS2 audience targeting?
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[tantek] jacky, I sympathize a lot with the general issue that post is pointing out
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[tantek] this summary is also good: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/111547084126154066
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sknebel I do wonder how many of the "reply with mastodon" etc implementations, be they based on the API or actually speaking AP, handle e.g. private replies
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[aciccarello] Most I've seen use a mastodon API
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[tantek] how does that work when non-Mastodon implementations reply to a Mastodon post? or vice versa?
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[aciccarello] Basically you hook into your own Mastodon instance and let it do all the AP talk
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sknebel right, basically backfeed from the replies on a POSSE copy
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[aciccarello] Exactly
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sknebel but I suspect using the API makes it similarly easy to not check the visibility/audience
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[aciccarello] That does make me think I should suggest people reply on mastodon somehow in the comments section with bridgy-fed
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[aciccarello] Found the recent article I saw https://grahammacphee.com/writing/mastodon-blog-comments
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[aciccarello] Also just looked up some bridgy fed stuff and am constantly impressed with how thorough it is [snarfed]++
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Loqi [snarfed] has 80 karma in this channel over the last year (125 in all channels)
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[aciccarello] Specifically looking at search stuff https://fed.brid.gy/docs#searchable
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[aciccarello] Basically looks like that reply field opens up a share URL on the mastodon instance selected. So replying to that post opens `/share?text=%40gmph%http://40mas.to Hi Graham%2C ...%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%http://2Fgrahammacphee.com%2Fwriting%2Fmastodon-blog-comments`
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[aciccarello] So it actually shows both replies to the POSSE copy and direct mentions of the URL (if they @mention the account??)