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Written by Victor Villas on 2025-02-05 at 04:11

OK, kind of giving up on #Pixelfed for videos for now. Video format hassles and UI complications aside, I just realized that video posts are not federating and are not visible in the RSS feed.

This combination is a dealbreaker for an #Instagram replacement for me, so I guess I’ll be dumping would-be stories into Mastodon directly for a while to see how it goes.

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Written by Victor Villas on 2025-02-03 at 20:38

So today I was able to post a #Pixelfed story using a video from my gallery. I thought #iOS shortcuts would give me an easy way to convert HEVC to MP4 but no dice (possible but not easy). Instead the lowest friction method is to send myself the video using Telegram/WhatsApp and save the output, which is H.264. Quality goes down but it’s the price for now.

Hoping that HEVC support comes out soon so I can save this work and post crispy videos of snowfall ❄️

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Written by Victor Villas on 2025-01-31 at 04:49

20 years in the #web and it's all still so fragmented. ActivityPub is promising, but is it going to be enough?

I have to convince my friends to join at least one of #Mastodon or #Pixelfed to keep in touch. Until they make the crossing we're practically cut off. I'm seriously thinking of starting a #newsletter... #email the one open protocol everyone uses.

Family, workplace, masters, college, high school. In all of my AFK social circles, I'm still the only one here. This is a bit depressing.

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Written by Victor Villas on 2025-01-28 at 02:23

Is there an RSS/Atom feed for #neodb profile activity? #Mastodon and #Pixelfed both have it for every profile, but I couldn't find any docs on getting one for NeoDB.

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Written by Victor Villas on 2025-01-11 at 01:31

This week has been a big “I told you so” moment for all the #fediverse admins that defederated #threads from the get go due to moderation concerns.

And it’s sad to think that eventually the naysayers will get the marks on Bluesky too.

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Written by Victor Villas on 2024-10-17 at 01:38

Today I Learned that the City of #Vancouver doesn’t own its major venues.

Rogers Arena is privately owned (same owners as the Canucks team).

Convention Center and BC Place belong to a provincial crown corporation.

Canada Place is belongs to Vancouver Fraser Port Authority which is a self governing federal corp.

That also explains why only one of those has an uninspiring name and brand.

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Written by Victor Villas on 2024-10-11 at 15:30

[#]Mastodon 4.3 is out and the best announcement to me is that 4.4 will bring quote posts officially and improvements to blocklists management 🎉

My client (#MonaApp) supports quote posts already but once in a blue moon I’ll find a server that redirects the post link to something else instead of the post - looking at you Flipboard!

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Written by Victor Villas on 2024-10-08 at 19:24

Rustad sometimes forget that dog whistles are a supposed to be heard just by the dogs and not by regular people. At this point he was just yelling “YO MY ANTIVAX DAWGS” on a megaphone.

[#]BCPoli #BCElxn2024 https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-01r3k2ttz/-/a-c2ilc5mmT32sRMllovn_sg%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

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Written by Victor Villas on 2024-10-08 at 15:38

Tried to quote post a toot by @DailyHive and it morphed into a link to flipboard’s website 😯 what kind of magic is this @MonaApp

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Written by Victor Villas on 2024-10-08 at 15:35

Burnaby delivering on ToD is going wild.

Vancouver would be in a terrible spot if it wasn’t for it. https://flipboard.com/@dailyhive/vancouver-real-estate-bnr6bkgcz/-/a-POnDbLW1SfCiHxQTC7lURg%3Aa%3A3765800918-%2F0

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Written by Victor Villas on 2024-09-26 at 19:17

[#]BCPoli campaign season just started and there's a noticeable uptick in #astroturfing of "safety concerns" on several BC city-focused subreddits.

It's messed up that this works so well. Being afraid/disgusted of a short visit to downtown is such an unreasonably prevalent trope.

Pushing people to be afraid of people should be considered terrorism and platforms should be held accountable for platforming this.

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Written by Victor Villas on 2024-09-12 at 06:14

"Resistance was fierce. Some residents complained the new measures would lengthen their work commutes. Businesses were livid about the loss of valuable parking for shoppers."

"In some Canadian cities I think pigs would have flown before this kind of thing would have been allowed,” said Brent Toderian, the former chief planner of Vancouver"

https://thewalrus.ca/montreal-kicked-cars-to-the-curb-and-thrived #VisionZero

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