@feditips@pfefferle it is a good effort but I checked a few installations running this and it seems to be completely invisible on all I saw, you just have to somehow be able to know you can search for the account of a user on the fediverse... I guess it would be quite useful to have some kind of visible UI elements that get enabled with it as well.
@feditips well, I think discoverability is important and one way to make it happen is that a plugin like this offers ways to show visitors they can interact via ActivityPub. Seems like the latest version does already have that part covered per what @pfefferle said.
An even better way might be to have this in the browser in a similar way to how you used to see the RSS icon on the browser address bar at least in Firefox back when RSS was in vogue and how the Streetpass extension does it (https://streetpass.social/) but I doubt we are going to see a (or maybe rather the) major browser support this as a built-in feature anytime soon.
That quote is wrong though. There absolutely was coverage for Crimea at one point. Elon took it away when he decided Ukrainians should not be able to use Starlink too far in Russian occupied Ukraine.
That "conflict area" thing is a joke also. The front lines elsewhere in Ukraine are not a conflict area?
@ours I constantly see it said that these are actually unlikely to be white phosphorus as a reply to the videos being labeled as such...
Anyone have a longer explanation or a link to one about the range of things these kinds of attacks can be and why they might or might not be white phosphorus when it is Russia doing it in Ukraine?
@Ulara@cheese_greater Not really sure it is true that it is more gentle on its own population as a blanket statement. That would depend on the era we are talking about. Stalin certainly was worse but Gorbachev wasn't.
Right now I miss three things coming from iOS: waking up on phone pickup, not needing to tap ok after inserting the pin, and moving the carriage by holding the space button. Can I have them?
@noodlejetski@stfn True, first one might depend on FP hardware but for software behavior you're going to want to identify what is out there that offers it and then you can see if it is possible to get for FP.
@Wilshire@ukraine These are horrible. Personally I make myself look because I feel it is important not to get a censored view of what is happening in war so I can stay more aware of the real costs instead of just looking at tanks blowing up from aerial footage (while conveniently forgetting there were people inside)...
Seems like still almost no Russia watchers are posting on Threads. There's some presence on Bluesky and Mastodon, but it's still mostly, nearly exclusively, all about 𝕏.
@kevinrothrock Yeah, besides Musk's antics X has also actively tried to make presence on multiple platforms gradually more difficult with closing down from the outside more and more by removing APIs, breaking crossposting and making an account a requirement for even reading what's on there... Time will tell whether these tactics are effective.
@kevinrothrock Looks like that is something that has been a fairly popular request but hasn't been implemented yet because the different use cases for ActivityPub make implementation tricky. Here's the github issue: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8565
Recommended follow list for Ukraine war on Mastodon
Here are my recommendations for coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Only accounts active recently and you can easily import them from a file. They are split into two different lists by type.
Ukraine: OSINT & war updates
This list mostly has accounts posting quickly about daily events of the war and doing open source intelligence.
The import file relies on the List import feature recently added to Mastodon. I have noticed the list import results in a few accounts sometimes ending up in their separate list by the same name so you may have to fix that manually afterwards if this happens on your instance. If many people are on an older Mastodon version and want it I can also post a follows file that will work for those.
Import instructions:
Sign into your instance on the web
go to settings (Gear icon)
Choose Import and Export -> Import
For import type choose "Lists" (could also be "Translation missing: en.imports.types.lists" if there is an issue with the localization).
Select "merge" to only add to your current follows/lists so nothing you have gets deleted
@ijatz_La_Hojita@ukraine I don't think anyone in these supports Russia but I've at least tried to find ones that strive to be accurate and reasonably objective.
@DuncanMSussexPol@ukraine Another thing you can do besides nitter is use a bridge such as bird.makeup to get the posts to fedi from there. It might not have recovered from the recent breakage that also affected nitter though and there is always the worry that Musk will eventually completely block these solutions...
@dan80@ukraine Some good additional suggestions there and thanks for linking your list as well! There's lots more accounts to follow besides the ones I mentioned for sure if anyone is left wishing they had a larger list.
The better known ones that I may have left out I probably just put in a slightly different category due to other stuff they post about or think are inactive on Mastodon currently.
BTW, seems like lemmy did not show your message either as part of the thread before I tagged @ukraine in this reply even though you posted on #lemmy. Weird.
@annanic@ukraine If you have other quality suggestions, feel free to offer them like others have done. I've gone through hundreds of accounts from various lists but most lists are either very small or have tons of dormant accounts. Personally I think most on this one are reasonably good quality but obviously that's a matter of taste.
If you narrow the scope by whatever specific criteria you will probably end up with a pretty small list as things stand on Mastodon right now. Even this one is not a particularly long list.
@paul@ShanonRose@Davida_Taylor@JustinH I've been using lemmy a bit but this one was something I didn't know, how does one follow a Mastodon user from a Lemmy account?
Bloomberg: US Senator calls for investigation following allegations Elon Musk disrupted Ukraine's strike on Russian fleet (kyivindependent.com)
Paywalled article: bloomberg.com/…/elizabeth-warren-demands-probes-o…
Russian incendiaries burning the Kreminna Forest (streamable.com)
t.me/c/1534945236/16958
Russia says there's a problem with billions of rupees it has in India that need to be converted (markets.businessinsider.com)
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18+ [NSFL] Photos from the scene of the Russian attack on the central market in Kostyantynivka, where Russia took the lives of 17 people. (imgur.com)