Kimiko-obasan ✨ @Kimiko_0@witches.town

Has anyone tried to augment their local search results by looking up remote toots and users?

If you plunk the url of a remote toot or user in the local search bar, the local instance will look it up for you. After that, it will show up in local search results (if it matches of course).

Are developers the digital bourgeoisie?

I mean, they have the source code, understand it, and decide what happens with it. Non-developers can only ask for features and hope the developers grant them. "Open source" is like liberalism: freedom only if you have money (ability to program).

@Alda Is it correct that the witches.town login page is in French even though my browser preference is set to English? After logging in the site uses the Mastodon settings of course, but I thought it should maybe use the browser's preferred language before that.

It's cool that you can test toots on Mastodon without bothering others by tooting @ yourself with visibility="direct" ^_^

@TheSupreme @Alda Oh, was that it? Phew.. 😅

I was just testing some commandline Mastodon things and suddenly witches.town went dead and I was like 😰 Oh noes!

What does the link on a hashtag mean? It points to the instance that the toot came from, but when the link is clicked it opens a hashtag search on the local instance.

@Maverynthia @Vrashnak Don't compare yourself to others too much.

@Maverynthia Aw, you're not useless and not a waste of space ^_^

Then there are times when it gets more sci-fi with aliens meddling in all kinds of affairs. So do the Antarcticans, but that would fall under world-political stuff.

And then there's that weird story of several chapters where Himeno and Shino were suddenly teleported into a medieval fantasy world with regular old four-limbed humans and magic.

I can't figure out if there's some super complex plot that ties it all together or if it's just the author derailing his own manga.

I'd still recommend it for the slice-of-life parts and the depth of the setting. Looking forward to the anime later this year.

Spent the past few days reading Centaur's Worries (Sentōru No Nayami). It's a lot deeper than you might expect, but it also can't quite decide what genre it wants to be.

Most of it is slice-of-life. Cute, and sometimes ultra cute when Shino or the younger Mitama sisters are involved.

Sometimes it'll go off for a chapter or so about all kinds of world-political or historical events though. It adds to the depth of the setting, but it's quite jarring when it switches from ultra cute kindergarten antics to heavy topics like medieval slavery or WW2 labor camps.

Tried out sushi from the local Chinese restaurant (I know, but it's the only one within walking distance, okay). Decent variety and taste, but nothing exceptional. I think they don't actually make it, just serve ready-made stuff.

I think something went wrong with the wasabi though. Even half a spoon of the stuff barely had any flavor. Normally that amount would be enough to bring anyone to tears. Maybe they watered it down so as not to scare away newbies :?

Ah, so it works. We can follow people from pawoo.net now. Their toots won't show up on the public timeline, but they do show on your own timeline. I don't think any images or other media are included though.

@Alda @Seipas Ah, I suppose that makes sense. Can't do much about it if they don't enforce CWs there.

@Alda (might want to update https://github.com/WitchesTown/InstanceInternals/blob/master/Blocklist.md as well)

@Alda @Seipas Ah, so that's possible now.

But why still silence them? If media are blocked it doesn't matter if they use proper nsfw tags or not, does it?

@Seipas @Alda Hmm, I'll have to look around the Mastodon GitHub to see if it's possible, maybe add an issue if it isn't. It seems like a useful feature to block media only.

With 1500+ witches and 59% of Mastodon users being on Japanese instances it just seems strange that there wouldn't be more Japanese folks followed by witches. Although pawoo.net being blocked completely wouldn't help that of course (just checked, and I got an error trying to remote follow someone on pawoo.net).

@Seipas @Alda If that's the problem, wouldn't it be better to just not fetch images from that instance and let users decide for themselves whether they want to click the links to view them?

I mean, you get some kind of broken image link now when the server can't fetch it for you, but you can still click the link to go to the toot's page on its home instance.

Still, that's only pawoo.net. Mstdn.jp is just as gaint an instance and friends.nico is also in the top five (>30k users). Surely there should be more Japanese toots on the federated timeline here than the practically zero I'm seeing now?

I've opened a new issue on the Mastodon GitHub: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/3201
Please add your thoughts/ideas for the new language filtering.

Speaking of filtering languages, why do I see so few toots in Japanese on the public timeline? The majority of Mastodon users are on Japanese instances nowadays, and I've seen people complain about seeing too much Japanese, but I hardly see any toots in Japanese here. Is there some filter, are we not connected to those instances? @Alda?

The new language filter seems to work nicely.
Might be better to have it available at the top of the timelines just like the other columns though.
If you want to turn off some language temporarily you have to switch to the Preferences screen, select languages, save, switch back, find where you left again, and especially not forget that you've set a filter because it doesn't indicate it anywhere.