Ginjutsu

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/232185

Hey all,

I’ve got an exciting thing to announce today, Canvas — Lemmy’s r/Place!

We need to get our own traditions over here in the Threadiverse, why not start off with our own r/Place

This weekend, we will open up a canvas to all Lemmy users, each user will be able to place 1 pixel every minute. This event will last 72 hours, starting midnight EST on the 4th and ending at 11:59pm EST on the 6th

Some instances that are joining in:

• toast.ooo
• lemmy.zip
• lemmy.ca

Join the Lemmy Community [!canvas@toast.ooo](/c/canvas@toast.ooo)

Join the Matrix Space #lemmy-canvas:matrix.org

I noticed that when browsing posts which contain a link to an MP4 file, Voyager very conveniently embeds the video in the post. This is an awesome feature and AFAIK, Liftoff and Voyager are the only Lemmy apps I've tested that do this.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work well for IPFS links, even when including an .mp4 filename at the end of the URL. Doing this will allow the video to embed just fine on the Lemmy-UI web interface, but it won't carry over to the app interface.

I'm posting this as IPFS is a great option for decentralized video sharing online and it would be super nice to have it work just like any other MP4 url. I imagine it would be a simple fix, but I'm not too familiar with coding for applications, so someone else may have a better idea of what's going on under the hood that's preventing it from working. I've submitted this post with a link to an unrelated video for demonstration and testing purposes.

Adrian is a fantastic concept artist who works at Valve these days. Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Plunteere

Didn't see this posted anywhere. As someone who spends a lot of time in the Workshop, it could definitely use some improvements when it comes to discoverability, so it's good to see Valve working towards improving things in that department.