I self-host Gogs, currently, but I am looking at Forgejo after several recommendations. Not sure how useful AP integration will be at first, but it’d be a “nice to have” once it’s there for sure.

The reason I’m looking at a hosted one rather than on-prem is the hosted one is basically my “hot” backup.

That was going to be my follow-up question lol: How should I handle the original repo? Leave it at the last commit and add a “We moved” note, strip it down to a stub that points to the new repo, or something else.

What’s a good alternative (assuming this is one of the few things I don’t want to self-host)?

I self-host Gogs for my internal projects, but my public stuff is on Github. The only “fancy” GH feature I use is the actions since it will do ARM builds which I can’t do locally.

It’s even easier than that - You can actually just replace the Piped hostname with “youtube.com” or another Piped/Invidious hostname and use the rest of the link as-is. Same for Invidious. They all use the same API, at least for the basic watch and embed functions.

The only problem is doing it programmatically since you have to know the link is to a Piped/Inviodious instance, and it’s difficult to do by URL alone (regexing the path and params gives too many false positives).

Because YT thought they could be TikTok. I’ve got no other explanation. But yeah, agreed, they’re just regular YT videos but worse.

I’m on Android, but when I had an iphone as a secondary device, I just pinned a Lemmy webapp to the home screen. I try to keep my installed apps to a minimum. My way of not getting sucked into the thing all day.

But yeah, good/sad to know that the metadata isn’t as widely displayed as I thought it was :(

I use Tesseract 99% of the time and occasionally Photon; they both show the full metadata. I just checked against Lemmy UI and it just shows the description and not the title. Voayger just the link. So scratch “most UIs” from my previous statement then lol.

I thought at least Lemmy UI showed the embed title and description, but maybe they changed it since 0.18.whatever when I last used it.

To a degree yeah, that’s true. Most UIs, though, show the embed metadata which has the actual title. Though in the case of NYT, they’re notoriously bad about blocking non-browser requests (e.g. when Lemmy fetches the metadata server-side).

This probably isn’t the forum for this, lol, but there’s nothing stopping someone from posting a headline from and archive link to Breitbart and putting (Bloomberg) in the title. The actual source URL being visible and linked to the post goes a long way to prevent that kind of chicanery. And if a UI hides the source URL, it’s a bad UI lol.

It may get modded once someone reports the discrepancy, but in the time between it was posted and the time it gets modded, people will still see a tabloid headline thinking it’s legit. (Assuming most people just read the headline which is pretty common on social media).

Something to think about.

Which is why out of principle I’d rather limit my sharing of links to some websites by sharing archive links instead

I develop Tesseract which has MBFC integrated directly into it which is useless for archive links. I just twitched when I read your reply lol 😆

But you’re also involved with the “Fedverse vs Disinformation” community, so I’ll say this: Archive links as the main URL are a way for tabloid trash headlines to carry the same weight as reputable ones. That’s my main gripe against seeing them used as the primary post URL.

As someone who works in tech, hearing the three letters S-E-O has become basically an off switch for my brain. lol.

I’m currently playing Portal, Portal Reloaded, and Portal Stories: Mel at the same time.

Basically I’ll play one, hit “that freaking level” and then rotate through. lol

That’s the dream lol.

I’m 50/50 on whether I’ll click a random, nondescript YT link someone drops in the comments (at least with posts, a title is required and it’ll often fetch the video metadata). My Lemmy frontend will preview YT links without leaving the app, so it’s now more like 80% I’ll at least give it a glance lol.

In general, solid advice. Though there are some extra params such as start, t, and end which can be useful if you want to reference a specific part of a video. Sadly, though, those params are no longer honored when viewing a video embed and only now seem to work on YT proper.

Sorry, I’m not a regular poster so I don’t know how to make a FOSS version of a YouTube link.

IMO, just drop the canonical YT link and let people handle it themselves (some Lemmy frontends will rewrite them to Piped/Invidious based on preference, some use browser plugins to redirect them, there’s an annoying bot that auto replies with Piped links, etc).

I’ve always found it annoying to have to deal with links to some random Piped/Invidious instances that are overloaded, slow, unreliable, and/or halfway around the world from where I am. A direct YT link is much easier to automatically re-write to use my local/preferred Invidious instance than having to know about every possible Invidious/Piped instance in the wild in order to detect them.

!republicanjesus@lemmy.world needs to make a comeback. Nothing’s been posted there for at least a year.

But if it’s legit HL3 it’ll be hilarious if they announce it on April 1st.

That would break the internet lol.

The concept is inherently flawed when you introduce an aspect (LLM) that can and will hallucinate (read: make shit up) when it’s trying to present reality.

As far as I’m concerned, there is no place for that anywhere remotely close to news.

Will take your word for it. I’ve been out of the gaming scene for slightly more than a decade. I just saw this and immediately felt like it would be a “must buy” for me even if I have to upgrade my setup. So yeah, for me at least, this is the first game I’ve been hyped about in a long time.

“AI” and "News’ should be as far apart as “good idea” and "bad idea’.