Trapped by plates in The Sims
Sam is trying to improve her cooking skills but there's something getting in the way...physically
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Hello @Raroun hope you're well. every now & then, when i have joined a different #Friendica instance in the past, i ask this same question of its Owners / Admins. always it's the same negative answer, but i live in hope!
on Masto & Sharkey instances, if the Admins are willing, it is technically possible to add FOSS emojis to the servers. consequently, on many of my instances i've been able to include these in various posts when applicable:
:linux: :archlinux: :kde: :plasma: :zenbrowser: :floorp: :firefox_nightly: :firefox: :thunderbird: :fedora: :opensuse: :debian:
so... is there yet any way that such emojis can be added to your instance, please?
cc: @Friendica Support
this is an experimental quote-share from my #Friendica #newsbots #Circle, whose default Permissions disallow anyone outside this Circle being able to see or access it. i have now done a one-off flip of the Permissions, just for this individual post, to Public, so...
Hello? (Hello, hello, hello)
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone home?
Come on (Come on, come on), now
I hear you're feeling down
Well, I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again
Relax (Relax, relax, relax)
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?
β² Unofficial SBS News Bot - 2025-12-11 20:24:04 GMT
Time magazine names 'Architects of AI' as Person of the Year. Here's who's pictured sbs.com.au/news/article/time-m⦠#World
@Friendica Support hello, may i pls get some help on this query about #Circles ?
i have sub-divided my list of follows & followers into several Circles. one of these is for all my followed #newsbots. i have found to my chagrin that a basic design feature of #Friendica is working against me here. atm, if i read a particular newsbot's post whilst in my "Bot" circle, then decide to quote-boost / quote-share it, with some pertinent commentary by me, it's a complete waste of time... the default Friendica permissions / visibility feature makes my resultant post "Locked", ie visible only to members of this circle, ie, a heap of bots. no actual human will ever see it.
[how] can i avoid this? how can i manually allow any/all posts / replies / boosts / shares that i do from this circle, be visible across all the fediverse?
when circles comprise actual human accounts, this baked-in Friendica privacy concept makes sense. it is however actively unhelpful, indeed plain obstructive, for the specific case of a bot circle.
thx.
π€ π€ π€
As you asked than, before changing the nomen clature @Michael πΊπ¦, using it now it seems that that was actually a good choice.
π
@Michael πΊπ¦ oh Michael, i feel so stupid! I did already look there before posting, but somehow entirely failed to notice i could manually change it. i've now done a test
friendica.opensocial.space/disβ¦
& it seems to have worked [the icon is now the globe, not the padlock], so... yay!
thank you, but i apologise for wasting your time π₯Ί
this is an experimental quote-share from my #Friendica #newsbots #Circle, whose default Permissions disallow anyone outside this Circle being able to see or access it. i have now done a one-off flip of the Permissions, just for this individual post, to Public, so...Hello? (Hello, hello, hello)
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone home?
Come on (Come on, come on), now
I hear you're feeling down
Well, I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again
Relax (Relax, relax, relax)
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?β² Unofficial SBS News Bot - 2025-12-11 20:24:04 GMT
Time magazine names 'Architects of AI' as Person of the Year. Here's who's pictured sbs.com.au/news/article/time-m⦠#World
Into The Darklands Trailer
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The clock is ticking and Britt can't make up her mind.
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Ridiculous career paths in The Sims
Climbing the career ladder in The Sims is easy
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Onward. Along railroad tracks and other urban infrastructure. Moon in everything, slightly dizzy and a bit disconnected. Halting states, afternoon escapism.
π· lost-in-moments
#outerworld #concrete city #lost in moments #smartphonephotography #later that afternoon
like this
Tech goblins in DnD
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Correct way to do CW on Friendica?
Not that I usually put any warnings on my posts anywhere, or feel I have a reason to, and suspect filtering is far more useful for people who are triggered by certain topics, but I'm a little confused about how to correctly do Content Warning/Notices on Friendica?
The compose editor has a button that says "Content Warning" but it creates an [abstract] BBcode, which when used appears to make that content completely disappear on Friendica (though if you go to "Edit" it will still be there).
The [spoiler] BBcode appears to work like the Content Warnings do on Mastodon, plus you can add to it WHY you are hiding the content. But how do those look on other platforms?
github.com/friendica/friendicaβ¦
If I understand correctly, then that's settled. However, the project is initially focusing on the stable release.
@Michael πΊπ¦
Tobias makes a good point in that thread that how am I, as an author, supposed to guess what might "trigger" some random person reading what I wrote? The burden should be on the random person to set up filters so they reduce the likelihood they'll see anything they know might trigger them. Because I can't possibly know that! Which is why I pretty much never use CWs and if someone doesn't like it that's their problem.
I really don't want to join in on that thread, but after reading it I have to wonder why nobody mentioned the idea of using [spoiler] for a CW and leave [abstract] for a summary? Spoiler already collapses on Friendica just like CWs do on Mastodon. It would avoid having to add a network parameter to [abstract] to determine whether it appears as a summary or CW. It seems like an obvious solution to me. Just make spoilers = CW and be done with it?
@Random Penguin @Marcus
The abstract has a history. It was used to create a summary to send to other networks when they had a character limit. This makes sense when a post is 500 or 1000 characters long.
However, the summary can also be what its meaning implies. Friendica will provide both options with Michael's issues.
CW is extremely controversial. Even on Mastodon. The sender cannot know what might trigger someone. That is something the recipient must filter out.
Still, the intention of a spoiler and a CW are essentially the same, to hide content from someone that may upset them, and spoiler collapses on Friendica just like CWs collapse on Mastodon.
If abstract's intention is only as a summary then that should be all it does. Just because it has been used for CWs is no reason to keep using it for that if it doesn't make any sense, which IMO it doesn't.
@Random Penguin
The spoiler works differently
You should not continue reading if you do not want to know the ending of the film beforehand.
Click to open/close
There is a happy ending.
@Random Penguin
The fact that abstracts are now hidden was Friendica's response to the CW implementation in Mastodon. The spoiler was used instead.
Mastodon took the easy route. The projects responded.
You don't have to like it, and it will be fixed by the issues. But that's the story.
I may have missed something in that issues thread, but it sounded like Mastodon a summary tag converted from a bare [abstract] is now treated as a CW while [abstract=apub] is treated as an actual summary? That's still unnecessarily confusing when the [spoiler] code is right there and literally does exactly the same thing as a CW.
I rarely use CWs even on Mastodon and never use abstracts on Friendica. Anyway, I'm done arguing about it. I really don't care how my posts look on other platforms.
That's a question you should ask those who have misused the feature. Friendica continues to communicate with various networks that have a problem with long texts. I use the summary feature regularly.
[abstract][/abstract] tags. The CW gets seen by others. [spoiler][/spoiler] seems to only work with networks that support more types of content formatting than Mastodon, basically. I.e. in Hubzilla it works, in Lemmy it should work (but it's buggy), in Piefed it should also work but I never checked.
Maybe someone can help. An unpleasant post was on my feed, and I don't know why it's there. It's from someone who follows me, but I don't follow them back. It's a friendica account, but not libranet. It doesn't contain any hashtags I follow. Why is it there?
Trying to understand Simlish
When a stranger appears at Sam's door, she struggles to understand a word of Simlish and things get confusing...
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Playing D&D when you're over 30
When the party gets too rowdy and wakes Alan's baby they have to adjust their strategy.
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Wasteful spending in The Sims
Trying to play Sims without using /Motherlode is a real struggle. Sam is struggling with bills and goes to Eve for some financial advice.
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Distracted by pizza in D&D
Rob DM tries to keep the party on track as food deliveries keep coming.
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Grinding skills in The Sims
Some otherworldly force is ignoring Sam's hunger to instead max out her Fitness skill
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Bad rolls in D&D
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Frustrating neighbours in The Sims
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Voicing different races in D&D
DM Rowan attempts to juggle playing multiple NPCs with varying qualities.
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Your first day in The Sims
Sam enters a new world in the Sims and is reluctantly introduced to the neighbourhood.
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Offensive nicknames in D&D
The party gets confused when they can't distinguish what Goblin they're attacking, so DM Rob gives them cute little nicknames.
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Sims Logic Trailer
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When no one takes notes
Adam can't make it to the session and the party crumbles without his usual notetaking.
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The Dragon of Schmargonrog
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Playing with cheaters
Ben introduces his girlfriend into the party and Alan shows her his great sword
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Convenient loot before a boss
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Competing for the darkest backstory in D&D
The four Yorkshiremen sit around and infuriate Rob trying to out-do each other with their dark backstories.
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Predictable bosses in games
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Seducing an NPC in D&D
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Being the one player paying attention in D&D
Adam finds himself carrying the entire party, as he's the only one paying any attention through the campaign
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Unlocking a new skill
Barbarian Rowan is out on a quest with Greg and unlocks a new skill.
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Voice Booth | Berry Does Baelin
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D&D Logic Season 3 Trailer
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Fireheart and Gronkboy Part 3
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Afterlife decision
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Fireheart and Gronkboy Part 2
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When a gamer dies
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Fireheart and Gronkboy Part 1
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Random Penguin
in reply to Droppie [opensoc] • • •Michael πΊπ¦
in reply to Droppie [opensoc] • • •Friendica supports custom emojis from other instances, but we don't support adding new ones per instance. One reason is that there is still an accessibility issue with them, see my issue that I created in the Mastodon repository in 2018: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/iβ¦
Another reason is that Friendica is able to create posts that also appear on other system (not only ActivityPub). But these custom emojis will only work with ActivityPub and will look ugly on other systems.
Droppie [opensoc]
in reply to Michael πΊπ¦ • • •@Michael πΊπ¦ @Raroun
π π₯³π
π’ π
so, even though, for instance, the obliging Admins at blahaj.zone & infosec.exchange/space added those ones in my OP for me, it can't now be done for @Raroun to just borrow them from either of those servers?
that's so disappointing. π₯Ί
Michael πΊπ¦
in reply to Droppie [opensoc] • • •Droppie [opensoc]
in reply to Michael πΊπ¦ • • •Michael πΊπ¦
in reply to Droppie [opensoc] • • •Matthias
in reply to Michael πΊπ¦ • • •@Michael πΊπ¦
Many of the above are available with the "smiley_pack" add-on.
I rewrote the add-on for my node. It's easier to maintain and delivers the same result.
github.com/loma-one/private_Frβ¦
@Raroun @Droppie [opensoc]
Droppie [opensoc]
in reply to Matthias • • •Raroun
in reply to Droppie [opensoc] • • •I just activitated the standard "Smiley Pack Addon" for Friendica.
I will have a look at the custom addon from @Matthias at the weekend :)
Droppie [opensoc]
in reply to Raroun • • •@Matthias @Michael πΊπ¦
Droppie [opensoc]
in reply to Droppie [opensoc] • • •@Raroun
Here's a screenshot of what i now see, in draft / preview format, when i paste my original emoji-suite again, since @Raroun kindly enabled / added
so i can see that yes, some of my desired #FOSSemojis now work, but sadly still most don't. i shall be most interested to see what might happen after this weekend. π€ π€ π€
George E. πΊπΈβ₯πΊπ¦π΅πΈπ³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ
in reply to Droppie [opensoc] • • •FYI but every one of those β:customemojis:β has to have the actual PNG or GIF uploaded to YOUR instance for any of them to work.
Until then they're simply not going to work no matter what you do.
They are not universal. Each custom emoji is unique to the instance that has it.
My instance might have
:heart:look like this: β₯οΈBut on another instance:heart:might look like this: πDroppie [opensoc]
in reply to George E. πΊπΈβ₯πΊπ¦π΅πΈπ³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ • • •George E. πΊπΈβ₯πΊπ¦π΅πΈπ³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ
in reply to Droppie [opensoc] • • •Matthias
in reply to Droppie [opensoc] • • •@Droppie [opensoc]
You can view the available custom emojis via the link. This will always be a limited selection, in addition to the classic emojis.
@Raroun
Rainer "friendica" Sokoll
in reply to Droppie [opensoc] • • •