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i’ll admit i haven’t checked it out yet as i should be am busy with stuff irl so you may have actually addressed this but am commenting in case you didn’t and i forget lol, but if this were implemented, maybe the instance admins/moderators have a section for newly trust-based federated instances

like, because of the chain of trust, it autofederates without the need of approval. however, there’s a section of recently federated instances through the chain of trust, where the admins can double check and can reject it if they disagree

and maybe something where a certain amount of rejections doesn’t remove the federation from other instances (or maybe it removes it but gives the option to reimplement it), but does notify the admins saying “hey, this was autofederated but keeps getting red-flagged, maybe you should take a look at this speific one and see what you want to do?”

i don’t know how to code or the specifics of how federation works at that level, so i also apologize if this is a bad/impossible suggestion

i might have a bit of a solution (this is assuming you’re using one of the instances in my post - if it’s another instance, the issue could be that not enough instances are federated with that particular instance. fortunately the first link seems to have the most federation and it’s not taking sign ups, so i think it should be good for guests)

click on the filters. under Displayed Videos, make sure it’s set to Display Videos From All Platforms

i feel like it doesn’t memorize your choice consistently, so if you’re not seeing videos from other platforms, you may need to recheck your filter

aside from that, i agree the discovery is still lacking, but at least you should be able to see other instance videos. if you find videos you like, i think some of the recommended videos might be similar…?

the sort function does not seem to function well yet in my experience, unfortunately.

@[email protected] you seem to contribute to this community a lot; have you thought about becoming a moderator? it looks like the current mod might not be active right now

It’s been a few months since the app was pretty much unusable for me, but from what I can remember, the app would crash. A lot. YMMV?

Aside from that, I think I had trouble finding videos? It seemed to be limited to videos on the instance iirc. I think it logged me out a lot too or something.

I don’t think it had background play. I know PIP is on the roadmap.

i think it does too! i just figured you might be interested in knowing what animal it might be :)

i like to share threadiverse posts on my wafrn and i care about accessibility, so i make an effort to try and only share images that have alt text. i like to hope that will encourage more people to add alt text to their images :)

Yeah, it’s disappointing, but that seems to be the only option on iOS, as no one has chosen to develop a free functioning open source app.

I’ve heard there might be options on Android, though. I’m an iOS user and I’m only sharing what I’m familiar with.

You could also just use the instances normally on the desktop. The guide includes that as well and that’s the main point, if you read it.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] tagging since I figured you might be interested in this post

that does sound interesting; you should consider making a post about it :)