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A #Friendica tip, at least something I didn't know yet and just found out, is that when you're on the network timeline and you open the left side menu where the forums you're subscribed to are listed, like in this screenshot:

you can click on either the name or the icon of the forum. When you click the name, your network timeline gets filtered to show only the posts from that forum. This is similar to when you click groups or protocols in that same menu.

When you click the icon however, you get directed to the page of that forum itself, on the remote server. This could be useful if some posts have since expired on your own server.

I noticed this when clicking the icon of a non-Friendica group (gup.pe or zap), where the redirect was not possible and an ugly php error was the result. Anyway, it's a neat function.


If I ever find myself in a post-apocalyptic world, I'd like to be part of Amber's tribe. It is the best tribe.
#TheTribe #BethAllen


They missed my 'just start reading again from some random page because I have no idea where I left off or more accurately dozed off'.


The past will come back to haunt u (and comment on ur parenting abilities)

A teaser for season three of You where the season two cast comments on the recent baby name reveal. Great to see #JennaOrtega promoting #YouNetflix S3. This doesn't mean she'll be in it, after all most other S2 characters in this clip have died already...


Picking up Schmigadoon! again. I had fallen out of the weekly habit of watching these episodes on Apple TV+ due to my holiday and not being home. But I can't let Dove Cameron content be out there without watching it, can I? It's a very fun series too.

#DoveCameron #Schmigadoon


This was not obvious to me, but you can add descriptive text to images in a #Friendica post. When you click the "image" button and select or upload an image, the bbcode for the image is inserted into your post editor. This has a [url] tag for the link to the full image and a [img] tag for the preview image.

It turns out that anything you type between these opening and closing [img] and [/img] tags will be rendered as descriptive text on the image. Adding an alt= or title= attribute doesn't seem to work however.

Example:

[url=https://friendica.gidikroon.eu/photo/1929641322612bfa9fd0155603878394-0.jpg][img=https://friendica.gidikroon.eu/photo/1929641322612bfa9fd0155603878394-1.jpg]This will be the descriptive text of the image[/img][/url]


Ah, the Friendica experience...

Image description: a post received on the top of my timeline, which indicates that it was posted 4 years ago. But it also says it was edited 5 days ago. But listed as well is that it was received 22 minutes ago...

You see this kind of thing a lot on Friendica. But it is a bit unfair to make fun of it. At least here they indicate these different times; on other platforms you just have to guess why you're seeing a post on top of your timeline...