fd is a massive upgrade to find - I appreciate the better UI and skipping hidden files is usually a big time saver (although I do find myself needing -H or specifying the directory a fair amount).

What names has this process come up with?

I’m not sure how the Mastodon–(ActivityPub)–>Lemmy bit works, but Lemmy doesn’t have a concept of a gallery. The first(?) media is your video, and that’s showing up in Lemmy. I assume it’s dropping the other images since there’s no Lemmy structure to put the other media items into.

btw, now I’m on Firefox/Win10 with the default Lemmy frontend and I can see that video and play it from Lemmy’s embed, so perhaps most people can see it (as long as they don’t click on the .mp4 link).

By “linked” I meant that it’s where the URL field of a Lemmy post is pointed at, not the other pages you linked in the post body. Now I’m on a PC again, I see that that link is to the leafy-backgrounded .mp4 (so there’s no chance the embedder would have found the other post images if Lemmy didn’t present them).

I think the mp4s-not-playing problem is a Mastodon bug/quirk as I’ve seen it before - neither Firefox nor Chrome can play them when navigated to, but both can play embedded and they work when downloaded. From the console logs, it seems to be a problem with the Content Security Policy stopping the rest of the video loading (since browsers only load the first chunk of a video to allow streaming):

Chrome:

Refused to load media from ‘https://furry.engineer/system/media_attachments/files/114/090/866/048/236/635/original/897a5752b038f3e3.mp4’ because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: “default-src ‘none’”. Note that ‘media-src’ was not explicitly set, so ‘default-src’ is used as a fallback.

Firefox:

Content-Security-Policy: The page’s settings blocked the loading of a resource (media-src) at https://furry.engineer/system/media_attachments/files/114/090/866/048/236/635/original/897a5752b038f3e3.mp4 because it violates the following directive: “default-src ‘none’”

This reminds me of how in 1930 the BBC said “There is no news” and instead played piano music for 15 minutes.

Huh, so there is. I’m not 100% on how Voyager works - specifically I think (but don’t know) that it’s got the video because it’s connected to the linked URL (your original post in this case) and pulled down data to make the link preview.

If that’s right, it means Lemmy isn’t handing the media at all.

My Lemmy app (Voyager) shows the video, so at least some of us can see it.

I decided on Symfonium as well - especially once I realised the author, Tolriq, was the same on who’d made Yatse, my favourite Kodi remote. Tolriq is an indie developer and always has very fair pricing and excellent support, so I’m happy to pay (once, per app) for a polished experience.

I laughed at that too - they knew what they were doing, right?

So they’ve just decided that all devices now support HEVC (H.265) and they’ll just disable transcoding? My media centre is on a Pi 3B and that can’t play h265 smoothly. If I had a Synology I’d be pretty annoyed!

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Your argument is that a single backup is sufficient? I disagree, and I think that so would most in the selfhosted and datahoarder communities.

Yup, and with @notthebees’ idea of taking photos as a backup you’ve got what you need.

Having a computer-based one that’s the source of truth (and perhaps accessible online) does make sense, although I suspect this is too niche to exist already.

I know these are famous last words, but this doesn’t sound too difficult to knock up yourself, assuming you know kung-fu coding.

It turns out that people on Lemmy are no better responsibly using a downvote button than anywhere else. I think you should have to at least select a reason why you’re downvoting to add some friction - maybe options something like “I don’t like this”, “I disagree”, “This is factually incorrect”, “Spam”, “Abusive language”, etc. Then you can filter out the first two!