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Apparently Frendica DMs don't really work properly with Mastadon and if you use the "Direct" privacy setting in a reply it just posts it as Public. Whoops. That'll learn me for not testing things safely when unsure.
@gbraad The issue of Frendica DMs not being interoperable with Mastodon is a known one. The direct reply thing was mostly me misunderstanding how Fedilab for Andriod would respond if I tried to do something that was supported on Mastodon but not on Frendica. I expected it would produce an error message if I tried doing something unsupported rather than just silently degrade privacy. That's a bad default.
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@mnemonicoverload
While we deeply agree that it is an important mistake, we just discovered it. That means when posting with the privacy "direct", the Friendica api accepts it without error and it replaces it with a public visibility.
We warned our Friendica users and we will disable the private visibility for Friendica.
Cc @ConnyDuck
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@ConnyDuck @gbraad @apps Thanks for the clarification. That seems like a reasonable work around for now. It does raise the question if other apps are aware of the issue or not as well though.
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@mnemonicoverload @ConnyDuck @gbraad

Yup, everything as public as public is.

I do much enjoy having the entire thread available for me to review/quote/cite when I offer reply posts, but I'm currently using a #Pleroma account so not sure how to enable "quote posts" in Fedilab for that.

Any pointers, suggestions?

@tallship
Have you tried extra features in Settings?

@apps Not until just now!

Thank you!

I'm going to go and take a look at https://wip.fedilab.app/docs/fedilab/ in a minute - that's where the new docs are taking shape 🙂

Thanks again! #Fedilab never let's me down nor creases to amaze me with its utility!

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #Fedilab

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@ConnyDuck @gbraad @tallship @apps It's in the (newish?) "Extra features" section of the Settings in Fedilab. Enable the toggle for "Extra features" and then further down the same setting page there's another toggle for "Display the Quote button" under Icons for extra features.
@mnemonicoverload @ConnyDuck @gbraad @apps Fantastic!

I'll do that right away!

The presumption here is that the feature don't display if not supported on the platform. i.e., stock mastodon.

Regardless, this is great news to me and I'll be sure to share this info with others!

#tallship #Fedilab #Fediverse #Android #FOSS #quote_post

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@mnemonicoverload @ConnyDuck @gbraad @apps Yes!

Very nice!

Also enabled “always show translation button” or whatever it says, because I like to peruse there open #Fediverse streams and translate often. #Fedilab’s #LibreTranslate integration is virtually flawless.

I also selected the Text/Markdown radio button and I’m wondering if that will get me into trouble or not - I make use of it often though in #Mitra, #Soapbox, #Pleroma, and #Calckey, so we’ll just see what happens there.

#tallship #FOSS

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@ConnyDuck @apps @gbraad @mnemonicoverload

Works like a dream! Thanks for the pointer mnem!

A lot of new Pixelfed fixes and settings too I'm seeing - I just upgraded to 3.14.5 (not brave enough to go to today's new beta lolz).

#tallship #FOSS #Fedilab #Fediverse

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