#PennedPossibilities 916.1 — Your MC wakes up as a wolf (or if a wolf / werewolf, a rabbit / wererabbit), what do they do, how do they react? #substitoot

For MC Bolt, this would be a disaster. She has an almost obsessive pride in the beauty and strength of her wings (she's an athletic day angel who loves to fly). Becoming a creature living in two-dimensions would crush her. She'd cry and rage, neither typical of her. When hunger forced her to hunt, she'd be horrified. People don't eat meat as far as she knows, and eating fish doesn't prepare her for looking at a living breathing mammal as food. This would be totally bad for her.

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@floofpaldi I started rewatching Beastars and have a certain wolf and rabbit "friendship" on my mind. 😋

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#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

Stepping in with an #Substitoot question, since our adorable @floofpaldi is catching up on some rest.

#PennedPossibilities 897.1 - Which one of your characters is the loudest snorer and who is most likely to sleepwalk?

#PennedPossibilities #substitoot @sfwrtr Is your MC the type who prepares for parties, gathering treats and decorating elaborately days ahead, or calls together their besties at the spur of the moment, usually making it a pot luck? Why?

Freya has absolutely no interest in prestige, status, or popularity. So, her parties consist of a couple of friends and family and some sort of recreational concoction.

#writing

#PennedPossibilities 880⅞ #substitoot Is your MC the type who prepares for parties, gathering treats and decorating elaborately days ahead, or calls together their besties at the spur of the moment, usually making it a pot luck? Why?

The devil-girl was trained to host state dinners. Of course, after running away the only thing she plans is hosting her team of bodyguards at a restaurant! Usually after work. She pays for drinks even though she's too young to drink herself.

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#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author #mystery #thriller #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

#Substitoot Do any of your characters have troubles with deadlines, like getting a term paper done before the last day, or buying holiday presents?

When Bella still lived with her mother in Ravenhold Castle, she often forgot the time when she was secretly studying magic, or making potions, or riding her horse. She then had to run to get to the meals with her mother in time, or to the lessons with her tutor. She was always a bit late and running.

#PennedPossibilities

#PennedPossibilities #Substitoot @sfwrtr Do any of your characters have troubles with deadlines, like getting a term paper done before the last day, or buying holiday presents?

In book 1 Freya has two jobs, a company, no supporting family, and also adopts four feral, magicka fuelled Rascals. So, she struggles to manage the custom alchemy work. Eventually, she starts to refuse to brew cosmetics and recreationals to order, so she can ensure to brew the medicinals.

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#PennedPossibilities #Substitoot @AnnaSaultron Tell us something wholesome about any of your stories or characters.

When Dionysus learns about bacteria, he doesn't bathe or brush his teeth for a week in an attempt to befriend them. He gets so smelly, Pelliniana designs a flower petal adorned rain cloud stalker to follow him around all day in an effort to force her stinky big brother to bathe.

#writing

@virtulis With Mastodon v4.5 out now I want to say a huge thanks for #Substitoot - it was really awesome

:mastodon: Ciekawy dodatek dla osób korzystających z #Mastodon-a w przeglądarce, głównie na mniejszych instancjach:

Wtyczka, która stara się "dociągnąć" tootki z innych serwerów w ramach przeglądanej dyskusji, albo profilu. Których inaczej nie byłoby widać.

#Substitoot:
https://substitoot.kludge.guru
https://github.com/virtulis/substitoot

Działa mi już drugi dzień dosyć sprawnie.

#FediTipsPL #FediPomoc #MastodonPL

@NearerAndFarther there will be an indicator at the bottom of the screen when you open a specific post in the feed that shows the progress of resolving and loading the replies (if it's working).

That said, I see you are on Mastodon 4.4, which ships with this functionality server side (although it might be disabled by default still and may need to be enabled by your server admin). I believe 4.5 also has UI support for this. Still haven't gotten to actually updating myself.

Which is to say, #Substitoot will hopefully no longer be needed since the thing it was a kludgy substitoot for is finally implemented, so there won't be any new development on it, unless someone wants to take over. I'll try to make an "official" announcement in the repo/website/addon pages ... when I get to it :)

@box464 from my limited testing in the last few weeks #Substitoot supplements this quite well with its web UI kludges. But sure hope I can retire it completely asap.

My instance is on v4.4.0. Quote post something if your instance allows it, so I could bask in its glory 😀

Also, is the reply fetch supposed to be configurable in the admin section of v4.4.0? I am still using #Substitoot for a quick look before going to the original post to follow the discussion.

#Mastodon

Turned on FETCH_REPLIES_ENABLED=true on loud.computer.

Seems to work, but rather slowly and needs a refresh (but maybe that's a glitch-soc UI specific issue, idk). Still, a significant progress.

#Substitoot was made as a stopgap until this functionality is properly implemented server-side (hence the name). Can't wait for the day it fades into irrelevance :ABlobCatHappyPaws:

@johan @skobkin @johnmouse О, а вот за #Substitoot пасиба, поставлю

@skobkin
Хороший ответ, а конкретные реализации какие известны?

@johnmouse
Скорее нет, чем да, и причина в самом механизме федерации. Тут, блджад, даже все комментарии в чужом треде ты не увидишь без танцев с бубном (аддон #Substitoot для браузеров, есличо, маст-хев). А лайки, на которых бы можно было строить какие-то рекомендации, вообще не федерируются.

@rolle That's a fantastic news for single-user instances #selfhosted !

#substitoot is pretty much mandatory currently to engage with the fediverse, as otherwise I'm missing like 99% of a conversation.

This solves one of my two major pain points with #mastodon (the other one being the inability to follow tags in lists).

Myös Chrome-versio näkyy olevan, siitä minulla ei ole omakohtaista kokemusta: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/substitoot-%E2%80%94-a-transparen/oedncfcpfcmehalbpdnekgaaldefpaef

#Substitoot #Chrome

#Fedivinkki uusille ja ehkä vanhoillekin Mastodonin käyttäjille:

Muilla palvelimilla sijaitsevien viestien vastauksista osa jää usein puuttumaan. Tämä Firefoxin laajennus pyrkii hakemaan puuttuvat viestit automaattisesti: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/substitoot/

Toimii myös Firefoxin Android-versiossa (jopa niin hyvin, että käytän matkapuhelimessakin mieluummin Firefoxia kuin mitään erillistä Mastodon-sovellusta).

#Substitoot #Firefox

#Mastodon #FAIL #Firefox #addons #Chrome

Интересно, а все здесь понимают, что при просмотре какого-либо треда, вы видите не все комментарии, а количество лайков/бустов никак не отражает реальность?

Для примера я открыл один и тот же пост в аккаунтах на малонаселенном сервере, на средненьком и третий вариант — с аддоном #substitoot. Результат, кмк, удручает (комментарии в треде посчитать не могу, но в первом случае виден один (!), во втором пара десятков, в третьем много).

Насколько я понимаю (надеюсь, верно, если что — поправьте), это bug in design: открывая тред, вы видете комментарии только от тех людей, на которых подписаны вы или кто-то с вашего сервера. Сообщения остальных участников диалога просто не были доставлены на ваш сервер, он о них ничего не знает.

Substitoot — аддон для лиситьсы, который подтягивает в тред все ответы, вытаскивая их с удаленных серверов. А также загружает последние сообщения в профилях «незнакомых» пользователей (надо будет «перезагрузить» профиль, т.е. открыть его повторно). Рекомендую к использованию всем, кто сидит через веб-морду.

Substitoot для Chrome

Страница аддона на Github

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#Substitoot by @virtulis is a great #browser #addon that patches incomplete threads on here, by trying to fetch missing posts from remote instances.

Unfortunately, as the developer states, it does not (yet) handle block lists, so you may see unwelcome posts from even more unwelcome accounts.

I've created a #github issue to ask for the highly desired filtering. If you've got an account there, please consider giving it a thumbs up and / or leave a few encouraging words for the developer.

https://substitoot.kludge.guru/

https://github.com/virtulis/substitoot/issues/5

#Mastodon