New to this whole Lemmy platform, but I’m liking it.

One problem I’m having is auto-play videos when I open some discussions. Not in the comments, but the post itself starts playing.

I’ll skip my usual rant about what I think should be done to whoever decided to make that a feature, and just ask how to turn it off. I have “auto expand media” unchecked in my lemmy settings.

I appreciate any advice.

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    I posted this issue 4 months ago. But there are so many caveats, like Lemmy.World still hasn’t updated Lemmy past software version 0.19.3 so the bug doesn’t even happen on it (having been introduced later), whereas StarTrek.website has the latest 0.19.9 and it does auto play - see e.g. this example video post). The GitHub issue looks like it was simply closed, pointing to another one that says that it is fixed, except ofc we can clearly still see the behavior happening. It also happens on Mbin as well, more or less.

    Edit: okay so clicking the above example does not trigger the behavior, plus shows me as logged out for some reason. Try this search link, which for some reason retrieves the post twice (database weirdness issue? It took forever the first time to find it btw, so that does seem likely?), but clicking either one auto plays for me with sound, only when logged in with a Startrek.website account, and in Firefox on Android.

    I have since switched to PieFed bc I like the features here much better than Lemmy, and e.g. this issue does not happen here (edit: although here is an example of an embedded YouTube and piped video post - note it waits to be clicked to play). If you want to keep your Lemmy account though, you might try switching to an app that you like better. Thunder and Voyager are great ones, and I’ve heard wonderful things about Sync and Connect.

    Lemmy only updates things extremely slowly (example). Thus, very few people seem to prefer using the basic web UI, as opposed to apps.

    • SaltSong@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      appreciate the detailed reply. I’ll look to see whatI can do with it.

      I am, in fact, using the default web UI, because I abhor the appification of the internet. But sometimes, one does what one must.

      • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        When I was using Lemmy, I also preferred the web UI. It also does things that PieFed does not, like PieFed’s search (like Reddit) is crap, but Lemmy’s is superb. And I like how Lemmy can separate up from down-votes, bc e.g. +16 & -15 = +1 is a very different thing from merely seeing +1.:-)

        But over time I simply became too frustrated with its very many limitations, a good fraction of which apps reportedly fix. Although PieFed also fixes them as well, and then some, while still offering a basic web UI. Check it out! But keep your Star Trek account too, and just see how easy and fun it is to use either one to accomplish something:-).

        The chief reason I keep harping on this is that PieFed is written in Python, so is much easier for a community to edit, compared to Lemmy that is written in Rust, which is notoriously difficult even for those who already know C++. The pace of development of Lemmy is thus extremely slow, in comparison. But if it works for people then that’s great, and yet for that audience all I can do is recommend an app to try to address issues such as these that otherwise languishing for months to years without being worked on.

        • SaltSong@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
          1·
          13 hours ago

          Thanks for the advice. I’ve never ever heard of Rust, but then I am a mere dabbler in programming.

          I suppose an app may be my best bet.

          • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            2 hours ago

            Rust is very new, and not very common - in fact the language itself is not finished!:-)

            Check out Voyager - it’s a great app, and as James R. Kirk mentioned, you can check it out prior to download. In fact, here’s the link to the example post I gave earlier with the auto playing video, except in Voyager it does not auto play:-).