hartsick

A guide for friends considering Mastodon

A lot of my friends have recently been considering leaving Twitter for other networks, and many are considering Mastodon. There are many guides floating about that can tell you about Mastodon and the Fediverse, which is really exciting! It can be overwhelming to sort through them all, though, and honestly I haven't read them since I know my way around.

So, this is the blog version of me sitting down with a friend explaining what I know about Mastodon and how I'd recommend approaching setting up an account there for the first time and getting oriented.

What's in this:

1. What is the Fediverse / Mastodon?
2. Why would I want to join?
3. Where do I start?

kiding

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  When an input element gets focused, iOS Safari tries to put it in the center by scrolling (and zooming.)
  Zooming can be easily disabled using a meta tag, but the scrolling hasn't been quite easy.

  The main quirk (I think) is that iOS Safari changes viewport when scrolling; i.e., toolbars shrink.
  Since the viewport _should_ change, it thinks the input _will_ move, so it _should_ scroll, always.
  Even times when it doesn't need to scroll—the input is fixed, all we need is the keyboard—
  the window always scrolls _up and down_ resulting in some janky animation.

  However, iOS Safari doesn't scroll when the input **has opacity of 0 or is completely clipped.**

marteinn

Elixir + Phoenix Framework + Guardian + JWT + Comeonin

This is a updated guide aimed to support Phoenix 1.3 and Guardian 1.0

Preparing environment

We need to generate secret key for development environment.

mix phx.gen.secret
# ednkXywWll1d2svDEpbA39R5kfkc9l96j0+u7A8MgKM+pbwbeDsuYB8MP2WUW1hf

Vestride

Encoding Video

Installing

Install FFmpeg with homebrew. You'll need to install it with a couple flags for webm and the AAC audio codec.

brew install ffmpeg --with-libvpx --with-libvorbis --with-fdk-aac --with-opus