Chris Franklin

@Campster

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youtube.com/errantsignal

Maker of Organic, Artisanal Video Essays About Interactive Media

Was @Campster on Twitter, once.

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Chris Franklin @Campster11/20/2022, 4:19 PM

One thing that does seem harder to do on Cohost is to highlight TikToks. Because TikTok is obsessed with keeping people on-platform you can't really embed them the way you can embed a YouTube video. But at the same time video hosting costs are prohibitive: simply downloading the .mp4 and reposting it on Facebook or Twitter (with attribution) was an option because they're huge media conglomerates. Here it's not so viable. Really, though, I think it's more of a problem with TikTok as a platform refusing to facilitate embedding than anything else.

Anyways, I bring all of this up because this Call of Duty TikTok popped into my For You Page and for like 2 seconds I honestly thought it was me speaking and was deeply confused: http://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRQ47vPh/

Human voices are weird. Also, I blame that distinctive monotone delivery.

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@PhillipMoyer11/20/2022, 4:27 PM

I just wish there were a good way to find all the people I used to follow on Twitter beyond checking each individual account and hoping that it has a link in the headline.

richard @falun11/20/2022, 7:16 PM

I've seen this one being passed around https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ which seems to find folks specifically on mastodon instances and this complicated twitter search which looks through your follows for a much broader set of social sites referenced (I'd personally pull out insta since that's probably not going to be new information but likely will pollute the results).

@iwilliams11/20/2022, 5:42 PM

If you look at the official cohost bug tracker, it does look like they are currently working on video uploads. I hope they do, because it's way easier to upload gamedev videos instead of trying to compress a gif.

Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen11/20/2022, 9:27 PM

I've seen people embed tiktoks on here just fine, so there's some way to do it. I'm guessing just putting the url on its own paragraph like a YouTube vid doesn't work?

Chris Franklin @Campster11/21/2022, 12:16 AM

They have an embed HTML block, but it doesn't seem to play nice with most platforms? I tried it here and it copied the body of the post's text but not the video (which is the critical part).

I'll futz with it some more and see if I can't find a better solution.

It's probably for the best if I can't just post every funny TikTok I find on Cohost, anyways.

Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen11/21/2022, 1:25 AM

I just tested and it seems all you have to do is post the link, no HTML, no nothin, on its own line with a line break before and after. Like in your post, edit a line break above the link and it should embed