Dear #apConf2020 video viewers, in case you haven't known yet:
You can easily leave comments below videos using your main /
/$APServer account. Video URIs are just post IDs you can put into the client's search bar, retrieve and comment on.
In case you get a 403 Error when trying to fetch a video, please contact your instance admin and ask them to clear the cache of the apconf account like this:
https://toot.matereal.eu/@schmittlauch/104951275943026732
or
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104951347877205466
Unfortunately, some unforeseen issues might have been triggered by the initial video publication.
@schmittlauch Can we do this? @leah & @rixx ?
@eest9 @schmittlauch @leah Which video is giving you problems? I just posted test comments on one of them and it worked just fine.
@rixx @eest9 @schmittlauch and I don't see how the command should fix that. What was the initial problem at all? Did someone renamed an existing account or....?
@leah @rixx @eest9 Has this progressed and been resolved?
Example video is https://conf.tube/videos/watch/6289920f-4e35-4141-ab6f-379b357849ec
Background: When uploaded initially, the videos were posted with a DM-like visibility but without anyone on your instance being allowed to see them. For whatever reason, this Publish activity was still sent to all follower instances like chaos.social.
Mastodon now has this visible-to-noone property cached and does not support mutable updates.
@schmittlauch @rixx @eest9 may I ask why every instance admin should now update their database instead of reuploading the stuff with the right permissions on your side? Sounds like the much easier way to me.
@leah @rixx @eest9 That has been considered, but unfortunately the links had been already spread outside the Fediverse e.g. at Hacker News and stuff.
It's a complicated decision to make, the organisers (which I am not part of) decided to leave things as they are and providing an additional forum as backup.
I guess nobody expects all instance admins to jump and do that just by themselves. We can just ask our own admins for this favor, acknowledging the extra amount of work this causes and
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@leah Thank you! @schmittlauch @rixx