My diaspora tips
v1.2
Sharing
Obtain the universal (pod-independent) link for a post.
There an extension for that, thanks to Deus Figendi.
Install greasemonkey (Firefox) or tampermonkey (Chrome) and then install Add podsavelink for Greasemonkey.
Add comments to reshares (quote posts)
There an extension for that, thanks to Deus Figendi.
Install greasemonkey (Firefox) or tampermonkey (Chrome) and then install Quote post
Markdown
Get markdown code for links, pages, images
Install Copy as Markdown for Chrome & Firefox:
With a right-click you can copy:
- Current Tab Title + URL as a link
- A Hyperlink in page
- An Image in page, with alternative text
- All tabs in current window as a list of links (click the toolbar button)
Copy excerpts of webpages as markdown
Drap and drop to and from Mark It Down!
(seems to be working better on Chromium)
Excellent WYSIWYG markdown editor
Features : can be synchronized on CouchDB so you can work collectively; comment are possible; no login necessary.
Useful for Diaspora posts you want to keep and improve for republication and for collective, wiki-like posts.
Super useful diaspora pages you've never seen : liked and commented
Liked
Pages you like (<3) can be used to show interest to others and also to keep as favorites for later. However, reading those liked pages in "My activity" is a problem because there are lots of other things there.
Solution : go to your liked page!
The address is https://your.pod/liked
Commented
To follow your conversations, the notification area is sparse, and the notification page does not provide more info.
Solution : go to your commented page!
The address is https://your.pod/commented
Keyboard shortcuts
j- next message | k - previous message
also :
c - comment | l - like
(bugs) Search posts using multiple tags (or keywords)
This is suggested for testing :
Use a search engine!
search :
mywork photo (or other combinations of words) site:joindiaspora.com OR site:diasp.org OR site:nerdpol.ch OR site:diaspora-fr.org OR site:poddery.com OR site:wk3.org OR site:pod.geraspora.de OR site:socializer.cc (add other diaspora pods)
notes :
- some pods seem to show up much too often in search results (socializer.cc in particular);
- results vary greatly from one search engine to another;
- many posts do not show the searched words;
- some pages do not exist anymore.
Work in progress : comment here or contribute there, or both.
Previous version and comments here
Thanks to @Michał "rysiek" Woźniak, @nino ♥, @goob, @phle, @Noam Bergman, @harry haller (nerdpol.ch) and the incredible @Deus Figendi :)
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