NOW I HAVE A THREADIVERSE COMMUNITY
HO - HO - HO
A community for any movie with a punch, a kick, a stab, a shot or an explosion, or preferably all of the above and plenty of 'em.
Everything from Armour of God to Zulu, from Above the Law to Zatoichi.
In addition to piefed.social's instance rules.
My 1st use of the "Event" option in Piefed.
Might start using this from now on when posting about watch parties (instead of "Link" or "Image"). As well as a post in the community timeline, it adds the event to the sidebar & even creates an iCal feed.
1 issue: event time displayed as GMT with offset (in my case, -6) for local time. I wish it displayed local time & UTC.
This is the first time I've seen and clicked on an event, and I want to watch the GONG FOO! I figured out when, but I'm not 100% on how. I'm on mastodon.social, how do I uh, join the stream?
Sorry, I only just saw your reply, so the event is over today. 🙁 But we're here every week! 😁
#KungFuSat is an example of a "bring your own media" watch party. But today the movie was on Youtube worldwide (AFAIK), from the licensed Shaw Brothers Cinema channel. So everyone could watch from the same link.
In one window or device, have the Youtube video.
In another window or device, have Mastodon open and go to the #KungFuSat hashtag.
Then at the appointed time, the host posts on Mastodon "Press Play now!", everyone presses Play and begins watching & commenting.
Here's an example of me doing it all on my laptop with two browser windows side-by-side (there are other ways):
Next week, the film Code of Silence is not on a worldwide-licensed Youtube channel. In that case, the host (next week @MatthewTitus88) will post a streaming link from another site a few hours before the watch party.
You can use that link or find the movie another way. E.g. DVD/Blu-Ray, paid site (Netflix, Prime etc).
Have a look at the "What's a watch party?" links in the OP for a bit more info.
What the hell? Did I not understand how timezones work again? How long ago was this?
I need my GUNG FHOO! Haiiyya!
It started 5 hours & 20 minutes ago, finished about 3 hours ago.
Huh, weird, because it said event starts at midnight GMT+1, and that's my timezone.
Wait, no it doesn't. I must have mixed it up with some other event! My bad.
See you next sat then! :)
Just dealing with the time change a xouple months ago (most watch party hosts in places that do Daylight Savings, I am not) did my head in. 😂
See you then!
I also notice the event is only shown in the sidebar when viewing the the main community timeline, not when viewing a post.
I wonder how many people bother viewing the community timeline as opposed to just viewing posts that come up in their main PieFed / Lemmy feed.
EDIT: Wait, I see now that it's visible in the sidebar for ALL PieFed! Cool!