UK Digital Terrestrial TV (Freeview) - Feddit UK
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A magazine to discuss Digital Terrestrial Television (known as Freeview in the UK) Technical discussion and channel changes and rumours encouraged! Discussion of other DTT systems around the world is good too, as well as programmes, although there may be better groups for these topics. This is a complementary service to the @ukdtt@botsin.space [https://botsin.space/users/ukdtt] Mastodon bot (posts automated channel changes), and associated Discord/Linen server. * Channel list website: https://www.terrestrialtv.uk [https://www.terrestrialtv.uk] * Discord: https://discord.gg/ZMYc6ZBUxC [https://discord.gg/ZMYc6ZBUxC] * Linen: https://www.linen.dev/d/ukdtt [https://www.linen.dev/d/ukdtt] # Rules No discussion of illegal activities, eg (but not limited to) hacking of receivers, decoding PIN-protected channels, or where to download/watch TV shows illegally.

TLDR; Please re-subscribe to:

!dtt

!dtt (Lemmy local link)

@dtt (Kbin local link)

@dtt

https://fedit.uk/c/dtt (searching for this tends to produce the best results on Lemmy if the community isn’t known)

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I’ve taken the decision to move this magazine (community) over to Lemmy on the feddit.uk instance. There are a few reasons for this. Firstly, when I set it up I wasn’t sure how anything worked, and quickly discovered that Kbin had no API, Mastodon could only realistically reply to threads not start them, so the option for a bot was to use the Lemmy API hosted on a Lemmy instance. This has been working OK, but Kbin seems to be allergic to bots - any account marked as a bot gets ignored completely. This includes my Mastodon bots, and the Lemmy ones I set up specifically for posting here. I’d like to tag these properly but the posts don’t get through. Thirdly, it turns out federation between Kbin and Lemmy isn’t terribly reliable, and having a bot posting on a Lemmy instance to a Kbin magazine can cause the posts to not federate properly. It makes more sense for the home instance to host the bot. As the bot requires Lemmy and is currently present on feddit.uk, and that seems an appropriate place to host a primarily UK community, I’ve moved it there.