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Show & Tell

The Show & Tell extension allows you to quickly share screenshots of your renderings with the world.

Press Ctrl3 to open it.

When open, it intercepts any screenshot you make. Use either:

  • WinShiftS: The default windows shortcut to take a screenshot
  • Ctrl2: Works on Skia and Stride windows

Screenshots augmented with some text can then be posted to our common madewithvvvv account. In addition you can configure ShowAndTell to post to one of your own Pixelfed or Mastdon accounts and thus build a beautiful portfolio of your work.

Configuring Accounts

Press the gear button to open the configuration page.

The common "madewithvvvv" account

This is the default account that anyone can always post to. If you want your images to be associated with your user name, provide your vvvv.org login credentials instead of guest/guest.

Custom Accounts

If you have either a Pixelfed or Mastdon account, you can also post to those.

Pixelfed & Mastodon

Press the Add Account button and specify:

  • A name that identifies the account for you
  • The instance (without http://, e.g.: pixelfed.de)
  • The access token

Pixelfed access token

Note

For issues we're still investigating, this does currently not work with the pixelfed.social instance! There are many other instances to choose from.

In your Pixelfed account, go to Settings > Applications > Create New Token

Fill out the form, make sure to enable the Write scope and press Create. This will prompt you with an access token that you copy-paste into the account configuration.

Mastodon access token

In your Mastodon account, go to Preferences > Development > New Application

Fill out the form, make sure to enable the Write scope and press Submit. This will prompt you with an access token that you copy-paste into the account configuration.

What the Pixelfed and Mastodon?

Pixelfed and Mastodon are part of the larger Fediverse, a federation of decentralized social networks. In contrast to the more well-known legacy walled-gardens, those work more like e-mail: Anyone can run their own instance of a Pixelfed or Mastodon server and still communicate with anyone else, because the fediverse shares a common communications protocol: ActivityPub. No ads, no tracking, no blockchain, no crypto. Just a simple way to share images and text over the internet.

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