How it looks on my end from Lemmy
It's only weird because the text is copied to the title and body, revealing weirdness with the links
I think it uses the tweet content as both the post title and body when Lemmy tries to display masto tweets. Maybe the title should just be "Mastodon post from @username" tbh
this is what i am thinking always
Is there some barrier to stop Lemmy from handling community migration the way Mastodon does? On masto, you can send a signal to all your followers which automatically unfollows them and refollows them to your new account. Instance migration is so easy there. I'm pretty sure following a Mastodon user and subscribing to a Lemmy community are similar under the hood so I wonder why similar behavior couldnt be put in for Lemmy
What is your guys' experience with Lemmy and Kbin interaction
This post comes from Lemmy, so at least we know that part works lmao.
But how seamless have you guys found kbin to lemmy interaction? Can you subscribe to Lemmy communities through kbin?
You can copy the link to the other community in full (something like instance.url/c/community_name) and go back to your community and go into the search menu. Paste the link in and you'll see the community in the search results. Click that link and you can subscribe
Never moderated anything before, how much of a time commitment is it usually?
How can I default to Subscribed view rather than local view?
Edit: solved thanks
Unsure if this is the right place for this but is this possible either in the website or in Jerboa?
You can but it might be a little unstable. Post from mastodon and mention @[email protected] to make a post
I'm mad at Reddit so I'm going to create my own reddit that works the exact same way. You can post, make subreddits, like and comment, everything. The only problem is I only have a userbase of 10 people. There's kind of a catch 22 with maintaining a userbase on social media: if I don't have enough users, no one will want to join, so I'll have even fewer users.
One thing that can help is the fact that you have your own separate reddit clone that also has 10 users. We can work together and make our websites compatible with each other and speak the same language. Now my users can see your subreddits and posts and interact with your users like there's nothing separating them. A community emerges of 20 people that transcends the boundaries of the individual websites.
Now say we take our code, call it Lemmy, and post it for free on the internet so anyone can copy it and make their own reddit clone to add to the network. These are all separate websites, called instances, but since they speak the same language (ActivityPub), all the users can interact with each other.
Which makes sense, I imagine if I was shadow banned i would realize pretty quick. But it's not easy to have a bot realize they are shadow banned
I'm seeing a lot of people having issues with accidentally getting bounced to the wrong instance. I have a friend who got confused and gave up on fedi I think because of the confusion from this same issue.
Using a client does help though
Yeah that would be best for transparency. Blocking an instance is a big deal and the decision should be held under a lot of scrutiny by the community imo so making the list easy to access is a good start
Weird, can't see it on my end: https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/110/529/792/128/061/813/original/7ba36b7ff87cf564.jpg What client are you using?
196 at lemmy.blahaj.zone seems to be the official community
Probably best to migrate there at [email protected] because the community will be stronger if not broken apart across multiple instances
How can we make the fediverse easier to adopt?
or another way to ask it, what made fedi easier for you to adopt? I don't think the answer is better ways of explaining how federation exactly works, because no matter how good of an analogy you can make, most users don't care and just want to know how to get started
EDIT: I guess I'll go first, for something like Mastodon I think encouraging people to use a client like pinafore.social or Tusky instead of going directly to the website of the instance would help stop people from confusing themselves by getting redirected between instances. Same for Lemmy as better clients start to pop up
Should federated social media have a centralized website that users use to access it?
(reposted this from r/fediverse)
Should federated social media have a centralized website that users use to access it?
It would be like starting a server for a video game. If I host, say a Minecraft server, my friends won't connect directly to the server, rather we will all use the same software (Minecraft) to connect. In a similar way I could start a Mastodon instance, but we would all go to a single website, something like mastodon.com, and type in the url to my instance to access it.
The benefit of this would be removing a lot of friction that comes with interacting with users across instances. If I, a user of mas.to visit a user profile from someone on mastodon.world, I need to actually navigate to the website mastodon.world to see all of their posts. From here, I lose the ability to like posts, reply, or basically do anything. I need to copy the link back to my home instance to do anything with the content on mastodon.world
This is really confusing to users who haven't even realized they have been navigated to a different website, since the UI is all the same. One of my friends stopped using mastodon because she was confused why she kept being logged out seemingly for no reason. It's also unnecessary friction that stops me from being able to interact properly with the entire fediverse.
If I was accessing mastodon through a centralized website, I could stay logged in while viewing a profile or post from another user, and I still would be able to interact with it. I would never be navigated away to another website and logged out. It would be a much less confusing and frustrating experience and lower the barriers between instances.