@lemmy I just realized that you can submit posts to any lemmy community from any mastodon / fediverse account. This is pretty cool!

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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    1310 months ago

    This is one of the big advantages of using open platforms that operate over a common protocol. Commercial companies are engaged in a zero sum game fighting for users, so they want to create silos for their content. On the other hand, Fediverse is a positive sum game where all the platforms benefit from users being able to see content from other platforms.

  • Adda
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    910 months ago

    Exactly. The power of fediverse. Enjoy! ❤

  • BrooklynMan
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    10 months ago

    you can also comment on posts from other instances as well as subscribe to communities on other instances!

    edit: you still have to follow their rules, though, as the rules/guidelines on other instances may differ from that of your own!

    • Wander ΘΔ :verified_paw:OP
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      810 months ago

      @BrooklynMan yeah, this is pretty awesome. The only big thing I’m struggling with is that the community account, as seen from Mastodon, boosts absolutely everything… all comments, in any order, not just top level posts.

      • BrooklynMan
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        710 months ago

        yeah, from what i understand, mastadon doesn’t provide the best UX for browsing lemmy. but it works if you need to use it.

        • Wander ΘΔ :verified_paw:OP
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          510 months ago

          @BrooklynMan while I realize that it sometimes doesn’t make sense to care too much for how mastodon users see things, maybe there’s some way top posts and comments can be distinguished so that we can filter them out. But I do understand that there’s limitations and it’s a reasonable compromise.

          • @shortwavesurfer@lemmy.ca
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            610 months ago

            Seems to me that only OPs should be boosted and you would open the post to see comments. I just learned the same thing today and hit that same barrier. I dont want my home timeline filled to the brim with every single reply

    • Countmacula
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      210 months ago

      How exactly do I see other instances? I thought you just signed up individually for each one.

      • BrooklynMan
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        while browsing your main “feed”, at the top, you can select between “Subscribed”, “Local”, and “All”. You can also click on “Communities” at the top, sort by “All” and get a list of Communities that are available of all instances and subscribe to them. Then, when you go back to your feed, sort by “Subscribed”, and it will be very much like your Home Page on reddit, with all your subs.

        • Countmacula
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          310 months ago

          Ahhhh so local is within the current instance and all being a mashed together one kind of. Cool!

          Any way to block an instance? Or just ignore it?

          • Adda
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            610 months ago

            See the explanation in this comment. As already stated, you can block communities or individual users.

          • BrooklynMan
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            310 months ago

            i don’t know. not that i’m aware of, but you can block individual communities by going to them and selecting the ‘block community’ button under the ‘subscribe’ button’

  • Baron Von J
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    410 months ago

    Can I search for posts Mastodon instances from Lemmy? For example to crosspost to a Lemmy community?

  • @Shdwdrgn@lemmy.ml
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    310 months ago

    One of many newbies here, but your post makes me wonder… is there a way to link my lemmy and mastodon accounts? Would I then see the same feeds on both interfaces?

    • ginerel
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      410 months ago

      @Shdwdrgn You can follow a community by searching for !communityname@servername.domain. Then you should be able to follow all posts from Mastodon.

      @lemmy @Wander

      • @asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml
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        110 months ago

        I just tried this for this very comment, and strangely while I could find your account from mastodon, I couldn’t find this post (unless I followed the URL directly, but then I wasn’t exactly viewing it from mastodon anymore)

        I find this interesting becouse I’ve seen plenty of examples of it working just fine, but it seems slightly inconsistent