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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ariophic@mastodon.social to c/mastodon@lemmy.ml
 
 

Hello @mastodon

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I know it's possible to subscribe to a Mastodon user on a Lemmy instance, but it seems to me like this is of limited utility since the more standard use case on Mastodon is following tags rather than users. So, is it possible to somehow follow a Mastodon tag using Lemmy and get posts with that tag integrated into your Lemmy feed?

Edit: Never post before fully woken up. It is not possible to subscribe to another user directly on Lemmy, whether they’re on Lemmy or Mastodon. That’s how things work on Mastodon, not on Lemmy. It is possible to find Mastodon users by using the instance search feature, though, as I’ve described in a reply to @Malgas@beehaw.org below, but you so far can’t really use this to achieve anything very useful, as far as I can tell.

Edit 2: It seems like something like this theoretically could be set up, but it's way more complicated than what I initially asked for. You would need:

  • A dedicated Lemmy instance for Mastodon tag-based crossposting (probably)
  • Some kind of form on a site where users who want to follow a Mastodon tag that is not already set up as a Lemmy community could submit the tag they want added, which would automatically set up:
  • A Lemmy community for that tag on the aforementioned instance, and
  • A Mastodon hastag bot that automatically crossposts all Mastodon posts with that tag to that community

Whether something like this already exists, I have no idea, but I get the feeling it could actually be useful.

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I'm looking for a small server, with a few hundred people at most. A lot of these servers aren't on joinmastodon.org, is there a way to find smaller servers like this?

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This is shameless self-promotion, but part of a working theory I have that Mastodon users have more to offer Lemmy than your average Reddit user. See my other post about it here: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/2174573

TLDR: Mastodon users are inherently active posters and already understand federation. Also there are MILLIONS of them.

Please consider following if you'd like to get more Lemmy in your Mastodon feed or more Mastodon users in your Lemmy feed!

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geteilt von: https://kerala.party/post/155876

To use it, follow the readme to set up ansible and an ssh connection to your server. Edit the varibales in var/main.yml and run the playbook with ansible-playbook roles_playbook.yml -K.

Also check out the lemmy and pixelfed docker installation playbooks.

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Noone is on there noone talks to me noone shars my intrests everyone is just lgbtq tech workers

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Curious about thoughts on boosting and favoriting here. I’ve only used Mastodon for about a year, and mostly lurk on a personal but also have a business account that posts daily. Maybe you have advice for me or ideas to improve things.

Issue: I feel that these features aren’t being fully utilized, or need some tweaking. Since favoriting doesn’t seem to amplify a post in any way, most people boost things they like, right? This causes a few things:

  • My timeline is mostly full of accounts that I don’t follow. One person can boost 30 things in a row and that’s what I get to scroll through, since everything is chronological. Then I get the person who boosted 30 things just before them.
  • When I check out someone’s profile, I often can’t even find something they’ve posted themselves. I just scroll through boosted content. If they do post, it's often lost among the boosts when I'm searching.
  • Favoriting posts is used far less than boosting, and I almost feel rude if I’m the only favorite on a post that has 100+ boosts.

Ideas: My ideas for possible resolutions mostly focus around filtering through boosts or making favoriting more appealing:

  • Have a tab/area where you can see what your followed accounts have been favoriting (Instagram used to have something like this I think?).
  • Have a profile tab that shows a user's favorites (twitter does this).
  • Have a profile tab that shows only a user's personal posts (similar to the media tab, but for their text posts).
  • Have a tab/area where you can filter out boosts from your timeline.
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I'm trying to boost a reply to one of my lemmy comments on my mastodon instance. However, that comment does not appear to have been pushed to my fairly small Mastodon instance.
Pasting its url into mastodon does not work; it never finds anything. I tried the URL from my lemmy home instance, the post's/community's home instance and the reply's user's home instance. None of them worked.

The thread itself and my comment appear but none of the other ones.

What gives?

Is there a way around that?

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This has become a pet peeve of mine and as a non-native English speaker I just don't understand why so many people make that typo in the first place- what is it?

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Any idea if we can use filters for posts in a specific language?

#mastodon
#mastoquestion @mastodon@lemmy.ml
@mastodon@lemmy.world

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I had been spending quite some time on mastodon, but lately realized that it just isn’t for me.

Mastodon is very focused on individuals, not as much on content. I’m not saying there isn’t a need for mastodon, and I’m happy it’s there, but my main use case is contacting (semi) public figures or software-support there, which happens rarely. Curating a feed that is both interesting to me and "high quality" without being overrun doesn’t seem feasible.

Lemmy is much more focused on content. You don’t follow people, you follow topics or interests and get the things surfaced that the most people in that interest group appreciate. The discussions work much better (Twitter-like reply’s are just one huge bag of trash). It also doesn’t matter who the people are behind the content, as long as it’s interesting it will find an audience.

Just something that I’ve been thinking about. Any thoughts on this?

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Like breaking news, general news?

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"As the social media landscape ebbs and flows, the team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the distributed collection of social networks known as the Fediverse, a collection of social media applications all linked together by common protocols. The most common software used in this area is Mastodon, a Twitter-like social networking service with around 2 million active monthly users. We are now running an experimental BBC Mastodon server at https://social.bbc where you can follow some of the BBC’s social media accounts, including BBC R&D, Radio 4 and 5 Live. We hope to be able to add more accounts from other areas of the BBC at some point."

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I am trying to get into Mastodon (never really used twitter before but I am curious about the fediverse) and it has been noticeably difficult to search for topics and content. Most search queries turn up blank or only with one or two posts. Some hashtags appear as suggested with "0 people talking" and indeed, they are empty.

Am I searching wrong or is it just more difficult to search across Mastoson?

I am using the Mastodon app for Android and joined a spanish speaking instance, if that is helpful.

Thanks!

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The most common answer I see is something along the lines of "it's the equivalent of liking a post on twitter". It seems that this is not the case, as the Mastodon devs seem rather adamant that they don't want "likes" in Mastodon. Perhaps it's a method of saving posts? Well, that doesn't make sense either, since there is already the ability to "Bookmark" a post to save it.

It really just seems like a "Favorite" is just a bookmark that tells the poster, and the public that you bookmarked the post. And even if this was the reasoning -- which is baffling enough as it is -- it wouldn't make sense since the whole point of boosting something is to tell the public that you like a post.

It really seems like the "Favorite" button has no actual unique purpose. In my honest opinion, Mastodon should just federate "Likes" like normal, and be done with it.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Generative@aussie.zone to c/mastodon@lemmy.ml
 
 

On the home feed (on multiple different clients including Ivory, Ice Cubes, mammoth, and the Mastodon web app) posts are injected from accounts that are not followed, nor do they include any hashtags. How are they doing this?

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I was wondering if there are any Mastodon clients (desktop or mobile) that support pagination like that of Lemmy. I do not like infinite scrolling, and much prefer pagination with page numbers, but I have only seen clients with infinite scrolling or a 'load more' button.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2321048

Great blog post on where mastodon is up to now, but mainly the general topic of what it means to open a social media space and make decisions about how it works or doesn’t work.

The author is on mastodon: @kissane@mas.to

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by jay91@lemmy.ml to c/mastodon@lemmy.ml
 
 

Does mastodon support groups or communities? like lemmy the users can make groups or communities and manage them.

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Every time I open mastodon.online, either in browser or the PWA, it loads the basic interface. I have double-checked in my settings that advanced is enabled, but I still have to click the "Open in advanced web interface" every time. Anyone else having this issue?

@mastodon@lemmy.world
@mastodon@lemmy.ml

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If I block a user should it prevent them from coming up if I’m browsing “local”? There is a user just spamming gross porn…I blocked and refreshed but posts don’t go away from the “local” feed.

Thanks for any help. I’m new obvs, loving Lemmy and trying to get into mastodon.

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