rglullis
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Is this big window in the end of a hallway, dividing the space into two separate rooms? Seems a bit odd to have a window of this size dead it in the center if it this whole wall is one single room.
The problem here is not with Lemmy per se. The problem is that all ActivityPub software that it's being built is just trying to replicate the functionality of the "traditional" social media counterpart.
Mastodon apes Twitter, Lemmy apes Reddit... We claim that they "interoperate" but in reality AP is just used as a translation layer so that both services can just deal with their own abstraction.
That is a waste. We should have AP as the core abstraction, and the apps should just be some different shell to browse around the data. The "emacs actor" that wants to announce every note tagged #emacs should be able to do so automatically, without having to have a person chasing the author to say "hey, can you please share/post this on Lemmy?"
When we reach that point, then I'd say we have "real interop". So far, it is just a toy.
/rant
LW's demographic is too close to the average Redditor. If you want to have an honest attempt at a community that is not going to be taken over by immature Americans in their twenties who will do nothing but yell at each other: please consider creating the community outside of lemmy.world.
Use a more neutral instance (I'd recommend https://discuss.online) and be more strict about standards of quality discussion. Then you might have something interesting. Otherwise you will just end up with yet-another cesspool.
You were so eager to come up with a jab at other people that you seem to have ignored the second paragraph. It is pretty clear that you could benefit from a bit of introspection to look what you could offer to the world, instead of just trying to put everyone down.
Wishing you well.
Most people want social media to read and talk about the mundane things that are interesting to them (like sports, or their hobbies, or some new cool bar they want to go on, or some interesting places to travel) instead of using it to doomscroll and display outrage.
If all you want from social media is a place that constantly keeps you anxious and reminds you of how little power you have to change the things you are so pointless worrying about... then sure, Lemmy is more than enough as it is.
No flair. What you need is:
<post title> @community@instance
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Edit: to those downvoting: If you think what I am saying is wrong, how about giving a better answer?
Here is a Mastodon Post and here is how it ended up in Lemmy (The NSFW tag was because I mistakenly tried to add the title as a content warning)
Yeah, unfortunately it seems that I am in the minority when it comes to how this "should" be used. I genuinely believe that one of the reasons that open platforms are better is because it's not designed to constantly get me engaged. If they are not meant to keep me constantly engaged, then I shouldn't be repeating/missing the behaviors that were learned when using the more addictive platforms. This means:
- Browsing by all is a fundamental mistake. No sane person should be trying to drink from the firehose. It doesn't matter that the firehose is "small" compared to the larger networks. If this network is out of interesting content, then either go elsewhere (and maybe share what you find here) or just close the app and move on.
- If a community/instance/person is not open to a healthy discussion, it's better to just block/mute/defederate and move on.
- If I don't have "time/energy to comment", then just take a break and move on.
This is why you'll never see me commenting on stuff like politics/news. Not only I find these discussions boring beyond belief, I feel like they are completely pointless. These places serve only as a "two minutes hate" type of thing. No amount of voting/commenting/arguing will ever change anyone's minds.
Basically, you need to sign up to fediverser and then add your community as a recommended alternative for the subreddit. Then you'll be able to "apply" for the ambassador. Once approved, you will be able to see reddit posts and send invites to redditors to migrate.
The first step though is to have support for PieFed communities. Currently it only recognizes kbin/mbin and Lemmy. I'm pushing the update with this, so in about 30 minutes you'll (hooefully) be able to do all that I mentioned.
Neat. Looks like I need to add support for piefed on Fediverser. Would you be interested in becoming an ambassador to help redditors migrate and to get content to bootstrap your community?
What sort of integration would you have in mind that is not achievable with a simple web link?
FWIW: communick does offer some form of integration. Members get one account on Lemmy, Matrix and Mastodon, and they can login with the same username/password on all of them.
Lemmy, not lemmy.world
GitHub is not git. LW is not Lemmy.
Aside: unless you want to deliberately confuse your users, this is a perfect example of why it's not a good idea to brand your service based on the technology it uses.