Great concept! Btw in addition to this, if you post something on Mastodon and tag the lemmy community in the post, it posts it to Lemmy directly.
I've seen this happen occasionally, but it doesn't always look great, and relies on them having heard of Lemmy in the first place, obvs.
George Takei, the one that dress as futuristic japanese emperor and insult millions of people by telling how stupid they are, is on Mastodon?
Subbed.
Neat! Subbed.
Really love that this is a thing. Also, not sure where to best report this, but I've noticed that it doesn't show all Mastodon comments, and replies to Lemmy comments don't make it over to Mastodon
Mmmm. It's the instance that people are on on that's doing (or not doing) much of the work there. If you comment on a post, the instance will send 1 copy to me (who's responsible for federating it out to other Lemmy instances) and 1 copy to Mastodon for the post's author.
If you reply to a Lemmy comment, it doesn't send it to Mastodon because it's not for the author (in much the same way that you don't get replies to replies in your inbox if you're the OP of a Lemmy post). For local posts, both Mastodon and Lemmy show the local comment tree, but neither can show every Fediverse interaction because they never hear about them.
Likewise, if you reply to a Mastodon comment, your instance will send it to the comment author, but not the post author, so won't appear anywhere under their post.
As for Mastodon comments on Lemmy ... it depends. I follow some accounts, so when I post them to Lemmy, top-level comments come through automatically (again, though, I never hear about replies to replies). Other content is just stuff I've seen and grabbed. I often post the existing replies, but not if they've turned Authorized Fetch on, and I don't typically go back and check for more later.
Tails? Like the Tor operating system?
Must admit, I too instantly thought this was about the Operating System... Nice idea though, I'm in 🌻
Lol, no. I've decided that they should be exclusively referred to as Tails OS (they've yet to formally agree).
The name comes it being a Community that follows People (so flipping the usual relationship in a heads/tails kinda way, but also tail as a synonym for follow).
I mean it's a bit of a stretch.
Not bit it's a very big stretch
Cool!
@freamon can mastodon users not normally see when we tag them on lemmy? They can on kbin.
They can, yes. The lemmy instance that a particular user is on handles that. This community is mostly about getting the posts and comments into lemmy in the first place.
@freamon I get it. That's something I like about kbin, the "microblogs" sections are all mastodon content.
Is this open source?
Not yet, no.
Hi, I'm new to some of this stuff and I'm a little confused. How does it decide which mastodon posts to include? Are you deciding that or can anyone do it?
It's me deciding. Recommendations for interesting people on Mastodon to follow are welcome (either in this post, or the sticky 'About this community' post).
A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
The rules may be more established as time goes on, but it's important to have a foundation to work on.
1. Follow the rules of Lemmy.world - These rules are the same as Mastodon.world's rules, which can be found here.
2. Include a community title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.
Please include this following format in your post:
[link text](/c/community@instance.com)
This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't
You should also include either:
or instance.com/c/community
Q: Why do I get a 404?
A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.
Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?
A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.
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