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@selfhosted Stick with Mastadon account or move over to Lemmy instance? (lucitt.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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@selfhosted Stick with Mastadon account or move over to Lemmy instance?

I'm currently self hosting my own mastadon instance, and noticed I can use the same account to post to Lemmy as well using mentions and the fediverse.

Is anybody else using mastadon to post to their lemmy instances? Would it make more sense to host a lemmy instance instead if I intent to post to lemmy more often than mastadon? Let me know your thoughts.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

IIRC you can post and see top level comments via mastadon but nested comments will be unavailable to you. If you really like to dig into the conversation you'll be missing out on some stuff just using mastadon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its more that the comments show at the same level as posts and they all come in as they are created, so it can be messy viewing the conversation. I think there is some work going on to try to fix that, but I don't think masto will ever be the right tool to view lemmy threads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why aren't these nested replies showing up on the mastodon post?

https://lucitt.social/@eddie/110555290948026934

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have an account on here too lol. Have to use this one to reply to prove this point. I cannot reply to posts on mastadon, nor can I view nested comments. This was exactly the test I needed to make my choice!

I'm looking at setting up a lemmy server to overwrite the mastadon instance so I can use the same URL. I'm looking at the guide and I'm already a bit lost. (I used a droplet on DigitalOcean to auto install mastadon). If anybody has any additional resources that could help me with my install that would be great!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tested this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope, it was just my understanding from what I've read the last couple days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just checked and it appears that you're correct. But there are also replies on the Mastodon instance that don't show up here on Lemmy.world.