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@asklemmy can i post from Mastodon to Lemmy ?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Yes, but keep in mind hashtags look awful on Lemmy and the first line of text of your toot becomes the post title. A lot of mastodon posts onto Lemmy are really ugly and borderline incomprehensible. So be careful.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

You can always tell when a post gets shared in mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

You just did it Jesus christ

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

@bionicjoey maybe with Mastodon groups it will become better

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I think a background formatting algorithm sounds like a great all day side project

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Where would I even find Mastodon content, being logged in on Lemmy?

The instances / servers don't seem to auto-populate here, so would I need to subscribe to something?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It doesn't really work the other direction. Mastodon users can post and comment on Lemmy communities by @ ing the community. There isn't a way for Lemmy users to browse hashtags or users from Mastodon. Even if you click on the user profile for a mastodon user from Lemmy, it'll only show you the stuff they've posted and commented on Lemmy instances, not the full activity of the account.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ok this was working very great but you can't separate title and description

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Supposedly the first line is taken as the title and the rest as the description. Of course that won't work if there is only one line.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

But what happens if you tag @main? Will you end up tagging all instances' main communities?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

You can't meaningfully just tag 'main', you need to include an instance too. https://activitypub.academy is good resource to test and verify this stuff out for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The @asklemmy links to https://berlin.social/@[email protected] specifically, so I guess you need to specify the instance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was under the impression that the link interpretation happens on Lemmy's side. The lemmy servers will interpret the mention the best way they can. And I'd suspect that the best way to interpret the @main mention is to prioritize local communities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I have no clue what happens on mastodon, but on lemmy all interpretation is done on the client.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Trust me, I tested this when I first joined Lemmy. And I was blown away when I found out it works.

The fediverse is fucking awesome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Locking as this post violates rule 5.