Lemmy doesn’t seem to get much recognition in the wider Fediverse - it tends to get bundled as part of ‘other apps’. Mastodon is much bigger, so better integration with Lemmy probably gets deprioritised below their own issues and feature requests (e.g. I was reading today that Markdown support is often requested, but the base version still doesn’t have it)

I don’t think it’s technically impossible - all the information that another site needs to properly interpret some activity is in the JSON that’s sent. I get the sense that it might be unrealistic to expect Mastodon to make the necessary changes though. It seems more of a political issue than a technical one.

It’s partly an issue of keys. Every fediverse actor has a private key and a public key. When my instance sends this to fediverse@lemmy.world, it’s signed by my private key, and lemmy.world uses my public key to verify it. When fediverse@lemmy.world sends this comment out, it uses it’s own private key to sign it. It can’t just re-transmit my comment, because it doesn’t have my private key. All it can do is Announce that I’ve made the comment (and sign the Announce).

Mastodon treats Announces as Boosts, so every post/comment is interpreted as a thing that fediverse@lemmy.world has boosted, so you get all these un-connected posts appearing. I think it’s mostly up to Mastodon to remedy.

It works better if a Mastodon actor posts into a Lemmy community, then you get the mix like you imagine. e.g.: https://mastodon.world/@Flash/112095241193510662 (this particular post was crowbarred into Lemmy via !tails@lemmon.website, but it would be the same if the author had done it.)

Not quite, no. I know what it isn’t at least.

I’ll keep going - I’m sure the article’s author is someone who genuinely uploaded some confidential info and then became really involved with privacy/GDPR etc, and not someone who was always been really involved with privacy/GDPR issues and now has a story to fit.

I’m gonna find this guy’s image …

https://monero.town/pictrs/image/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.jpeg … nope
https://monero.town/pictrs/image/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001.jpeg … nope
https://monero.town/pictrs/image/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002.jpeg … nope
https://monero.town/pictrs/image/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000003.jpeg … nope

Mmm, I’m sure it won’t take long. Just have to remember to do it all again for .jpg, .webp, and .png.

Anyway, I’ll let you know when I get it.

I think it’s because spoiler tags in lemmy have been custom-made for some reason, whereas all the other stuff is standard markdown. Voyager is a web app, so it can maybe only render whatever the engine it relies on can render.

Edit: Turns out I’m 2 for 2 on making incorrect statements in this comment.

Flippin’ eck. Seeing a familiar Lemmy post on there, clicking it and seeing the whole thing render instantly was a bit of a shock after getting used to Lemmy’s more pedestrian loading of stuff.

programming.dev changed how active users are calculated on their instance to include voters as well as posters & commentators. It’s a massive difference - programming_humor went from about 700 monthly active users to about 7000, for example.

Viewing communities from other instances from programming.dev’s perspective will give a figure that includes voting activity.

https://communick.com are intending to provide those services. (.news is their Lemmy server)

I don’t have a problem with email verification, 'cos I just don’t use my main email account for it. I’ve signed up to 3 instances previously, and 2 of required it fwiw.

But you’ll need something to deter bots, if only because other instances will defederate you if too much spam/trolling is coming from your site.

I registered and logged in, but it didn’t make it easy

After registering, it didn’t say anything about verifying the email. When I went to the Login screen, it just did nothing after pressing the ‘login’ button. After I went to my email and clicked the verification, it came up with a message ‘saying Email Verified’, and then it let me log in, to a screen that said ‘Verify Email’. Obviously, I just had to click on something like ‘Communities’ to see the main page, but it was a bit odd.

I’m using the Brave browser on an ancient MacBook Air, if that helps.

The admins for https://lemmyhub.com and https://lemmings.world were promoting their instances on one of the other posts.

The admin for a bigger community - https://lemm.ee - has said they’ve assessed the situation re: piracy, and don’t see a need to block the community at dbzer0.

Ah sorry. You’re right, of course. I saw the word ‘fediverse’ and responded without really thinking.

I read that even subscribers on lemmy.world might not even notice that the community is blocked, so there’s not much hope for the rest of us.

It’s all individual choices. You can see what dbzer0 blocks at the bottom of this list - lemmy.world isn’t included in the ‘blocked’ part.

I just saw the same user on the star trek instance, accusing them of being into ‘nerd shit’

It’s doubtful they posted to .world with genuine concerns. They just seem like an agent of chaos.

Ah, man. I had a funny reply to that post. Mods not considering the real victims here.

For Music, I’ve started using Navidrome on my server and Feishin on my desktop (a SubSonic server and client respectively). The music has all been tagged using Beets so there’s a nice display.

For Video, I second the AppleTV 4K with Infuse app recommendation. Just accesses my library using NFS, and gets all the metadata from wherever to show an organised library, with a player that can handle anything.

I think it would be useful to automate the posts for discussions following from the broadcast of a TV show, or a sports game.

Interesting.

I suppose the only thing is that you wouldn’t be able to upload an image to the instance as part of a post - you’d have to upload it somewhere else first, to then be able to refer to it.

For the detractors, register a throwaway account at some random instance, and use that if you want to test it out.
If you’re able to properly pore through the source to check it’s not stealing anything, then you’re capable of scheduling your own posts. The Lemmy API is very simple, it’s not rocket science.

GitHub Link for one of those bots, which mentions in the README that there are similar bots here and here