I keep both a Mastodon and a Lemmy account, but I absolutely love seeing posts from either platform on the other platform, because it reminds me of how cool the Fediverse is. I also sort of like that the posts end up formatted slightly differently because it means that you can tell that it’s interoperability in action, even if it feels strange at first go.
Do weird stuff with interoperability! It’s why we’re here, and I think it’s cool
I love it! Seeing more interoperability makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.
I believe both systems already support this yes?
And on piefed, tags work like mastodon, so you get thebest of both worlds. We one big family (of protocols). We are not sticklers for rules as long as its in best faith.
I think it’s ok. Sometimes people forget that the first mastodon paragraph becomes the post title and these involuntarily bloated titles look odd.
It also would be great if following a community via Mastodon would mean receiving new posts only instead of comments too, which is annoying at least with active communities. (I mean it would be, I just don’t follow them there)
I see lemmy as groups for mastodon. It has the same affordances as a.gup.pe did.
I’m just not sure the two use cases meld very well. Mastodon tends to be “reply and fly”, whereas Lemmy can get into discussions.
I don’t know why that is. Maybe it’s the twitter character limit that’s been baked into people even though it’s not a thing on mastodon (might depend on instance).
It’s because they are simply built for different things, Mastodon for microblogging and Lemmy/Piefied for forum type discussions. Nested threads don’t exist in Mastodon, so it’s hard to have a back-and-forth exchange without it looking like a mess.
I kind of see Mastodon as a place for announcements or invitations to see something elsewhere, like Lemmy or some other random websites.
A muenchen.social user, let’s gooo
Personally I think it’s very cool that different kinds of software can interact like this, it makes content more visible for everyone. I’ve also heard some people say they don’t like the formatting, and tags can be confusing because they don’t mean anything on lemmy.
My advice is keep doing it, just make sure to follow community rules.
its a fantastic idea. it allows for someone to stay on the platform of their choice while not being locked out of communicating with other people. if my family likes mastodon and I like lemmy, we can still share things… awesome!!
it was great when Twitter and Facebook had it during the beginning of their rise in the late 2000s, shame they decided locking in users to their platform was a better choice. at least we dont have to be on those platforms anymore 🙂
It’s something you can do, but not necessarily something that works well. On the Lemmy side stuff like hashtags and @s tend to look pretty ugly and out of place, and from the Mastodon side the interface really just isn’t built to handle and present threaded forum-like conversations well.
I like it if the tagged community suits the purpose and the community’s rules are being followed. Love seeing conversations across different fediverse softwares. Hi from PieFed btw :)
It definitely works. Mastodon doesn’t have threaded conversations, so if it is complex, then it can become hard to follow.
If it’s a simple post/reply then it is not confusing at all.
It’s a thing some people occasionally do. By itself it’s neither a good idea nor bad idea, but people have certainly been confused by it before. It’s better to use software for its actually intended purpose, that is less confusing both for oneself and everyone else.
I don’t like that hashtags stay when crossposting
This post is a great example of why they can’t just be stripped; it has hashtags used in the middle of a sentence as words, but then it also has hashtags appended to the end on their own. You’d need to handle both cases to get rid of them.
I think posting to a group (like a lemmy community) is a good idea because they act like relays. On Mastodon, your posts are only sent to your followers and people you mention. If you’re not followed by anyone and don’t mention anyone, your post won’t be federated anywhere. Lemmy communities however will share your post with all their followers, allowing it to reach a larger audience. So unless you already have a huge audience, I think microblogging users that want to be heard can benefit greatly from interacting with groups.
To make microblog posts more appealing to Lemmy users, do consider separating out a plaintext line at the start to act as a title. Lemmy iirc takes the first paragraph of the body as the title if there’s no actual title given, and that can look awkward when that first paragraph is your entire post. This title shouldn’t include formatting or mentions or hashtags.
