A lot of clients filter out the 2nd, 3rd… instance of crossposted posts in their main feeds, so only the first one gets shown. Therefore if I crosspost I do it the following way:
First post it in a small community. All people who are subscribed to this community will see the post in this community.
Then crosspost to a bigger community. Everyone not subscribed to the first small community will see the post in here.
I think Blaze’s point still is relevant: if you are posting a lot on communities that large instances dont even know about, then your efforts will be harder. Ideally one could change something about that, for example use a user account on such a big instance to pull in those communities into federation.
Instances.social surfaces some of the server rules into a nice UI for mastodon instances but yeah, those things you mention would also be nice.
Fediverse Report writes in today’s edition that the NodeBB, WordPress ActivityPub plugin, WriteFreely and Ghost developers “recognise themselves as the ‘longform’ people.”
Reposting based on a signal sounds like the best idea.
Because we kinda have the alternative in place: lemmit chose the way of replicating reddit posts onto a committed instance. That means that someone still has to manually go, look at - for example the F1 - lemmit, choose an interesting post there and cross-post it to the relevant lemmy community.
If the repost into a relevant lemmy community happened automatically based on a signal, that would take off work from users.
Could that signal be the number of interactions in activitypub for a sportsbots post? Or would it be the Twitter interactions?
Why would you “not want sports in Lemmy”? Like, how is a sports community (like those that already exist on here) hurting you?
I think it no longer exists
That is not the case anymore, that setting has been removed some versions ago
ITT: People who don’t understand jokes
Afaik there are multiple projects similar to this one in the works for Android. Openvibe is already released.
Edit: The other one I was thinking of, Surf by Flipboard, is in closed beta right now
It was literally an alternative UI for the https://mastodon.social/public feed
The point isnt money. The point is the “benevolent dictator” model, see Matt Mullenweg and the current WordPress controversy. The whole future of that software depends on this guy because he controls the most important assets (like the trademarks) personally.
Eugen and the whole Mastodon development team want to avoid a situation like that.
That photo (I’ve seen it circulate on the internet myself) is a photoshop. Every reputable source says that no one knows what happened to that man, and we have no evidence whatsoever of him getting run over.
Crushing people with tanks
Just a heads up, while it is established that the CCCP killed tons of people on that day, the idea that people were crushed with tanks is disputed in academia and mostly considered inaccurate news reporting.
The famous “tank man” photo shows a guy standing in front of a tank in order to prevent them from moving tanks to another part where the protesters had gone. We have no evidence that he was driven over by that tank.
Well since all major lemmy instances seem to hide mod names in their logs, we don’t know who the banning mods are.
Lemmy.ml also has the funny quirk that it doesnt have a proper legal imprint or team list afaik. So we don’t have actual transparent information on who is on that instances admin team and who is not. Iirc only one of dessalines and nutomic is on that admin team anymore.
Tbh I’m parroting what others have told me, I’ not sure which clients do that