YSK: When making posts on Lemmy/Kbin always put at the end some hashtags related to your post topic.
So users from Mastodon and Pixelfed can interact with your post without even need to use their Lemmy/Kbin account or learn about “how to use the ActivityPub”.
This also helps to have more content avaliable across the Fediverse due to better discoverability.
@youshouldknow #Lemmy #Kbin #Mastodon #Pixelfed #ActivityPub #YouShouldKnow #FediTips #Fediverse
@ono
I mean, isn’t that kind of the point of following hashtags on Mastodon in the first place, to see content relevant to that topic?
@youshouldknow @DannyBoy
This is not Mastodon.
@ono It is, though. You may not be accessing it through Mastodon, but this is a Mastodon post, originally from a Mastodon instance. Look at OP’s username without the @: DannyBoy@mastodon.ie
EDIT: The Fediverse is kinda weird. Here’s OP’s post from Mastodon: https://mastodon.ie/@DannyBoy/110752993994124069
Here’s the thread you may be seeing on Lemmy: https://lemmy.ca/post/1829131
You can also see both your and my comments on both pages.
They’re interoperable to an extent, so depending on what platform you’re viewing the content from, the same post and replies may be formatted differently for you than how it was originally submitted.
@youshouldknow @DannyBoy
OP clearly specified “When making posts on Lemmy/Kbin”. That is the context for this conversation.
@ono Right, that’s the thing though, these platforms are all the same network. The data sent from Lemmy is readable on Mastodon, and vise versa. There really isn’t any actual separation between the two platforms, outside of the UI you choose to use. Lemmy posts are technically all on Mastodon to begin with. Ultimately, platforms like Pixelfed and Calckey/FireFish are also part of the same overall network, which is why the content posted to any of these platforms is so cross-compatible to begin with.
I think the main difference is with Kbin, which blends Lemmy and Mastodon feeds into one platform, and by default allows you to tag your Lemmy-formatted content with Mastodon-compatible hashtags, which makes those Lemmy threads more visible to Mastodon users, since I don’t think Lemmy has hashtag support by default.
It’s more of a “big picture” thing, IMO. The Fediverse is largely all just the same network, but with various different UI endpoints.
@youshouldknow @DannyBoy
When visiting another country, I try to set aside any habits from home that conflict with the local rules and conventions. It doesn’t matter if the same language is used in both.
I do the same when posting to another platform. It doesn’t matter if the same network protocols are used in both.
What you wrote would make sense if we were talking about Mastodon messages that just happened to be seen on Lemmy, but as already stated, we aren’t. “When making posts on Lemmy/Kbin” is the key phrase here.
@ono
I totally get this sentiment. But think of the Fediverse more like the United States. It’s all one big country, made up of different states that do things mostly the same, but still in their own way. California is your Mastodon, New York is your Pixelfed, Kbin is kind of in the middle of things so that can be Kansas, Lemmy is clearly Florida… etc. I’m not sure what adequate Canadian province comparisons would be, but you get the gist, I think. How much do you really change your personal conventions when travelling between states/provinces?
@youshouldknow @DannyBoy
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !youshouldknow@lemmy.world
@Chozo @youshouldknow @ono Dude, a piece of advice.
Stop discussing with him. That dude is clearly stubborn.
He’s clearly the kind of person that can have progress in front of him, but he prefers to have what already is used to.
If something that I’ve learnt is to stop a discussion with someone that’s clearly an idiot.
Sorry for the offense, but he made clear that he’s not open minded. Which is ironic for an user of a progressive platform like the fediverse.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !youshouldknow@lemmy.world
@Chozo @youshouldknow @ono Again, thanks!
Looks like here you’re the only one that understands how the fediverse works.
Everyone is like a butthurt about it. They don’t get that more shared information means more people that has access to it.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !youshouldknow@lemmy.world
@Chozo @youshouldknow @ono Finally someone gets it!!!
Hashtags in Mastodon is what allows discoverability to posts. So if you wanna make your posts indexable you’ll need them.
Mastodon doesn’t index by words, just only by hashtags.
So if you make a post about cats, but you don’t add the hashtag “cats” your post is like it wasn’t post at all. No one can see it, besides yourself and your followers. Also I don’t get why people all it spam, if it goes at the end. Easy to ignore.