• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    20 hours ago

    Honestly it’s so annoying we just can’t natively crossposting from mastodon and we have to keep using screenshots.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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      13 hours ago

      Would be cool if there was a way to basically display a toot with mastadon-like formatting simply by linking it in Lemmy. Since it’s all in the Fediverse it could even display the live number of likes, boosts, etc. and provide an easy link to the toot author’s profile

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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        5 hours ago

        You have my support. I don’t do twitter-like feeds (never got the appeal), but absolutely love the content on Mastodon. Having that content on my Lemmy feed would be golden.

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          And even if they did, you can’t reply from Lemmy. You can’t even load the post from Lemmy. You’d need to use something that actually interface with Mastodon posts.

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            13 hours ago

            Would be cool if fediverse instances auto created a “Fediverse” topic/thread/etc that was only dedicated to federating ActivityPub things from other services.

            Like I’d love to go to c/Fediverse or even something like c/Mastodon and c/Loops and whatnot to get some more content from within Lemmy

            Edit: maybe f/Mastodon or ap/Mastodon for “Fediverse/ActivityPub” to differentiate them from the user made communities?

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              1 hour ago

              Hard coding other website engine names into the structure of your own website engine seems… not great.

              Lemmy doesn’t show posts from Mastodon for the exact same reason it doesn’t show posts from Loops. Or PixelFed. Or Miskey. Or Bookwyrm. Or other Lemmy users.

              A “Mastodon” feed would encompass all of those things. And it would promote the idea that all that exists outside of Lemmy are the most popular wish.com versions of existing mainstream services. It neither leaves room for acknowledging less popular options, nor anything that’s genuinely new.

              Plus, there are already website engines that let you follow both groups and users. If that’s something you want, mbin is right there. Why not use that?