Hello new people joining the #Mastodon and #Lemmy sides of the #Fediverse! How did you find yourself here? What was the specific point that lead you to make the jump?
[posting to the @technology community on https://beehaw.org]
Hello! I’m a very ordinary person, found That Other Site from Digg and now am bumbling around here. I had a look at Mastodon a while back but didn’t make the leap until this week. I was just going to do the two days, but what happened with Apollo specifically was so shitty I’m making a permanent move away. Initially I was on Mastodon but I kept seeing Lemmy recommended and here I am. I don’t fully understand the Fediverse or how I’ve ended up with three instances, but I’m enjoying learning. Such a friendly place! Thanks!
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Had been eyeballing it for a awhile already. Just needed a little bit of a push to make the jump and start actually taking the time to grok the concept.
I’ve done social community migrations probably 2 or 3 times though already (Usenet -> Forums -> Social Media), so this all feels pretty old hat to me. Unlike previous Reddit revolts, Lemmy strikes me as an actually useable alternative, especially since other Fediverse communities can help pad out content while the site still tries to build out its own legs and specializations.
@liaizon @technology I wasn’t big on twitter, but when Mastodon got popular in the wake of the twitter migration I saw an opportunity to capture back some of the joy in connecting with others that I felt had been kind of robbed over the years. Have been quite enjoying running a mastodon instance and now that lemmy and kbin are getting popular I want to keep things going!
Question, what client are you using to post? Your post title on lemmy reads like this.
"< p >Hello new people joining the <a href=“https://social.wake.st/tags/Mastodon” class=“mention hashta”
I have seen this before but have no idea why its formatted that way
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Does this response also do that? I don’t generally see markup on my comments when I click through to beehaw but maybe it shows up for some users and not others?
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@eric5949 So for now it probably seems safe to reply as normal, and simply ensure that there aren’t tags in the post title when posting to a community, is what I’m thinking then.
Probably bc Mastodon toots don’t have a post title, so it looks like Lemmy just uses the first x-many characters from the toot body, which includes some markdown links.
@liaizon @technology I didn’t know it was possible to post to #Lemmy communities from the #Fediverse, that’s awesome!
@realcaseyrollins @technology yeah you just have to tag the communities in the post. and it grabs the first sentence as the title of the thread!
