Comment on Server Rundown Part 6
47_alpha_tango@lemmy.zip 1 year agoI know that Mastodon is part of the fediverse but is it worth reposting content from my communities to Mastodon? As far as I understand Mastodon, people tend to follow hashtags rather than communities so would posting content with links to Lemmy communities be worthwhile?
Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I’ve seen people are starting to add hashtags to posts that link to the mastadon trending pages, so by all means go for it. I’ve not used mastadon (have never used twitter or similar personally) so not sure how it works when linking to lemmy, but I imagine if they’re federated with us then they’ll be able to follow those posts via mastadon.
47_alpha_tango@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I have no idea how it works either. I can see Lemmy communities which shows the community sidebar but no posts are visible from Mastodon.
If someone could help out with getting posts to show on mastodon it could go a long way with helping with community engagement here.
Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I’ll have a look today if I get chance, been meaning to check out mastadon anyway!
47_alpha_tango@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I think I’ve figured it out. Posts and comments weren’t showing on the Mastodon Instance I joined (mastodon.online) however once I followed my own communities from my Mastodon account all new posts and comments started showing.
It seams that content only shows once someone from that instance follows the community.
At least I think that’s what’s happening. I’m pretty new to this whole federation thing.