Even if it makes sense to have all of them, becuase they have different-but-similar purposes or goals, maybe they can crosslink to each other in their sidebars. Some subreddits have had luck cross-promoting like that.
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BolexForSoup@kbin.social 7 months ago
We’ve had trouble over at truegaming getting things cooking as well. Maybe I can reach out to the mods and see if there’s some cooperation to be had here as we’re likely too fragmented at present. I’ll talk to our mod team today and see if we can think of something.
tal@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 months ago
!truegaming@kbin.social. Try to use the bang syntax when linking communities rather than direct linking it like that, so that others can click it and access it from their own instance.
tal@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Also, on the user side of that, note that there’s a Firefox and Chrome extension, “Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin” where one can set one’s home instance. It’ll add a button in the sidebar on remote instances where one can just click on “view in my home instance”.
!instance_assistant@lemmy.ca
Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Finally got around to trying that extension out. And wow was it significantly less useful than I was expecting.
I was first offput by its settings page. “Home instance” is clear enough, but then it also needs a list of instances to “change display”. No idea what that’s supposed to do.
But the real problem is that it doesn’t actually do anything useful. Yeah if I’m on lemmy.world/c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works, I can click it and be taken to aussie.zone/c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works, but I can do that really easily manually. The actual useful convenient thing would be if I were at lemmy.world/post/14353571 and clicking the button took me to aussie.zone/post/8919002
But instead, clicking the button displays this popup:
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BolexForSoup@kbin.social 7 months ago
I know that works for Kbin users, but I’m not always 100% clear on what works for other instances, so I just go with my old habit of linking the URL. Sounds like that’s a bad habit though!
tal@lemmy.today 7 months ago
It works on both kbin and lemmy. And if it works on kbin, I assume that it works on mbin, given that that’s a fork.
No idea for piefed and sublinks.
I’m pretty sure at this point that the bang syntax has enough inertia that if a given Threadiverse server implementation doesn’t support it, it should. I don’t think that the syntax is particularly flawed. Well, other than that it doesn’t directly map to the URL’s syntax, a la the Reddit convention of “/r/foo” or the kbin convention of “/b/”, which might make it less-intuitive.
Hmm. Actually, this should be pretty easy to test, because…the magic of the Threadiverse’s guest access and federation.
Works on Kbin!
kbin.social/m/…/How-to-revitalize-this-sub#entry-…
Works on Piefed!
piefed.social/post/88672#post_replies
I don’t know of an active sublinks instance, and nobody on fedia.io – the largest mbin instance – appears to presently be subscribed to !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works.
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 7 months ago
Alright I’m probably being a dummy. Nothing happens when I do !kbin.social/m/truegaming.
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 7 months ago
!truegaming it is then lol