Submitted 1 year ago by DannyBoy@mastodon.ie to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
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
It makes it look like spam. I’m not interested in accommodating people outside of Lemmy. Things being federated among Lemmy instances is one thing, but I think trying to deal with PixelFed and Mastodon in the same system is a bit too far. I’ve look at Lemmy activity from the perspective of Mastodon and it is awful. This isn’t a feature I believe needs to be a thing.
I’d prefer to logon to Mastodon or PixelFed directly and use their federated systems separate from others.
What if we had the ability to toggle them off, so if you didn’t want to see them you didn’t have to?
the experience on mastodon / micro blogging platforms is very different from lemmy which is more of a forum. I get that the fediverse can be tricky to understand but I think for the best user experience it might be better to have a microblogging account for all those instances, and a forum account for lemmy / kbin. I think there’s features that some platforms have and others don’t? and the interface is very different.
although kbin is different as it supports both forum and micro blogging style content, and hashtags.
Right. I like that there can be interoperability between the different platforms. But they’re different platforms that are consumed differently. You don’t need to jam then together.
YouTube and Wikipedia both use the same protocol (https) but you wouldn’t treat them the same.
It’s a nice bonus that they can interact with each other, but microblogging and link aggregation are two different things, no need to make them more interoperable than they are.
Barring changes (which are probably coming) in the software, going from Lemmy/Kbin to Mastodon is always going to be problematic (unlike the reverse). Mastodon people will only see your hashtags if their instance federates with the applicable Lemmy/Kbin instance, which it probably only does if members of that server have tried to follow a Lemmy user or thread - which is unlikely.
So by adding hashtags you’re mostly just adding extra words that Lemmy users won’t have any use for. You may get some traction on very large Mastodon instances if you’re also on a super large Lemmy instance, but super large instances are also antithetical to ActivityPub.
Please don’t ever do that.
It bombards everyone with noise and wastes everyone’s screen space. (Much like abusing a username field by adding your life story to it.)
If people currently on a primitive platform want to participate in this one, they should learn to use the tools, or at least respect the local conventions.
It bombards everyone with noise and wastes everyone’s screen space.
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?
@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.
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
No
#whiteboysummer
Uh… #unpopularopinion
I will do this, but the hashtags will be goofy and unhelpful, and only when I remember to.
#ducks #gandalfdidnothingwrong
@CeruleanRuin Is nice to see someone that's open to the idea of connecting more communities without the need of extra accounts.
Nah
Honestly think this is a bad idea. The platforms can talk to each other, sure, but Lemmy/Kbin just doesn’t translate to other services like Pixefed and Mastodon do. They’re just too different!
Also I love how controversial this post is lmao
yuunikki@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kuro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I second this