It’s me deciding. Recommendations for interesting people on Mastodon to follow are welcome (either in this post, or the sticky ‘About this community’ post).

Mmmm. It’s the instance that people are on on that’s doing (or not doing) much of the work there. If you comment on a post, the instance will send 1 copy to me (who’s responsible for federating it out to other Lemmy instances) and 1 copy to Mastodon for the post’s author.

If you reply to a Lemmy comment, it doesn’t send it to Mastodon because it’s not for the author (in much the same way that you don’t get replies to replies in your inbox if you’re the OP of a Lemmy post). For local posts, both Mastodon and Lemmy show the local comment tree, but neither can show every Fediverse interaction because they never hear about them.

Likewise, if you reply to a Mastodon comment, your instance will send it to the comment author, but not the post author, so won’t appear anywhere under their post.

As for Mastodon comments on Lemmy … it depends. I follow some accounts, so when I post them to Lemmy, top-level comments come through automatically (again, though, I never hear about replies to replies). Other content is just stuff I’ve seen and grabbed. I often post the existing replies, but not if they’ve turned Authorized Fetch on, and I don’t typically go back and check for more later.

They can, yes. The lemmy instance that a particular user is on handles that. This community is mostly about getting the posts and comments into lemmy in the first place.

Lol, no. I’ve decided that they should be exclusively referred to as Tails OS (they’ve yet to formally agree).

The name comes it being a Community that follows People (so flipping the usual relationship in a heads/tails kinda way, but also tail as a synonym for follow).

Not yet, no.

I’ve seen this happen occasionally, but it doesn’t always look great, and relies on them having heard of Lemmy in the first place, obvs.

!itscalledfashion@lemmy.world

Link type 1: !xbox@lemmy.zip
Link type 2: here

Very true.

The comparison I had in mind was top-level web domains - there was all these plans (e.g. .net should only be for ISPs and telecoms businesses) that were ultimately ignored.

I came across one issue moderating a lemmy.world Community from a feddit.nl account - the pin I put in a post only happened on the feddit.nl copy, it didn’t federate across to any other ones. That’s the only prob I’ve encountered so far, though.

OP also has a couple of film communities, which maybe could have been put on lemmy.film. The Internet sees an attempt to organise it, and refuses.

Looks like that’s for the non-magical kind.

lemmy.world has about 12K communities, 11K of which are inactive. These additions means there’s now 11,003 inactive ones. For anything that’s trying to index the ‘lemmyverse’, point users to anything interesting, you’ve just added more useless data to sift through. Every time you post on here, the comments are asking what your deal is. If you don’t want to consider the humans, maybe consider the bots?

I very deliberately phrased my issue as a personal one. I didn’t like a particular Community, so I found a different one (joys of the Fediverse and whatnot). I wanted you to do something (in terms of encouraging him to post from literally anywhere else), you disagreed, that was that.

So does !movies@lemmy.world to be fair.

I wouldn’t normally advocate in favour of lemmy.world against a specialised instance, but moviesandtv@lemmy.film has lots of posts with a future timestamp, and it does my head in.

I fear it’s going to be limited by Lemmy’s naïve interpretation of NSFW (only equating it with porn), so many people who haven’t changed the ‘Show NSFW’ checkbox off from the default won’t see any of the posts.

If Lemmy’s spoiler tags were more widely supported, I’d suggest an alternative of posting inline images in the body of post, hid by spoiler tags, but they’re not, so I won’t.

Looks interesting.

As an aside, it bums me out to see how many covers for sci-fi books are actually just 3 stock images mashed together.

If I wanted to create a low-effort, dead community for a random decade, I’d do it myself thanks, O Mighty Comm Creator.

I’m surprised this doesn’t clobber your existing subscriptions - I assume LASIM is smart enough to add the ‘followed’ list to what is already ‘followed’ rather than replace it?

Sorry, it’s not sorted by anything really - the existing communities are just alphabetical, and I manually added this new one. I wasn’t really expecting much scrutiny, tbh.

The state of Star Trek on Lemmy:

startrek@lemm.ee, 122 subscribers, 10 posts
startrek@lemmygrad.ml, 463 subscribers, 139 posts
startrek@lemmy.ml, 1015 subscribers, 48 posts
startrek@lemmy.piperservers.net, 73 subscribers, 5 posts
startrek@lemmy.zip, 157 subscribers, 16 posts
startrek@possumpat.io, 582 subscribers, 33 posts
startrek@startrek.website, 7567 subscribers, 375 posts
startrek@lemmy.world, 55 subscribers, 15 posts