Check back in a few hours.

I can see your community via community search on Voyage.

The post also appears on search. It looks like the tool works.

Even from a major instance (one of the ones that was successfully federated by a bot)?

Try searching for the community via your other Lemmy accounts. Might be first worth posting something with your mod account first.

The tool enables first time federation for new communities.

Try adding the community via this tool:

https://lemmy-federate.com/

As I said, I see where you are coming from and you do have a point.

I am just trying to explain the reasoning behind the opposing arguement. It’s not just being old school for the sake of being old school.

The forums of old weren’t not just a few hundred users. Some of the bigger ones had DAUs in the tens of thousands.

I agree with you that all mainstream platforms (FB, Twitter, Reddit - this just the ones I have experience with) work like that.

Believe it or not, but there still exist modern forums with large user bases (stable or growing), so it’s not like it’s an archaic model.

It’s fair to criticise Lemmy for using this approach. I genuinely see where you are coming from. But if we approach Lemmy as an evolution of old style forums, then the “hide” approach makes more sense.

With admins, mods (not relevant for default UI?) actively dealing with mass downvotes, stalker-like behaviour and so on.

Part of the adoption of the dual-side block method is because large corps want automation and don’t really care about quality (all about engagement).

Not much of an example these days, but pre-mainstream social media (forums, chat) block was always hide on your end.

To be honest I never blocked back in the old days (the mods would take care of outright spam and users being disruptive).

For me, the new method seems counterproductive. Hiding your post/messages that can still be accessed via another container and/or account just seems strange to me.

Replacing LW with another option works too.

I strongly believe any discussion around federation/centralization should be avoided when bringing in new users. They will figure it out themselves and if they feel like it make adjustments accordingly.

LW is fine. This a community dedicated to a niche video-game genre. The community already existed, just had very few posts.

1. Sign up on lemmy.world
2. Pick some communities to subscribe on https://lemmy.world/communities?listingType=All&sort=TopMonth&page=1
3. For mobile get the “Voyager on Lemmy” app (available on Android/iOS) and log in with your lemmy.world account.

There likely are (I quit Twitter over a year ago), just because it does unique coverage on many topics.

Sure, but centre-right (real conservatives, not far right and oligarch shills) should have a voice on Lemmy.

I believe it’s a Star Trek instance and a smaller instance that’s called lemmy.one or something like that.

Good to see another instance defederate from ML. Now if only more of the non-tankie communities moved off ML (it’s slowly happening).

What’s are you on about? There is no centralised censorship. Every instance can make their own decision around whether they want to federate with ML.

Best option is to not click on any content related to Musk with the exception of “need to be informed” type news reports. Even adjacent things like SpaceX etc.

Cheers!

Posting to multiple Lemmy communities is not a big deal (you can always crosspost with a Lemmy account).

Links are taken from Activitypub attachment, but Mastodon only seems to support image attachments. So it is not possible to add other types of links unless Mastodon adds an option for that.

This IMO kills the whole Lemmy <> Mastodon integration outside of some very, very simple use cases. The ability to have differentiation between a heading and a URL is critical.

It’s too bad Mastodon doesn’t seem to support the URL function of Activitypub.

Mastodon is by far the biggest fedi micro-blogging platform. I recognize the irony of what I am saying considering I want people to move from Reddit to Lemmy, but for niche topics like tycoon/business sim video games, my point stands.

I get that. I would argue the use case I described is basically the bread and butter of Mastodon <> Lemmy integration (if you don’t want your posts to look like shit on either Mastodon or Lemmy).

The critical drawback for me is that you can’t have hardcoded URLs/images/headings across both Mastodon and Lemmy posts.

If you can’t do that, you severely restrict the scope of integration between the two platforms. This is a net loss because the content I post on !tycoon@lemmy.world is arguably relevant for both forum style discussions and micro-blogging.