Fediverse @lemmy.ml JackFromWisconsin @wikis.world 2y ago

I love that I'm seeing more and more posts to Lemmy from Mastodon.

I love that I'm seeing more and more posts to Lemmy from Mastodon.
This one feature finally ties Lemmy in with the rest of the fediverse by providing the lacking feature: making top level posts. Lemmy (along with friendica!) will lead the way in making "groups" and forums in the fediverse, accessible from any platform you choose.
@fediverse

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@JackFromWisconsin indeed! great to see Lemmy improving its compatibility
- Lemmy has to make workarounds, because mastodon does not support subjects...
  
  🙄🤫
  
  @jakob
  Well good point 😂 the problem is that it's very few platforms which are supporting subjects , not only Mastodon who doesn't. You will also have problems from Misskey and Pleroma for example.
  @jakob
It will be perfect, once they fix the HTML formatting in the subject :)
- When you write from Friendica (or another social network) to post on Lemmy, you must respect some basic rules.
  
  Here I tried to write a handbook (in Italian) to help users write posts that have a readable title and work well
  
  https://www.informapirata.it/2023/02/28/si-profila-allorizzonte-un-punto-di-contatto-tra-forum-e-social-network/#formattazione-lemmy
  
  Furthermore, as regards the titles, you must take into account that Lemmy only interprets up to 200 characters; when exceeding 200 characters, the title is truncated. To count the characters, however, you have to consider the BBCode characters of the source text, which are converted into Markdown in Lemmy. So you have to be careful that "marked" text strings don't end up at the 200th character! Here are some additional notes:
  
  https://www.informapirata.it/2023/02/28/si-profila-allorizzonte-un-punto-di-contatto-tra-forum-e-social-network/#formattazione-friendica
  
  Not quite what I meant. I don't use Mastodon. I was referring to the fact that some posts from Mastodon users are showing up on my lemmy instance with mark-up displayed in the subject line.
  
  But that's because I haven't updated my lemmy instance to the latest version :)

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