That’s what https://lemmit.online/ is for reddit to Lemmy, https://sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/ for Twitter and apparently also Instagram.
One problem with this is copyright; if it’s OC images or text posts, it could infringe on the original poster’s copyright. Not a problem if it’s merely sharing links.
No, this is false as far as I can tell. I am willing to be corrected by someone more knowledgeable but my understanding is:
Communities are implemented not as hashtags, but as special users who “boost” everything addressed to them. That is why Lemmy sometimes gets posts made on Mastodon that mention a Lemmy community. It doesn’t always look great: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/45785836
So communities and hashtags aren’t the same thing. In particular, communities have moderators who can remove things or ban people. Hashtags don’t.
It is a feature of Lemmy that all new posts (not, AFAIK, comments) also get the community name added as a hashtag. This is what OP was seeing and serves to somewhat increase the reach of Lemmy posts. But you can’t follow microblog hashtags on Lemmy.
That would cause me to miss many interesting threads that were created at a time when I happened not to be looking at Lemmy.
“New comments” it is for me, that causes threads to get bumped to the top as long as other people still find them interesting.
I looked at the two complaints you linked to and at how those threads seem to be displayed on these users’ instances:
(edit: I don’t know why they aren’t displaying as links, but changing them to have a link text doesn’t help either, so I’m keeping them like this)
That looks the same as it has always looked, to the best of my knowledge. I’ve gotten at least one similar complaint before, from a Mastodon user who didn’t understand what they were looking at when they got a Lemmy post in their timeline. So I think the answer to your question is no, nothing changed, either it is a coincidence that you got two such complaints within a few days, or what actually changed is that your posts have (for whatever reason) become more visible on Mastodon.
I’m not sure I understand your substantive question very well.
There already is a bridge from RSS feeds to ActivityPub: https://rss-parrot.net/ (there are plenty of sources I follow through that).
The clue of what ActivityPub is for is in the name: it is for publishing one’s activities. For example “I’ve written a new blog post”, “I’ve commented on someone else’s activity”, “I’ve upvoted someone else’s comment”.
RSS is really just a structured format to describe the content of a website in simpler terms. It doesn’t ever send any information to anyone, it doesn’t have any mechanism for anyone else to interact.
I used to follow news sites directly through an RSS reader. But I would need to set that up separately on each device, including after reinstalling, which I just can’t be bothered to do. I know there are things like Feedly, but not everyone likes proprietary services and software that much. I like the fact that on Mastodon nowadays, I can follow both microbloggers and RSS feeds.
I don’t know of any servers that have started to verify ages, but some have started to geoblock countries whose laws require it.
also useful, thanks, the one I linked to works for any website though, not just Lemmy instances
It’s not loading for me either.
In order to not just give you a fish, but also teach you how to fish: you can check whether any website is down for everyone or just you using https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ (a short URL for this is isup.me).
“All” means all. I suggest not using “all” but subscribing to things you actually want to see.
I had some problems accessing my instance for a few minutes earlier today, but right now everything is working smoothly.
because the WWW is now so unimaginably big that something needs to show up on the first page, and except for very obscure search terms, that “something” will probably be more well-known pages that have invested more in SEO
Things you send to friends and family will not be indexed by Google, so that is somewhat useless for this purpose.
while I don’t know the answer to the question, I am very certain that
or would whole fediverse crash
is not it; if that could make the whole fediverse crash, someone could do it maliciously. At most it will cause problems delivering your messages or delivering messages to you.
yeah, I saw your instance only after posting the above comment :D
Still, some other people reading this thread might not know this; I think the way you guys are doing it is a good way to get your articles more widely spread, I think it would be good if other media organizations did the same.
Media organizations typically don’t want to post (only) to discussion groups, they want to provide a way to follow them as organizations.
That being said, @heiseonline@social.heise.de does sometimes mention threadiverse communities in its posts so they appear in those communities.
probably not, maybe you could ask a former sysadmin of lemm.ee whether they have a copy of the database and can extract this data for you, but if that doesn’t work, they’re probably gone
For a link, you’ll see it after posting if it appears in the list of places the link has been crossposted to, at which point you can delete it.
An image, that is more technically challenging because it requires detecting whether two images are the same, which is not as trivial as it sounds. But for images, I think reposts are no big deal anyway, many people will not have seen it the first time.
I don’t see a lot of the things you’re trying to avoid on my instance. But I almost always browse “subscribed” and mostly have no idea what’s going on in communities I’m not subscribed to.
I’m currently unable to find a minimum age requirement on my instance, so she could try that. I’ve never given this topic much thought because Lemmy didn’t exist when I was a minor…
I remember reading that Loops (? - may be wrong about which one) does the same thing, only displaying statuses with videos in them. I have not, so far, seen anyone claim that that is a bad thing, and frankly don’t agree that it is. If we can’t do that, then we can never have specialized platforms built on ActivityPub, e.g. platforms only for videos or for photos, etc., and that would severely limit what we can do with it.