this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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Thanks. I'm never quite sure how to deal with that, if I'm linking to the author's own work/site (I generally do try to make sure there is a relevant credit otherwise). Does the username help increase their visibility (good) or does it just encourage harassment from people who cannot accept that the Fediverse is ever anything less than perfect?
Probably a bit of both, and context-dependent so it's always a judgement call.
I did try the Lemmy-on-Mastodon thing and hated it (just a stream of out-of-context posts dominating my feed) so I probably wouldn't do that.
Well in this case, Erin is sharing her articles on mastodon directly knowing full well that large discussion threads will often start (that is, she talks about not being able to respond to everyone and that she will happily block anyone that is unkind etc). So attaching their name/tag is probably not a problem at all.
And yea ... looking at lemmy from mastodon is rubbish, which really bothers me because it's really simple things that are missing and making it rubbish.
I've found posting to Lemmy from Mastodon easy and comfortable (just tag a community in the post), but following Lemmy communities from Mastodon isn't a good experience.
I don't see anything wrong with that. Lemmy and Mastodon are designed for different use cases. It's great that they can interoperate to a degree, but heavy participation in a Lemmy community is best done from a Lemmy server.