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I’m talking to a masto user, who writes great threads on the Russian war situation, about posting their threads here too … what would be the best place and way of doing so? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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My initial thought was for them to start their own posts in a news community and then provide their own thread of comments within that post. This way they wouldn’t have to do anything different from mastodon but both platforms would get to see their threads.

But then, it seems news communities like World News on Lemmy.world kind of have rules against posts to social media content. Maybe an exception could be made for this person because they are constantly citing primary sources.

Otherwise I’m not sure what else would be the best spot for such a thing.

Any suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

[email protected] is probably a good place to post, it seems where most of the news on the war aggregates here, but I am not a mod or the instance admin, so take it as hearsay for now.

As to how, I don't use Mastodon myself so I am unsure, but I think I heard/read people on here talking about tagging Mastodon posts in a way they appear in certain lemmy communities, even as comments to threads (that would make it possible to gather them in dedicated threads instead of filling the community with posts, too). Sadly, I can't provide how to do that, but maybe someone from Mastodon can help with the how-to there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you know the difference between this community and [email protected] ?

Yea, I know about posting to lemmy from mastodon, it's very easy actually, which is why I'm motivated to get this person posting to here and get some cross-pollination happening. The only tricky bit seems to be finding a home for the sort of content. A general news community would be an ideal place if they were happy to accept sort of "home grown social media journalists" writing their own megathreads. You want to make sure that it's good content, but other than that, it'd be a good engaging source of content IMO.

Thanks for the suggestion!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you know the difference between this community and [email protected] ?

It seems to be the bigger, more active community.

I also heard some rumours about the one on lemmy.ml being "vatnik infiltrated", but I have no idea if there is anything to those claims.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! I don't know what "vatnik infiltrated" means, unfortunately.

But yea, this person is Ukrainian, living in the US now, so I've more or less presumed staying off of some lemmy.ml communities might just be for the best because of potential problems like this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Vatnik is basically a term for russian fascist boomers with soviet aesthetics, or more broadly, pro-russian people that fully embraced their propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can also just follow the user, I believe

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not from lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No alright, wasn't entirely sure either

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not noncredibledefense. lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They shouldn't. They should have a blog and share the link here and on Mastodon. Social media is not the right place for long-form content.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Yea, sorry, hard disagree.

Social media, let alone the fediverse, isn’t one thing. Nor is it static or ever has been fixed.

Plenty of stuff around here is long form. And it can work great.

These threads aren’t opinion pieces. They’re news on new and breaking things. Quite appropriate for social media.

Both the “Chat” view and the ability to collapse threads make this platform good at handling long threads.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

WriteFreely would be a good federated solution to this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not just have a bot repost their content here. Many people do this for rss feeds like Reddit subs and such. Same with Twitter accounts being reposted on mastodon

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Well sure. Except we already have federation between instances and platforms. I think we should learn to use it!

Also this doesn’t solve my problem of where to post such content.

[–] qwamqwamqwam 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I run [email protected]. If said users posts are high quality and includes links to sources, they should feel free to post there!

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