This looks like the most expensive addition to my Warhammer addiction money can buy. Lemme transport my models in a tempered glass electric golf cart to my FLGS.
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I think the one convention that needs to be fleshed out is differentiating between place and person. On Lemmy we can use [email protected] to go to different communities. On Mastodon it's @[email protected] to find those communities. The difference being that Mastodon treats the place as a user. Because of that you get funky cross contamination between two separate ideas on Mastodon. Here on Lemmy you go to that place, but on Mastodon it pulls up all the individual comments and replies from that place. They're out of context because those posts are pulled from some random point in a Lemmy thread. It's like pulling all the content feom a community here and playing 52 pickup to find contex. You're losing the organizationof the full thread experience. And if you look at the profiles of communities from Lemmy at Mastodon they're being marked as groups. So we know there's structures in place to differentiate places from people. It just has to be agreed upon by the website developers on how to implement it to make a smoother experience.
Mastodon has the infrastructure to do the full title/body thread experience. It's in their content warning system. When you put up a content warning on Mastodon you can give it any title you want. Then you type out the body and people reply like any old reddit thread. So it's not really a matter of changing infrastructure to match one site to another. Mastodon can stay a Twitter replacement and Lemmy a reddit replacement. It's really coming to an agreed upon way to navigate it. And that would be done in the person @, place !, and thing # way.
So it didn't ping notifications, but now that I searched my @ on Mastodon it showed up on Mastodon. And Lemmy still hasn't let me follow my Mastodon account which sucks.
Yeah this was purely a title test. The sad part is I do follow myself on from Mastodon. I made the same test on [email protected] and included my mastodon tag in the body. I thought the mention @[email protected] would at least ping my notifications there, but it didn't. There's also a thing on Lemmy where if you tab complete the name it puts the whole URL in the post, at least when typing a comment. So if I @[email protected] I would think that would ping me there.
Ideally it would be a discoverability tool for Lemmy's side to broadcast to the whole fediverse. So if you post a title like "Hey #nfl fans. [email protected] is hosting an #ama with @[email protected] at 2pm EST." The hashtags show up on Mastodon. The [email protected] would take you to the sub. Or if you wanna see just Tom Brady's answers you can click his name and find his answers. From our side on Lemmy we have the thread structure down. So that's all you have to do is title that and put whatever you want in the body. From Mastodon's perspective they could turn their content warning system into titles. So that title would be the content warning. When you click on it, it opens the body of the post, including all comments and replies. That way you have discoverability. You have a way to interact with the post from anywhere. You complete the triad of person, place, and thing so everybody has full context of what's going on. Lemmy users would get full functionality of Mastodon in Lemmy fashion and vice versa.
I had the same exact thought about the fediverse early on in my discovery process. There's a person, place, or thing dichotomy in terms of connecting with other people. They each lead to different levels of connection and discussion. Like I can be at a place and run into a person, but if we're not there for the same thing our interaction will be nothing more than a tweet in the wind. In another place I can see the same person, but because we're there for the same thing, that will lead to a deeper more thoughtful discussion. Or the simple possibility of being in a new place while seeking a new thing, could also include finding new people. There's levels to this and to me the point of the activity pub and federation is trying to unify that into one true social media.
From a functionality side of the fediverse, Lemmy and Mastodon excel at two of the three dichotomies. Unifying them into all three requires an agreement across platforms. And in actuality it requires a new punctuation mark to follow the # and @. It's pretty clear that the ! is a stand in for places. Hell it's already used here in Lemmy. So you get the person @, place !, or thing #. The current implementations of federation is iffy in this regard. From a user perspective, it seems like there's no agreement on unifying that functionality across websites. I should be able to search for the place [email protected] from Mastodon, Calckey, or any other fediverse site and pull the stuff from that sub/group/whatever. But instead you have to search for a sub with an @ like you would a person. You get the individual posts of every person on that sub. And worse at a glance it's out of context because the biggest most poignant thing you see is the user's post. Which is usually the middle of the thread. There's no thread structure on Mastodon which leads to interpolation problems with other fediverse sites. The funny part is, Mastodon has infrastructure in place to make thread like structures work. Their content warning system is just another name for title/subject. Then you expand that and boom the body of a post. There's even rumblings of group functionality coming in the future on Mastodon.
Like wise Lemmy should be able to use #s in it's titles and posts to be searchable on Mastodon. I tested hashtags in a title on Lemmy but got nothing in return on Mastodon. Why, because Lemmy users doesn't use #s the same way Mastodon does. They work in the body of a post, but that leaves a lot of context off the table. Titles with hashtags do nothing at all. We want our stuff here on Lemmy to be discoverable on Mastodon but the only way to do that is for the website devs to come to an agreement on how that functionality works.
There's work that needs to be done in unifying functionality across the fediverse. I'm sure there's discussion behind the scenes about getting it all to work together, but from our side of the room it would be cool to know. I think we're all guinea pigs in this experiment of a new social media, but the actual subject of the experiment is the websites themselves. The thesis is trying to find a way to make them all accessible/usable with each other from each corner of the internet. At a glance the fediverse looks like a bunch of websites trying to hold onto vestiges of old social media. Somebody threw in a wrench that screamed "talk to each other." Meaning the users and more importantly the actual websites.
Both failed. Hastags do nothing in the title. And I have no idea why the @ didn't show in my Mastodon mentions. I can understand the hashtag not working. I feel like the @ should.
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You need nuts/seeds. Peanuts, sunflower seeds, almonds, walnuts, pistachios. Any high fiber nut and seed will do. If you can get it in bulk, the better. Like 10lbs should last you for well beyond 10 days. But if you need to shit your brains out, well, uh. There it is.
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