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Ragnell , (edited )
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I think it's a self-selection. To join the Fediverse, you usually need to be aware enough of social media culture to find out about it. So you get a bunch of people on social media who like talking about social media and what's going on. I mean, Mastodon is full of weird hobbyists in the hashtags, but during migrations we get slammed with talk about social media.

We do need more of the hobby boards to be populated. The gaming boards, /m/gaming, [email protected], are pretty active but the niche boards like /m/GirlGamer are still quiet. !cat is pure joy and very active.

I think it would be nice to keep the social media talk to relevant boards. We've been flooding the tech and internet and fediverse boards with threads about Threads, maybe we should make a community like /m/Reddit or /m/Twitter specifically FOR those conversations about Threads and let /m/tech and /m/internet talk about the large amount of other stuff going on.

danhakimi OP ,

Wait, what's the trick here? your !cat link worked, but /m/ clearly isn't doing anything, and [email protected] didn't do anything... how do you get it to auto-link?

Ragnell ,
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@danhakimi Shit, I don't know. Let me try this.

!games
!cat
!gaming
!girlgamer

Ragnell ,
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Okay, we can link to federated instances is we put a ! in front and type out the whole address. How do we link to communities inside... I'm taking this to m/KbinMeta.

@danhakimi

Ragnell ,
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@kbinmeta is FAST.

So, links outside the instance are [!]magazine[@]instance
Links inside the instance are [@]magazine[@]instance

Removing the [] brackets of course.

@danhakimi

danhakimi OP ,

that's... confusing... why would you need the [@]instance for the present instance? couldn't it just be [!]magazine with an optional [@]instance afterwards? wouldn't that be easier to remember, easier to type out most of the time, and easier to distinguish from tagging users with @?

Ragnell ,
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@danhakimi Maybe it has something to do with federation and comments populating to other instances.

danhakimi OP ,

ah, I guess it would be annoying to translate the links like that... but still, why would it go from being a ! to an @?

Ragnell ,
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@danhakimi THAT I don't understand. MAybe it's a difference between Lemmy and Kbin? The first few I posted were from lemmy instances.

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