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Following @lemmy was a bad idea. It's literally every comment with subpar context. Which is fine, thr mental models of twitter and reddit are different, after all. (hdev.im)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by farcaller@hdev.im to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Following @lemmy was a bad idea. It's literally every comment with subpar context. Which is fine, thr mental models of twitter and reddit are different, after all.

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[–] Compgeek@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Do you think better threading in Mastodon might help? If comments showed up as threaded replies and only top level posts got their own thread, would you engage cross-platform more? The style of post is different, but I feel if they felt more in the style of the platform you are viewing from then it could lead to some interesting discussions!

[–] Buttermilk@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Yeah, not sure how easy it would be to change, but if it just didn't boost user replies, it would actually be pretty solid on mastodon.

Still seems a little finicky though looking over @lemmy@lemmy.lm I am seeing one post from 8 mins ago then nothing for like two days. But @memes@lemmy.ml works it seems, with constant posts. Though still with the issue of every comment being boosted.

[–] Compgeek@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m still figuring out how it works, but seems Mastodon doesn’t sync the history too well, and only stays in sync if at least one person on the instance is following the community. Maybe the old ones are delayed sync, or someone that was subscribed then unsubbed before another took over? It’s getting the Snoo hug of death at the moment, so I’m expecting weird behaviour!

[–] Buttermilk@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah that makes sense. I'm mostly just poking around to see how it reacts, no real expectations of it working well. Really considering the walled gardens of each of the technologies this replaces, any amount of connection is really icing on the cake!

I haven't tried it myself, but I remember someone mentioning things like peertube videos being sharable on mastodon, then replying to the peertube post in mastodon could add a reply to the peertube page and vise versa. Obviously the reply structure of lemmy is quite different, but it is cool to imagine the ways interoperability could evolve with more attention.

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