Commands/formatting for posting to Lemmy from Mastodon

How can I start a new post to a Lemmy community and avoid it looking like crap?

In particular I'm looking for how to get the post title to be a link to article or other webpage and to get an to show in the body.

What I have been doing makes it look like just a text link in the body for both.

@fediverse

Cross post: https://lemmy.world/post/45816072

https://mastodon.social/@MakerTube/116432140906209744

MakerTube is open for public registrations! A PeerTube home for #makers, #musicians, #artists and #DIY #creators.

If you’ve been wanting to try video beyond big tech platforms, now’s a great time.

This instance is community-funded. If you value independent media, please consider a #donation: https://makertube.net/about/instance/support

Every penny helps.

Join us: https://makertube.net/

#peertube #makertube #youtube

I've dealt with my share of disk expansions and failures, and it's never taken 3 weeks.

TL;DR: link to sites. link to communities. don't just post content, but more importantly make people aware that the community exists.

if you post 10 articles but nobody knows that the community exists, that's worth less than if you only post 5 articles but 3 people read them.

link to communities that interest you in places where people might want to know about them. sticker some link on your irl shared gardening project. maybe to slrpnk.net or sth. Sticker the links to 3 tinkering/DIY communities on your local bike repair shop.

Links are as important as streets are to traffic. They get us from A to B. don't underbuild them.

Some comrades over at Hexbear have organized a donation drive for Palestine and, over the past few weeks, have managed to raise over $1500 for verified Palestinian fundraisers. The fediverse is a good place full of good people.

We have launched our wiki and forum that is built around collaboration on Libre projects. The aim is to create a community built around genuine and lasting connections, where people can work together on various projects across various disciplines - from artists to software developers...we hope to create a hub for skill-sharing and project creation.

In an age of instant connection, we are still remarkably lonely in our creative work. You can have a niche interest and instantly find someone across the globe who shares it — but sharing isn't the same as collaborating. At some point in your creative journey, you may lack a specific skill or just need fresh ideas to move forward.

UnfinishedProjects is an attempt to connect you with other creative individuals and serve as a hub for open-licensed work. Our goal is to enable small, meaningful contributions across multiple projects, allowing us to move them forward together. It is an experiment in breaking isolation . . . an attempt to bring stalled ideas, or those simply too complex to finish alone, back to life through the power of collective contributions.

We aren't just another place to talk about what we like. We don't want to be yet another modern social media platform. We have faith in selfless connections and aim to build a place for meaningful and thoughtful discussions. We want to promote collaboration over self-promotion — a space where "incomplete" is not a shame or failure, but an opportunity to exchange with others, to build together, and eventually . . . to share the feeling of pride in what you've achieved.

We hope some of you will check out our platform as we try to establish our community.
Feel free to stop by our forum and introduce yourself at https://forum.unfinishedprojects.net/ - or read more about or community vision on our wiki at https://unfinishedprojects.net/wiki/About/Vision

In an age with modern social media and internet, it can sometimes be hard to sit down and dedicate time to build lasting relationships and communities, but we hope that our forum is taking a step in the right direction, and that you will help us build it into a community that brings back some purpose into our digital lives.

I want to help fediverse by hosting own instance. I dont have plans to build community, it will be for caching reasons. Does it make any sense?

For example, if I run loop instance, I will reshare stories through my instance, the content will be downloaded from my node, not the parent one. Am I right?

The question is prompted by the age verification app that the EU has just presented.

Some EU countries want to ban social media for young people. If that were to happen, what then?

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/58572620

there is a site called "fedimap" which displays approximate physical locations for each fediverse instance. super cool if you want to connect to people irl and want to find physically close organizations :)

Mastodon has received a 600k grant by the Sovereign Tech Agency, and Surf has launched.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/50508507

https://lemmy-federate.com/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45562299

Link to Subreddit Post

Post Text:

Hey everyone, I've been working on a native tvOS Peertube client, PeerTV. Here's the App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/peertv/id6761736523

Sometimes I like to watch videos from my Peertube instance or a friend's instance on my apple tv, but I noticed a while ago that there weren't any tvOS Peertube clients available on the App Store. That is until now!

This application is open source on GitHub , so by all means, check it out and add requests for new features or bug fixes if you'd like.

Also, I recommend using it with my plug-in to add a randomized video tab to your Peertube instance. The PeerTV app has a setting that unlocks a special random video tab if you're using that plugin on the instance.

Disclaimer: I used a Claude model with cursor to help build out this project. If that is something important to you, then feel free to not use it or insult me in the comments. I mainly built this tool because | want it to exist. I have over 6+ years as a developer so I know what I'm doing for the most part. I did not just mindlessly tell the ai to build an application. There was a great effort on my part to ensure the app is secure, efficient, and functional.

Thanks!

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It's a Friendi.ca instance I have a profile on. I can't find it anymore, not even searching on Friendica. I know sometimes some instances go down, but this case seems weird.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45484461

Only found them by coincidence ;)

1️⃣ In "/settings/preferences/appearance" under "Advanced settings" you can find the option to "Warn me before posting media without alt text"

You can see the error message I see whenever I forget alttext in the second image hehe

2️⃣ When you post an image with text in it, you can simply use the magic AI feature "Add text from image". It usually works very well!

Alt text: "Screenshot of the warning you get with the warning for missing alt enabled. "Add alt text? Your post contains media without alt text. Adding descriptions helps make your content accessible to more people." Below it are 3 buttons "Cancel" "Post anyway" and "Add alt text"

Alt text: "Screenshot of the alt text window, the option "Add text from image" is circled in red.

This is how that "AI" option described the text of the image I posted: "Describe this for people with visual impairments. 1500 Add text from image"

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Browse

View and enjoy your collection, and easily find the models you need; all in full interactive 3D.
Categorise

Sort your models and files by tag, creator, collection, and add metadata like original source, notes, supported/unsupported, and more.
Share

Share content publicly or privately, follow content on other instances, or anywhere on the Fediverse.
Tidy

Automatically reorganise files on disk based on your tags or other metadata, with fully customisable renaming options.
Troubleshoot

Easily spot duplicate files, nested models, inefficient formats, and more to come.

After nearly 20 years on the platform, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says it is leaving X. "This isn't a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue," the digital rights group said. "The math hasn't worked out for a while now." From the report:

We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million impressions per month. By 2024, our 2,500 X posts generated around 2 million impressions each month. Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago. [...]

When you go online, your rights should go with you. X is no longer where the fight is happening. The platform Musk took over was imperfect but impactful. What exists today is something else: diminished, and increasingly de minimis.

EFF takes on big fights, and we win. We do that by putting our time, skills, and our members' support where they will effect the most change. Right now, that means Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and eff.org. We hope you follow us there and keep supporting the work we do. Our work protecting digital rights is needed more than ever before, and we're here to help you take back control.

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For the past month a variety of lem.cochrun.xyz accounts have been spamming religious posts (all linking to christianpicturesblog.blogspot.ca) to a variety of unrelated Lemmy communities. Unless @forgetstoshave@lem.cochrun.xyz has an alternative explanation, the posts are likely all from one or a select few lem.cochrun.xyz users seeking to evangelize their beliefs across the Threadiverse, using sock puppet accounts to evade bans.

While they are welcome to post to relevant communities (just as other users are free to block those communities), spamming such content on unrelated communities is unacceptable. While use of the Threadiverse should be encouraged, spam only serves to push new users away, and thus should be handled via the defederation of lem.cochrun.xyz should it continue.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45437770

I've been thinking a lot about the Fediverse ALT issue.

Some people are annoyed by posts without Alttext, & others get reminded¹ to add it.

The core question is: How can we improve accessibility?

Proposal: ☑️ Add a user filter to hide media posts without AltTag ☑️ Reduced engagement on hidden posts would encourage adding Alt text ☑️ People who need accessibility wouldn't have to encounter unlabeled media

If this gets traction, I'll open a Mastodon GitHub issue (maybe on others too?).

¹ https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/113996311493021102