For people on other instances, you might not see posts 29 and 30 due to some issues (e.g. people on .world) but you can see them by going to https://programming.dev/c/godot

For the second, you cant follow accounts on lemmy but you can follow lemmy accounts from mastodon. (it will show both posts and comments the person makes as boosts)

Same for posting, you cant post so it shows up on mastodon since lemmy doesnt have hashtags but you can post and comment from mastodon (post by mentioning the community in the post and comment by replying to a post made on lemmy). Note on posting from lemmy to mastodon though is if you have a mastodon account that follows the lemmy account and comments on posts with hashtags that comment and the parent post will appear in those hashtag feeds, just looks spammy

Heres my results, primarily around the gamedev section of the instance and here

added functionality for the two rules

• getting all communities with a certain slug
• exclude instance with domain X from above rule

was running into rate limits when trying to check every single linked instance so ive manually put in the larger ones for now

that only works for certain file types afaik. I know in 4.1 there was one time I messed with a files location and had to update manually, forget which file type it was though

didnt realize I added the programming community to the communities that triggers the bot haha

its relevant to this post but not crosspost relevant, will tweak the triggers

Instance is chosen when theres no subcategories for what the user selected

As an example of that when someone first goes to the site they get shown the 10 main categories (technology, gaming, sports, etc.). If they select technology they are then shown the technology subcategories (programming, android, radio, general). if they select general technology that has no subcategories so they are randomly sent to one of the three general technology instances (discuss.tchncs.de, lemmy.sdf.org, or infosec.pub)

A lot of the categories only have one site it sends to but thats fine for now since it still is distributing people to the different sites based on categories

Im not looking at location data at all but in the everything/other category theres countries that can be selected to send the user to country instances

In the settings all languages are allowed due to issues with language federation from mastodon and kbin. Its up to the mods what languages they allow. (Majority will be English but allows for some communities that are two if theres some technology where official info is given in another language or for things like c/programming but in another language (naturally hidden from people who don't have that set as their language))

I deleted that german post since its just a stream ad

This was a cross post rather than a direct post to the community so it acts the same as if its posted on two different communities here like a lemmy cross post (with different threads based on the community the post is on)

If someone on mastodon commented on this version of the thread their comment would show up here

Its already deleted, may take a bit to federate to your instance

Note your link there is broken

Think you meant to link https://canvas.toast.ooo

~~you can trigger one using !remindme and then the length at the start of a message~~

Edit: its offline temporarily so that I can comply with lemmy.world bot rules