Quick tip for anyone who wants more urbanism/urban planning/cycling/public transport posts in their Mastodon feed.
Thanks to the wonders of the Fediverse, you can follow and post to Lemmy groups from Mastodon.
Here are some transport/planning/cycling groups to get you started:
For those unfamiliar with it, Lemmy is basically a federated version of Reddit, distributed across multiple servers like Mastodon. (For anyone who wants to delve further, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, and aussie.zone are three popular Lemmy instances.)
From Mastodon, you can follow any Lemmy group by following its handle, exactly the same way that you would follow a Mastodon account. Any new posts to that group will then begin appearing in your Mastodon feed.
Even better, if you start a thread on Mastodon, you can also post it to a relevant Lemmy group just by including its handle in your post. (Please note this only seems to work with the first post of a thread.)
#urbanism #planning #UrbanPlanning #urbanist #cities #transport #PublicTransport #train #trains #tram #trams #cycling #bikes #cycle #walking #walkability #walkable #politics #LightRail #urbanists #FediTips #FediTip #FediHelp #MastoHelp @feditips @FediFollows
Seeing this Mastodon post as a Lemmy user is a cool part of the Fediverse that never gets old.
@ajsadauskas @urbanism @fuck_cars @trains@lemmy.ml @ukpublictransport @trains@midwest.social @melbournetrains @sydneytrains @brisbanetrains @bicycling@lemmy.ml @bicycling@lemmy.world @utilitycycling @feditips @FediFollows None of those groups have any posts… Why would I follow them?
There must be something Im not understanding, right?
Works the same way regular Mastodon profiles do. They’ll look blank when viewed from your instance until someone from there follows them and starts them federating. In the meantime you can do the “view original profile” thing to see the actual community (or in the case of a Mastodon user, their full profile) and decide if they look interesting.
@TeaHands I didn’t know that was even a thing lol
Cheers
@ClintonAnderson @urbanism @fuck_cars @trains@lemmy.ml @ukpublictransport @trains@midwest.social @melbournetrains @sydneytrains @brisbanetrains @bicycling@lemmy.ml @bicycling@lemmy.world @utilitycycling @feditips @FediFollows
They do indeed have posts, as you can see here: https://lemmy.ml/c/fuck_cars https://slrpnk.net/c/urbanism
If you’re the first person to follow them from your Mastodon server, then the feed will initially look empty from Mastodon because the posts haven’t pulled across yet. (I’m sure @maegul can give a better explanation?)
Anyway, click follow and the new posts will begin appearing in your Mastodon feed.
@ajsadauskas the Lemmy/Mastodon integration is *weird* though. Like I don’t like how the Lemmy community accounts retoot every comment to their top level article posts.
Also I think you can’t delete/edit toots that you reply to the Lemmy toot – they’ll be gone on this side but iirc on the Lemmy site they’re still there. Did that one by accident.
