I know this is a couple days old but just popping in to suggest [email protected]

You know, this has actually genuinely inspired me to add a new task to my end of week review. Maybe I can just start closing the pointless ones once a week and the habit will grow from there? We can but dream, we can but dream…

But how do you tell the difference between things you’ll need in the next day, and things you just think you’ll need?

Real question, my phone has given up even counting the open tabs, please help.

It’s just not needed though, is the thing. These “links” aren’t links that are posted for people to follow, they’re just an artifact of having posted from Mastodon. As we get more interaction between the two platforms, your bot as currently written will reply to every single post and comment made from Mastodon, ever. It serves literally no purpose in this situation other than to clog up threads.

I’m not trying to start a fight or anything. If you absolutely won’t be convinced that it’s pointless replying to Mastodon tags, maybe you can at least consider limiting it to replying only on the main post? Otherwise, again, every single comment in the thread that is made from Mastodon is going to get the same bot response.

Well to post to Lemmy from Mastodon, the Mastodon user has to tag the community. That tag displays as a link on the Lemmy side. The Mastodon user has no control over the format of said link, as it’s a Mastodon user tag. So your bot shouldn’t be trying to correct it at all in this case.

Fyi your bot is apparently trying to “correct” people posting from Mastodon too. Seems like it’s replying to every comment that comes through from Mastodon’s side. Example: https://lemmy.world/post/1628806

No worries! Feel free to ask if there’s anything else you’re still hung up on.

Check out lemmyverse.net/communities, it’ll let you search (almost) everything without being limited by your instance, and you can sort by whatever criteria you want.

I use it for chatting about game dev and fibre crafts mostly, plus live convos around big events like the Super Bowl or Eurovision. Not sure what it’s like for other topics but it’s plenty active in those! Even randomly ran into someone irl from the #Eurovision feed, that was pretty fun :D

I will literally never forgive them for shutting Wave down and will complain about it at any given opportunity.

I would like to get more crafting content on here but tbh most of my friends from that stuff still use Facebook, never mind anything newer. They’ll be ready for Fedi by about 2045 if we’re lucky.

In the meantime getting to hang out with a load of likeminded nerds does in fact feel to me like a win.

If you link some sort of resource on this, you could literally save nerd lives.

There’s also the issue that during the first big influx, Kbin turned off federation while the dev tried to fix things up. It was off for days, so any fledgling magazines there couldn’t take advantage of Lemmy traffic, we couldn’t sub to them and made our own communities instead, and by the time they turned federation back on a lot of Lemmy communities were already pretty established as “the main one”.

At the rate the app devs are moving, I imagine a month from now they’ll be a bit more on par feature-wise and things will be more consistent. Then maybe I can pick one and uninstall the other hundred or so that currently live on my homescreen for tech support purposes!

This was basically my first sub on my first day here lol, can confirm everyone Lord of the Memes is where it’s at.

Knew I recognised that name 😄

The number one tip is to search for interesting communities through lemmyverse.net/communities, rather than your home instance’s search. This will let you find communities that are small or new and haven’t been synced to your home instance yet. You can set your home instance with the house icon at the top right, and then all links will open in your instance so you can easily subscribe.

It also lets you search Kbin magazines to subscribe to (through the top right hamburger menu) although federation between Lemmy and Kbin is sometimes a bit patchy.

Other than that, just remember all of the mobile apps are extremely new and if you’re struggling to do something, it might just be because it’s not supported in wefwef yet. Lemmy was clearly built by people who prefer to use desktop, but the mobile website is very functional and gives you full access, so that’s a good place to check if you can’t find how to do something within the app.

Looks like you’ve already got stuck in and been commenting a lot so keep it up, and welcome to Lemmy! 😊

Feeling very called out here.

I’ve spent the last month of my life basically glued to Lemmy, answering support requests and posting threads in communities I wanted to see grow. My work output may drop to zero, my marriage may fail, but goddammit there are people who don’t know how to sub to communities on another instance and they need my help!

If you’re logged in on the website, those links should “just work” and the subscribe button is in the sidebar. Mobile website also works really well although you have to expand the sidebar to see the button.

If you’re using one of the many different mobile apps you’ll have to let us know which one because they all seem to work completely differently at the moment!

Edit: Just realised you’re on Kbin and it looks like Kbin is stripping the link formatting out of the post for some weird reason, that’s why you can’t click them 🤦‍♀️