What was your old username? Would be helpful to look you up in the modlogs

Last I heard Lemmy devs are explicitly against this. Mastodon users can still make top level posts over here but I don’t think that’s what you had in mind.

All good. If I had any artistic talent myself I would have put something else together but alas. If anybody’s got something cute and free hit me up!

As an example. This is the sort of post I’m talking about: https://tech.lgbt/@spaduf/110941439731236455

@bookstodon Not sure if this is anybody’s cup of tea but there’s a new Lemmy instance dedicated to books and writing over at: https://literature.cafe

The best part is you can participate from your existing fediverse account. Communities on Lemmy can be followed like users and have similar functionality to a.gup.pe groups!

Try following @fiction as an example but remember that federation doesn’t backfill.

More communities can be found here: https://literature.cafe/communities

Already sitting at about 8 boosts and several favorites from some folks with a fairly large follower count. That means potentially thousands of eyes. I went ahead and put together a dedicated user as I think that may be more appropriate than spam posting Lemmy communities/instances on my personal account. Not sure when I’ll have time to flesh it out and make it active but I’ve already got a list of communities/instances and what groups I think would be interested in them. Find it here:
https://mastodon.social/@lemmy_for_mastodon

What does that mean for those of us who never got into IRC?

The Lemmy devs honestly probably need a significant change in priorities or even a fork. They also seem to be ignoring relatively simple performance fixes that would have huge effects on the cost of instance hosting. If you think about it 60k users really shouldn’t cost that much to host. See @RoundSparrow’s thread about it here: https://lemmy.ml/comment/2971578

They just want a social network like reddit

Reddit users by and large are not content creators, particularly not in the way that Mastodon users are. I’m suggesting each Mastodon user recruited would be worth way more than each reddit user recruited. Reddit users are simply not worth the effort and have significantly less to add to the culture/conversation

Are you going to host them?

They’re already there. They are currently struggling with growth. This seems to primarily be an issue of getting the word out.

But more importantly, what are you going to draw them here with? Why would they bother? What’s the sales pitch? What do they gain?

They gain group-like functionality and deeper, more focused discussion. These are often requested features of Mastodon that Lemmy can provide without any additional features on the development side.

I think this may not have enough total posts to impact a feed like it needs to. Would definitely be a useful feature tho

What’s the alternative? It honestly seems like a worthwhile way to do it for me. I really think there’s only value in following niche communities from Mastodon. Discourse like that found on politics and news is pretty plentiful (and often higher quality) on Mastodon as is, but the gardening communities make up an important part of my Mastodon feed.

Important to note: linked crossposting does not currently work with discussion posts, just links.

Hexbear is a firehose of leftist shitposting.
EDIT: Also fairly old by fediverse standards.

Lol at the implication that the term community is indicative of communism.

I use the neostore frontend. Definitely check it out if you want material you

Very cool piece of software. Excited to get into it.

I have seen shorts type content on peertube. Check out this guy:
!alliterative_channel@tilvids.com
https://tilvids.com/a/alliterative/video-channels

EDIT: Woops linked to the user not the channel.

What happened to vlemmy?

If y’all haven’t already definitely post your communities in !newcommunities@lemmy.world

Post links and the discussion will come if the community has even just a few subscribers.

Post y’all. Everybody’s still sorting by new and new comments. Now’s the time to make it happen.

There’s also !peertube@lemmy.ml for dedicated discussion.