Anbalsilfer

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Linux holds more than 8% market share in India, and it's on the upward trend in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] Anbalsilfer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We very often see the same username created across many instances

Guilty as charged. I'll say though, there are several legitimate reasons why one might want to do this. I personally use it as a substitute for Reddit's multireddit feature, by grouping community subscriptions across different instances by theme. As long as users use the same username across instances I don't think this practice should be automatically regarded as an attempt to sockpuppet. It that was the goal, the accounts would definitely not be using the same username across all the instances.

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Relaying of Mastodon hashtags to Lemmy instances (sopuli.xyz)
 

Does something like this exist? As far as I can tell, setting something similar up would require:

  • A dedicated Lemmy instance for Mastodon tag-based crossposting (probably, since most existing instances probably don't want to clutter their instance with thousands of script-generated communities)
  • Some kind of form on a site where users who want to follow a Mastodon tag that is not already set up as a Lemmy community could submit the tag they want added, which would automatically set up:
  • A Lemmy community for that tag on the aforementioned instance, and
  • A Mastodon hashtag bot that automatically crossposts all posts with that tag to the linked community
Lemmy clients able to federate content from multiple instances? in c/lemmyapps@lemmy.world
[–] Anbalsilfer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't mean federate in the Lemmy/Fediverse sense, but rather in the collation/multireddit sense. In other words, gathering posts from many different sources, in this case instances, and displaying them as a single list. Given the context, calling this "federation" was probably very confusing, and definitely a poor choice of words. I apologize for that.

In Liftoff, this takes the form of an All/Everything view (where "All" means all currently logged in instances) which collates and displays posts from many different Lemmy instances at once. This is the feature I was looking for in other clients.

Lemmy clients able to federate content from multiple instances? in c/lemmyapps@lemmy.world
[–] Anbalsilfer@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

In this context it probably is, since the federation that is done on the fediverse is something else entirely. "Collate" might be a better word, perhaps.

Does Thunder support multiple instances? in c/thunder_app@lemmy.world
[–] Anbalsilfer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

See my answer to @rowinxavier

Does Thunder support multiple instances? in c/thunder_app@lemmy.world
[–] Anbalsilfer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what I've been doing to log into new instances, but it always seems to just replace the instance I was already logged into with the new one. The UI looks like it's supposed to show a list of instances and the button says "Add account", but the list is always empty, no matter if I've logged into other instances before.

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Lemmy clients able to federate content from multiple instances? (sopuli.xyz)
 

The only one I've seen that can do this so far is Liftoff. Does anyone know of any others?

Is there an app that can make multi communities? in c/lemmyapps@lemmy.world
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Does Thunder support multiple instances? (sopuli.xyz)
 

Whenever I try to add an instance account, Thunder appears to replace the instance I'm already logged into with the new one, so I can only browse one instance at a time. Is this behaviour intended? If so, will support for multiple instances be added later?