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   Jonas R. (er/ihm) (jonasjrichter@mastodon.pnpde.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 18:41:12 JST Jonas R. (er/ihm)

   @FediTips

   Can I post to a forum on kbin/Lemmy (a sub, "community", "magazine" or whatever name they have), and interact with other posts, using my Mastodon account?

   I've tried opening a few kbin/lemmy threads in my Mastodon timeline, but only ever see the first post. (I've only just now started following a few communities, so my instance probably didn't "know" these older threads?)

   #fedihelp #mastodon #kbin #lemmy

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     BeAware (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 18:41:11 JST BeAware

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     @JonasJRichter @FediTips yes and yes. This all makes sense. To interact with specific comments you'd have to grab the direct links to those comments and search them on your instance. That should "pull" the comments to your instance.

     To post to a Lemmy community you make a post with the first line as the title followed by a line break, then the content of the post, and another line break, and mentioning the community.

     Comments work similarly, for it to show in the community, the user and the community should be mentioned.

     The way mastodon shows content from other software is specific to mastodon. They don't exactly comply with the standard. Mastodon only accepts "note" activity types, while these other softwares like Lemmy and Mbin use the "article" type if my memory is correct. If they'd allow article type content, posts might show a lot better within mastodon directly.😬🤷♂️

     I hope this helps and all makes sense. I'm not FediHelp but I like to help Fedi, so I figured I'd try.😅

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     BeAware (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 19:02:33 JST BeAware

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     @JonasJRichter @FediTips I'm not sure on that one unfortunately.😬

     I am only indirectly aware of how certain things work across lemmy/Kbin/Mbin communities as I don't normally go there myself.

     Maybe feditips can answer that one.

     Also, Kbin is functionally dead, the dev hasn't been active in over a year, it seems there's active work being done on Mbin, a fork that's gaining some traction.

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     Jonas R. (er/ihm) (jonasjrichter@mastodon.pnpde.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 19:02:34 JST Jonas R. (er/ihm)

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     • BeAware

     @BeAware @FediTips Thanks! I tried pulling a comment (unsuccessfully), while I could pull first posts. Have to try some more - visibility choices on the original instances may play a part.

     Are there any "sandbox" forums on kbin or lemmy to experiment?