this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2024
37 points (100.0% liked)

No Stupid Questions

36135 readers
1029 users here now

No such thing. Ask away!

!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)


Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.

All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.



Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.

If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.



Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.

If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.



Credits

Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!

The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Just when I think I have somewhat of an understanding of the fediverse, there becomes more questions. So, I am the moderator for [email protected] and I see many “boosted” posts. Does that occur any time there is a comment on that post from Lemmy, or has someone made another account on Mastadon that is using the same photos from the dadjokes Lemmy community?

top 9 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Yeah. ActivityPub has a type called 'Announce' that's used to make your followers aware of activity by another account. Mastodon uses it only for 'boosting' another user's content, but Lemmy's communities use it for everything ('Andrew has posted this comment', 'Andrew has Liked this post's, etc). Most of Lemmy's activities are ignored by Mastodon, but the Announce of a post or a comment is interpreted as a Boost.

It sort of works as a way to follow a community on Mastodon, but the individual boosting of all comments makes it annoying. I doubt anyone has set up a different account - you should be able to see the details of which actor is doing by clicking on it or hovering your mouse over it.

Anyway, speaking of jokes, have you heard how many MBIN users it takes to screw in a lightbulb?
Answer: 10. 1 to screw in the bulb, and 9 to tell you how great the software is. (I'm just kidding - there aren't 10 MBIN users, it just seems like there are because it evidently comes with a massive crowbar used to derail every thread to bollock on about it).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My understanding is that if I follow @[email protected] from Mastodon what happens is:

  • I will see all posts on that community
  • I will also see all replies to that post
  • The replies are listed in Mastodon as boosts from @[email protected]

For example:

That's what I see if I go to @[email protected] from Mastodon.

Is that what you are talking about regarding boosts?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, that is what I was referring to with boosting. I think I understand now. For a short while, it looked to me like there were replies on Mastadon that I didnt write, but apparently they are just all of the “boosted” posts coming from Lemmy comments. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Assuming it isn't a rethoretical question : Mastodon is a micro-blogging platform (A twitter alternative) which was the first "big" platform to use Fediverse/Activity pub to decentralize (I am not sure what was created for mastodon and what was already there).

And indeed, you can follow lemmy communities from Mastodon (but the UX isn't great) or post to lemmy from Mastodon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Heh heh, thanks, but MastAdon 😆

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Posts get boosted when someone compliments it on their shirt. Posts really enjoy it when you compliment it's shirt. Even if it's just a regular ol' flannel shirt. The posts don't really get compliments much, and so it really BOOSTS them!!!

:D

:D

:D

..........what? I thought you liked dad jokes!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

is 'boost' not a basic lemmy feature? i do lot of boosting from mbin, but it is inherently mastodon-capable.

ex:.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

As far as I know there's no option to boost posts from Lemmy, it's an exclusive little function for Mbin and the microblogs.

I quite like it, as it makes it easier for good comments to "escape" from here and into the microblogging platforms. Assuming of course you are followed by users over there. But it is not a function on Lemmy.

So I'm not sure what OP refers to, or how posts appear as boosted in the dadjokes community. But it is indeed possible for Mbin or Mastodon users (among others) to boost any content seen on there.