Anbalsilfer

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months 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
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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?

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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?