Because it's part of the Fediverse, you can follow OwnCast accounts from Mastodon etc, and when they go live you will see a post in your timeline to let you know.
For example, the RetroStrangeTV livestream can be viewed at:
YSK: When making posts on Lemmy/Kbin always put at the end some hashtags related to your post topic.
So users from Mastodon and Pixelfed can interact with your post without even need to use their Lemmy/Kbin account or learn about "how to use the ActivityPub".
This also helps to have more content avaliable across the Fediverse due to better discoverability.
If you wanted to make a text post on #Lemmy from Mastodon, one key thing to remember is that the content warning is not the title of the post. The first line of your post is their title. If you wanted to write in the body of a post for example, you would drop down two lines. Like this.
This text will become the body of the post on Lemmy because it is on a separate line from the title line above.
The first line of your Mastodon/Hometown/Glitch post is the title of their post. The second line, after a line break or paragraph break, will be the body of the post.
I don’t know if you can post to #KBin yet from Hometown or Mastodon yet but I hope that will get added soon! #FediTips
Just a reminder to those who are new here to add alt text to your images to keep fedi accessible. Especially people who post pixel art. For some reason, many pixel artists don't put alt text in their posts and it makes me sad.
Let's change that, guys. It doesn't need to be detailed, something like "a pixel art drawing of x" is a good enough description.
Stars are not boosts here! They don't shove what you star into your followers' feeds – which means you can use them with wild abandon! Go nuts, star kinky shit, give people a "hey this is cool" without worrying that you're going to land it on your friends' TLs.
Feedback is extremely welcome. This is a loving document, it can only be honed and get better with loving input from other users. What are your best tips for #creators?
1/ The #fediverse is a public park, not a privately owned country club. There’s no hostess, but many will welcome you. Wander, explore, enjoy the fresh air
2/ Fill out your profile. A pic, a bit about yourself. Whatever. You can change it any time. Links in the links field can be shown as verified (info how is there in the edit area). You can put links in your bio too
3/ Your home feed shows posts by those you follow and posts they boost. No algorithm will push anything else at you. You can fill your feed by following folks and #hashtags. One place to start is by viewing your “local” feed, which shows what others on your instance are posting
4/ When you find someone interesting, view their profile and look at who they are following. Odds are you will find more interesting ppl to follow this way
5/ Find your friends by using the Search function. Put an @ to search for people. Try handles they use elsewhere. Yeah, it can be frustrating. There are some great online tools that search user profiles here and other places (primarily Twitter) to find friends/followers from elsewhere, but most all have been blocked by Twitter (surprise!) so we’re stuck having to find one another manually. (Look at it as an occasion to find new folks to connect with)
6/ Sites running on #Mastodon and some other #fedi platforms are mobile friendly in a browser. But most find everything easier when using an app. There are several great apps for #iOS and #Android and even some desktop apps. The official Mastodon app though is the low end, try out some of the others
7/ You control your feed. You can:
• mute users you don’t want to hear from
• …mute them temporarily or permanently
• mute threads that have gotten too noisy
• block users
• block entire instances
• opt to see only posts (no boosts) by anyone you follow
• set #filters to screen out words and phrases
Hey #Fediverse I was thinking about having some kind of blog to document my #GameDev projects I'm working on and give myself some kind of motivation to finish them. What sites do you recommend to do this?
Also, I don't know if there's a #Federated blog site or some tool like that that can help me with this journey. Any #Feditips would be appreciated 😁
I saw some of his art online and thought it looked like “Invisible Hands” from Liquid Television, which I LOVED. Same artist! This didn’t have quite the same level of twisted, creepiness as that animated series, but I was so happy to find his work in comic form. There’s more too.
I'm moving my 2023 book thread to #Bookwyrm, the Fediverse equivalent of Goodreads. Apparently, you can see/interact with Bookwyrm posts from Mastodon and vice versa but it took me awhile to figure out how:
I had to follow my Bookwyrm account from here + (optionally?) vice versa. Now I can Boost my Bookwyrm posts into Mastodon for you to see. Gonna try it in a few...
Reporting back on cross-posting from #Bookwyrm to Mastodon: it works! And without the expected delay of the post appearing in my Mastodon feed.
However, it doesn't pull the body of the post over, just the headline of my review (rating and image too). Which makes you have to click through, and removes discoverability since the hashtags are in the body post as well as my tag for the #Bookstodon group. Also! No way to enter ALT text for the image. 😕
Welcome to the Fediverse! Hello everyone!
Hi! I’m dropping by from another corner of the #Fediverse to say hello & welcome to everyone in the #RedditMigration....