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  • There's a lot of artists on the microblog side of the fediverse. It's just that crossing the boundary to the threadiverse side is a big hassle. Not to mention the one way state of federation between lemmy and mastodon right now makes the other half invisible from this side.

  • IMHO video links should always be YouTube first, then third party mirror second, in the body or comments. Here are the reasons:

    1. YouTube is the primary source. Always prioritize the primary source when you're sourcing.
    2. Think of the URL being shared as the primary key to a database record. Lemmy can use it to detect dupes. With YouTube URL there's like 3 forms, discounting timestamps. With piped links the possibility expanded to 3+(number of piped instances on the web). This massively increases the likelihood of accidental reposts.
    3. Give people a choice of whether they want to watch on the original site, or on a piped instance of their own choosing. When you link to a piped instance link you rob people of that choice.
    4. A piped instance can choke or go offline at any time. YouTube is close to 100% uptime.
    5. Userscript wise, it's trivial to map YouTube URLs to a user's piped instance of choice, but it's so much more tedious to detect and map every single piped instance.
  • I was put off of one instance by community feud with a self-appointed HOA-type representative, and on another by downvotes on any opinion comment that I made on otherwise empty posts. Switching platform sadly can't fix the problem of awful people. 😔

  • Iirc there was a bug with an older version of Lemmy that turns off propagation of content from outside communities/magazines/channels after 3 days without activity. It might have stayed that way even after the updates. Try unsubbing and resubbing again.