I think you're remembering wrong. The communities that have moved so far have been a manual affair: a post on the old community with a "We've moved" post, locking that community, and starting up brand new somewhere else. It's a fresh start - nothing is migrated. It's very likely to be technically impossible to move communities in the way you're imagining.
The use of the word 'radical' by these Republicans is grimly interesting and perverse, since I associate this mammalian definition of gender with a subset of radical feminism (the RF in TERF). They presented the idea as liberating (in the sense that since your gender has already been singly defined by your reproductive role, everything else - e.g. your name / job / hobbies / how you present yourself - was irrelevant, and no-one should be able to use any of those to question your gender). I very much doubt that these measures by US politicians will ultimately be liberating for anyone though, since trans people are just the first on a list. (It's not like no-one warned the 'gender critical' gang about who they were cosying up to)
For movies and shows to a VPS, I'd install a command-line IRC client (like weechat) and get stuff using XDCC.
I used to have a bot that uploaded stuff to Google drive and mega for plebs on Reddit to download, and that what the bot used to get the content in the first place.
I assume this was a song for which they released an acapella version, because I've heard it used on Mash-Up albums by the likes of Girl Talk (that's the only place I've heard it, tbh).
I couldn't really do justice to his opinions about things like that. I just replied because I recognised your name, and wanted to let you know that the software / instance wouldn't be a good fit for you.
They must have been talking about the Lemmy devs (the main PieFed dev is a lefty but no-one has ever accused him of being a tankie). To give you an idea: piefed.social blocks lemmygrad and hexbear, but it also block hilariouschaos (set up by the old exploding-heads guys).
You can't, no. PieFed and Lemmy are operating in similar spaces, but are completely different architecturally. PieFed doesn't yet have an API. Unlike Lemmy (and a lot of other modern web platforms), it doesn't need one to operate, so copying Lemmy's to the extent that you'd be able to plug in something like Voyager would be overkill. It would probably also be against the TOS for Voyager (Jerboa actively prevents it's use with anything other than Lemmy, even if the API is the same).
For clarity, it's not Lemmy that uses 'Article'. I can't remember what does, friendica maybe?
Lemmy uses 'Page' for posts, and 'Note' for comments.
Mastodon uses 'Note' for both, with 'inReplyTo' used to distinguish whether Lemmy would call it a 'Page'. It uses 'Question' for polls.
Pixelfed also uses 'Note', with an 'Image' type attachment (I thinks Loops is similar, just with a 'Video' type attachment).
PeerTube uses 'Video'.
Funkwhale uses 'Album' and 'Playlist'
CastoPod uses 'PodcastEpisode'
There's no one universal ActivityPub server because the Fediverse is based on a broken promise: i.e. that you should be able to use whatever service, to interact with whatever other one. You very often can't, because ActivityPub hasn't been implemented by each platform as some universal thing, it's been co-opted by each to serve it's own purposes. Lemmy best federates with other Lemmy instances, following Lemmy's way of doing stuff, but a good chuck of the Fediverse follows a different model, and is receiving their activity and quietly discarding it because it doesn't know what to do with it. If all the Lemmy instances suddenly chose to use a different protocol than ActivityPub, most people wouldn't notice the difference.
Hmmm. I'd imagine that's essential for cloudflare to work. You can get their IP addresses if you have a server that is federated with them and you look in your nginx logs (so that 'if' is a big IF).
Voyager is probably the most popular. I like Thunder, personally (both are open-source but Thunder isn't completely FOSS because of the language it's written in).
Accidentally replying to a post instead of replying to a comment is a Sync bug (I think it happens if you try to reply via a Notification). I don't use it, but that app seems a bit unmaintained.
To ping a person, it's like what you did, but you need to include the instance (e.g. @jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world - most apps should auto-complete it once you start typing)
For comments: not at all. If a Mastodon user tried to do what I did, with the inline image, nothing would show.
We could do what I think you've done, and regex the details of the attachment into ! [] () Markdown and add it to the text. There's also a DB relationship between comments and images that isn't used, but could be, I suppose.
I've never actually seen a Mastodon user try to add an image to something that ended up as a Lemmy comment, tbh, so it's not something I've thought too much about.
I just tried with Masto - maybe there's different versions, but it didn't work with the one I tried.
Screenshot:
It's probably for the best that this PR doesn't also convert inline Markdown into an attachment to send out for Mastodon's benefit, because then there would be the danger of apps that understand both showing two images. It'd be better if Mastodon did the translation when receiving stuff, but Mastodon doesn't seem as good as MBIN when it comes to co-operating with Lemmy.
(edit: how that screenshot shows on MBIN is a bit disappointing though - at least looking at on the web)
I think you're remembering wrong. The communities that have moved so far have been a manual affair: a post on the old community with a "We've moved" post, locking that community, and starting up brand new somewhere else. It's a fresh start - nothing is migrated. It's very likely to be technically impossible to move communities in the way you're imagining.