thegiddystitcher @ thegiddystitcher @lemm.ee

Proud multicrafter, making cool stuff and all over the Fediverse like a ras

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Your instance only knows about users, posts, comments and even communities that it's already been "told about". This is how federation works in general on other Fediverse softwares too, but specifically on Lemmy it means someone from your instance needs to be subscribed to a community in order for new posts / comments to federate.

It's likely the user in question posts a lot in communities that aren't (or at least weren't at the time) federated with your instance.

If there is a post or comment you want to respond to but it's not showing up on your instance you can paste the URL into your search and wait a bit and it should pop up (after a few moments of saying "no results", I know, very slick)

Can't help you with the second part as I'm on mobile and not feeling well so my brain won't parse the URLs, but hopefully someone else can assist 😅

!battletech@lemmy.world and !satisfactory@lemmy.world by the looks of it, for anyone passing by who has an interest in either 😉

I was saying the other day there's been a noticeable uptick in activity in some of my favourite arts & crafts type communities over the last couple of weeks. Probably just a temporary blip, and our numbers are still quite precarious, but it's encouraging nevertheless.

For me the level of interesting content is just about spot on now, but obviously it depends on your interests.

I do have one suggestion though. Whenever you feel the urge to comment about how "hobby" communities are too dead, be more specific. Which hobbies? Which communities? Every time you mention one, the chances that someone who didn't even know it existed sees that comment and finds the community increase.

Look I'll start. I wish there were more crocheters around to liven up !crochet@lemmy.ca a bit.

Word of mouth is how niche communities grow.

(p.s. also spend some time blocking the news communities if you're not into that stuff, it makes a massive difference)

This took me a couple seconds but I'm happy to report that once it clicked it got an out loud "oh my god" from me irl 🤦‍♀️

Seems like that's able to created as a client-side feature, since the Summit app already does it. Now we just need more apps and frontends to implement it too.

I'm not keen on it, prefer to find things organically so I usually ignore or (if possible) hide recommendations. But I don't understand getting mad about it and judging people who find it useful. People gonna people, I suppose.

Well, the one person I know who uses it says it's because he likes having a recommendation algorithm.

People have different priorities and like different things 🤷‍♀️

I mean we can share stuff easily, just only in one direction for now. It's still worth doing though, have managed to introduce people from the two platforms and get them chatting that way fairly often. It's also great for question-type posts, since obviously the more answers the better.

And as a bonus, being able to follow Lemmy communities on Mastodon (I wouldn't do it for the big spammy ones but it's great for smaller communities) means I can just jump in with a reply straight from Mastodon without switching tabs to Lemmy which is nice!

Think I'm still in the "ok this isn't perfect but wow it's clever and I am in childlike amazement" phase haha

I'm not really a phone person tbh, replying to you now from mobile but that's rare for me, mostly I just use the phone apps as notification collectors.

That said, I've been terminally online since the turn of the millennium so flitting between various websites and apps and generally being a bit of a "power user" comes naturally.

I use Mastodon in advanced mode with various columns pinned with my hashtag searches in. Lemmy I stick with the default web UI because certain niche things tend not to work in the alternate frontends and I do a lot of niche stuff 😅

In terms of posting between the two, I often do post to Lemmy via Mastodon just to get the conversation from both places all happening in one thread. Works well as long as you bear the various quirks in mind, but I hope that'll be improved over time as well as asking the option to crosspost the other way round (ie Lemmy to Mastodon).

Would be happy to do a write-up on exactly how that works and what the limitations are if anyone would find it useful!

Edit: forgot to add, one of my pinned Mastodon columns actually shows posts from some of my fave-but-tiny Lemmy communities, so that way I don't miss anything.

I was too intrigued to see who you were recommending, couldn't let it lie!

Third link in your list is just a link to dot social, fyi 😆

puts on sunglasses

My time to shine.

Ok so in terms of Lemmy communities, I have a list of a load of them here although admittedly some have since died off and I should probably do a trawl for new ones (adding that to my weekend todo list as we speak).

On Mastodon, there used to be a server called artisan.chat that was great for this, but it shut down and most of us moved to either wandering.shop or sunny.garden so the local timelines there are a nice place to find people (the former is much bigger than the latter, and also has a lot of writers).

I'd also recommend checking Fediverse Explorer on occasion to find people who aren't federated with your server and therefore aren't showing up in your Mastodon search. Example search for #knitting.

My craft account gets a decent bit of reach among fibre crafters so if you're looking for anything specific in that area hit me up and I'd be happy to boost or otherwise get some more eyeballs on your request post. Likewise with my other account for gamedev, and if you are interested in game projects / art then again the local feed on that server is great as well as peoplemaking.games too.

PeerTube has a surprising amount of creative / maker content but it's hard to find because of the weird way they handle federation. fedi.video tries to get round it a bit by curating videos from across PT into playlists, often creative-themed, so you might find something there. There's also makertube.net which is as the name suggests focused on attracting that sort of thing, but it recently got an influx of retro gaming YouTubers flooding everything with their massive backlogs so you might need to dig a bit more than usual.

Hope some of that helps!

Disgustingly accurate

My people!

Some people will definitely do the all day every day thing but a lot of us just play it up for the internet really. I have a cuppa when I get up, and that's usually it. Although admittedly my "cup" is a big Green Bay Packers travel mug that keeps it warm for hours, so probably counts as at least two regular cups.

On days like today when I'm a bit under the weather I'll have a second one to get me through, and then me and the husband have developed a definitely unhealthy habit of late-night tea and Hobnobs although I go with a normal size cup for that one!

Older people especially seem to drink a lot out of sheer boredom. Also office workers, same reason.

Kettle is just for the water, most people use teabags. Loose leaf is "fancy". I believe english breakfast is the kind that I would just think of as "normal tea" but not 100% sure on that one, it's just tea! 😅

Milk is very common to the point of being default, sugar is more of an individual question. I often drink mine black with honey at home but just go with the default milk when out and about.

I hope this boringly factual tale of life in Tea Country was everything you hoped it would be.

DID YOU KNOW? Knitting isn't just about cosy socks and sweaters in winter, it's also a summer-appropriate activity with cotton yarns, lace patterns, cute home accessories and suchlike.

This has been your knitting community fact of the day.

This turns my tendency to Lemmy while wrapped in a cosy electric blanket into a deep metaphor.

Not that I'm aware of (would love to hear about it if I'm wrong though!). It could be a feature request for something like Fediverse Explorer, maybe?

I do appreciate where you're coming from, there. Some people will unfortunately take any opportunity to exclude others.