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[–] Yamainwitch@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is so wholesome, the world needs to support teachers like this!

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just echoing a class I had in high school.

My social studies teacher ran the whole year as "micro community." There were three different classes per year, and each class was a community. Each student had a role within the community, and performed actual job duties necessary to keep things functioning. For example, I was a banker and had to cash checks. After tests, we got checks based on test scores, so you got (fake) money to spend on stuff. We had to pay a utility bill or he would turn off the lights and not use the projector for notes. The kid running the power company would collect that money.

The best part was the stock market. Each community was also a company whose share value depended on overall test scores. So you could invest in whichever class you thought would score the highest.

[–] Yamainwitch@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Wow! That is so creative and thoughtful. I wish everyone has a teacher like that who truly loves the profession and respects the impact they have on their students' lives.

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I was wondering what was going on with that post. I’m glad it resonated with people across the fediverse. Cool!

Now I’ve got to figure out how to log into Mastadon with my Lemmy account. I didn’t even realize this was a thing.

[–] anafabula@social.anafabula.de 30 points 11 months ago

@maxprime@lemmy.ml You can't log into other Fediverse services using your Lemmy account. It's a Lemmy account for your specific Lemmy instance and doesn't work anywhere else.

What you can do is talk to people on other Fediverse services with your Lemmy account on your instance in the same way you are communicating with people from other Lemmy instances.

For example, the op you are replying to is using Friendica, you are using Lemmy and I am using Firefish right now.

[–] janAkali@lemmy.one 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Iirc, you can't log into Mastadon with a lemmy account, but there should be a way to follow a mastodon account from a lemmy instance. Never tried it, though.

Edit: Apparently, it's not possible either. Mastodon users can follow lemmy communities, but not the other way around. 😔

[–] ajsadauskas@aus.social 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

@janAkali @maxprime You certainly can follow Lemmy groups from Mastodon. And you can reply to Lemmy threads from Masto.

In fact, take a look at my account — I'm doing it right now...

[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's the most intricate way I've ever heard of someone trying to find a meme they once saved and can't find it

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[–] Masimatutu@mander.xyz 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)
[–] kenoh@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The tragedy here is that you had to make a screenshot to then upload to Mastodon, only later to come here and have to point out where the original post is. It would be great if you could have made the post on Mastodon simply by linking to the original post and then the format would have looked just as good as the screenshot, and then both sides of the Fediverse could converse. Or, the opposite could happen.

I've talked about this kind of thing before https://lemm.ee/post/4955936 and some are confident this is how things will eventually end up, so I hope they're right.

[–] masimatutu@nerdica.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Friendica does this already! This is how I see your comment:

[–] Masimatutu@mander.xyz 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well that didn't quite work, did it? Here's the screenshot:

friendica

[–] Masimatutu@universeodon.com 6 points 11 months ago

Ah, I see. Lemmy handles comment images differently from the rest of the Fediverse, even including kbin. Annoying.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I wish Lemmy would make instance agnostic post and comment links. With the current system it's impossible, as every instance assigns its own number. Instead, links could be in the form https://your instance/comment/number@hostinstance

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The GitHub issue is here, you could put a thumbs up reaction on it, and also subscribe to the issue to get updates about it

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Done. I hadn't seen that issue before, not that I really dig into github all that much.

However the issue is somewhat outdated. We do have instance agnostic links for communities and users now, and we have since I joined, which was less than 2 weeks after this issue was posted. We may need a new updated issue that focuses on posts and comments specifically.

[–] Masimatutu@mander.xyz 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

While I completely agree, a partial solution is to use clients that open fediverse links locally. I use Eternity which does it nicely.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That works for a Lemmy user, but it doesn't help for sharing on other platforms or for users discovering content elsewhere

[–] Masimatutu@mander.xyz 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. I really hope someone writes a Firefox extension or something which automatically redirects all Fediverse links to one's preferred instances. Enforcing a standard across a giant decentralised network is difficult.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

There are a few extensions, but I don't think there's one extension to rule them all yet:

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[–] Masimatutu@mander.xyz 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Update: I'm on Universeodon, which has comparatively modest numbers compared to mastodon.social. Mastodon.social has registered 249 boosts as of now! Favourites are difficult to measure but based on upvotes registered on lemmy.ml minus the ones registered by mander.xyz it'll be around 400. Way to go, Fediverse!

[–] steven@infosec.pub 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is this how stats will be reported on the Fediverse?

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Somehow I hope not, and so, at the same time...

[–] sexeducation@fanaticus.social 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] scubbo@lemmy.ml 22 points 11 months ago

Mastodon is to Twitter as Lemmy is to Reddit.

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Federated alternative to shXtter

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 5 points 11 months ago

The formerly successful site known as Twitter.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

or (ex)twitter

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