I’m talking to a masto user, who writes great threads on the Russian war situation, about posting their threads here too … what would be the best place and way of doing so? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by maegul@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My initial thought was for them to start their own posts in a news community and then provide their own thread of comments within that post. This way they wouldn’t have to do anything different from mastodon but both platforms would get to see their threads.

But then, it seems news communities like World News on Lemmy.world kind of have rules against posts to social media content. Maybe an exception could be made for this person because they are constantly citing primary sources.

Otherwise I’m not sure what else would be the best spot for such a thing.

Any suggestions?

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[-] Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

!Ukraine@sopuli.xyz is probably a good place to post, it seems where most of the news on the war aggregates here, but I am not a mod or the instance admin, so take it as hearsay for now.

As to how, I don't use Mastodon myself so I am unsure, but I think I heard/read people on here talking about tagging Mastodon posts in a way they appear in certain lemmy communities, even as comments to threads (that would make it possible to gather them in dedicated threads instead of filling the community with posts, too). Sadly, I can't provide how to do that, but maybe someone from Mastodon can help with the how-to there.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Do you know the difference between this community and !ukraine@lemmy.ml ?

Yea, I know about posting to lemmy from mastodon, it's very easy actually, which is why I'm motivated to get this person posting to here and get some cross-pollination happening. The only tricky bit seems to be finding a home for the sort of content. A general news community would be an ideal place if they were happy to accept sort of "home grown social media journalists" writing their own megathreads. You want to make sure that it's good content, but other than that, it'd be a good engaging source of content IMO.

Thanks for the suggestion!!

[-] Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Do you know the difference between this community and !ukraine@lemmy.ml ?

It seems to be the bigger, more active community.

I also heard some rumours about the one on lemmy.ml being "vatnik infiltrated", but I have no idea if there is anything to those claims.

[-] fades@beehaw.org -1 points 1 year ago

Why not just have a bot repost their content here. Many people do this for rss feeds like Reddit subs and such. Same with Twitter accounts being reposted on mastodon

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Well sure. Except we already have federation between instances and platforms. I think we should learn to use it!

Also this doesn’t solve my problem of where to post such content.

[-] alex@beehaw.org -1 points 1 year ago

They shouldn't. They should have a blog and share the link here and on Mastodon. Social media is not the right place for long-form content.

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