For a long time, users have been able to submit microblog-style posts to link-aggregator subs (a.k.a. subcommunity, community, magazine, etc.). Some platforms such as mbin require you to select one for your post. Previously, I've thought this sub selection as a special hashtag for the post. However, I've recently been reminded that posts actually show up in communities as full-on threads. So what do you (or the threadi gods) consider to be proper etiquette in selecting a proper sub to make your microblog post to? There's always !random, but that feels kinda worthless...

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[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 1 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

I wasn't aware of this - good to know.

What's great about using it (while it lasts) is that it boosts content to a lot of instances across the fediverse, so you don't need to be incredibly well connected in order to have reach. Otherwise, if you post microblog posts from Mbin, you risk yelling into a very tiny void.

It'll be interesting to see how native group support in Mastodon is going to play out.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Something I learned recently which should've been obvious but I guess I just never noticed it was that it seems that Guppe groups aren't moderated, like at all. This is concerning and problematic because it basically means they could become spam and hate vectors with only the admins of individual servers able to moderate the content. Compare that to the fact that Lemmy and mbin indeed can moderate communties, remove posts, and most importantly ban users from participating and stop the group from boosting them. That's as good a reason as any why one might want to use Lemmy or mbin to host groups on Mastodon instead of guppe.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

All of Mastodon's moderation has always been done and federated by individual instances.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

The problem with Guppe is that it automatically federates all the post content unlike with hashtags which are just a marker. If someone spams in a hashtag n one server it's going to suck but unless people follow them it'll be limited to that server for the most part. With Guppe groups if they spam to them it gets boosted to all servers. It's not just a tag that gets cluttered, it forces the content into all the other instances by way of boosting.

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