referencing users on Lemmy is not at all the same as reddit, since there are multiple instances.

there's no automagic function for tagging (at least not on the web there isn't - that's probably why you couldn't find one), you just have to do it by hand.

ie. [@foreverwinter@lemmy.world](http://lemmy.world/u/foreverwinter) becomes: @foreverwinter@lemmy.world

Who's really "being a shit" here? I see nobody else being hostile but you. Accusing people of that which you are doing yourself is called "projection".

Nobody else is pedantically picking apart silly things like wording and terminology and then lashing out at others. Just you. We all knew what he meant. Were you ever told as a kid to "pick your battles"? Do you know what that means? Not everything deserves a response.

What's the matter, did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning and decide to take it out on the world? Significant other break up with you or cheat on you? Got fired? Did your pet die? Why are you so angry at the world? What did it ever do to you? None of those things (whichever is applicable) is our problem.

Please, let's leave those kinds of toxic, hostile behaviors on the dead bird site and reddit where they belong. We're trying to build something new here.

Otherwise, "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" and people are just going to report you for repeated incivility and offensive language.

EDIT: And your reply has been reported too. Since all you know is how to behave like a child, maybe we should all treat you like one.

Just a suggestion, you might want to insert the word "allegedly" somewhere in there because Meta is refuting that assertion.

"To be clear: ‘No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing" - Andy Stone, Meta's communications director

edit: yes I know that doesn't preclude the possibility of Meta hiring former Twitter employees and not making them part of the Threads team.

The general consensus is that this was going to be a monetary offer to allow Instagram to further colonize the Fediverse by purchasing one of the larger servers.

No, that's completely wrong. You're scaremongering. There was no such offer.

There is no confirmation of any financial contracts, or moderation arrangements and Eugen Rochko/Gargron has stated he doesn't know anything about any secret deals.[1]

From @supernovae@universeodon.com:

The nda wasn’t because of some absurd agreement but just the fact they’re launching a new project and we’re getting access to engineers and product team to discuss what the relationship could be. And they went well.[2]

There was a call to talk about engineering, moderation, safety, support for user privacy controls and how federation would look like. (and more)

There was no deal signing or any bullshit like that - that’s all fake news.

The nda is because none of this stuff is released and it’s up to meta to share details or admins to join the ongoing calls to learn in advance of launch what is going on.[3]

We don’t know, what we don’t know. So i initiated contact and meta obliged. Because the product isn’t released yet, there is an NDA.[4]

https://nerdist.com/...

The Klingon boy band made the final cut, thankfully. However, they shot two versions of the Klingons, led by Bruce Horak as the Klingon captain. The second was opera. Ultimately, the opera take felt too close to the other singing. Luckily, the Klingon boy band won.

"loginwalled" then. We know what he means.

He disregarded the protests as "noise". Of course he doesn't give a damn.

Let them die then. There's a point (that she's completely missing) about decentralization and not being beholden to billionaires to make the right decisions (they won't).

Yes, I would call it a bug. If it's the first time your instance 'sees' that community, only new posts will be federated.

It does not know about older posts, not even older pinned posts that may be important.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2640 - fix appears to be in progress

Just after he said "oh noes if you vote for her, taxes would go up 25 to 30 per cent and businesses would flee the city."

Quite the about-face. His handlers must've told him to change his tune.

Short answer: No.

tl;dr answer: There's no tagging function in place unless you manually tag them using markdown, and that still wouldn't notify them. That would be a bandaid solution at best.

To bypass the paywall and read the article: https://archive.ph/qfn4r

So use Mastodon. Problem solved. Twitter is toxic. You can't fix Twitter without fixing the whole culture.

Getting rid of Elon (in some hypothetical universe where you could do that) & restoring the site's design back to what it used to be isn't going to change the toxic culture. Twitter only selectively enforces their own rules and it's been that way since Jack Dorsey was in charge.

(Here's an example: I can think of a few tweets where people are ganging up on someone and those are still there to this day. Their rules are very clearly 'no harassment and no dogpiling' and they've always been that way. Do you think they give a damn to enforce their own rules? Only when Elon's right-wing buddies are being attacked, then they bother.)

Restoring the site's design back to what it used to be isn't going to magically fix the toxic culture (people sniping, dogpiling, attacking others etc). Better if we just set the whole thing on fire and start from scratch, build something new - oh wait, we have that. It's called Mastodon. The learning curve isn't that bad. But that would be learning something new. That would be actively doing something other than complaining.

Why would you want to back to a place where a billionaire or a corporation collects all your personal data? If you like that sort of thing, go to Threads, Bluesky, Post, etc. Nobody's stopping you.

It shows you communities from within your own instance.

Local doesn't mean "geographically local", it means "within your own instance" local.

Huffman’s response to almost every question asked by Jay Peters reeks of spite. Every response has a passive (or not) aggressive undertone. The responses are laced with defensiveness. It’s the behavior of a petulant child. Huffman is trying to imply that third-party apps took advantage of Reddit to build successful businesses on the back of its API, but that’s simply not true. https://9to5mac.com/...

Throughout the interview, Huffman repeatedly says that Reddit is “willing to work with the apps that are willing to work with us.” But that offer only seems to apply if you agree to the imminent deadline, agree to the as-proposed API pricing, and agree to not ask for any changes or further clarification.

Okay then. I guess by your logic, these are the actions of a person who cares about his users. By making the API access so economically unfeasible, it prices out the majority of developers (not saying it should be free, either but let's be reasonable).

If you're so convinced he wants to do good by the users (he doesn't) and nothing can change your mind, why are you here? Nothing we say is going to convince you and nothing you say is going to convince us. Not by any means trying to silence you, you have a right to your opinion but really, why are you here? I can produce article after article, quote after quote and none of it is going to change your position. What are you hoping to achieve?

This is all ridiculous semantic arguments. Yes, you did say there was a deal. Now you're trying to walk it back.

The general consensus is that this was going to be a monetary offer to allow Instagram to further colonize the Fediverse by purchasing one of the larger servers.

Firstly, the last time I checked, "a monetary offer" is what person might otherwise call a deal. If you propose to give me money for something, that is a deal. And as I stated multiple times with proof, no such deal was made. You really don't like being wrong, do you?

Instagram and Facebook are owned by Meta. Meta is the controlling entity (Meta owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, among other things). Whatever you choose to call it, Instagram or Meta, it is the same company. Potato, po-tah-to. They are in essence the same thing. But let's be factual: It was Meta, not Instagram who approached those admins and again your information is wrong. this article specifically says Meta, so this does this, and this, and this too

What you "heard" was rumours and fear-mongering. You have not offered one single solitary shred of proof. I have offered several to the contrary.

There are no gymnastics necessary since he's not "our" Kirk. He's an alternate timeline Kirk. The only time we see the "real" Kirk (Lt. Kirk) is at the end of this episode where La'an space-Facetimes him.

In other words, they're literally going to grease the wheels.

Correction: Uhura*

That's a lot of words just to say "we know nothing".

geddit isn't a client, it's an instance/server of Lemmy (which has its own API). To say Lemmy doesn't have an API is false. It very much does. (In order for there to be apps for Lemmy, it would logically follow that there's an API for them to use.)

I am not a fan of a reddit relay (at least, not on here). We should be building a new community here rather than amplifying posts from the other place. Of course, you are free to set up your own instance that does this but I won't be supporting that here.

I'd like to know how you'd propose to set up something like that, considering reddit API access is unreasonably expensive (which prompted the exodus away from reddit in the first place). Because you need a way to talk to reddit too. That's what APIs do ("application programming interface" - it's in the name). In my understanding, you can't just code something like that without a) accessing reddit's API to read posts and b) accessing lemmy's API to write them. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, though. They're not going to let you scrape their data for free.

But if you have a secret gold mine stashed away somewhere that you can afford this, why not contribute to the continuing development of lemmy or this instance instead of spending it on reddit's API access? You know, it's just a thought.