thegiddystitcher

More for other mods to be aware that it's not going to work quite as smoothly as they might hope. But yeah adding that to the bot replies makes a lot of sense, good thinking!

I'm wondering, is it all or nothing in terms of which posts get tagged? For example I mod !knitting@lemmy.world and most of our posts are someone showing off a project, which is easy to comment on from Mastodon (I've been boosting and replying to stuff manually to draw attention there as you described in your OP). But then we also have things like Work-In-Progress Wednesday, where multiple people are posting images of their WIPs to one thread. This doesn't work so well with Mastodon because images don't federate (in either direction) with the exception of the first image attached to the main post, so there's no point sharing it there.

Not to give you more work but maybe it's an idea to have an opt-out keyword that can be included in a post, and the bot will know to ignore that one?

Again, really is great work, you're always contributing useful stuff to the Fediverse and I for one really appreciate it so please take these rambling thoughts in the constructive manner they're intended, they are definitely not complaints 😄

The best thing about PeerTube is that tags on a video are automatically converted into Mastodon-appropriate tags (spaces removed, basically) that show up in search there, it's a really cool feature that definitely helps a lot with discoverability. So this definitely has potential.

Unfortunately on the Mastodon side, you're still seeing a link to the Lemmy post rather than being able to read it in your feed, which confuses a lot of people in my experience as they don't realise they can reply in Mastodon since it looks like a whole separate thing.

So yeah, great work and I think it probably will help some communities, but nobody get your hopes up too much as the way things federate in that direction is just inherently bad at the moment.

p.s. followed the bot on sunny.garden and mastodon.gamedev.place to get things moving 👍

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.

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

Glad to hear other folks having positive experiences here too! Idk about you but every single time I've corrected someone for referring to me as "he" on Lemmy, they've actually apologised. Quite the change from Reddit!

Being welcoming to people in general goes without saying. But we're specifically in a thread about encouraging more women to join and making them feel safe to do so.

Woohoo! Get them over here, December is going to be SOCK MONTH it's very exciting haha 😄

I'm a woman, and make no attempt to hide that fact in my posts. That said, I also don't personally have much interest in talking about being a woman, so don't sub to any of those places you linked.

Over on Reddit I just sort of let people assume I was male a lot of the time, since it wasn't really relevant to what we were talking about. But from the start on Lemmy I've made sure to call out incorrect assumptions, downvote and give a talking to people stereotyping or being misogynistic, etc etc. And the more of us (of all genders) that make that same decision, the better things get.

I also mod !knitting@lemmy.world which as you might expect is largely although by no means entirely women. Any questionable comments over there are dealt with swiftly, I am absolutely not having it.

I don't necessarily see it as a "problem" that Lemmy is seemingly male-dominated (I say Lemmy because my Mastodon is very much female-and-NB-dominated). It's more just a fact of early adopters tending to the techy interests that skew male. But if someone does see it as a problem and wants it to change, there are basically two things to do:

1. Make sure you're helping make Lemmy a welcoming place for non-males
2. Invite your non-male friends

All that said, other women may disagree but I don't particularly feel like a minority on here and never really think about it until coming across something gross (which is a LOT less often than on Reddit, thankfully). There may be few enough women that I recognise their names often when they post, but let's be honest Lemmy is a small world and that goes for most regular posters in general.

(And it helps that I'm middle-aged so if any little boy thinks they can upset me with comments about my gender or appearance or whatever, lol, the self-confidence of age is a wonderful thing 😉)

Edit: Just wanted to add, if you're not a man and you're reading this thinking "wow she's lucky, I've had such a bad experience here" then first, I'm sorry you've had that experience, people suck sometimes. But also, drop me a DM let's see if we've got any interests in common and I can maybe signpost you to some more friendly communities and people. Between my two accounts I spend WAY too much time on Lemmy!

Kids these days, amirite...