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This magazine is for everything mbin, be it feedback, suggestions, questions, or anything else.

Our main discussion place is our matrix chat, though we do understand that not everyone wants to use matrix and following discussions over there can become confusing fast, so this magazine also tries to move some discussions over UI questions or other topics that can escalate quite quickly from matrix away.

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This is probably old news, but I didn't realize before now - if I link to !mbinmeta@gehirneimer.de, Lemmy users will see it as a link to lemmy.example/m/mbinmeta@gehirneimer.de.

Is this something that could potentially be resolved at some point? I get that it's a bit of a legacy problem from the questionable decision not to follow Lemmy URL structures.

I guess it could always be fixed on the Lemmy side, but is a fix on the Mbin side of things possible? Since community links from Lemmy work well on Mbin, can't Mbin links just be federated in the exact same way?

Edit: I observed this in this thread: https://kbin.earth/m/seattle@lemmy.world/t/1109670 https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/33165045

Apparently it federates well in this thread. Might be related to where the community is hosted?

It could also be that it happens when linking communities that the Lemmy instance hosting the community has not yet federated with.

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I've been trying a little bit off and on to use the microblogging feature to reach out to users over on Mastodon, and while things are generally working, there are some road bumps:

First, edits are not federated to Mastodon, so whatever you post first becomes final. Take this post: While my edits (such as a miswritten hashtag, FIVEfiftyone) have federated to lemmy.world, the post is still in its original broken form when seen on Mastodon.

Second, the cards attached to cards seem to go for the first attached link - including hashtags. It would be better if this feature ignored hashtags while generating the cards - in the discussed post, I would have preferred for the card to lead to 50501.chat.

Third, how linked communities are treated seems a bit random - sometimes they become links including the ! (as happened to !Brainstorming@50501.chat in my comment to the discussed message), while other times the name of the community is presented with the ! but without the server name or a link. I think this depends on whether the linked community has been federated with the Mbin instance of the orginial poster.

It's probably not a priority, but I figured I might as well write down my experiences. Keep up the great work! :)