Asklemmy

43571 readers

2747 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

16 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Yea, sorry, hard disagree.

Social media, let alone the fediverse, isn’t one thing. Nor is it static or ever has been fixed.

Plenty of stuff around here is long form. And it can work great.

These threads aren’t opinion pieces. They’re news on new and breaking things. Quite appropriate for social media.

Both the “Chat” view and the ability to collapse threads make this platform good at handling long threads.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

WriteFreely would be a good federated solution to this.