You did not make this!

Lots of railway stations, an old church, and literally just a cliff. Yeah that sounds about right, level-of-excitement-round-here-wise!

Not entirely worth the effort but I appreciate the tutorial nontheless :D

Not sure I’d go quite that far myself, but I do take any opportunity to emphasise the “no links in titles” thing for my own sanity 😄

Some tips for this, as someone who does it all the time:

• Tag a Lemmy community like you would a Mastodon user to get this to work, for example @til@lemmy.world, BUT…
• The first line of your toot becomes the post title, so don’t put any links or tag the community in that first line. Newer versions of Lemmy can strip out links but it still ends up looking weird. Looks best if you do something like the example below.
• You can only post to one community, trying to tag multiple will post to the first one and ignore the rest
• The first image attached to your toot becomes the Lemmy post image, but subsequent images get left behind
• If your Mastodon instance has AUTHORIZED_FETCH turned on and the Lemmy community you’re trying to post to isn’t on 0.19 yet, it won’t work at all. In theory this should be fixed when more servers upgrade but we’ll see.

Example toot format

This is my title, with nothing weird in it.

Rest of the toot goes here and will become the post body. This format will look nice on both Mastodon and Lemmy therefore not making anyone unreasonably mad at you.

@community and #Hashtags

0.19 tidied things up a bit but .world hasn’t upgraded yet, that’s why.

Er. Stupid question. How do I actually tell it where I am so this will work? Or does it only work on mobile?

That’s actually pretty handy. Cheers!

Honestly so much stuff I don’t even know where to start. The world is amazing!

Blankets, bubblebaths, colouring in, making a mess, making stuff out of mess, chocolate, jigsaws, road trips, snowy days, macaroni cheese, exploring new places, playing games, giving and receiving hugs, dancing just because, wearing big whooshy skirts and making them go whoosh, cuddling dogs, cake, rollercoasters, ok you probably get the idea.

Also I got to go on a reeeeally big boat this year, that was awesome.

From just reading the title I expected this to be a joke. But, TIL!

Making stuff! Fibre crafts, gamedev, general tinkering. Occasional drawing despite being lifelong terrible at it. Making stuff for no real reason other than enjoyment of it is what life’s all about!

Honestly I’m very glad to see this thread. Saw the original comment this morning and was thoroughly bemused, it’s probably been weighing on my subconscious all day.

Studies suggest that autistic folks would be much more likely to stick to their morals. So there’s that.

Not sure you meant this to be a direct reply to my comment but fwiw I completely agree with you.

Some people are ok watching with ads because it supports creators. Some people aren’t, but choose to donate to individual creators instead. And others are either unable or unwilling to do either but the moral support of their views and comments is lovely regardless.

Weirdly, the viewcount is completely different in the three highlighted areas, I don’t really know what that means, but perhaps someone else can explain it?

I know it’s not really important but just in case anyone’s curious. The bottom right is showing the video’s all-time views (43). The top left is showing the video’s views over the last 48 hours (34). And the main graph in the middle of the screen is usually on a delay, so is probably not counting today’s views yet hence the (19).

Oh yeah I don’t care. My videos go up on PeerTube as well, don’t make any money there, just enjoy sharing my crafts with people really! I won’t deny the bit of extra cash is nice and it definitely helps afford stuff for new videos, which I struggled with sometimes before getting monetised. But that doesn’t take much, anything else is just a bonus.

You’d probably get a different answer from someone who’s into it like a proper business and trying to grow grow grow.

So excited for this to roll out, I’m sure it’ll need further tweaks as we go but it’s encouraging to hear positive reports from the start!

There is definitely the concept of monetised (ie ad-viewing) vs unmonetised views, here’s a random day example from mine:

Unfortunately I can’t see a way to filter to just unmonetised views, to take a look at the traffic sources. I did have a quick look through the traffic sources in general though and can’t see any of the popular frontends listed in external, other YT, or anywhere else. So if those views are counted (which it seems like they are from the experiment in top comment) I expect they probably end up in one of the “unknown” buckets. Whether that means it really is unknown or just that YT don’t want to be drawing attention to these services by name, who knows.

Oh are you kidding there’s SO MUCH Warhammer on Mastodon. Check out the local feed of warhammer.social. There’s also wargamers.social but obviously a bit broader in focus.

Even if you just follow #Warhammer there’s a decent amount but then you can add in other tags like #Warhammer40k, #GamesWorkshop, #AgeOfSigmar, #Necromunda, #BloodBowl, #WarHamFam, #WarhammerCommunity, #Wargaming, #MiniaturePainting and damn we have got ourselves a feed going!

I’m sure I read a post on one of the communities here recently that was showing off their entry to a Mastodon-based painting competition as well.

As far as things like gaming go obviously that’s a pretty wide topic and it’s gonna depend what you’re looking for. #VideoGames or #Gaming for example gets you a lot of news headlines. Specific game tags e.g #Starfield will get you a mixture of news, streamers, screenshots, memes and of course people aggressively complaining. Or maybe you’re interested in seeing what sorts of games small indie creators are making in which case something like #DevLog might be of interest.

I know your original post is asking for “notable content creators” which it seems like you’re using to mean “big accounts”. But really if it’s interesting content on a topic you enjoy, the size of the account posting it doesn’t matter.

And naturally since you said you’re open to other “quality content” I do also recommend #Knitting because we’re surprisingly active and also cool af.

What topics are you looking for? These threads never specify what topics you’re looking for! 😄

Seems like the specific issue is this:

• If the community is on your local instance, it doesn’t show the instance in the dropdown. If it’s a remote instance, it does.

• However instead of using the actual unique URL of the community, it uses the display name. So in this case lemmy.ml/c/ireland and lemmy.ml/c/ireland_on_lemmy both have their display name set to just “Ireland”.

I think differentiating between local and remote communities is actually pretty useful but obviously the second thing is a problem when you’ve got competing communities on one server. Which I guess is a thing that people are doing.

Maybe instead of:

• Ireland
• Ireland

it should be showing

• Ireland (/c/ireland)
• Ireland (/c/ireland_on_lemmy)

which not only fixes this problem but also means you can see how to get to a community to go check it out before posting there (this comes up sometimes in the process of crossposting) and it’ll stop, say, a mod giving their community an unrelated name to confuse people into posting something inappropriate or whatever.

There should probably also be a character limit on the display name because that UK one is obnoxiously taking up all of the horizontal space and leaving no room for its actual identifier.