They’re confused because they still believe the dominant divide in US politics is liberalism v conservatism. It’s not, and it hasn’t been for some time. Increasingly, even if they lack the exact language to explain it, voters do not identify foremost as Democrats or Republicans, progressives or traditionalists, or even left or right. They identify as pro-system or anti-system.
It's doesn't seem like feddit.online is aware of the other community (forumlibre@jlai.lu), so it doesn't have a copy of both posts, so it doesn't know that they are cross-posts.
If you bring that community into feddit.online, then create a post with the same URL as a recent post (e.g. https://files.catbox.moe/pebvir.jpeg), then they'll show up.
The post you mentioned ('melting is tough') isn't picked up as a cross-post on PieFed instances because the dates are too far apart. A restriction that Rimu wanted was that they should only be detected if they were within 7 days of one another.
A cross-post is just a post that links to the same URL as another post. The codeberg Issue that Blaze linked to mentions an exception, but other than that, there's not a convenient button that copy-pastes a post's title, body, and URL into a new 'Create Post' form. You can do it manually though, and everything that receives it will detect it as a cross-post, because everything is just looking for matching URLs.
But, yeah - shell browsers like the ones you mentioned don't support JavaScript, so won't work with Lemmy (as it currently is - it might be different when they start using the leptos-based UI). There's places where they're not great with PieFed either (e.g. link2 -g can't deal with WEBP images), but it's completely theme-able, so a theme could easily be added by someone suitably invested to overwrite the existing HTML and provide a better experience.
If an admin bans a local user, they're banned once, but if they ban a remote user, the way Lemmy currently handles it is to ban them from every community they've subscribed to. There's an Issue about it because it's a hacky and incomplete solution. As such, the 'banned 20 times' thing isn't something that people should read too much into.
That link shows loads of apps I've never heard of, but visiting their repos suggests that they're dead.
Since that site helpfully breaks down platforms by programming language, it might be best to target something familiar (or maybe something you want to learn).
This community is hosted by Lemmy (Rust), and most of the posts and replies will be made by people using that, but they'll also be some by people using PieFed (python) or MBIN (PHP).
Ah, I see now, thanks. That makes more sense than my previous theory, that MBIN users were pathological liars or something. Also, now my previous comment makes me look like an idiot. Oh, well.
It's interesting what MBIN does - making the user click a button gives it an extra chance to query the remote site, so it can render it correctly. That's not the same as taking the markdown and rendering it as HTML, but the end result is nice.
Elsewhere (like on PieFed), Youtube embedding works well because the URL is in a nice dedicated field, so it's easy to process, rather than parse through the text of a comment to find it. No idea what's happening with Tesseract, but it's just a front-end for Lemmy (albeit a sophisticated one), so my guess is that your link would fail, but since the comments aren't there, it's a bit moot.
I'd be surprised if that test worked on any platform in existence. You're using the markdown to render a static image, and sticking a youtube URL in there. PieFed supports it if the URL ends in something like .mp4, but that's only because Lemmy have fudged it, and so now people expect it. There's meant to be a 1:1 relationship between markdown and HTML, metadata transformed into metadata - nothing should have to look at the actual contents to know what tags to produce.
As for 'works for me embedded in mbin' ... eh? It looks like this in mbin:
That's literally just a external link to youtube. It 'works' because it doesn't - same as for the screenshot itself - instead of embedding it, it just coughs up the link to a remote site. Everything else is rendering it as it is - a broken link to an image that doesn't exist.
(maybe 'originallucifer' has some fancy app that takes a youtube shorts URL, works out the embed code, and then puts it in an iframe ... but like I say, I'd be surprised).
I think you're remembering wrong. The communities that have moved so far have been a manual affair: a post on the old community with a "We've moved" post, locking that community, and starting up brand new somewhere else. It's a fresh start - nothing is migrated. It's very likely to be technically impossible to move communities in the way you're imagining.
Ah, right - I see now thanks (it didn't occur to me to click 'show nsfw').
As for the 'oejwfiojwwqpofioqwfiowqiofkwqeifjwefwef' - I remember them as being spam. It was maybe a year or so ago now, but a LW user tried creating communities with every name imaginable as way to squat on them. They got to about 2000 before they were stopped, and in retaliation they created about 4000 of the 'wefwef' ones (I guess that the deletion of them from LW didn't make it somewhere, and so something out there still thinks they exist).
For movies and shows to a VPS, I'd install a command-line IRC client (like weechat) and get stuff using XDCC.
I used to have a bot that uploaded stuff to Google drive and mega for plebs on Reddit to download, and that what the bot used to get the content in the first place.
Yeah - if you click on the instances there, it shows one figure for communities, but only lists a small subset of that. lemmy.ml for example says 104, but only lists 14:
Luigi Mangione is the median American voter