Thanks for the reply. The only problem with Drop Site for me is that they are under Substack, and lemmy.world community admins will remove posts because they consider Substack a “blog” site, not a news site. (same for Zeteo).

I’m still struggling with who to vote for in November. I despise Harris but I truly think that Trump will go much farther than any previous President to trash democratic rights and electoral integrity (as much or little as that is).

There are other differences that are important, such as the NLRB - Biden put in basically pro-union admins and staff, and that has had a big effect on some of the recent union organizing victories. Climate change is another big difference, although the Dems are now boasting about how pro-fracking they are.

I know the Democrats and Republicans are both capitalist parties, and I want to see a workers/labor/socialist party to build and vote for. The Greens have a lot of good positions, but I don’t know if they are the ones that could initiate a mass left/labor party.

I want the space and rights to fight another day, and Harris would be more advantageous for that. If it wasn’t for that, it would be a slam dunk for the Greens.

The genocide in Gaza is clearly the overriding moral issue of our time, and that is another reason why I would like to help punish the Democrats for their disgusting and shameful hypocrisy. (But I also have concerns that I raised above.)

I find the discussion in the Fediverse on this topic to be usually too hostile and one-dimensional. Pro-Harris: “you fucking morons, do you really want Trump?” Anti-Harris: “you gutless swine, you’re supporting genocide.” Between the 2 sides, I have much more sympathy for the anti-Harris position, but it needs to go beyond moral outrage into some strategy to make fundamental change.

I link to articles from both. I don’t know the background to what is happening at the intercept, but it still is publishing a lot of good articles. Seems like drop site and zeteo got some good people from the intercept.

The problem with Zeteo is their paywall. I just posted an article from them, and got many complaints.

Thanks for the heads-up, I hadn’t seen that. Glad to see it was re-categorized as an enhancement. Hopefully, someone will work on it at some point.

Right, I’m hoping that the change might be easy. If it requires major work, then no, it would be very unlikely. Thanks for responding.

Hi, has there been any progress on this? Thanks.

An admin just wrote me about this, and said to create an “issue” about it. Where do I go to do that? Thanks.

Yeah, I see your point. This post is fine for most communities, but not quite suitable for this one.

You were correct about flair - doesn’t help with Masto-to-lemmy. Thanks. (last night I posted this in the wrong place. It’s where I want it now.) :-)

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I replied to maegul with some observations elsewhere in this thread. But if you want to see my first good Masto-to-Lemmy post, you can look here: https://lemmy.ml/post/19510351

Thanks a lot for your help. You are right about placement of community - I have mine way down in the post, but it is before other non-Lemmy groups.

One silly error I made when I started testing was that I tried to send the message non-public, so I wouldn’t send garbage to Mastodon followers. That didn’t work for getting it to Lemmy - I had to have my test post be public before I started seeing them in test lemmy.ml.

Also, I found that putting “[News]” in front of the title in Mastodon post doesn’t carry over well to Lemmy, so I don’t do that now.

Here is my simple prototype:

Title of news article

text, text

URL of article

hashtags (too many)

@palestine AT lemmy.ml (but entered correctly there)

2 more @ mentions to gup.pe groups

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Thanks again for your posts!