Big read, but gives a good perspective.
I think theres three big stories of this coming election.
- The rebalancing of metro v regional votes.
- Liberals progress clawing back traditional Liberal seats could indicate how satisfied West Australians are with WA Labor.
- Independent Challengers in western suburbs could indicate dissatisfaction with both majors for different and complicated reasons.
It’s a post on the Lemmy Perth community that links to an ABC article about Perth. I don’t know what you expect OP to do differently. There’s no requirement to create an account to view it on Lemmy, so in the worst case it’s just two clicks to access the linked article, or one click to access OP’s commentary on said article.
FWIW you’re on Mastodon, which is infamous for a poor non-standards-compliant implementation of ActivityPub. So it’s more than a little ironic for you to come from that platform and be so incredibly rude to OP over something that is entirely out of their hands.
@Zagorath
My biggest complaint is that the link you send to Mastodon is NOT a link to the story being referenced it is a link to aussie.zone which is just stupid in the extreme.
That’s a Mastodon problem. You’ll be far more productive if you open an Issue with the Mastodon developers to improve how they handle posts in Lemmy communities than you will whinging here to us.
@Zagorath
People who just publish a link are annoying. People who publish a link that you can’t follow are a pain.
And yeah whatever … I just want people to stop duping non-posts into my timeline … pretty arrogant if you ask me.
Consider our perspective: we’re on https://aussie.zone/ (a Lemmy site) making normal posts to https://aussie.zone/c/perth .
aus.social has decided to federate this community and interpret this post as a Mastodon post that you’re seeing. We didn’t choose for that to happen, most of us didn’t even know that was happening, and for us, it’s not nice to see someone coming over and blaming us for what Mastodon has done and threatening to mute or block us.
Your concern is real and valid, but we’re not the ones causing it and we can’t fix it. It’s a Mastodon problem.
First, just posting a link is completely normal behaviour on Lemmy. OP is a Lemmy user posting on Lemmy according to Lemmy norms. Anybody on other platforms who doesn’t like that…🤷♂️
But second, they didn’t “just publish a link”. They published a link along with nearly 400 characters worth of personal opinion. It’s not their fault Mastodon fails to display this properly, and yes, it’s extremely arrogant to expect OP to take any action to remedy it. Nor would I put the blame on a Mastodon user if they shared an image in the comments under a Lemmy post, or shared two or more images in a post they submitted to a Lemmy community, both things that will not display on Lemmy. Instead, I would just go and temporarily view things from their instance using the rainbow pentagon fediverse logo or the “open original page” menu item, and then get on with my day.
I have no idea why you keep saying you can’t follow it. I visited your Mastodon instance in an incognito window, clicked the link, and had no trouble getting to the original ABC article. No log-in required at any stage. If you’re having trouble following it, that sounds like a problem specific to you.
If you don’t like this, then block OP. Block all Lemmy users you come across. Or open an Issue on the Mastodon GitHub (or better yet, fix it yourself and create a Pull Request) to improve the handling of this edge case. But coming here whinging about something nobody here can do anything about is completely un-constructive. Coming here saying you’re going to block OP if they don’t stop (despite them doing…precisely nothing wrong) is like when people whinge in the YouTube comments and say “that’s it…I’m unsubscribing”. Nobody cares bro. Just do it, or don’t. Either way, it doesn’t need to be announced.