interop with other fediverse platforms
If I understand correctly, users of other fediverse things like Mastodon can follow lemmy communities (and users?) but the reverse is not currently possible. Would it not make sense for lemmy users to be able to subscribe to a hashtag or user on a mastodon instance?
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in reply to Arthur Besse • • •There is already some "interop with other fediverse platforms" possible, such as Friendica conversations and post rating and what appears to be an early work-in-progress channel viewing/subscription for PeerTube.
I think this idea makes sense for a link aggregator site such as Lemmy and I wouldn't be surprised if it were already a future goal for the project.
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in reply to Arthur Besse • •Now, aside from following, it may be interesting to be able to treat a top-level toot like a post and participate in the thread (basically the way we see toot threads in Friendica).
This would also be interesting in principle with platforms like Peertube were top-level posts are artistic creations. Lemmy users would contribute to the actual comment section instead of having their discussions in their corners.
And now this raises the question of how to treat crossposts. More specifically, how would Peertube treat a crosspost in a Lemmy community. It may be interesting to have a drop-down option to "display comments from the ... community" at the end of the regular comments. Let me mention a third kind of object : the groups that Mastodon is soon going to include. Similarly, Friendica has forums. Given the proximity in spirit with Lemmy communities, the interest of Lemmy users becoming able to follow them is quite obvious.
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in reply to nutomic • •Note that Friendica allows to follow hashtags, so I'm wondering whether a similar thing can be done in Lemmy. This is true, and makes a hashtag more of a "de facto community", different from the existing communities that are AP groups.
Maybe, rather than (or in addition to) their separate thing, it would make sense to have hashtags as a way to provide content to a given communities. Meaning that a community could subscribe to hashtags and automatically reshare the known posts carrying them.
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in reply to nutomic • •So in Lemmy terms it seems that it is like searching the "All" timeline for the hashtag and including the resulting posts in the "subscribed" one. But of course the feature asked about by OP would involve that operation on a bigger "All" timeline that also includes toots.