Lemmy

If you want to follow Mastodon hashtags, you should just use Mastodon. It has the UX to support this, and all you'd end up by shoving this into lemmy is a lot of noise in a UI that's designed for replies to a single thread and not just hundreds and hundreds of threads.

The value of communities in Lemmy comes from the members of the community participating in them. The members choose material to present to their community with intent, with the desire to contribute to their community. The community then adds value by interacting with the presented material (even a negative response from the community adds value to the community by refining the community identity and interest).

Automatically pulling in material from non-community members destroys the value of the community. It pollutes the community space with material that no community member chose prior to its presentation.

Hashtags feel like a mastodon thing that don't belong here.

I use iceshrimp. I think lemmy is missing a lot from hashtag.

As i see :

Lemmy is not part of the fediverse but a lemmyverse. It lacks connection with other software and other software lacks connection to lemmy. I think we need to build a bridge between microblog and forum.

In the french fediverse community, our main base of users come from mastodon. And i would like to reach them.

I saw, in activitypub the ability to share and post whatever is your software. A complete freedom where you just need one account.

There is differents purpose, but i do think offering people both is good : microblog and forum. And i think the fediverse will slowly move toward that. With a UI for individual and other for community.

And hashtags do both :

• It allows post to be discoverable by other apps in the fediverse.
• It allows people to search and find any post of comment on a related topic.

So, i think piefed will grow a lot.

I feel like it would be more interesting to be able to properly "crosspost" a toot into Lemmy. When I'm on the twittoverse with my Sharkey account, I often encounter content that I want to share in Lemmy community. The only way to it for know is to create a new toot and have in it the link to the toot to share. That's not great.
Also, I often forgot to add the mention of the community when I wrote OC from Sharkey I cannot edit my toot to add the mention and see it post to Lemmy. I have to delete it and rewrite it from the start.

Not a fan.

If you want to follow:

• topics - use something like Twitter
• groups - use something like Reddit
• individuals - use something like Facebook

If you think a post is relevant from one of those in another, link it.

What is preventing people from spamming popular hashtags to flood communities?

Currently, if they want to do so, they have to manually crosspost to each community, tags seems an easier way to flood

Hashtags remind me of pound like on a telephone. So if someone say hashtag taylor swift I auto think pound taylor swift. And besides twitter or x or whatever has no place on here.

Out of band classifiers makes sense.

Also Lemmyverse wide agglomeration of communities should be the default view, the current balkanized Lemmyverse communities cause "big community syndrome" where the community unit becomes centralized again, negating most of Lemmy's benefits relative to reddit.

So, Mastodon is working on a communities feature. I think having Mastodon and Lemmy communities have interop (along with great interop between the "same community" on two different instances) would be the superior option.

As an example, if someone posted or tooted the same link to several communities I'm following, I should be able to see all of the comments aggregated/tab between the community posts and responses. In other words, it should aggregate a view of all the different discussions about that link for all the communities I'm subscribed to and/or that my instance knows about.

Some Lemmy compatible platforms do stuff like that

• allow you to see both Lemmy style content and Microblog style content in the same platform
• allow you to follow individual users.
• include hashtags that federate out so the Lemmy posts appear under that hashtag for microblog users

Something like that could work, as long as it's an additional option and not a change to how communities currently work.

Mixing hashtags with communities sounds like a bad idea because of how much content would come in at once. For example, there are a few RSS feed communities and already those ones are overwhelming to keep up with. Most posts sit with no comments and 1 vote, which doesn't work for the vote & comment based way we organize content here.

We can improve how we federate these platforms together, but I prefer the tagging method. That way it's a conscious decision to post a microblog post in a community.

i think if lemmy is going to include micro-blogging, it should be differentiated and obvious. mixing into existing communities is just going to increase user confusion.

Sounds like it'd improve interop. Make it so that there's a curation system where communities can choose specific users/instances to watch for this content.

Sorry everyone, I'm not ignoring anyone. Just had this random idea as the football started.