@simpleguy @fediverse

Unfortunately it’s unlikely to come soon as mastodon is a while away from implementing groups and are doing it their own incompatible way.

This tag process works though and I’m happy the lemmy devs implemented it.

Spread the word.

@simpleguy @fediverse

I don’t believe so. I’m pretty sure I’ve checked it, but I could be wrong.

It makes sense though as hashtags are a different mechanism from follows and boosts.

You could do a quick test with the test community and the test hashtag.

@fediverse

A tricky part here is that the community still needs to be followed at least once on your instance for the content to come through. *I think*

So if a community isn’t coming through, I’d recommend these steps:

* Search for the community and follow it like any other user.
* Add it to a specific/bespoke list, then remove that list from home (a setting available on each list). This removes “the firehose” from your home feed.
* Follow the corresponding tag as you would any other

2/2

@Loukas @fediverse

Agreed (and said the same myself)!

As I’ve said it … alternative social has run its course in this post-musk-twitter moment. Everyone’s settled down where they ended up.

And yea, either more major disruption or some new killer features (rather than clones of big social) will be needed to shake things up. Neither seem particularly likely in the short term … your EU-meta smackdown is probably the best bet??

@Loukas @fediverse

Comparatively, it’s definitely a lot more into shitposting vibes, for sure.

I think their biggest problem right now is they don’t have good community self-organising features (nor masto, but the boost culture corrects for that IMO), so those who want more serious sub-cultures aren’t getting much footing (and may never).

Feeds are interesting but not very fruitful IMO and hashtags are new, so it’s a bit flat community-wise there, and many users are “wait & see” I suspect.

@anderseknert @fediverse

Fair (kinda the simple explanation why I’m anti-threads-federation).

While I’m no BlueSky-stan, the idea/promise of the system is a hybrid, which I think is generally worthwhile (especially while things like twitter and threads *dominate*) but also interesting.

How hybridised it becomes (and can become) is the question though with *big* outstanding questions.

@anderseknert @fediverse

LOL … yea plenty right.

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars

In pretty central … all of them except I think a gas station.

@masimatutu

Yea. Generally a good demonstration of how the promise of the fediverse isn’t really there yet.

Lemmy does groups and mastodon does users with neither really understanding the other.

I think there’s more scope for lemmy to cover the user side of social media than mastodon the groups side. Kbin is an example of a continuing effort to do that.

If some keen devs got involved, I’d suspect lemmy could add some good user based functionality.The core devs have recognised it’d be good.

@Bebo @masimatutu

Friendica definitely is one of the underrated fediverse platforms.

Many bounce off of it because it seems a bit slow and its UI is dated. But in terms of the general ideas about what the fediverse can be and the functionality it’s implemented, it’s very interesting and it would be awesome for it to seem more love.

@jpm @programming

I’ve demonstrated how to do it here: https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/110483509521476095

In the second post is a link to the what the post looks like on lemmy.

The demo uses @ test @ lemmy.ml. Which is for testing things. So you can muck around with it too or other similar communities on other lemmy instances if they exist.