Just curious

Nate

@ekZepp They're sorta bridged in the sense that if you @ a lemmy community from other ActivityPub software it'll post to the community. It's the same protocol, though a different enough implementation that it acts a lot like a bridge. The first line acts as the title, then the rest of the post is the body.

I Cast Fist

I guess mbin is halfway there in being a bridge? It lets you check both mastodon and lemmy posts

Lemminary

TIL. Where is this stuff documented anyway?

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It's kind of the whole point of activitypub, so it would be on the front page of any software that implements it.

atro_city

What would lemmy bridge to?

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So when is Lemmy going to support following users? Seems like a major missing feature to me.

bruhSoulz

The other two monkes?

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i know some federated weather service that is displayed as a user on lemmy.

poVoq

This has been long discussed and deemed part of a problem space that Lemmy isn't meant to solve. So probably never.

But there are Fediverse apps like Friendica or Mbin that support both, and it lookes like Pixelfed is going to sooner or later support the reverse, i.e. subscribing to Lemmy based groups.

mesamune

Piefed supports just about everything. But I really wish all federated software worked.

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The problem with hashtags is that the post itself won't be federated unless someone is following the user who made the post (or someone who boosted it). So Lemmy would be unable to see those posts anyways.

I have thought about a simple ActivityPub service that pulls a Mastodon RSS feed of a hashtag and boosts them all from a group/community actor, I think that would work for following from Lemmy.

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As far as I’m aware, Friendica does this. One feed, lemmy posts, mastodon toots, and Pixelfed posts all there. Lemmy is trickier because you can’t follow people and depending on the way you look at it, comments can show up as individual posts.

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At least, a compability with Misskey groups would be great.

So far, Misskey has varied groups that actually active that feels like close friend groups on Facebook.

Scrubbles

Can confirm this appears to be the case. I might be switching to only hosting communities here but commenting there

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Hashtags doesn't have universal thing.

For example, hashtag for #red can mean anything, from a mere color to political association.

Twitter trending tag often filled with two trending topic that shares same hashtag hut nothing do to with each other. Especially for same langauge but different region like English America vs English Asia.

Rimu

It's on PieFed's roadmap for this year.

suoko

What about piefed, the pylemmy

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I don't understand this mentality. Reddit allows this, and it seems like it wouldn't require much retooling of anything.

Sure, I could move to these other services but I don't want to leave the slrpnk community. While I'm increasingly frustrated with the state of Lemmy and particularly the devs, our instance is still great.

poVoq

Well, would it make sense for Peertube to add this?

It's just an entirely different concept of social media and while I personally would not be against adding it to Lemmy, I also do not miss it here and can understand that the devs are not enthusiastic about implementing it.

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I think the interoperability of the Fediverse is its main advantage. We don't need to be constrained by what we previously thought our focus was before the ideals of the fediverse were mainstream. If people don't want to follow individuals there's nothing that would force them to, but I think being able to connect with much wider portion of the fediverse would really help Lemmy grow.

If there's another, better way to do this then I'm open to it but allowing the following of individual accounts seems like a very simple and easy way to accomplish this.