Just curious

[libertylizard@slrpnk.net]

Couldn't you subscribe to a user the same way you do to a community, and see their posts show up in your feed? Is there some reason I am missing that can't work?

I'm not saying Lemmy should change its whole schtick and become like Mbin, but if there is a small change that can allow more widespread connections across the fediverse, it's hard to see the downside.

[povoq@slrpnk.net]

Mastodon etc. doesn't really differentiate between posts and comments. So imagine your Lemmy feed having all comments from all communities you are subscribed to just there scrolling through and no real way to know what they even comment on without clicking though to try to find the originally referenced message.

In addition Mastodon has no concept of consistent threads, so basically every person sees something different and you can't really comment on comments without it getting completely confusing.

[libertylizard@slrpnk.net]

Ah, this is probably what I wasn't understanding. Thanks for answering all of my questions. I can see how that might be a problem.

Seems like Mastodon needs some way to handle threading better before this could really work then. Kind of surprising that they don't have that.

I still hope there is some way we can connect with the entire fediverse at some point in the future but we'll have to see what form that might take.

[lemminary@lemmy.world]

I see! I thought Lemmy had a section somewhere. I'm quite tempted to open a PR and write this stuff down somewhere. Lol

[grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works]

An aggregator of aggregators?

God I love the fediverse

[glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz]

you can already follow other users (i.e. watch their activity) via rss feeds. For example your accounts feed is https://slrpnk.net/feeds/u/LibertyLizard.xml?sort=New

I can follow this through my rss reader, an external program or website, and stay updated about your activities that way.

[3dmvr@lemm.ee]

never, they closed the topic

[3dmvr@lemm.ee]

they said itd be hard and ppl are free to do it and commit it

[3dmvr@lemm.ee]

No ones stopping anyone from doing it, its just hard and not a priority

[asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world]

Isn't that something that could easily be updated by PixelFed?

[libertylizard@slrpnk.net]

Interesting. Is there a way to set this up so I could follow a user on pixelfed here on Lemmy for example?

And would you see just my posts or also a bunch of contextless comments? The latter might not be too useful.

[die4ever@programming.dev]

the way hashtags work? Mastodon has the same issue