sabreW4K3 to Lemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agoHow would you feel about Lemmy being able to pull in hashtags from the Fediverse?message-squaremessage-square71fedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up146arrow-down1message-squareHow would you feel about Lemmy being able to pull in hashtags from the Fediverse?sabreW4K3 to Lemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square71fedilinkfile-text
So you could subscribe communities to hashtags and have it displays toots and pictures from that hashtag in the Lemmy UI
minus-squareBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoWe have visible community tags at the moment? I thought they were only visible from Mastodon, and invisible from Lemmy?
minus-squaresabreW4K3OPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoMaybe I’m explaining poorly, but people on mastodon and PixelFed have been able to tag communities via @[email protected] for a while.
minus-squareBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoAh yes, but the main difference is that they need to know the exact community name to be able to post, a tag is much more generic
minus-squaresabreW4K3OPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoMost times people tag Firefox and end up in [email protected]
minus-squareBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoThat’s an easy one, but I’m thinking about stuff like [email protected], a bit harder to type and find
minus-squaresabreW4K3OPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoIndeed, but if [email protected] subscribe to #greentext, it’s easier to tag stuff. That said, it’s not a hill I wanna die on. It’s just a random idea I was floating to try and add content to some of the more niche communities.
minus-squareBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months ago it’s easier to tag stuff. Yes, and then easier to flood too 😄 Something else that I just thought about: there would be no way to prevent multiple communities to fetch the same hashtag, so we would end up with even more duplicates than now, with toots replicated on all of the communities fetching that hashtag
minus-squaresabreW4K3OPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoWhat’s wrong with duplicates? I love seeing stuff posted to multiple communities. I get to check out new communities and meet new people.
minus-squareBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoIt leads to discussion fragmentation, especially when the 2 communities are the same, but still split, like [email protected] and [email protected]
We have visible community tags at the moment? I thought they were only visible from Mastodon, and invisible from Lemmy?
Maybe I’m explaining poorly, but people on mastodon and PixelFed have been able to tag communities via @[email protected] for a while.
Ah yes, but the main difference is that they need to know the exact community name to be able to post, a tag is much more generic
Most times people tag Firefox and end up in [email protected]
That’s an easy one, but I’m thinking about stuff like [email protected], a bit harder to type and find
Indeed, but if [email protected] subscribe to #greentext, it’s easier to tag stuff.
That said, it’s not a hill I wanna die on. It’s just a random idea I was floating to try and add content to some of the more niche communities.
Yes, and then easier to flood too 😄
Something else that I just thought about: there would be no way to prevent multiple communities to fetch the same hashtag, so we would end up with even more duplicates than now, with toots replicated on all of the communities fetching that hashtag
What’s wrong with duplicates? I love seeing stuff posted to multiple communities. I get to check out new communities and meet new people.
It leads to discussion fragmentation, especially when the 2 communities are the same, but still split, like [email protected] and [email protected]