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• SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean you could equally ask why does Lemmy not support posts outside communities? It’s on both parties to interoperate I think. Lemmy also uses a specific extension to ActivityPub while Discourse’s posts and Mastodon’s posts and such are pretty standard, but still not picked up by Lemmy.

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  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think Mastodon is very far from standard. Way I hear it from the developers, it’s lemmy that is following the Apub standard.

    As for the posts outside communities? That makes sense lemmy-wise I think. Where would those posts be? But it doesn’t make sense for Discourse, since they are indeed separated into topics.

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    • SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As for the posts outside communities? That makes sense lemmy-wise I think. Where would those posts be?

      I actually think it’s quite straightforward, they’d just be on a users page. This is actually how Reddit has also done it ever since they introduced the feature (much before they enshittified everything else).

      You can think of it like every users profile being a community of its own but only the user itself can post to it. Just conceptually speaking.

      That would also let you follow users just as you can follow communities.

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      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We need this for sure

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      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not gonna lie, I’d love for better integration between services, but I am fairly sure I saw lemmy devs adamantly insisting they’re following apub and mastodon is doing it wrong so 🤷

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