yea I mean it’s fun to use and works well if you’re on a large instance like mastodon.social, I use it even on a medium size instance
but communities/groups work better on the fediverse, and maybe something in between the 2 could be created, some kind of federated version of hashtags
Snoopy@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
I'm not on mastodon social, i use it on
- peculiar.florist an iceshrimp instance and their dev team want to support PieFed, Lemmy and Mbin
- mastodon.tedomum.net and mastodon.zaclys.com they both belong to a collective of hosters.
And hashtag work well. I have a list where i follow hashtag ar if i had a community around this keyword.
If mastodon supported group, they would include lemmy, mbin, piefed support. We can remplace a.gup.pe
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 weeks ago
like I said, hashtags are fun, but the fact that even if you follow the hashtag it only shows posts that were already federated into your instance confuses people
communities/groups will federate the posts for you if you follow, but following a hashtag does not give any federation
Snoopy@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Well we would miss lot interesting topics from Mastodon. You may not see the point because english user base is big.
Most of our user base stayed on Reddit or use Mastodon. Art ? Mastodon. News ? Mastodon...
So how can we solve that ? On çastodon, i found lot user posting interesting links. Our left french media are also on mastodon.
I went on mastodon, created an account, copy-pasta posted news on various communities, I used hashtag and some users commented on jlai.lu
It does works but we need to allow the users the freedom to be followed or not. If they want to be followed, they can follow mastodon users. And that would be the first step to break "locked" software as reddit.
We are more open then Reddit but, for me, i think we are replicating proprietary software organisation. We are still creating clone of twitter, reddit whereas we use a protocole that allow us to achieve much more thing.
Should we try something else where lines between various software is blurred ?