Comment on Why is data congregation so hard on Mastodon?
julian@community.nodebb.org 4 weeks ago
Lemmy and lots of other software use a fediverse extension called 1b12 to keep everything in sync.
In a nutshell it means Lemmy communities can follow other communities, and they keep each other in sync. The same applies for other types of communities, like PieFed communities, Mbin magazines, NodeBB categories, etc.
Mastodon doesn't have a concept of community or categories, so they don't support this kind of synchronization.
noodlesreborn@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Thank you, this makes sense. Is there any hope for Mastodon and other services to achieve a similar level of parity without eating up a ton of space? I feel like it is a big hurdle for Fedi, but I understand these things take time and a ton of work.
julian@community.nodebb.org 4 weeks ago
Sure, check out my post about it here:
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/18844/backfilling-conversations-two-major-approaches
There are steps being taken in the right direction.
tavostator@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Very interesting read!
noodlesreborn@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This was very interesting! While I don’t fully understand everything, based on what I can, I’m partial to the second one. If the the instance disappears, I doubt the hoster wants that stuff up anyway. It makes it easier on everyone, and the replies seem (?) to stay up as well. A win-win. Either way it goes, I can only be thankful to the engineers working so hard to make this a reality. 🙏
julian@community.nodebb.org 4 weeks ago
Thanks! It's something that I personally feel is more performant and future proof for other important things like private discussions (which Mastodon also doesn't support natively yet — mention spamming doesn't count.)