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One of the things that I’m experimenting with is to have “communities that can follow communities”. So, if community A follows community B, then it can re-post anything that has happened on Community B.

If you do it “properly”, it doesn’t even need to be a lot of data duplication because the “follower” community would just be creating Announce activities.

The only thing that is making me hold out on this experiment is because I am 100% sure that some people will see their posts on a community they never interacted on and they will panic on the grounds of “mah privacy” or something silly like that.

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julian@community.nodebb.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Hi! We should chat.

NodeBB also does this, and currently still does. A category (group actor) can follow another category (also a group actor).

It essentially is synchronization of categories using 1b12.

Proof of concept does work but it needs reworking in some ways. The largest issue is that Lemmy itself doesn't understand when a group actor tries to follow a community.

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lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

The only thing that is making me hold out on this experiment is because I am 100% sure that some people will see their posts on a community they never interacted on and they will panic on the grounds of “mah privacy” or something silly like that.

Don’t hold out out of that. There are idiots everywhere and they should not be taken as a good driving force for anything.

Half the point of the Fediverse is that your activity is public. It’s the entire point of why have activity with a community or instance in the first place. Heck, it’s “kinda” the name of the protocol: “ActivityPub”.

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- rglullis@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Thank you for the encouragement. In principle I agree with you 100%, but we also need to keep in mind that this corner of the internet is extremely averse to having their presence exposed outside of their original context.
  
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