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In ActivityPub terms, there is no such thing as a “Mastodon posts” or “Lemmy communities”. You just have “authors” and “audiences”. In effect, it would mean that you emulate a “post to a community” by writting a post with the community as the “audience”, and anyone that follows the actor that represents the group (equivalent to the Lemmy Community) would find the posts.

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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
so you are saying that each author should represent their own community that they populate with posts each time they post something

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- rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I am not sure whether “represent” is the right word here. What I mean is that all posts have a “recipient” (the audience).
  
  For Mastodon, you have public posts where the recipient is literally a “special” audience, called https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public. If you want to see a private message to alice, you just change the “audience” to contain only the https://example.com/alice actor URI.
  
  To post to a community, it’s the same logic: if you are posting on fediverse@lemmy.world, then the message has “lemmy.world/c/fediverse” as the audience. This message is then sent to lemmy.world and processed.
  
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  - gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Ok, so from a user’s perspective, where would Mastodon content appear in your Lemmy feed?
    
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    rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    You do understand that I am describing a whole different client, right?
    
    There is no “Lemmy Feed”, just “posts sent from individuals to a group” vs “posts sent from individuals that are broadcasting without any specific audience”
    
    How this presentation layer would work would be entirely up to the developer/user. I can envision people that might prefer to have a separate threaded-view for group posts like we have in most forum sites, but I can also envision people that will prefer each post appearing in a “feed”, like what Facebook does for groups. I can also envison such an application providing a “image gallery” for people tthat want to see only pictures, like Vernissage does.
    
    My point is, it would be completely up to the user how to see the data.
    
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