Comment on We should have something like federated communities
9point6@lemmy.world 1 year agoI guess that would mitigate most issues if that’s possible within the activitypub protocol.
Though I wouldn’t be surprised if that kind of mutually approved relationship between non-people doesn’t exist as a concept out of the box. Possibly using the hashtag concept under the hood to do this, but that would not require the mutual approval in the rest of the fediverse even if Lemmy enforced it
Dave@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
I think there are less hurdles than you’d think. Having content from another community served up when the feed is requested for the local community is a server feature not a federation feature. Moderators are the hard part, but in version one you don’t need their powers to be federated.
It’s the kind of thing you kinda have to just start trying (in a fork, say), then work out the kinks before putting the functionality into Lemmy. However, there are a lot more pressing issues at the moment, so it’s probably something better left for down the line.