Comment on Mastodon handles lemmy communities a bit strangely, doesn't it?
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 months ago
Whose responsibility is it to thread comments? Lemmy or Mastodon?
Comment on Mastodon handles lemmy communities a bit strangely, doesn't it?
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 months ago
Whose responsibility is it to thread comments? Lemmy or Mastodon?
maegul@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I think it’s entirely on mastodon.
They don’t have a “subscribe” mechanism. Only following. And so everything coming from a group like a lemmy community looks like it’s coming from someone you follow, so you see all of their posts.
The alternative, which is also a general problem on mastodon, is that you wouldn’t be able to see any of the comments at all, because you’re not following the users making them.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 months ago
Is there a likelihood that mastodon will change things?
maegul@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
They have a groups implementation on the road map. How long it takes, I don’t know … but mastodon aren’t fast generally, so it’s not happening soon in all likelihood.
Lemmy devs are taken a look at their spec for it stated that it’s not at all consistent with lemmy’s implementation of communities over AP … so even when it lands it probably won’t help that much, at least at first.
Lemmy’s communities aren’t the only groups on the fediverse. The friendica/hubzilla groups have the same problem with mastodon’s handling of groups (they’re the only platforms apart from k/mbin that does both groups and users). Mike Macgirvin, the original dev of friendica/hubzilla, doesn’t have a high opinion of mastodon’s commitment to sensible standards (actually he’s been quite scathing in the past). I haven’t seen him comment on mastodon’s plans for groups, but given his prior criticism I take it as more likely than not that mastodon will do groups in their own way and in a way that won’t work well with the other group-based platforms.
Sorry for no links … this is all impressions and recollections.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 months ago
I’ve just been reading a bunch of stuff on GitHub, Codeberg and even the AP Discourse. Mastodon implementing FEP-400e while everyone else has already implemented FEP-1b12 is honestly quite shite and wholly disappointing. You would think Mastodon would go out of its way to ensure a healthy Fediverse and instead they actively work against it. Seriously, WTF Mastodon?!?