Submitted 4 months ago by lgsp@feddit.it to fediverse@lemmy.world
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While looking for posts with the #degoogle hastag with my mastodon account, I realized that mixed in the hastag timeline there were posts to the @degoogle@lemmy.world community, but not containing the hastag itself in the text.
I tried to look around, but In wasn’t able to find an explanation of how this is supposed to work: is it because of the name of the community that is the same of the hastag? Or is or because the hastag is “embedded” in the community itself?
@lgsp @fediverse because it's better this way
Ok, clear, thank you.
So this has been around for more than one year, and it’s a setting for the particular community
it’s a setting for the particular community
No, not really. The devs made it an automatic one. Not ones you can manually assign to a community.
if you open the post you see the hashtag, i don’t know how it works, but a community post it’s name as hashtag with every post.
Ok, this makes sense, and I had no idea it was like this
Because they’re Federated and that’s how Lemmy is represented in Mastodon when you Federate between the two
Mmh, that’s not an explanation: when I look at an hastag timeline in mastodon, I expect to see all the posts that federate with my server and contain the relevant hastag.
In this case I for sure see also posts that are federated, but, AFAIK, do not contain the hashtag. The only element is the name of the community
The only element is the name of the community
Consider community names hashtags.
According to the protocol they share (ActivityPub) communities and hashtags are essentially the same thing, they’re a grouping containing many posts. Typing out a hashtag is how you tell Mastodon to add your post to that “hashtag group” (and you can add your post to multiple hashtags). In Lemmy, the community you post in IS the group (and you can cross-post it to multiple communities). The result is the same. They’re the same thing, just different ways of connecting your posts into them, and displayed in very different ways depending on which part of the Fediverse you’re using.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Thanks for making this thread, I didn’t really realize it worked this way either!
When I’ve posted to lemmy from mastodon, you “@” the community, treating it like a user rather than a hashtag. The underlying guts of the fediverse are fascinating and confusing lol
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 4 months ago
Basically on lemmy the communities are users that you can follow and the users can’t be followed