I have both a Mastadon and Lemmy account (actually two) as well as a kbin account so I’m fine with having several. It’s interesting to see the interconnectivity of the two platforms. I’d love to see more of this.

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    1 year ago

    I just wish following communities worked better. currently when you follow a Lemmy community with your Mastodon account, you’ll have ALL THE COMMENTS posted in that community’s thread boosted to your feed without any context.

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      Yea. It’d be nice if only top level posts came through. And then, for comments to come through, you relied only on replies and following particular users.

      The issue though, I think, is that mastodon has no backfill mechanism. So there’s no way to get a lemmy post in your feed, and then opt in to seeing all of the comments. It’s the same thing that leads to “reply-guy” replies on mastodon, where people reply with the same statement because they can’t see each other’s replies. At some point, I think we have to just start talking about how mastodon is in some ways a bit shit.

      Still, I think my suggestion above would be better. Would it be possible for lemmy to adjust its federation for that?

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      1 year ago

      Yes. It completely took over my home timeline doing this.

      We desperately need more fine grained control.

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        1 year ago

        Would it make sense to have a separate aggregator app, that focuses on aggregating data from different ActivityPub apps into a single feed, so that those apps can focus on their core competencies?