I know calling this a technology story is a stretch, so if it’s deleted, no hard feelings. But given they’re both apps, I popped it here. If you can think of somewhere better, please repost it and tag me.

This would be cool

Different people do things differently. Why do you think towns have more than one pub or shop.

What cop?

But in the implementation I proposed, moderators would get to subscribe their communities to hashtags they choose or none at all.

Fragmentation is a myth. Look at the various different technology groups that are all thriving on different instances. Stop (inadvertantly) pushing for centralization!

Communities have topics. Communities are groups. Communities are full of individuals.

What’s wrong with duplicates? I love seeing stuff posted to multiple communities. I get to check out new communities and meet new people.

It would be nice to have a bookmarklet that enabled easier cross posting.

This assumes that a post pulled from Mastodon to Lemmy will also push comments from Lemmy back to Mastodon (or at least notifications of comments)… Huh? This functionality is already in place and has been for a while.

Indeed, but if !wholesomegreentext@sh.itjust.works subscribe to #greentext, it’s easier to tag stuff.

That said, it’s not a hill I wanna die on. It’s just a random idea I was floating to try and add content to some of the more niche communities.

Sorry to get back so late to this. I covered everything elsewhere though.

Most times people tag Firefox and end up in !firefox@lemmy.ml

To be honest, I’m not a fan of bots ripping content from Reddit. But these would be humans. You would just be adding a thread inclusive of replies. Unlike bots, toot authors also reply.

1. Yep
2. People from mastodon can post to Lemmy already
3. You’d be surprised about how many people complain about links, they don’t wanna watch videos, most articles are too long and they only ever read the headline.

I wouldn’t like an mbin/kbin style implementation, just the ability to grab posts without them needing to be tagged.

The idea isn’t to firehose mastodon into Lemmy. But to tighten the integration across the Fediverse. Yes, if a community subscribed to #Harris, it would be flooded, but if a community subscribes to #CityFarm it wouldn’t grab many posts and would essentially enrich the community. It would be up to the moderators to decide what hashtag they’re subscribing to.

Sorry everyone, I’m not ignoring anyone. Just had this random idea as the football started.

Some communities have bots creating topics, wouldn’t this be similar?

Maybe I’m explaining poorly, but people on mastodon and PixelFed have been able to tag communities via @lemmy@lemmy.ml for a while.