• @lightnegative
    4•6 months ago

    Reluctant upvote because it’s New Zealand but my dude/dudette, what’s with all the hashtags?

    I’m assuming a federated post from Mastodon

    • @[email protected]M
      3•6 months ago

      Yes, this is a mastodon post where they have tagged the !newzealand community. It’s how they display in Lemmy. I’d like to think over time the integration could be refined so it didn’t show so… messy.

      The original post is here.

      To be fair it looks the same, but the expectations are different on Mastodon. Lemmy doesn’t use tags like Mastodon does.

      • @lightnegative
        4•6 months ago

        Yeah I figured that was the case.

        It’s an interesting thing about federation between platforms - everything gets federated, even the platform-specific stuff that may be irrelevant elsewhere

        • @[email protected]M
          1•6 months ago

          Only on request though! The only reason this post is showing here is because they specifically tagged the !newzealand community. It works the same way between lemmy servers, our All feed has content from other instances, but only from communities that people on Lemmy.nz have subscribed to (with one little exception where we have a specific seeder account that is subscribed to a bunch of popular communities so we don’t miss out on popular stuff on other instances that no one has subscribed to).