• @Kichae@lemmy.ca
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    14923 days ago

    A bridge isn’t really necessary. Both Lemmy and Pixelfed use the same communication protocol. Lemmy just doesn’t let you follow users, and PixelFed is a user-based, rather than group-based, program.

    If you want to follow both groups and users, you should just use a site that’s running software that supports that. Mbin, or nodeBB, or something.

      • Die4Ever
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        923 days ago

        The problem with hashtags is that the post itself won’t be federated unless someone is following the user who made the post (or someone who boosted it). So Lemmy would be unable to see those posts anyways.

        I have thought about a simple ActivityPub service that pulls a Mastodon RSS feed of a hashtag and boosts them all from a group/community actor, I think that would work for following from Lemmy.

        • @asdfasdfasdf
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          122 days ago

          Isn’t that something that could easily be updated by PixelFed?

          • Die4Ever
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            122 days ago

            the way hashtags work? Mastodon has the same issue

      • @nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip
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        223 days ago

        Hashtags doesn’t have universal thing.

        For example, hashtag for #red can mean anything, from a mere color to political association.

        Twitter trending tag often filled with two trending topic that shares same hashtag hut nothing do to with each other. Especially for same langauge but different region like English America vs English Asia.

      • poVoq
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        2123 days ago

        This has been long discussed and deemed part of a problem space that Lemmy isn’t meant to solve. So probably never.

        But there are Fediverse apps like Friendica or Mbin that support both, and it lookes like Pixelfed is going to sooner or later support the reverse, i.e. subscribing to Lemmy based groups.

        • @LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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          123 days ago

          I don’t understand this mentality. Reddit allows this, and it seems like it wouldn’t require much retooling of anything.

          Sure, I could move to these other services but I don’t want to leave the slrpnk community. While I’m increasingly frustrated with the state of Lemmy and particularly the devs, our instance is still great.

          • poVoq
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            823 days ago

            Well, would it make sense for Peertube to add this?

            It’s just an entirely different concept of social media and while I personally would not be against adding it to Lemmy, I also do not miss it here and can understand that the devs are not enthusiastic about implementing it.

            • @LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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              623 days ago

              I think the interoperability of the Fediverse is its main advantage. We don’t need to be constrained by what we previously thought our focus was before the ideals of the fediverse were mainstream. If people don’t want to follow individuals there’s nothing that would force them to, but I think being able to connect with much wider portion of the fediverse would really help Lemmy grow.

              If there’s another, better way to do this then I’m open to it but allowing the following of individual accounts seems like a very simple and easy way to accomplish this.

              • poVoq
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                323 days ago

                IMHO better would be the reverse: proper group support in Mastodon, Pixelfed etc. But the developers of these seem to be as reluctant to implement that as the Lemmy devs are regarding user microblogging.

                  • poVoq
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                    223 days ago

                    No, have a proper separate view that only shows group posts like on Lemmy. Friendica and Mbin does it like that and Pixelfed has teased the same for a long time now. No work-arounds and semi-working hacks like now when you try to engage with a Lemmy community from Mastodon. But that you even ask how should show you just how incompatible these two social media concepts are. Basically you need two entirely different interfaces for each.

          • @3dmvr@lemm.ee
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            322 days ago

            No ones stopping anyone from doing it, its just hard and not a priority

      • Rimu
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        623 days ago

        It’s on PieFed’s roadmap for this year.

        • @LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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          22 days ago

          Interesting. Is there a way to set this up so I could follow a user on pixelfed here on Lemmy for example?

          And would you see just my posts or also a bunch of contextless comments? The latter might not be too useful.

    • mesamune
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      623 days ago

      Piefed supports just about everything. But I really wish all federated software worked.

    • @nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip
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      123 days ago

      At least, a compability with Misskey groups would be great.

      So far, Misskey has varied groups that actually active that feels like close friend groups on Facebook.