I think the one convention that needs to be fleshed out is differentiating between place and person. On Lemmy we can use [email protected] to go to different communities. On Mastodon it’s @[email protected] to find those communities. The difference being that Mastodon treats the place as a user. Because of that you get funky cross contamination between two separate ideas on Mastodon. Here on Lemmy you go to that place, but on Mastodon it pulls up all the individual comments and replies from that place. They’re out of context because those posts are pulled from some random point in a Lemmy thread. It’s like pulling all the content feom a community here and playing 52 pickup to find contex. You’re losing the organizationof the full thread experience. And if you look at the profiles of communities from Lemmy at Mastodon they’re being marked as groups. So we know there’s structures in place to differentiate places from people. It just has to be agreed upon by the website developers on how to implement it to make a smoother experience.
Mastodon has the infrastructure to do the full title/body thread experience. It’s in their content warning system. When you put up a content warning on Mastodon you can give it any title you want. Then you type out the body and people reply like any old reddit thread. So it’s not really a matter of changing infrastructure to match one site to another. Mastodon can stay a Twitter replacement and Lemmy a reddit replacement. It’s really coming to an agreed upon way to navigate it. And that would be done in the person @, place !, and thing # way.
I think the one convention that needs to be fleshed out is differentiating between place and person. On Lemmy we can use [email protected] to go to different communities. On Mastodon it’s @[email protected] to find those communities. The difference being that Mastodon treats the place as a user. Because of that you get funky cross contamination between two separate ideas on Mastodon. Here on Lemmy you go to that place, but on Mastodon it pulls up all the individual comments and replies from that place. They’re out of context because those posts are pulled from some random point in a Lemmy thread. It’s like pulling all the content feom a community here and playing 52 pickup to find contex. You’re losing the organizationof the full thread experience. And if you look at the profiles of communities from Lemmy at Mastodon they’re being marked as groups. So we know there’s structures in place to differentiate places from people. It just has to be agreed upon by the website developers on how to implement it to make a smoother experience.
Mastodon has the infrastructure to do the full title/body thread experience. It’s in their content warning system. When you put up a content warning on Mastodon you can give it any title you want. Then you type out the body and people reply like any old reddit thread. So it’s not really a matter of changing infrastructure to match one site to another. Mastodon can stay a Twitter replacement and Lemmy a reddit replacement. It’s really coming to an agreed upon way to navigate it. And that would be done in the person @, place !, and thing # way.