So you could subscribe communities to hashtags and have it displays toots and pictures from that hashtag in the Lemmy UI

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    3 months ago

    Some Lemmy compatible platforms do stuff like that

    • allow you to see both Lemmy style content and Microblog style content in the same platform
    • allow you to follow individual users.
    • include hashtags that federate out so the Lemmy posts appear under that hashtag for microblog users

    Something like that could work, as long as it’s an additional option and not a change to how communities currently work.

    Mixing hashtags with communities sounds like a bad idea because of how much content would come in at once. For example, there are a few RSS feed communities and already those ones are overwhelming to keep up with. Most posts sit with no comments and 1 vote, which doesn’t work for the vote & comment based way we organize content here.

    We can improve how we federate these platforms together, but I prefer the tagging method. That way it’s a conscious decision to post a microblog post in a community.