sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Lemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agoHow would you feel about Lemmy being able to pull in hashtags from the Fediverse?message-squaremessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up145file-text
arrow-up145message-squareHow would you feel about Lemmy being able to pull in hashtags from the Fediverse?sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Lemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square68fedilinkfile-text
So you could subscribe communities to hashtags and have it displays toots and pictures from that hashtag in the Lemmy UI
minus-squareBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 months agoWhat is preventing people from spamming popular hashtags to flood communities? Currently, if they want to do so, they have to manually crosspost to each community, tags seems an easier way to flood
minus-squaresabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months ago What is preventing people from spamming popular hashtags to flood communities? The same thing preventing people from spamming community tags presently.
minus-squareBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoWe have visible community tags at the moment? I thought they were only visible from Mastodon, and invisible from Lemmy?
minus-squaresabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoMaybe I’m explaining poorly, but people on mastodon and PixelFed have been able to tag communities via @lemmy@lemmy.ml for a while.
minus-squareBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoAh yes, but the main difference is that they need to know the exact community name to be able to post, a tag is much more generic
minus-squaresabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoMost times people tag Firefox and end up in !firefox@lemmy.ml
minus-squareBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoThat’s an easy one, but I’m thinking about stuff like !wholesomegreentext@sh.itjust.works, a bit harder to type and find
minus-squaresabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoIndeed, 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.
minus-squareBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months ago it’s easier to tag stuff. Yes, and then easier to flood too 😄 Something else that I just thought about: there would be no way to prevent multiple communities to fetch the same hashtag, so we would end up with even more duplicates than now, with toots replicated on all of the communities fetching that hashtag
What is preventing people from spamming popular hashtags to flood communities?
Currently, if they want to do so, they have to manually crosspost to each community, tags seems an easier way to flood
The same thing preventing people from spamming community tags presently.
We have visible community tags at the moment? I thought they were only visible from Mastodon, and invisible from Lemmy?
Maybe I’m explaining poorly, but people on mastodon and PixelFed have been able to tag communities via @lemmy@lemmy.ml for a while.
Ah yes, but the main difference is that they need to know the exact community name to be able to post, a tag is much more generic
Most times people tag Firefox and end up in !firefox@lemmy.ml
That’s an easy one, but I’m thinking about stuff like !wholesomegreentext@sh.itjust.works, a bit harder to type and find
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.
Yes, and then easier to flood too 😄
Something else that I just thought about: there would be no way to prevent multiple communities to fetch the same hashtag, so we would end up with even more duplicates than now, with toots replicated on all of the communities fetching that hashtag