TL;DR I want Mastodon hashtags treated like communities.
Given the following homomorphism (morphism, analogy) between microblogs like Mastodon and the forumverse:
| nr |
microblog |
forumverse |
| 010 |
subscribe to hashtags |
subscribe to communities |
| 020 |
include particular hashtags in their posts |
(cross-)post in particular communities |
| 025 |
include particular hashtags in their posts |
include particular hashtags in their posts |
| 030 |
list posts of a hashtag |
view a community |
| 040 |
comment a post |
comment a post |
| 050 |
star a post |
upvote a post |
| 060 |
boost into TL |
approve "into" community |
I wish to interact with microbloggers as a piefed user. Piefed could render microblog posts that contain a hashtag as a community post within a "community" named by this particular hashtag. Also, microblog accounts could be viewed like a regular user in piefed.
Pros: Lemmy posts and communities are visible and subscriptable in Mastodon already. Piefed should complete this connectivity.
Cons: Re-interpreting microblog posts as forum entries could lead to some misunderstandings which again lead to defederation. But I cannot think of any.
Edits: Added 060, 025, TL;DR
Edit: There appears to be a Mastodon integration being planned.
I don’t think this can work. A threadiverse community is contained by its instance and rules. A hashtag pulls everything from every instance so it’ll get unwieldy fast.
From the threadiverse point of view it would make a bit more sense to be able to follow specific microblog accounts as a way to get that content here. Microblogs (or at least Mastodon) are doing their own equivalent of that already because they can interface with threadiverse communities natively (they’re presented as groups that boost every new post & comment).
You could moderate piefed hashtag-communities.