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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.

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@suff@piefed.social , have you tried looking at a specific community?

https://fedia.io/m/photography has the two views: microblogs and threads

[–] suff@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's not two views on the same content. They keep microblogs and threads separated.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

I think blaze was a bit confused at what you were saying but I got it as its kinda how I would like it as well. Basically mastadon in your feed. Like you could have a setting to do it at the user level. Honestly I would sorta like the logins in the fediverse to be able to be used in other fediverse instances. That would make a lot of things easier. Like I have 3 hubert manne accounts. one kbin, one on an mbin instance, and this piefed one. If I want to look at mastadon or loops I have to make a new account. Would love to click on links and have it just accept hubertmanne@piefed.social as a user. This would also make it where it is no longer necessary to fix links so they come up in an instance and decrease how much caching a particular instance needs to do.