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Kichae

A bridge isn't really necessary. Both Lemmy and Pixelfed use the same communication protocol. Lemmy just doesn't let you follow users, and PixelFed is a user-based, rather than group-based, program.

If you want to follow both groups and users, you should just use a site that's running software that supports that. Mbin, or nodeBB, or something.

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Die4Ever

The problem with hashtags is that the post itself won't be federated unless someone is following the user who made the post (or someone who boosted it). So Lemmy would be unable to see those posts anyways.

I have thought about a simple ActivityPub service that pulls a Mastodon RSS feed of a hashtag and boosts them all from a group/community actor, I think that would work for following from Lemmy.

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LibertyLizard

I think the interoperability of the Fediverse is its main advantage. We don't need to be constrained by what we previously thought our focus was before the ideals of the fediverse were mainstream. If people don't want to follow individuals there's nothing that would force them to, but I think being able to connect with much wider portion of the fediverse would really help Lemmy grow.

If there's another, better way to do this then I'm open to it but allowing the following of individual accounts seems like a very simple and easy way to accomplish this.

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poVoq

No, have a proper separate view that only shows group posts like on Lemmy. Friendica and Mbin does it like that and Pixelfed has teased the same for a long time now. No work-arounds and semi-working hacks like now when you try to engage with a Lemmy community from Mastodon. But that you even ask how should show you just how incompatible these two social media concepts are. Basically you need two entirely different interfaces for each.
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LibertyLizard

Well this is why I think Lemmy allowing individual follows is the best solution. It's completely compatible with the interface here. If I am understanding correctly, your suggestion would only allow you to see people who opt into posting as part of those groups. But what I want is to be able to reach and communicate with anyone on the fediverse, no matter the platform. I think this is really only going to work by connecting individual users with one another, which there's currently no way to do.
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poVoq

Mastodon etc. doesn't really differentiate between posts and comments. So imagine your Lemmy feed having all comments from all communities you are subscribed to just there scrolling through and no real way to know what they even comment on without clicking though to try to find the originally referenced message.

In addition Mastodon has no concept of consistent threads, so basically every person sees something different and you can't really comment on comments without it getting completely confusing.

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LibertyLizard

Ah, this is probably what I wasn't understanding. Thanks for answering all of my questions. I can see how that might be a problem.

Seems like Mastodon needs some way to handle threading better before this could really work then. Kind of surprising that they don't have that.

I still hope there is some way we can connect with the entire fediverse at some point in the future but we'll have to see what form that might take.

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scratsearcher 🔍🔮📊🎲

you can already follow other users (i.e. watch their activity) via rss feeds. For example your accounts feed is slrpnk.net/feeds/u/LibertyLiza…

I can paste that link into my rss reader (which is an external program or website), subscribing to your accounts feed, and stay updated about your activities that way.

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