Both platforms offer unique features, but also come with limitations. While Lemmy offers diverse content, it lacks robust tag metadata for organizing and searching images. On the other hand, boorus excel at categorizing images with tags but lack the discussion and the diverse content from Lemmy. Why haven’t we seen a platform that combines the best of both worlds? How do you envision it would be like?
There was a federated image board in development called fchannel, but it seems to have died.
You could represent booru tags as hashtags, and PixelFed already shows how image sharing can be done.
All that’s left is someone to do the hard work of patching together a booru UI for ActivityPub. Hell, considering the use case it could be a frontend for an already existing backend-only AP software like GoToSocial. That would make the implementation drastically simpler as you wouldn’t need to deal with any of the AP parts at all.