Thinking about the future where Microblogging and link-aggregation sites on the fediverse have grown, how do you see them integrating?
It’s a bit one-directional right now since I don’t think Lemmy has the concept of following people or #topics outside of Lemmy, but mastodon users can follow Lemmy communities and the posts and comments show up fairly nicely.
Do you think the ability to combine those two domains in one interface (even the same timeline) is useful at all?
I’m envisioning a content creator posting a video on peertube and being posted to one of the link-aggregator instances and people commenting on it via Mastodon and all of the comments being able to reference each other no matter where they were posted. I think that’s pretty amazing compared to what we have now where you’re conversation is basically stuck where it was started on the traditional services.
@jax I love it. It’s super cool. I think the main thing I’m still working through is how favorites and upvotes will interoperate. It’s weird seeing different counts for favorites and upvotes and I wish I could upvote from Mastodon.
There’s definitely some smoothing out to do and maybe there always will be. But it’s super cool. I have no idea the full implications. But they’re all positive imo.
You are already able to upvote Lemmy posts from Mastodon. You can also downvote from Friendica and Hubzilla. You can also post to Lemmy from Mastodon etc. by tagging the community account. The only thing to note with Mastodon is that it can’t handle headings and therefore the first x characters are the heading. And images are not federated, as far as I know.
Ah, yeah each service seems to implement certain things in different ways which is interesting, and maybe something to work out in the future. I kind of like to though, it draws you to a particular interface depending on the context and features you want for that type of content.
@jax I agree. I just want to see Lemmy post rankings affected by Mastodon etc users, not just Lemmy users. Commenting across apps is cool, upvoting across apps so I can see a cross fediverse link agreegator top ranking? Awesome…
Totally agree, maybe that can be built out, but I think it would require a change in how things are handled currently?