So you could subscribe communities to hashtags and have it displays toots and pictures from that hashtag in the Lemmy UI
The value of communities in Lemmy comes from the members of the community participating in them. The members choose material to present to their community with intent, with the desire to contribute to their community. The community then adds value by interacting with the presented material (even a negative response from the community adds value to the community by refining the community identity and interest).
Automatically pulling in material from non-community members destroys the value of the community. It pollutes the community space with material that no community member chose prior to its presentation.
If you want to follow Mastodon hashtags, you should just use Mastodon. It has the UX to support this, and all you’d end up by shoving this into lemmy is a lot of noise in a UI that’s designed for replies to a single thread and not just hundreds and hundreds of threads.
You can create a tab : one where you see users you follow, another one where you see community. And in your setting, you can deactivate it, even block being followed by users.
So there won’t be any noise. And when you click on hashtag, you can switch beetween : local, lemmyverse, fediverse user…and also limit the hashtag to the 10th most recent message.
So you won’t have any noise. That something you can limit.
Sounds like an awesome addition to people on Lemmy!
Thanks for sharing your views on the matter!
So, Mastodon is working on a communities feature. I think having Mastodon and Lemmy communities have interop (along with great interop between the “same community” on two different instances) would be the superior option.
As an example, if someone posted or tooted the same link to several communities I’m following, I should be able to see all of the comments aggregated/tab between the community posts and responses. In other words, it should aggregate a view of all the different discussions about that link for all the communities I’m subscribed to and/or that my instance knows about.
