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.
I’m not in a position to make suggestions, but I think requesting something and prioritization are two different things. So I think it’s fine? I mean we have a bunch of feature requests open in the issue tracker shooting for big things…