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.
It would be an acceptable variant or configuration for very busy/misused hashtags. I think if many users can join the mod team, it would work well.
If you look at https://fedia.io/m/photography/microblog , there are several posts per hour. That’s not going to be doable to have mods approve all of those posts.
Mods should be able to switch from opt-out (manually remove Mastodon posts from the hashtag-community) to opt-in (manually “boost” Mastodon posts into the hashtag-community). That switch could also flip like a fuse when a threshold is reached, with an admin-configured max_toots_per_day.
The flooded mod tool could help itself with filters by min_boosts, min_stars, links, media and max_age, etc.
See this other comment about signal to noise ratio: https://piefed.social/post/1289879#comment_8099521
Thanks. I still think we have a lack of content problem, rather than a lack of mods problem. The community downvotes context-misfits, mods remove meaningless stuff, filters hide threads, … If we don’t have the mod tools to tackle microblogs, we will need them anyway when piefed gets more popular.