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.
Until recently, there was this thing called a.gup.pe for Mastodon, which was like a PieFed community except with no moderation, like a hashtag. PieFed could treat a.gup.pe groups as communities and there was posts inside, etc. It worked, technically.
But all the a.gup.pe groups (except one) were full of weird crap & spam. People post sooo much trash on Mastodon.
The only way to use Mastodon, really, is to follow good people and unfollow those who post crap. As soon as you break that model and follow an unmoderated hashtag, it falls apart.
You can block accounts in communities, can’t you? Also, there’s a downvote button. Mastodon posts could start with 0 instead of 1. Unvoted posts could be deleted automatically after time.