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ActivityPub magic? (furry.engineer)
submitted 1 year ago by bristle@furry.engineer to c/tech@pawb.social

ActivityPub magic?

So you can tag Lemmy communities from Mastodon like @tech and it just makes a new thread on Lemmy?

My imagination is a bit small, so I'm not seeing the immediate utility of this. How do you vote/downvote? How do you subscribe to a community? Those interfaces aren't present on Mastodon.

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[-] SabreMc@cyberfurz.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@bristle @tech It's really cool that it's possible :3 but I kinda wish there were a way to mute Lemmy communities from a Mastodon home timeline without muting the entire community (unless there is and I haven't found it in poking around).

It is very nice being able to be on masto and have a list that just streams in any subscribed posts and comments though ^^

Edit: Also, subscribing to a community by way of Mastodon involves following the community tag. The downside to this is, as I mentioned, it appears in your Home timeline

[-] dipolecat@yiff.life 1 points 1 year ago

@SabreMc @bristle @tech I'm confused as to what you mean by muting the community but not the entire community

[-] SabreMc@cyberfurz.social 1 points 1 year ago

@dipolecat @bristle @tech Poor phrasing on my part, but basically I want to be able to follow the community from Masto, but not have it appear in my Home timeline, only on the list I've made for Lemmy :3

[-] TerrorBite@meow.social 2 points 1 year ago

@SabreMc So this is an upcoming Mastodon feature, I'm told when I asked earlier – they are apparently adding the ability to follow an account but hide it from your home feed, and only have it in a list. I want this feature too.

@dipolecat @bristle @tech

[-] dipolecat@yiff.life 1 points 1 year ago

@TerrorBite @SabreMc @bristle @tech Would be very useful for following unmodded Lemmy communities. They're a bit firehose-y

[-] bristle@furry.engineer 1 points 1 year ago

@SabreMc @dipolecat @tech I think that may be a technical limitation, so the best you could do really is have a “True Follow” list and treat that as your home timeline. Federated servers can’t practically separate “Follow” from “Add to a list” since both intentions need to tell other servers you want to subscribe to an account. I could be wrong about that though.

[-] dipolecat@yiff.life 1 points 1 year ago

@bristle @SabreMc @tech It would be possible on a technical level for "home" to be a list that new follows are added to by default but can be removed from. Something like that would make lists much more useful, at least to me.

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