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Relaying of Mastodon hashtags to Lemmy instances (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Does something like this exist? As far as I can tell, setting something similar up would require:

  • A dedicated Lemmy instance for Mastodon tag-based crossposting (probably, since most existing instances probably don't want to clutter their instance with thousands of script-generated communities)
  • Some kind of form on a site where users who want to follow a Mastodon tag that is not already set up as a Lemmy community could submit the tag they want added, which would automatically set up:
  • A Lemmy community for that tag on the aforementioned instance, and
  • A Mastodon hashtag bot that automatically crossposts all posts with that tag to the linked community
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd see this to be implemented in Lemmy itself. Hashtags are a global thing, not instance-specific, and should already be available to Lemmy via AP.

Lemmy would "just" need the ability to display a hashtag as a "community" containing posts made under that hashtag. Question is what to do with replies but given Lemmys design, they could probably simply be left out because, if it's truly on-topic, the post will likely contain the hashtag too and therefore land in the hashtag "community".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't see why lemmy should leave out replies to top-level tagged posts. A tagged post is essentially like any top level post in lemmy. They could be displayed like any other lemmy post, with replies displayed in thread below

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was being a bit unclear here, what I meant was that replies mentioning a hashtag shouldn't show up as posts in its pseudo-community; only posts. Replies to a post with a hashtag would show up regardless of content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ah, I see. That makes sense, thanks