Hello everyone! I’m new here… I had been testing Fediverse interoperability on Lemmy but I didn’t like what I saw: there were several quirks and flaws that made no sense to me. Several people mentioned PieFed as an alternative and that’s why I’m here - I’d like to compare/contrast features and see if PieFed does things differently.

I should mention that I have a blog whose mission is to introduce the Fediverse to non-technical people, to get them to leave the walled gardens of Big Tech: The Future is Federated . I’ve been doing a show and tell of interoperability between Mastodon and Pixelfed , Friendica and the rest of the Fediverse and I’ve shown what happens when you federate a Wordpress blog . My new focus in on the “Threadiverse”, so Lemmy it is.

I was disappointed when I published my first post on Lemmy (https://lemmy.world/post/18635732) and noticed that:

  1. hashtags don’t work
  2. account mentions don’t work either (and I was told they do federate in comments, not the first post - whaaaat?!?)

It’s cool I was able to find my original post on here (https://piefed.social/post/198179) and I wonder if you have any tips / words of advice regading things that PieFed does and Lemmy doesn’t do. I’m really curious.

And please bear with me, I’m going to mention my Mastodon account ( @[email protected] ) and my Lemmy account (@[email protected]) to see if anything happens when I hit post. And bear with me one more time and let me try hashtags here, like #TheFutureisFederated.

Thanks for your patience with this newbie! 😅

Elena

Edit: I included the URL of my Mastodon profile to see if it would federate

  • Rentlar
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    3 months ago

    Hashtags just do not work currently in lemmy, as far as I can tell. There have been some work arounds over the months to automatically tag posts, and in Lemmy 0.19.14 there are apparently automatic tags based on the community name.

    Mentions do work in the comments and don’t in the post title or body. I agree that they should work everywhere.

    An idea I’ve been floating in my head is to refine the automatic hashtag idea to manual moderator assigned hashtags, which could then be filtered by Lemmy and other fediverse clients to better group Lemmy posts across communities. I’ve spent my spare time this week translating the Photon interface for Lemmy so I haven’t been able to think seriously about how to implement. Maybe I’ll check for existing noise in the issue log and make a new issue about it if it’s not there.