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submitted 1 year ago by erlend_sh@lemmyrs.org to c/meta@lemmyrs.org

Several people post about #rust and #rustlang on the fediverse. Could those posts be automatically pulled in here, e.g. into a dedicated community instance?

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[-] thilo@lemmyrs.org 0 points 1 year ago

I think this is not jet possible. You can however subscribe to lemmy communities on mastodon.

[-] chrysn@chaos.social 0 points 1 year ago

Even subscribing to the communities is a somewhat theoretical thing – I can see https://lemmyrs.org/c/meta as @meta and follow that, but none of its posts are shown. (Or do only new posts show up once someone on my server is following it?)

[-] chrysn@chaos.social 0 points 1 year ago

Ah -- things do indeed start popping up once I follow it, and in mastodon terminology, the community is boosting every single comment. I'll try that for some time to see if it's practical, but it's probably overkill.

[-] jesus@lemmyrs.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Uff fetching comments without any context doesn't seem that useful to me. It would be great if Lemmy only delivers the top-level post with a link to the full thread if it detects the client is a Mastodon instance.

[-] chrysn@chaos.social 1 points 1 year ago

I know painfully little of ActivityPub, but from a protocol design PoV, Lemmy altering its behavior when it sees Mastodon doesn't sound desirable. I'd rather put metadata in the toots that allow better decisions, or even have two entities (linked by metadata) for channel-top-posts and channel-everything, if the latter is needed at all.

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