Following #lemmy communities from #mastodon has gotten much better
Following #lemmy communities from #mastodon has gotten much better
Following #lemmy communities from #mastodon has gotten much better
Version 19.4 introduced automatic hashtag-ing (see https://lemmy.ml/post/16585416)
Posts get federated with a hashtag matching the community name.
The important bit is that comments to posts don't get the tags.
Which means you can follow the corresponding tag on mastodon and get a feed only of posts.
EG: #asklemmy
If you're starting a community, giving it a unique enough name could help prevent overlap too.
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@fediverse
A tricky part here is that the community still needs to be followed at least once on your instance for the content to come through. I think
So if a community isn't coming through, I'd recommend these steps:
Search for the community and follow it like any other user.
Add it to a specific/bespoke list, then remove that list from home (a setting available on each list). This removes "the firehose" from your home feed.
Follow the corresponding tag as you would any other
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@maegul @fediverse Will not adding community to an exclusive list hide it from hashtags too?
@simpleguy @fediverse
I don’t believe so. I’m pretty sure I’ve checked it, but I could be wrong.
It makes sense though as hashtags are a different mechanism from follows and boosts.
You could do a quick test with the test community and the test hashtag.