A bridge isn’t really necessary. Both Lemmy and Pixelfed use the same communication protocol. Lemmy just doesn’t let you follow users, and PixelFed is a user-based, rather than group-based, program.
If you want to follow both groups and users, you should just use a site that’s running software that supports that. Mbin, or nodeBB, or something.
pixelfed also have hashtags, maybe we can map an hashtag to a lemmy community.
That’s similar to want #Mbin does.
The problem with hashtags is that the post itself won’t be federated unless someone is following the user who made the post (or someone who boosted it). So Lemmy would be unable to see those posts anyways.
I have thought about a simple ActivityPub service that pulls a Mastodon RSS feed of a hashtag and boosts them all from a group/community actor, I think that would work for following from Lemmy.
Isn’t that something that could easily be updated by PixelFed?
the way hashtags work? Mastodon has the same issue
Hashtags doesn’t have universal thing.
For example, hashtag for #red can mean anything, from a mere color to political association.
Twitter trending tag often filled with two trending topic that shares same hashtag hut nothing do to with each other. Especially for same langauge but different region like English America vs English Asia.
So when is Lemmy going to support following users? Seems like a major missing feature to me.
This has been long discussed and deemed part of a problem space that Lemmy isn’t meant to solve. So probably never.
But there are Fediverse apps like Friendica or Mbin that support both, and it lookes like Pixelfed is going to sooner or later support the reverse, i.e. subscribing to Lemmy based groups.
I don’t understand this mentality. Reddit allows this, and it seems like it wouldn’t require much retooling of anything.
Sure, I could move to these other services but I don’t want to leave the slrpnk community. While I’m increasingly frustrated with the state of Lemmy and particularly the devs, our instance is still great.
No ones stopping anyone from doing it, its just hard and not a priority
Well, would it make sense for Peertube to add this?
It’s just an entirely different concept of social media and while I personally would not be against adding it to Lemmy, I also do not miss it here and can understand that the devs are not enthusiastic about implementing it.
I think the interoperability of the Fediverse is its main advantage. We don’t need to be constrained by what we previously thought our focus was before the ideals of the fediverse were mainstream. If people don’t want to follow individuals there’s nothing that would force them to, but I think being able to connect with much wider portion of the fediverse would really help Lemmy grow.
If there’s another, better way to do this then I’m open to it but allowing the following of individual accounts seems like a very simple and easy way to accomplish this.
IMHO better would be the reverse: proper group support in Mastodon, Pixelfed etc. But the developers of these seem to be as reluctant to implement that as the Lemmy devs are regarding user microblogging.
How would that work exactly? Make hashtags into “communities” or something?
they said itd be hard and ppl are free to do it and commit it
never, they closed the topic
It’s on PieFed’s roadmap for this year.
you can already follow other users (i.e. watch their activity) via rss feeds. For example your accounts feed is https://slrpnk.net/feeds/u/LibertyLizard.xml?sort=New
I can paste that link into my rss reader (which is an external program or website), subscribing to your accounts feed, and stay updated about your activities that way.
Interesting. Is there a way to set this up so I could follow a user on pixelfed here on Lemmy for example?
And would you see just my posts or also a bunch of contextless comments? The latter might not be too useful.
i know some federated weather service that is displayed as a user on lemmy.
Piefed supports just about everything. But I really wish all federated software worked.
At least, a compability with Misskey groups would be great.
So far, Misskey has varied groups that actually active that feels like close friend groups on Facebook.
I guess mbin is halfway there in being a bridge? It lets you check both mastodon and lemmy posts
An aggregator of aggregators?
God I love the fediverse
As far as I’m aware, Friendica does this. One feed, lemmy posts, mastodon toots, and Pixelfed posts all there. Lemmy is trickier because you can’t follow people and depending on the way you look at it, comments can show up as individual posts.
Can confirm this appears to be the case. I might be switching to only hosting communities here but commenting there
@ekZepp They’re sorta bridged in the sense that if you @ a lemmy community from other ActivityPub software it’ll post to the community. It’s the same protocol, though a different enough implementation that it acts a lot like a bridge. The first line acts as the title, then the rest of the post is the body.
TIL. Where is this stuff documented anyway?
@Lemminary Not sure where I initially heard it, but I think I just came across it randomly in a comment or blog. I’m sure somewhere is some docs there’s the info though. Tested it a while back though and confirmed it works.
It’s kind of the whole point of activitypub, so it would be on the front page of any software that implements it.
I see! I thought Lemmy had a section somewhere. I’m quite tempted to open a PR and write this stuff down “somewhere”. Lol
What about piefed, the pylemmy
What would lemmy bridge to?
The other two monkes?
