I tried following a lemmy community in mastodon. It was super easy to follow a community just like a user. All posts were “boosted” by the community from the OPs to my feed. Great!
However my feed was immediately overwhelmed by a single lemmy community boosting not only the posts but every comment on all posts. My whole mastodon feed became an unordered list of lemmy comments.
Why are we implementing activitypub in this way? Shouldn’t communities boost the posts but leave comments as threads under the post? Does anyone know why lemmy works this way?
Also, would be lovely if every community had an “everything” user and a “hot” user. So like @technology@lemmy.ml and @technology_hot@lemmy.ml. It’s not a great experience to see literally every single post to a busy lemmy community in activitypub until they’ve gotten some upvotes.
PS - I am aware that integrating with mastodon is low priority, but if we’re going to use activitypub to share with non lemmy networks, we should be good citizens of it.
Thank you! That makes sense.
It definitely feels a bit like HTML 2.0 right now. I’m hoping some of this stuff gets standardized into the activitypub spec because it’s going to have to support not just microblogging, video sharing, photo feeds and link aggregators, but it’s also going to have to support any new social network concepts that pop up. It doesnt work if different networks interpret activity inconsistently. Still waiting for our HTML 5 moment.