So you could subscribe communities to hashtags and have it displays toots and pictures from that hashtag in the Lemmy UI

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    3 months ago

    Ah yes, but the main difference is that they need to know the exact community name to be able to post, a tag is much more generic

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            3 months ago

            it’s easier to tag stuff.

            Yes, and then easier to flood too 😄

            Something else that I just thought about: there would be no way to prevent multiple communities to fetch the same hashtag, so we would end up with even more duplicates than now, with toots replicated on all of the communities fetching that hashtag

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              3 months ago

              What’s wrong with duplicates? I love seeing stuff posted to multiple communities. I get to check out new communities and meet new people.

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                  Fragmentation is a myth. Look at the various different technology groups that are all thriving on different instances. Stop (inadvertantly) pushing for centralization!

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                    Fragmentation exists and depends on how many users are interested to discuss a topic.

                    Of course tech communities are thriving, they are the common denominators for most of the users on Lemmy.

                    On the other hand, if we had !football@lemmy.world , and people also posting to !soccer@lemmy.world, splitting the tiny community there is, wouldn’t you want everyone to just go to one place to keep it alive, rather than have 50% of low activity on either side?

                    That’s why I’m still posting to some LW communities even though I’m not a fan of having communities there.

                    There are only so many people interested to talk about active communities, so I create the weekly post to discuss about active communities on !newcommunities@lemmy.world , because it’s more important to get visibility for communities than to avoid this community being on lemmy.world.

                    I could have it on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca too, but that would mean asking everyone to comment twice, and realistically that’s not going to happen.

                    Being able to move away from a community thanks to federation does not mean every community should be duplicated, that’s counterproductive.