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Following #lemmy communities from #mastodon has gotten much better (hachyderm.io)
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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.

@fediverse

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[–] maegul@hachyderm.io 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@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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[–] simpleguy@cuddly.space 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@maegul @fediverse Will not adding community to an exclusive list hide it from hashtags too?

[–] maegul@hachyderm.io 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

@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.

[–] simpleguy@cuddly.space 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@maegul @fediverse Working as intended. Thanks.

Hope usable direct following for lemmy from Mastodon come soon.

Otherwise this method is fine too.

[–] maegul@hachyderm.io 1 points 3 months ago

@simpleguy @fediverse

Unfortunately it’s unlikely to come soon as mastodon is a while away from implementing groups and are doing it their own incompatible way.

This tag process works though and I’m happy the lemmy devs implemented it.

Spread the word.