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So many cool posts about #emacs recently but I am not sure the microblog UI is the best for them. Ideally, I wish we could group AP actors to announce any activity by a certain hashtag, so they could (mastodon.communick.com)
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So many cool posts about #emacs recently but I am not sure the microblog UI is the best for them. Ideally, I wish we could group AP actors to announce any activity by a certain hashtag, so they could become posts in something like #lemmy instead.

In the meantime, how do I get more of this emacs conversation on @emacs ?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The problem here is not with Lemmy per se. The problem is that all ActivityPub software that it's being built is just trying to replicate the functionality of the "traditional" social media counterpart.

Mastodon apes Twitter, Lemmy apes Reddit... We claim that they "interoperate" but in reality AP is just used as a translation layer so that both services can just deal with their own abstraction.

That is a waste. We should have AP as the core abstraction, and the apps should just be some different shell to browse around the data. The "emacs actor" that wants to announce every note tagged #emacs should be able to do so automatically, without having to have a person chasing the author to say "hey, can you please share/post this on Lemmy?"

When we reach that point, then I'd say we have "real interop". So far, it is just a toy.

/rant

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You described how a.Gup.ee groups work - if you mention them they announce the post.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to get Lemmy to subscribe to any. I would guess that they look like people actors not group actors causing the issue.