Discussion about Lemmy/pixelfed bridges: https://lemmy.world/post/24306481
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
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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.