@LemmyDev Community following and user following are not at all that different when you think about this real hard.
Case in point, @rf. It is an actor on Mastodon, that works like a community group. Somebody who is subscribed mentions it in their first message - the post gets boosted. This way, the @rf feed is basically a catalogue of threads which community takes part in.
This maps very well on a forum/reddit design structure. If Lemmy starts doing the same for everyone else (not only Lemmy itself), it will become the most important piece of the Fediverse ecosystem. Right now it's just the thing in itself, like Diaspora is today.
And nobody deserves to be like Diaspora is today, trust me.
@LemmyDev So I suggest the next step you take is you pursue interoperability, probably in direct contact with other engine developers. Because:
1) there's very real benefit to have for both Lemmy and the rest of the Fediverse here. The Fediverse needs communities, and currently there's literally nothing that provides this, it's a niche so wide it certainly can be considered a gap or even a rift that should be mended
2) if not, the promise of "the single universe called the Fediverse" on your website are basically meaningless and a little bit misleading, to be honest. I believe, you people can do better than this.
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@LemmyDev So I suggest the next step you take is you pursue interoperability, probably in direct contact with other engine developers. Because:
1) there's very real benefit to have for both Lemmy and the rest of the Fediverse here. The Fediverse needs communities, and currently there's literally nothing that provides this, it's a niche so wide it certainly can be considered a gap or even a rift that should be mended