5d ago

Just curious

Discussion about Lemmy/pixelfed bridges: https://lemmy.world/post/24306481

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A bridge isn't really necessary. Both Lemmy and Pixelfed use the same communication protocol. Lemmy just doesn't let you follow users, and PixelFed is a user-based, rather than group-based, program.
If you want to follow both groups and users, you should just use a site that's running software that supports that. Mbin, or nodeBB, or something.
- 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.
  
  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.
- So when is Lemmy going to support following users? Seems like a major missing feature to me.
  
  This has been long discussed and deemed part of a problem space that Lemmy isn't meant to solve. So probably never.
  But there are Fediverse apps like Friendica or Mbin that support both, and it lookes like Pixelfed is going to sooner or later support the reverse, i.e. subscribing to Lemmy based groups.
  
  never, they closed the topic
  
  It's on PieFed's roadmap for this year.
  
  i know some federated weather service that is displayed as a user on lemmy.
  
  you can already follow other users (i.e. watch their activity) via rss feeds. For example your accounts feed is https://slrpnk.net/feeds/u/LibertyLizard.xml?sort=New
  I can paste that link into my rss reader (which is an external program or website), subscribing to your accounts feed, and stay updated about your activities that way.
- Piefed supports just about everything. But I really wish all federated software worked.
- At least, a compability with Misskey groups would be great.
  So far, Misskey has varied groups that actually active that feels like close friend groups on Facebook.

I guess mbin is halfway there in being a bridge? It lets you check both mastodon and lemmy posts
- An aggregator of aggregators?
  God I love the fediverse

@ekZepp They're sorta bridged in the sense that if you @ a lemmy community from other ActivityPub software it'll post to the community. It's the same protocol, though a different enough implementation that it acts a lot like a bridge. The first line acts as the title, then the rest of the post is the body.
- TIL. Where is this stuff documented anyway?
  
  @Lemminary Not sure where I initially heard it, but I think I just came across it randomly in a comment or blog. I'm sure somewhere is some docs there's the info though. Tested it a while back though and confirmed it works.
  
  It's kind of the whole point of activitypub, so it would be on the front page of any software that implements it.

As far as I’m aware, Friendica does this. One feed, lemmy posts, mastodon toots, and Pixelfed posts all there. Lemmy is trickier because you can’t follow people and depending on the way you look at it, comments can show up as individual posts.
- Can confirm this appears to be the case. I might be switching to only hosting communities here but commenting there

What about piefed, the pylemmy

What would lemmy bridge to?
- The other two monkes?

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