Several people post about #rust and #rustlang on the fediverse. Could those posts be automatically pulled in here, e.g. into a dedicated community instance?
Several people post about #rust and #rustlang on the fediverse. Could those posts be automatically pulled in here, e.g. into a dedicated community instance?
I know painfully little of ActivityPub, but from a protocol design PoV, Lemmy altering its behavior when it sees Mastodon doesn’t sound desirable. I’d rather put metadata in the toots that allow better decisions, or even have two entities (linked by metadata) for channel-top-posts and channel-everything, if the latter is needed at all.
Good point! I was thinking more like spec authors should add a compatibility layer on top of ActivityPub (which I don’t know much either) where clients can subscribe with different synchronization styles, something abstract like mastodon-like with N characters max-length, or lemmy-like, or diaspora-like, or pixelfed-like… This way lemmy developers can decide what makes sense to expose in each sync mode or even stay hidden for some types of social networks…
The idea is being efficient with memory and network resources and don’t sync anything not required. I think it would be a little bit like your latter proposal but more over-engineered :D