There will be remote user following too, but this comes after community federation. I also still have to think of the best way to show user posts / status updates in your feed. These would be similar to the reddit self posts on your own user page you can do now.
I still don’t get the idea of self posts. Does it mean I shall go to my profile page and this will be the only place to see their posts (apart from their profiles of course)?
Looking from another perspective, I would say I would like to see someone’s posts/comments in my feed in case I have subscribed to him/her. Let’s say I’ve subscribed to user1 and user2, and to community1, community2, community3. The user1 has subscribed to community4, and the user2 to community5. I’m not subscribed to the communities 4 and 5. After this point and assuming the users 1 and 2 haven’t created any posts/comments, I shall see posts from communities 1, 2, and 3 in my feed.
Then, let’s say the user1 has created a post named “post1” in the community4, and the user2 has commented another post named “post2” in the community5. Now my feed should contain posts from the communities 1, 2 and 3, AND the posts “post1” @ community4 and “post2” @ community5.
The above is maybe the approach I personally would be happy with, but I’m open to experimenting, and I’m aware it’s more Facebook-like than Reddit-like. Opinions are welcome.
Ya I was thinking similar, that if you follow / subscribe to a user, your feed has their “community-less” / self posts (which is what mastodon and all the others have), as well as their posts to any community.
There will be remote user following too, but this comes after community federation. I also still have to think of the best way to show user posts / status updates in your feed. These would be similar to the reddit self posts on your own user page you can do now.
I was under impression there’s no user following on Reddit, but have just discovered there is. Do you know how it’s implemented on Reddit?
Its in the form of “self posts” :
I think, but I’m not totally 100% sure because no one uses it on reddit, is that anyone you have friended, their self posts show up on your feed.
I still don’t get the idea of self posts. Does it mean I shall go to my profile page and this will be the only place to see their posts (apart from their profiles of course)?
Looking from another perspective, I would say I would like to see someone’s posts/comments in my feed in case I have subscribed to him/her. Let’s say I’ve subscribed to user1 and user2, and to community1, community2, community3. The user1 has subscribed to community4, and the user2 to community5. I’m not subscribed to the communities 4 and 5. After this point and assuming the users 1 and 2 haven’t created any posts/comments, I shall see posts from communities 1, 2, and 3 in my feed.
Then, let’s say the user1 has created a post named “post1” in the community4, and the user2 has commented another post named “post2” in the community5. Now my feed should contain posts from the communities 1, 2 and 3, AND the posts “post1” @ community4 and “post2” @ community5.
The above is maybe the approach I personally would be happy with, but I’m open to experimenting, and I’m aware it’s more Facebook-like than Reddit-like. Opinions are welcome.
Ya I was thinking similar, that if you follow / subscribe to a user, your feed has their “community-less” / self posts (which is what mastodon and all the others have), as well as their posts to any community.
By self-posts, do you mean just a feed of personal posts a user has on Mastodon, Facebook etc?
A mastodon toot is basically a self post. Your mastodon feed is a listing of everyone’s posts that you follow.
Got you. Well, if Lemmy can become not only a discussion platform, but also an expression platform, that’d be good.