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.
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.