In the federated future, anyone in the Fediverse will be able to subscribe to a Lemmy entity (a user, a community etc.) from outside Lemmy. Can anyone explain which entities will be available to subscribe, and how it will look like for others?

Subscribing to a community - does it mean that there is an account such as @lemmy_support@dev.lemmy.ml, that will show all posts in the community (I guess in chronological order)? In which way federated posts will contain the info on the post’s author? How comments to a post will be federated?

Subscribing to a user - does it mean subscribing to self-posts only, or to all posts/comments of that user?

  • @nutomicA
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    44 years ago

    Yeah it would probably be similar to the way you subscribe to other users. But our priority is federation between Lemmy instances, federation with other software is not a priority. And we have barely started implementing federation, so it is not clear at all how exactly things will work between different software.

  • @appa
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    34 years ago

    User vs community would have to be a part of either the name or domain to prevent collisions. Would it be semantics vs usability? @lemmy-support@community.lemmy.ml vs @c-lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

      • @AgreeableLandscape
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        4 years ago

        It makes it a lot harder for a normal user to troll the format, for example by setting their username as c-user.

    • @AgreeableLandscape
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      14 years ago

      A shorter option would be @lemmy_support@c.lemmy.ml or use a hashtag for communities and @ for users, like #lemmy_support@lemmy.ml and @user@lemmy.ml.

      • @nutomicA
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        24 years ago

        I dont know if the thing with subdomains is even possible. But in the end this is just a UX question, and can be handled differently by different software. So Lemmy might show communities somehow similar to Reddit, eg lemmy.ml/c/main, whereas Mastodon would use !main@lemmy.ml.

        • @appa
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          14 years ago

          My bad, I assumed thay it would be up to Lemmy to figure out how to create an api that mastadon could work with. I have no idea what the ActivityPub stuff actually looks like or entails.

          • @nutomicA
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            14 years ago

            Its more complicated than that. ActivityPub is called a standard, but there are a lot of ways to do the same thing in Activitypub, which means two implementations could be completely incompatible. Anyway we will focus on federation between Lemmy instances first, and federation with other software later.