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Fediverse-wide Interoperability

TL;DR I want Mastodon hashtags treated like communities.

Given the following homomorphism (morphism, analogy) between microblogs like Mastodon and the forumverse:

nrmicroblogforumverse
010subscribe to hashtagssubscribe to communities
020include particular hashtags in their posts(cross-)post in particular communities
025include particular hashtags in their postsinclude particular hashtags in their posts
030list posts of a hashtagview a community
040comment a postcomment a post
050star a postupvote a post
060boost into TLapprove "into" community

I wish to interact with microbloggers as a piefed user. Piefed could render microblog posts that contain a hashtag as a community post within a "community" named by this particular hashtag. Also, microblog accounts could be viewed like a regular user in piefed.

Pros: Lemmy posts and communities are visible and subscriptable in Mastodon already. Piefed should complete this connectivity.

Cons: Re-interpreting microblog posts as forum entries could lead to some misunderstandings which again lead to defederation. But I cannot think of any.

Edits: Added 060, 025, TL;DR
Edit: There appears to be a Mastodon integration being planned.

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