julian

occultist8128@infosec.pub "followers only" is a concept that is Mastodon specific, and Pixelfed supports it.

There's nothing to change at the protocol level itself.

Sending the reply to OP in your example would be a betrayal of the visibility of followers only... which is kind of silly but technically correct.

Better would be followers + participants, but that's up to the individual implementors to adopt.

pumpkindrama@reddthat.com NodeBB supports topic based following, because it's a forum and that's literally how it was done way back then.

You can follow tags as well.

Loops is newly funded, so that round is still active. I still wouldn't get hype about it until it happens though! 😉

Unfortunately it actually isn't. NodeBB (me!) and Discourse are the only two forums that federate.

NodeBB has full two-way support with discovery features, Discourse is mostly broadcast-style (i.e. you can't find Lemmy posts from Discourse)

valuesubtracted@startrek.website CTV SciFi is still an add-on channel, which is unfortunate for freeloaders like me (I use an antenna which probably makes me a crusty old fart.)

Theoretically, it shouldn't matter.

In the ideal case every connected server should host a full and complete copy of the data from the originating server (as xkdrxodrixkr@feddit.org says, that's B)

Reality is a bit different, but not enough to warrant always picking B. Just share whichever you'd like, but B is the most right.

Yes. When the reply is posted to C, it is sent to A. A then sends as:Announce to C, as well as any other communities that follow it.

B seems to be irrelevant here.

Hi! We should chat.

NodeBB also does this, and currently still does. A category (group actor) can follow another category (also a group actor).

It essentially is synchronization of categories using 1b12.

Proof of concept does work but it needs reworking in some ways. The largest issue is that Lemmy itself doesn't understand when a group actor tries to follow a community.

Tell me about it! There are some very cool people (i.e. thisismissem@hachyderm.io) working on content classification and tagging so that the burden of filtering out this kind of content isn't borne by server admins directly.

snoopy@jlai.lu personally, since I create AP enabled software I am on the side of votes being public data. We already have enough issues with votes being out of sync with each other. Mixing in private voting is just asking for trouble.

Emoji reactions are neat, although niche to those softwares that utilise it. They allow for greater expression which is nice. They're useless for deriving value (for ranking purposes) unless you assign value to them.

Does anyone remember way before Google had image recognition technology, the time they built a game that paired up random people on the internet, showed them each an image, and waited for them to both guess the same keyword?

It was gamified human powered taxonomy for meaningless internet points and it was hilarious (at the time.)

rglullis@communick.news A little bit, yes! There was a recent thread in the community I posted to where a discussion about the rather lacklustre search of various software took place.