like I said, hashtags are fun, but the fact that even if you follow the hashtag it only shows posts that were already federated into your instance confuses people

communities/groups will federate the posts for you if you follow, but following a hashtag does not give any federation

Even if you could follow hashtags on Lemmy, you would also need to be able to follow users for anything to show up (so that's 2 big new features required). And since it requires following users, that would also mean a culture shift would be required, you'd need to convince your instance-mates to use their Lemmy accounts to follow people, but people are mostly here to follow communities not people.

I'm not against the features being added, I just don't think they're going to be as impactful to the Lemmy platform as expected.

[–] Snoopy@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Well we would miss lot interesting topics from Mastodon. You may not see the point because english user base is big.

Most of our french user base stayed on Reddit or use Mastodon. Art ? Mastodon. News ? Mastodon...

So how can we solve that ? On Mastodon, i found lot user posting interesting links. Our left french media are also on mastodon. Should be able to crosspost them here ? :)

I went on mastodon, created an account, copy-pasta posted news on various communities, I used hashtag and some users commented on jlai.lu

It does works but we need to allow the users the freedom to be followed or not. If they want to be followed, they can follow mastodon users. And that would be the first step to break "locked" software as reddit, twitter.

We are more open then Reddit but, for me, i think we are replicating proprietary software organisation. We are still creating clone of twitter, reddit whereas we use a protocole that allow us to achieve much more things.

Shouldn't we try something else where lines between various software is blurred ?