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Shouldn’t lemmy automatically create a community the same name as a user on sign up, for future federation with mastodon? (lemmy.ml)
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If lemmy created a community the same name as the username when someone signs up. You could follow a lemmy user and then when your on mastodon (once we’re federated with mastodon) you could see their self posts in their community as a mastodon post and vice versa.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (3 children)

Is there any specific software you think would be a better option to federate with over ActivityPub?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 years ago (1 children)

@[email protected] said that

Pleroma already has communities and the same thing is coming to Pixelfed.

Which could be interesting, but again even if it was feasible it would be a long ways off because the devs have clarified they are focused on making lemmy as good as possible for lemmy users before trying to make it work on other social medias.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

Yeah I understand that it's a long ways before federation with other services happens. I was just curious if there was an ActivityPub software the devs would find better to federate with than Mastodon. Honestly I'm perfectly content with just Lemmy-Lemmy federation (:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 years ago

Something which works similarly to Lemmy or Reddit is the obvious answer, such as littr or lotide. But afaik neither of them has federation anywhere close to ready.

But in fact there are so many things that need work on Lemmy itself, that we dont have much time to work on federation with other software (unless devs from the other side are also willing to get that working).