Which is why, if you actually want to discuss something, it’s better to tag a group. For example, if you want to be part of an actual PC gaming community on the Fediverse, it’s better to tag @pcgaming@lemmy.ca than #pcgaming.

This needs to be common knowledge because people new to the Fediverse do not know about groups. Hell, I’d say people who have had Mastodon accounts for years still don’t know. And that’s a shame.

@fediverse@lemmy.world

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[–] Steve@communick.news 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That would be cool. Might be useful. Not sure it's really possible.

[–] atomicpoet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not only is it possible, there’s lots of Fediverse software that’s just designed to be a “dumb server” akin to Nginx. For example, appy:

https://appy.cat/

Now the reason this stuff hasn’t caught fire yet is because we’re just now moving away from “Fediverse = Mastodon”. So the idea of federation itself isn’t just a paradigm shift, it’s a complete system shock that disrupts our mental models for how social media is supposed to work.

[–] Steve@communick.news 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's entirely dependent on the interface switching, or some kind of universal interface. That's the part I have serous doubts about. Keep in mind you have to make a single interface that work better than all the others on their respective native systems. I'm not sure that's possible.

[–] atomicpoet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You don’t need to make a single interface, just a “meta-interface” that allows you to switch UIs on the fly.

That’s entirely doable within a client.