yea I mean it's fun to use and works well if you're on a large instance like mastodon.social, I use it even on a medium size instance
but communities/groups work better on the fediverse, and maybe something in between the 2 could be created, some kind of federated version of hashtags
hashtags don't work well on the Fediverse, a hashtag doesn't have an owning instance which means there's no way to push/pull the content by hashtag
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https://www.youtube.com/@WardiTV/streams
VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2417483690 (I don't think he did youtube this time)
Group C was really good, VOD here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKVsKq3vmys
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it depends if your Lemmy instance is configured to copy and host images, or proxy images (in which case they won't get your IP but they'll know when you look), or neither (they get your IP if they're running their own instance or self-hosting the image itself)
I just sent myself a PM to test:
programming.dev shows the image as hosted from retrolemmy.com
it might also be currently bugged: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5538
It also reduces the possibility of being tracked
I think Deus Ex (2000). The gameplay is so open and full of possibilities, and the story is crazy but it works so well. It's so replayable.
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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.