Following #lemmy communities from #mastodon has gotten much better

Fediverse@lemmy.ml – 45 points – 4 months ago

Version 19.4 introduced automatic hashtag-ing (see https://lemmy.ml/post/16585416)

Posts get federated with a hashtag matching the community name.

The important bit is that comments to posts *don't* get the tags.

Which means you can follow the corresponding tag on mastodon and get a feed only of posts.

If you're starting a community, giving it a unique enough name could help prevent overlap too.

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@maegul @fediverse Will not adding community to an exclusive list hide it from hashtags too?

I don’t believe so. I’m pretty sure I’ve checked it, but I could be wrong.

It makes sense though as hashtags are a different mechanism from follows and boosts.

You could do a quick test with the test community and the test hashtag.

@maegul @fediverse Working as intended. Thanks.

Hope usable direct following for lemmy from Mastodon come soon.

Otherwise this method is fine too.

Unfortunately it’s unlikely to come soon as mastodon is a while away from implementing groups and are doing it their own incompatible way.

This tag process works though and I’m happy the lemmy devs implemented it.

Spread the word.