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Hashtags do not replace groups.

No one moderates them. They’re easy to hijack and spam. And there’s simply no permanence to them.

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.

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[–] maruno@bark.lgbt 1 points 23 hours ago

@atomicpoet I had found this in the beginning, used it for a few days and unfollowed everything in frustration. At least in Mastodon it is way, way too spammy as you get every single reply. I don't really get why you would want this, hashtags make more sense for the microblogging idea to me and once I knew you could follow them instead things got a lot better for me here.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

+1, I absolutely loathe the twitter model of discussion because it's a huge mess of out of order replies and random spam. Individual discussion posts with tree threaded comments are way, way, way more effective at keeping discussion relevant and directed. Also +1 re: moderation, social media functions best with effective, vigorous, moderation and the twitter model just sucks there.

[–] alsternerd@social.alster.space 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

@atomicpoet
Also it whould be neat to somehow see from the handle itself if it's a group or not. It's the case with the classic å.gup.pe, but I can't derive that from lemmy.ca without having to look it up.

I also find it father difficult to find groups, because the default ActivityPub-Search doesn't work that way and groups are just special users.
That's why I like a.gup.pe, it sounds a bit like Gruppe in german. Which doesn't help internationally, something like gro.up oder a subdomain including group whould be helpful and make the seqrch for groups easier, because then it's part of the name.

@fediverse

[–] mapto@masto.bg 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] alsternerd@social.alster.space 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] crossgolf_rebel@moppels.bar 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@alsternerd@social.alster.space @mapto@masto.bg @atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org @fediverse@lemmy.world

I think this is also more of a comprehension problem in the Fediverse or the mastodons that are closing themselves off

If you always think a little outside the box, then #lemmy is already a term.
That's what happens when you shorten communication about the Fediverse to ‘mastodon only’, it excludes so much that would help

[–] alsternerd@social.alster.space 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@crossgolf_rebel @atomicpoet @fediverse @mapto For me Lemmy is just Reddit build on top of activitypub and just feels like that, while using it with Thunder on Android or even the webinterface given.

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[–] m3t00@mstdn.party 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

@m3t00 @fediverse Give me more context and what you specifically mean.

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