So you could subscribe communities to hashtags and have it displays toots and pictures from that hashtag in the Lemmy UI

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    3 months ago

    What is preventing people from spamming popular hashtags to flood communities?

    The same thing preventing people from spamming community tags presently.

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      3 months ago

      We have visible community tags at the moment? I thought they were only visible from Mastodon, and invisible from Lemmy?

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        3 months ago

        Maybe I’m explaining poorly, but people on mastodon and PixelFed have been able to tag communities via @lemmy@lemmy.ml for a while.

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          3 months ago

          Ah yes, but the main difference is that they need to know the exact community name to be able to post, a tag is much more generic

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                  3 months ago

                  it’s easier to tag stuff.

                  Yes, and then easier to flood too 😄

                  Something else that I just thought about: there would be no way to prevent multiple communities to fetch the same hashtag, so we would end up with even more duplicates than now, with toots replicated on all of the communities fetching that hashtag

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                    3 months ago

                    What’s wrong with duplicates? I love seeing stuff posted to multiple communities. I get to check out new communities and meet new people.