A bridge isn’t really necessary. Both Lemmy and Pixelfed use the same communication protocol. Lemmy just doesn’t let you follow users, and PixelFed is a user-based, rather than group-based, program.
If you want to follow both groups and users, you should just use a site that’s running software that supports that. Mbin, or nodeBB, or something.
pixelfed also have hashtags, maybe we can map an hashtag to a lemmy community.
That’s similar to want #Mbin does.
The problem with hashtags is that the post itself won’t be federated unless someone is following the user who made the post (or someone who boosted it). So Lemmy would be unable to see those posts anyways.
I have thought about a simple ActivityPub service that pulls a Mastodon RSS feed of a hashtag and boosts them all from a group/community actor, I think that would work for following from Lemmy.
Isn’t that something that could easily be updated by PixelFed?
the way hashtags work? Mastodon has the same issue
Hashtags doesn’t have universal thing.
For example, hashtag for #red can mean anything, from a mere color to political association.
Twitter trending tag often filled with two trending topic that shares same hashtag hut nothing do to with each other. Especially for same langauge but different region like English America vs English Asia.
Piefed supports just about everything. But I really wish all federated software worked.
At least, a compability with Misskey groups would be great.
So far, Misskey has varied groups that actually active that feels like close friend groups on Facebook.
I guess mbin is halfway there in being a bridge? It lets you check both mastodon and lemmy posts
An aggregator of aggregators?
God I love the fediverse
@ekZepp They’re sorta bridged in the sense that if you @ a lemmy community from other ActivityPub software it’ll post to the community. It’s the same protocol, though a different enough implementation that it acts a lot like a bridge. The first line acts as the title, then the rest of the post is the body.
TIL. Where is this stuff documented anyway?
It’s kind of the whole point of activitypub, so it would be on the front page of any software that implements it.
I see! I thought Lemmy had a section somewhere. I’m quite tempted to open a PR and write this stuff down “somewhere”. Lol
@Lemminary Not sure where I initially heard it, but I think I just came across it randomly in a comment or blog. I’m sure somewhere is some docs there’s the info though. Tested it a while back though and confirmed it works.
As far as I’m aware, Friendica does this. One feed, lemmy posts, mastodon toots, and Pixelfed posts all there. Lemmy is trickier because you can’t follow people and depending on the way you look at it, comments can show up as individual posts.
Can confirm this appears to be the case. I might be switching to only hosting communities here but commenting there
What about piefed, the pylemmy
What would lemmy bridge to?
The other two monkes?
