Twitter-likes are tag based. Reddit-likes are community based? I think it's fine and good if communities merge or get subsumed by an equivalent on another instance.

[–] PopOfAfrica 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes and no, ideally we would also still have communities. You can imagine how a topic like Henry Kissinger's death could be talked about in both of a politics sub, and noncredibledefence esque military based sub.

The point is basically to give better search functionality and bridge these communities by topic in a way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

For now, search does work pretty well instead of tags, you can just search for the keyword

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

you can see one in the other.

Right now, you can't see Mastodon toots unless they go out of their way to link a Lemmy community. I hope we'll get better integration at some point (a way to subscribe to users or hashtags, maybe), because that would give a lot more activity