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

  • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The words in the middle are the key difference, though:

    Communities are groups

    Communities involve (i.e. are not) topics

    Communities involve (i.e. are not) individuals

    The social structure of Lemmy is fundamentally centred on groups, and that’s what makes it distinct from other fediverse platforms, even if there is some interoperability