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maegul , (edited )
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Following communities from has gotten much better

Version 19.4 introduced automatic hashtag-ing (see https://lemmy.ml/post/16585416)

Posts get federated with a hashtag matching the community name.

The important bit is that comments to posts don't get the tags.

Which means you can follow the corresponding tag on mastodon and get a feed only of posts.

EG:

If you're starting a community, giving it a unique enough name could help prevent overlap too.

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maegul OP ,
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A tricky part here is that the community still needs to be followed at least once on your instance for the content to come through. I think

So if a community isn't coming through, I'd recommend these steps:

  • Search for the community and follow it like any other user.
  • Add it to a specific/bespoke list, then remove that list from home (a setting available on each list). This removes "the firehose" from your home feed.
  • Follow the corresponding tag as you would any other

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  • random
  • [email protected]
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
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