Following #lemmy communities from #mastodon 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: #asklemmy
If you’re starting a community, giving it a unique enough name could help prevent overlap too.
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@maegul @fediverse One problem I see with this is that some communities may be generating a lot of new traffic for hashtags that previously didn’t get that much traffic.
What about prefixing auto-generated hashtags with something like lemmy.<community> or similar, so there’s a clear distinction between automatic and explicit hashtags?