turns out that federating forums by ingesting microblogs with hashtags is an absolutely disastrous idea
even worse, while forum<>forum federation might work, as soon as one forum ingests microblogs it ruins the ecosystem for the other forums who are connected to it
Laurens Hof
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2025-10-30 11:08:31 UTC
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