Big read, but gives a good perspective.
I think theres three big stories of this coming election.
- The rebalancing of metro v regional votes.
- Liberals progress clawing back traditional Liberal seats could indicate how satisfied West Australians are with WA Labor.
- Independent Challengers in western suburbs could indicate dissatisfaction with both majors for different and complicated reasons.
My guess (I don’t know for sure) is that Mastodon is interpreting all posts in “/c/perth” as a thread with #perth added to it, and for example, all the /c/asklemmy’s will be seen by them as #asklemmy (regardless of which instance’s /c/asklemmy it is). So if they follow #perth, they’d get all our /c/perth posts.
I haven’t looked into inter-format federation much but as we’ve seen, it can get funky. Consider this (pseudo-)community: https://aussie.zone/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com
It’s really Lemmy reading this PeerTube video channel as a community, so we can basically subscribe to and comment on a video channel from here!
That pseudo-community is an interesting experiment someones done. So this is almost like what people would have to do in walled gardens to have a channel on each platform, but an automatically updating lemmy community version from the peertube platform’s channel. I think i get it.
So in my basic parlance it means a creator could set these up, post to a single preferred platform and have the post spread in an intelligible way to Lemmy. Potentially cutting down on a lot of extra admin and configuring by the creators using multiple platforms.
Now i read what i’ve said back, i don’t know that i get this. Lol!
Yeah, you’ve gotten the idea.
I haven’t tested, but I believe it’s also a pathway to allow us to use our Lemmy accounts to leave comments on PeerTube videos, to up/downvote them and to subscribe, on ways that make sense to us as Lemmy users and which make sense to the PeerTube users seeing our comments on their videos.