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

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[–] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 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