Curious, how many users here actually use ActivityPub's capabilities to see other social media sites?
I’ve always wondered how many people actually decide to use something like mastodon to see Lemmy posts. I mean I know how inadequate it can be with a lack of a proper UI but I’m just wondering. Especially, with the infinite possibilities this can have.
My mastodon account follows a few lemmy communities but I find the formats for each don’t transfer well. I’ll sometimes switch from one to another if I specifically want to make a retoot of a comment and direct attention to a community.
I follow lots of Kbin and Lemmy instances. And while I don’t really have any interest in microblogging, I’ve had a few conversations in Lemmy comment sections with Mastodon users, so that’s pretty cool.
I follow a couple small communities on my mastodon account. But the truth is that there’s different use cases between that and lemmy, so it isn’t ideal.
I tried following lemmy communities using mastodon, but it wasn’t pretty. everytime someone posts a comment I receive a separate post on tusky, without context (both the original post, or parent comment are missing) and I would need to click each time on a post to go back up the tree, mastoton and its clients need to do some work to improve interoperability with other platforms,
but unfortunaly the only platform Mastodon recognises and is excited about joining is threads. I have never seen them address the existance of other fediverse projects.
@Venomnik0 I use it on couple, I find looking at Lemmy post on Friendica to be much better compare to *key (the one I'm on right now) which mainly is the formatting.
Otherwise, this is what it looks like on *key's end and it not bad but definitely not as ideal
I haven’t done a lot with it myself yet, but I have noticed that a solid half of the people who interact with my Pixelfed posts are coming from Mastodon. Probably because the hashtags work across the two? I guess?
Yeah the hashtags reach out to really any instance that is atleast related to Mastodon. I’ve seen a few misskey.io ones and a few others i forgot the names to but they both share alot
I tend to use Lemmy most often just because it’s easier to interact with Lemmy and kbin that way, but I have Mastodon, Lemmy, kbin, and pixelfed posts in my feed on my Calckey instance, so I can at least browse communities I’m subscribed to through there.
What would be nice is some way to sync subscriptions and blocks across platforms and between instances. I’d probably be using my own instance more often if that were a bit easier.
That is a crazy thought really. Us being able to communicate. I always really love to see the @ handles for some instances as it brings on this togetherness and uniqueness that no other site (or really protocol) gives me. Honestly kinda weird some apps prefer to hide that instance label rather than show it.
Yeah, I’m not clear either. At first I thought the microblogs section would work more like Mastodon but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Big missed opportunity
Ernest is still building it so I think we are going to see more functionality around the underdeveloped aspects. He was kind of swamped by the reddit influx.
I just posted my first microblog today. Nothing fladh just an article I liked.
I credited/mentioned the mastodon account I got the link from. The mastodon account person came by and upvoted it, so clearly we are able to get interactions with them. Exciting!
I haven’t used it at all. The fediverse can communicate with eachother, sure, but every website has its own ways of browsing and listing posts. Websites have to make a bridge to another website so you can actually interact with them in a way that makes sense, like how kbin has its own way to interact with Mastodon.
Unless someone makes a super app that lets you browse each implementation with one account, I think the Fediverse will mostly stay split with limited cross-app communication.
With Fedilab, which I mainly use for Mastodon, I browse peertube and if I'm logged out of lemmy/kbin I happen to like posts from that account, on mobile I find it difficult to use multiple apps. I find that app has pretty complete support to most fediverse sites
Mastodon users can see Lemmy posts, but I’m not sure if it works the other way around unless the Mastodon post is specifically to a Lemmy community. Kbin magazines do show up on Lemmy though
If the person who posts on mastodon mentions a community on lemmy, their toot appears as a post in that community on lemmy. It happened on !thunder_app
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