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The Britannica entry for the Fediverse is really good
(www.britannica.com)
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Great that they have an article on it, though their formatting the start of each article like a dictionary entry is a bit odd compared to Wikipedia.
If it were a Wikipedia article, it would probably need some copyediting to give it a more encyclopedic tone along with in-line citations.
Man, that "can" is doing a fuck of a lot of heavy lifting. lemmy, piefed are 100% when you start going pixelfed or loops, or mastodon the compatibility matrix stops looking like that nice spiderweb.
you're lucky if you can even finger a user between systems
I'm sure the gals at the blahaj zone are up for it
Can confirm. Finger me between systems, bby!
Tbh I never understood the Lemmy users can interact with all other platforms that share the same protocol.
It's not like I can view a Mastodon user's history on Lemny, right?
Lemmy and history, no. On Lemmy you can see comments from Mastodon and posts (toot with a Lemmy community pinged inside. Which is rarely done but happens). But not the toots themselves
Piefed now allows to directly follow accounts (similar to Mastodon, Friendica, etc) and you can start getting the new toots after following an account https://piefed.zip/c/microblogs
Lemmy is all about groups. It doesn't have any way to connect to and interact with single users.
Mastodon, on the contrary, is all about single users following single users. It has no support for groups whatsoever. Mastodon users can follow Lemmy communities, yes. They can reply to posts, but in a very Mastodon way (automatic mentions, they'll probably insert hashtags etc.). Seeing (almost) the entire conversation is the default on Lemmy and extremely tedious and anything but straight-forward on Mastodon. And starting a new thread in a Lemmy community from Mastodon is difficult, nobody knows how to do it right, and whoever tries it will clash with Lemmy's culture.
Stuff like Friendica or Hubzilla is somewhat more general-purpose. It can do both. But I've yet to see a Lemmy user subscribe to a Friendica group or a Hubzilla forum (the opposite does work).
From mastodon viewing lemmy stuff is nice enough. It would be great if you could seamlessly crosspost and share between platforms.
afaik you can
how?
ehh.. just tested and it doesn't seem to work.. somehow i remembered it working but maybe i was mistaken
sorry for the misinformation
piefed is working on it at the moment. I can see some stuff working. Following/posts that make it here/etc.. its coming along pretty quick!
Yeah, I keep trying the different things. We're really not using the fediverse for all it's capable of.
We can generally see all the users on all the federated systems, but none of their old content, a limited number of systems can follow other systems and see new stuff.
I'd really like to see being able to log into pixelfed.social as rumba@lemmy.zip, post images there (and in loops.video) and reference them in my mastodon and lemmy posts.
All the interoperability is threadbare.
This kind of stuff is the coolest thing about the fediverse and ActivityPub to me.
All the things you mentioned are possible in theory but the tools and infrastructure to do it haven't been created.
Yeah, It's got some great bones. Would have been good if everyone had some interop best standards or even a skeleton framework, but i don't want my money back :)