The idea is cool with all the apps interconnecting, but where do I go to actually see this in practice. Does the cross communication only work on platforms like Mbin/piefed, or am I not seeing something.
I keep hearing thanks to activity pub posts here can be seen and replied to from elsewhere, but I haven’t seen it.
You will occassionally see some people from other platforms, like mastodon, commenting or posting here. But Lemmy isn’t the most compatible one, so you probably won’t see microblogs and such. If you want to see microblogs as well, use mbin (kbin fork). It is a mix of Lemmy and Mastodon. You can micro blog and comment on magazines (communities in the mbin/kbin platform) that way.
I especially am thinking of self hosting mbin because I do want to see some microblogs from some users.
Also I welcome you to Lemmy and the Fediverse. Good thing you didn’t choose lemmy.world or lemmy.ml
So I know there’s some drama with lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. I’m passingly familiar with the .ml stuff (that they have a large and vocal population of tankies and red-fash types), but what’s the deal with lemmy.world?
It is in my opinion too big to join now as a new user, I think there are some issues with moderation also.
Fediverse needs to scale horizontally so it is bad idea to join the largest server.
LW’s user base accounts for about 36.4% of all Lemmy users (spread across approximately 570 instances according to FediDB), which is too large.
Iirc the biggest complaint has been that community mods inside .world had some affinities or apologia towards Israel’s war crimes
I joined world on accident the first time and dipped when I noticed the lack of piracy
I saw someone posting from Pixelfed last week and that one surprised me, but I don’t think they could reply to comments on the post if they could see them at all.
Even though apps interconnect it’s a good idea to use the best client for the service. But, sure - I can start following “@[email protected]” from my Mastodon account. It’s also possible to subscribe to a Lemmy group from Mastodon, and reply to it.
But the best user experience is had by creating a Lemmy/Mbin account on such a server and interacting from there - like I am with my fedia.io account here now.
Is fedia.io federating well with the “flagship” servers in the fediverse (pixelfed.social, mastodon.social, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml)? Because the thing that seems important to me if looking at interconnectivity is whether the subscring to a tag on a server actually makes me see what people post under that tag, and hopefully not omit a lot of posts because my instance doesnt know about them existing?
The point is that the more users you have on an instance and the more different and varied accounts/communities they follow, that means more content being pulled into that instance.
Or alternatively the instance might be subscribed to some relay in order to “see” more. But thats probably something that only the admin knows.
Yes, I know :) (I run a family instance with FediFetcher and relays as well)
Large instances are usually well covered enough. I don’t know if Lemmy/Mbin pull sll posts for a thread you visit but Mastodon has plans to do so in the future to alleviate this issue.
Join a big instance that’s been around for awhile and blocked by the fewest amount of other servers
The biggest Lemmy instance still isn’t going to let you follow Mastodon or Pixelfed accounts.
Or self host. Best federated experience, your own.
Mbin + Interstellar on mobile probably? Be sure to adjust your filter to all or you won’t see everything.
what do you mean adjust your filter? I’m on mbin but I’m pretty new.
When you look at magazines for instance, you can change where it looks: Select “all” to look not just on your local Mbin, but through Lemmy, Pixelfed, etc.
that’s the default
Should I be looking into Hubzilla and Friendica? They seen to connect to more protocols
