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Comment on Mastodon's federation consistency is laughably bad.

The federarion on mastodon is dodgy cos they dont have a central object to federate to/subscribe to like we have in the form of a community. Hence they have all sorts of weird issues of things only federating to instances that are involved in the operation or some shit i cant remeber exactly. End of the day federation favours large instances and suppresses smaller instances. I believe mastodon devs have said this isnt a bug and is intended as as such wont be fixed.

Whats that python flask based lemmy server i would like to take a look at seeing how hard it would be to implement mastodon routes into that and fix the issues.

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rimu@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Getting full Mastodon interop in PieFed is going to be a long road. I urge you to bite off a smaller piece to chew until you get comfortable - Https://join.piefed.soxial

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cerement@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
piefed.social

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- GuyDudeman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I don’t understand… is that just lemmy but not built by tankies?
  
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  - rimu@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yes it primarily federates with Lemmy and Mbin. See https://join.PieFed.social/features for a comparison.
    
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- asudox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.
  
  Hmmm, is that supposed to be karma?
  
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rimu@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yeah there are multiple ignored GitHub issues about Mastodon's federation of replies, going back many years. It's never getting fixed. This realisation sent me on a multi-week quest to find a platform that does replies properly. Akkoma and Friendica seem better at replies but have other shortcomings.

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- cabbage@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I wouldn't be quite so pessimistic. There's a commit for #FetchAllReplies (by @jonny@neuromatch.social, I believe) that seems to be shaping up well, with a seemingly healthy debate going on. Just yesterday @Gargron@mastodon.social posted in agreement that it is a must-fix issue.
  
  They're moving slow, but their reasons for doing so doesn't seem to boil down to an unwillingness to fix it.
  
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  - rimu@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Excellent news!
    
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