tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I find the idea of the fediverse fundamentally broken, if not plain wrong. It’s cool for decentraziled servers from the same service like Mastodon, but keep it there. Other services have different uses and interactions, I don’t want a lemmy thread suddenly showing on my mastodon timeline. I go to Mastodon for microblogging, and it would pisses me of to suddenly see giant posts from some WordPress instance, or thousands of photos from Pixelfed, or a tutorial in video form from Peertube that should be a paragraph on Mastoson.
If I want discussions, I go to lemmy. If I want long posts, I go to WordPress. For microblogging, Mastodon, and for Photos, Pixelfed. Mixing all up brings subpar experiences because the apps that deal with each service are focused, and interaction with anything outside this scope becames awful.
@tigerjerusalem Not for nothing, but kbin has both a thread-side and microblogging-side to it. Ernest even introduced an aggregate view very recently where you can see both on the same page, formatted to their respective types of posts.
@feditips @fediverse @FediFollows @masimatutu
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !fediverse@lemmy.world
I have separate accounts on each thing, but it might still be cool to be able to cross comment. Instead of screenshotting a post and talking about it on another platform, you could comment directly.
What I really want is to be able to use one account on a bunch of platforms. I could whittle it down to one real account and a few anonymous ones.
Maybe a fediverse platform JUST for accounts? The user page could have a bunch of tabs for each Fediverse platform that account is using.
Now THAT’S a really cool idea. Make one account, let it propagates in any services of your choosing. It would make your presence on the fediverse simpler and more consistent.
Agree. Different platforms have different purposes and the experiences probably should remain separate.
What I always find peculiar is that consolidation of all of these fedi platforms can already be done using RSS feeds. It’s the whole reason they exist. To bring all of the updates from anywhere on the internet Mastodon updates, Pixelfed, Peertube, etc into one, single timeline view. The tools are already there for people to use if people want them.
So uhm … just don’t subscribe to those things. Not sure why you dislike the idea of having the option though.
I don’t, but I do see people “retooting” WordPress texts I follow on Mastodon. They’re interesting accounts, and I don’t want to block them because of that. It does get annoying, thought.
Masimatutu@mander.xyz 11 months ago
No, actually I love it. I like reading blog posts and even more now that I can collect them all in a little Mastodon group. Mastodon also has an active photographic community, so I don’t see why you wouldn’t want to see Pixelfed content.
carturo222@geekdom.social 11 months ago
@Masimatutu @tigerjerusalem
If I weren't already so involved in Mastodon, I'd follow all my Fediverse interests from Friendica. It can follow Mastodon and Pixelfed with no problem, and it presents Kbin and Lemmy content in their proper format.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
The current issue I have with Friendica is that it only displays one level of comments for Lemmy threads, is there any workaround to have other comments?
spaduf@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Is there a good general use instance? I swear I’ve looked and never seem to find any
chris@l.roofo.cc 11 months ago
Pixelfed and Mastodon have a comparable presentation. Lemmy is a bit different. The focus is different. It might be possible to display content from every fediverse implementation but it might be a less than ideal experience for many of them.