Comment on HELP: Fediverse app / network that allows the following?

droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• PlasticPigeon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thanks! But also on further reading, realise that not all Fediverse social networks can interact with one another. And this kind of breaks the whole point of the Fediverse, doesn’t it? Mastodon can follow and interact with Lemmy, but Lemmy can’t even find Mastodin users in search, nevermind follow or interact.

  So the Fediverse seems to be more fragmented and broken than initially understood. :-/

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  • peter@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I personally don’t really want the different social networks to interact. They’re different formats and serve different purposes, I go to each to view different things. Whenever a post from mastadon shows up on lemmy the formatting is confusing and annoying.

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  • droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know if that’s true. I thought it wasn’t. In theory they should work together if they both implement the protoco, maybe it’s the clients or the instances that are lagging behind?

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    • PlasticPigeon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Had a look specifically and only some work with some others. Tried to follow a mastodon person on Lemmy, couldn’t even find him, url or name or anything. Lemmy users confirmed it’s a one way thing, with Mastodon being able to do both wats.

      Kbin also works both ways, and is also a hybrid of them both, being like reddit and also microblogging. Though it’s quite new still and doesn’t seem to offer keyword filtering or apps at all.

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