Mastodon also has the benefit that other platforms try their best to federate with it
Comment on The Future is Federated: a Show and Tell (part 4: Lemmy, PieFed & Mbin)
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Interesting to see Lemmy from the perspective of a Mastodon user. I never used Twitter and I have no interest in Mastodon, but it certainly seems like a tremendous advantage to be able to cross pollinate with them, given their sizeable userbase. There is definitely more work to be done on streamlining federation between platforms, but its an inherently tricky problem so I’m not surprised.
Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin are still at the stage where they are trying to complete their own core features, so there hasn’t been as much focus put onto bridging to the rest of the fediverse. Mastodon is a more mature software so they probably had more time to work on extra features like cross-platform federation.
MBM@lemmings.world 2 months ago
nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
You would think so, but afaik Mastodon hasn’t made any changes to federation in years. Which means it is left to other projects like Lemmy to reverse engineer whatever Mastodon is doing and implement that, no matter what the standards say.