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.
all the apps interconnecting
Evangelists say this but that’s not actually what happens in practice. It might one day. ActivityPub is not a protocol, it’s the concept of a protocol. Each platform uses AP slightly differently so there are subtle and big incompatibilities everywhere.
There are two main islands of interoperability. There’s Mastodon and friends (Pixelfed, Misskey, Akomma, etc) then there’s Lemmy and friends (Mbin, PieFed).
Mbin and Friendica do the best at federating with everything but they have shortcomings in other ways.
Just try stuff and explore, until you find a set of compromises you can live with. Take your time. I have a Mastodon account and a PieFed account.
Even though apps interconnect it’s a good idea to use the best client for the service. But, sure - I can start following “@3dmvr@lemm.ee” 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.
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
Might depend on how your instance is set up.
that makes sense, I am on kbin.earth which as far as I can tell is mbin’s .world equivalent.
Yeah, I made an Mbin account but haven’t used it because I haven’t found a way to import my communities and follows from Lemmy and Mastodon. Would love to try the combined approach but I have too much for a manual transfer.
the dev for the mobile app said he’s working on that in the matrix channel
Hope interstellar comes to ios, if yall wanna see it google interstellar ios and comment that you are someone who wants it, think the dev was gauging if it should be a priority and if ppl even want it
I have it on Android and I love it!
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.
Yes, Lemmy accounts can only follow/subscribe to groups (besides Lemmy also mbin, piefed + also Peertube), but not individual accounts. A Lemmy account can only communicate with individual accounts if they write something in a community. That is one of the aims of mbin, to connect them: The structure of communities /magazines + a microblog feed.
Or self host. Best federated experience, your own.
Should I be looking into Hubzilla and Friendica? They seem to connect to more protocols
