is anyone else exploring the wider fediverse?
I know of a few users who were originally from kbin/mastodon, I’ve heard some mentions of peertube, and I’m currently posting this from calckey.
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Can you elaborate on the OFSA approach of reddit/twitter mixing and its drawbacks?
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Honestly no, I’m waiting for it to come to me. I was promised eventual inter-operability with a lot of it from my one account, and I like the simple format of Lemmy, so I’m waiting until I can access stuff like Mastodon content from here.
unfortunately, it seems a feature request to add microblogging functionality to lemmy was rejected by the devs: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3402
They’ll cave to pressure eventually. I understand them not prioritizing adding the functionality early in the development, when there are about a billion things potentially more important.
Once those billion things get whittled down though, the situation changes. If they haven’t added it in 3 years, I’ll probably just switch to kbin. Probably along with many others, due to overall integration being pretty integral to the Fediverse as a whole.
So I assume it’d be like posting in /u/yourname back in spezland? Now it feels weird to think leddit also had microblogging features of some sort.
Yes.
Haven’t yet, because this format is what i tend to prefer when choosing social media. Pixelfed got me interest tho
I’m everywhere on the fediverse. Mastodon, peertube, Lemmy, even Matrix and xmpp and nostr.
I realized a couple years back that we can’t trust big tech even to do the basics like send messages from point a to point b, at that point I have no use for them anymore.
Went to Mastodon after Twitter got bought by Elon. Don’t really care for the whole “He’s a Nazi” stuff, mainly intrigued that corporate-free social media even existed. I was attracted by the no ad policy 😜 Since then I wouldn’t say I was e erywhere, but I have embraced #IndieWeb principles by making sure I was on platforms I can easily switch from. For eg, moved my website from Squarespace to WordPress.com cos it can connect with the Fediverse. (comments on my Mastodon can appear on the related blog post for eg).
In the future it is said that WordPress and Tumblr will connect to Activity Pub. Still waiting 😆
@zn Vulcan did, years ago during first #TwitterMigration
Stumbled exploring fediverse (\lemmy.ml account interacting \monyet.cc alternate universe).
Anyway, how to make everything visible to my this \lemmy.ml account? (From here, sleep walking into more alternate universe)
dunno how tbh
Wow, calckey has one of the best GUIs I’ve ever seen.
so…wait. is mastodon also lemmy? I’m real fuckin confused here.
Mastodon is its own thing. It’s a microblogging platform like Twitter. Lemmy is an aggregator and discussion platform like Reddit. Kbin is a mix of both.
But they all can talk with each other as they’re using a set of communication protocols that everyone understands, called ActivityPub. This protocol is the foundation that made the fediverse possible. It means content can be spread across many servers, and interactions can happen the same way.
no, mastodon and calckey are open twitter alternatives, just like lemmy and kbin are open reddit alternatives.
however, all of them run on the activitypub protocol, so they interoperate with each other.
