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.
Mbin + Interstellar on mobile probably? Be sure to adjust your filter to all or you won’t see everything.
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
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.
Should I be looking into Hubzilla and Friendica? They seem to connect to more protocols
@3dmvr In my experience, it works best with #Friendica. Firstly, it is the most widely federated (in addition to activity pub also #Diaspora + if required also Bluesky and Tumblr).
Secondly, in my experience, posts from the #Fediverse are displayed best and most completely. For example, this post by #Lemmy or #Peertube posts are displayed in full here, whereas Mastodon, for example, has problems with posts with headings, does not display video descriptions, and does not display all images.
Let’s see if these images will be federated:
Mastodon, on the other hand, does not fully display starting posts with titles:
Ok, with all pictures in replies it doesn’t work yet or only in the other direction: This Lemmy thread seen from Friendica + Mastodon
Friendica shows all pictures of Lemmy, both in posts and in replies. The other way round only in OP.
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.
