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One fediverse account for everything

For interaction with different platforma it's probably called interoperability. For its current state:

  • Much of other platforma interoperate with Mastodon, but only at Mastodon's lowest common denominator of "tweets" and links with lead. Lemmy communities are treated like "bots" reblogging anything posted to it,
  • Almost any of not-vanilla-Mastodon allow Markdown formatting and Mastodon will show it normally. The same with posts over default 500 chars limit. You can read posts longer than you are able to write,
  • Pixelfed deliberately narrows this denominator only to posts with images. However it allows posts with more than 4 images, but only not-vanilla-Mastodon instances will be able to see all of them. Posts can be geotagged, but AFAIK only Vernissage, Friendica and FediHood are able to swe these,
  • Mastodon users can tag a Lemmy community to post to it. However you can not mod a comm from there,
  • MBin allows to interact with content both from microblogging like Mastodon and with Lemmy. Lemmy interoperation is full, one with Mastodon lacks e.g. polls. Blog posts from WriteFreely and federated WordPress are shown in full. Unfortunately MBin does not work with Ghost,
  • PieFed embraces and extends the format of Lemmy with e.g. flairs and polls. It also includes the best PeerTube compatibility among the Threadiverse (as federated reddit clones may be called). It has recently included events and support of following users from microblogs like Mastodon.

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Rimu instantly deletes comment showing other side of story

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MBin has embraced C4 and has got no single maintainer nor BDfL. It is a fork of /kbin (RIP), whose author (a Pole), Ernest, nobody had a problem with.

Another Polish creation, Prismo, is technically older than /kbin, or even Lemmy, and strikes back! Prismo is more of a Hacker News/Lobste.rs clone than Reddit one (despite less minimalistic looks), and got rid of magazines/communities, preferring to maintain smaller, topical instances, with hashtags being main tool to filter posts by topic. Prismo's federation is under work: it works mainly with Mastodon (and maybe other microblogging) and MBin.

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Quadruple moderation is killing lemmy. It’s a Gift to Reddit

Flooding "Lemmy" with reposts from Reddit will make "Lemmy" look like a "tardy clone of Reddit with less discussion". Why stick with a repost platform if you can get the same content but more and earlier with Reddit? New Reddit frontend still remains browsable without login (maybe with some irritation, but anyway).

One has to act differently. To get to the sources first (or, at least before Reddit, at least sometimes). RSS feeds of publications (already worked on in PieFed), microblogging support: compatibility with Mastodon (available on MBin and now on PieFed), already existing bot comms reposting from Hacker News and Lobste.rs (both these sites have no subs and crossposting to a comm may have sense...), reposting e.g. art from Mastodon, Bluesky, cara.app...

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Okay, maybe I'm missing something? But it seems like the recent backlash upon our dev trying out caps upon our votes is just... WTF!?

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I can even understand, that the voting quota is a measure against network's bot abuse, but the automatic measure is IMHO too soon for a network of scale of today's Threadiverse. One could even argue, that so few bots can skew the feeds on this network, but as voting on Fediverse is public (in spite of softwares trying to obscure it to appease the fledditors), this still can be tackled up by few moderation actions.

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Does Mastodon bring anything of value to a Lemmy user?

Mastodon excels in updates. If a niche is alive on Mastodon, then you will get news from it before Lemmy. Especially in infosec, or (if you are from Europe, especially from Germany or the Netherlands) local news.
In a way, shitposting is also freer on microblogging, without Threadiverse's pigeonholing into different magazines/communities

The discussion may have worse UX. Only selected alternative frontends (like phanpy.social) have got nested threads like here and until recently, replies were delivered only to replier's follower instances, resulting with users not seeing all the discussion and inconsistent threads between instances.

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Was Pinetta Abandoned?

·pond is under development: you can follow its development on Mastodon or something: @[email protected], and join its Matrix chat at #pppapp:matrix.org

Fun fact: its creator made Prismo, which was a federated link aggregator even before Lemmy. Unfortunately, Prismo content never made it to Lemmy as former ceased to exist and latter federated only later.

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Mirror Instance for Interactable Archiving

Twitter mirrors
Instagram mirrors
Reddit mirrors for posts

Corporate social networks generally don't like being mirrored by a competition and actively fight with these.

Bluesky was being mirrored like this by Bridgy, but as it is a two-way bridge and Mastodon users did not expect their data leak to another network they bullyed Bridgy dev into making it opt-in.

There are more issues to mass-mirroring content from outside and I hope others will tell about them.