The fedivrse is not as connected as I once thought.

Mastodon and lemmy only sort of talk to each other. This is a test post of sorts @chat Also I cloned myself.

  • l_b_i@yiffit.netEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    So this got born out of the question of direct messages. Intuitively, I would expect those to just work, a user is a user, a message is a message. As far as I can tell, you can’t direct message. I haven’t played around with mentions yet. As far as viewing posts, its bad both ways. For example, this is the only post I see in this community from Mastodon. I think that is due to the same discovery issues throughout the fediverse, that is, if you don’t already know about it, you won’t find it. And when you discover, you might only see new things unless interactions are done to old things.

    For lemmy, the UI and the server are completely separate. There is a moderately well documented API for interacting directly with the server.

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      Some kind of unified account creation would help with this, I think. Something where you create an account somewhere “central” (which I get is kind of antithetical to the fediverse mentality, but work with me here), and then can “link” that account to multiple fediverse servers.

      Right now, I can create an account on pawb, and I can create an account on yiffit, but even though they might have the same username, they’re completely separate. It’d be ideal to be able to link those both to a single ‘meta’ account, which would then allow me to log into and browse either service, while maintaining a unified post history, etc.

      Basically, someone clicking my profile on either service would see my global post history across all fediverse services I’d linked.

      This could indirectly assist with the discoverability issue slightly. Rather than being on Mastodon, trying to view Lemmy threads, and seeing only new things where specific tags were used, the user could link their account to Lemmy servers (or other Mastodon servers or whatever), and be able to use one unified identity to browse each of those services independently.

      Technically there’s nothing stopping someone from having accounts on multiple services now, but having those accounts be completely independent kind of defeats the purpose.

      • l_b_i@yiffit.netEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        I don’t know how antithetical it is to the fediverse mentality. You could have a server that talks a wide variety of activity pub and on the client side you select your view and you can have a forum like view or microblog format, or a images format. I thought the whole point of the fediverse was interoperability between servers and services.

        I have this account as primary, I have a backup on pawb, an abandoned one on world (different user name), and now one on furry.engineer. I think discovery is a core shortcoming of the fediverse. Activity pup can’t send everything everywhere if it doesn’t know where everywhere is.