Well they all use a different interface style. For example Lemmy is “Reddit like”. Mastodon is “Twitter” like. So just use whatever platform works best for you. You’re on Lemmy right now so I would guess you’re looking for a Reddit style. There’s also kbin to serve the same, but they’re having some problems federating right now. They may not offer the best user experience. kbin is newer and still in early development. Lemmy has a few years under its belt.
So is kbin part of lemmy? Or is it different like mastadon?
So is kbin part of lemmy? Or is it different like mastadon?
Kbin is another Reddit like platform. All Fediverse platforms communicate using the ActivityPub protocol, but each platform has it’s own development team. Right now ActivityPub is not seamless between platforms, for example Lemmy is not talking to Mastodon very well right now. The goal is for seamless communications between platforms, but that’s not the case yet. It’s just growing pains that should get worked out over time.
May be a controversial opinion but I don’t think lemmy instances should talk to mastodon, I feel like twitter and reddit are two entirely separate platforms for entirely separate purposes and if you mix them together you kinda destroy that individualisation
Are you saying you can’t read Kbin through Lemmy but the goal is to be able to?
People at Kbin can also see our upvotes and downvotes (perfect for toxic stalkers…).
Different, just providing a more or less a similar experience making it more compatible to lemmy by nature, technical difficulties still exist tho, like it was said before, obviously, but that’s normal, things are still in development
Similar UX but different project, just like how you can get stuff from Lemmy in your Mastodon feed.
So can we get stuff from mastodon in our feed? Also, I see Wordpress in there too, which isn’t a social network.
As far as i know you can’t see normal mastodon posts on lemmy, Kbin has that capacity but not lemmy
Normal mastodon posts you can’t, but if they post a specific way then it’ll show up. Theres one in my comment history.
Huh, this would be the first I’ve heard of Wordpress leveraging ActivityPub.
It seems to have some addons or something like that that allow it to communicate with activitypub
Reminds me of all the linux distros.
I imagine the surge in the fediverse has the linux community frothing at the mouth. Moving away from privatized software to open source, a step closer to ushering in the mythical year of the linux desktop.
Maybe but the scale is different. We’re talking about a client-server application versus a whole operating system. The Fediverse has created new open source communities, but I think it’s had minimal impact on existing ones. In other words wide scale adoption of the Fediverse may not significantly increase the popularity of Linux over any other OS. Though many instance admins are using a VPS so it could be a boon for server farms running on open source software.
The issue is the compatibility. You can follow Lemmy from Mastondon, but not vis-versa.
Lemmy is pretty dismissive of the rest of the fediverse.
Does it make sense to merge all of them into one “super app”?
It does not.
admins could roll deployments that are tightly integrated if they wanted now, just takes time to setup. I think most servers are dealing with the basics right now.
I wish nomadic identities were more of a thing, then I might actually use other ActivityPub services.
This might be a rare case where blockchain is the correct solution.
Didn’t know nextcloud used activitypub, how does it federate? Had assumed it was just a self hosted alternative to Dropbox/OneDrive/whatever
It uses it to synchronize some stuff with other Nextcloud instances. They also have a social plugin (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/social).
Nextcloud is more like Google Workspace on steroids than just a Dropbox replacement.
