This is what makes the Fediverse so frustrating, been using: #Kbin #FireFish #Mastodon #Friendica #IceShrimp #Lemmy.

And no, they don’t speak to one another / find one another or are able to follow / like / reply to one another as one is told the Fediverse works.

The truth: some speak to some, and it rarely works both ways. Eg. Mastodon can do a lot more interacting with Lemmy, but not the other way around.

And then there are those that defederate from their own kind / federated social network, splintering the Fediverse even further apart.

Have had to either join new servers + delete current accounts, just because the server that was suggested, happened to be a server that others chose to defederate with.

Now with many accounts + many instances, been trying to find the best place to just have one space in the Fediverse + be able to communicate, follow and interact with other Fediverse users.

Maybe it’s this is wrong, but this has been the experience for almost a year now.

EDIT: APOLOGY

Seems like there are multiple posts, that was not the intention. :-(

English isn’t first language. Was trying to do the “change my mind” meme format they use on other sites to ask someone to prove you wrong, which is what was hoped for.

Apologies again.

This makes no sense, really sorry. Made a post and when looking for it, it just showed nothing. Look here is a screenshot of my personal feed. It only shows the comment on a fediverse post, which I then created into a stand-alone post, in hoping someone would be able to explain or prove me wrong.

And I can’t even go and delete the posts, as when looking inside the posts on my profile, it shows nothing either.

REALLY sorry for the multiple posts, thought the app was bugging out. :-(

Really sorry. Will check on laptop to see if I can find and delete the multiple posts from there…

  • @Die4EverEnglish
    1•9 months ago

    I don’t think everything needs to be connected perfectly, it’s ok to have a Mastodon account AND a Lemmy account

    the important part is that you can host your own instance and link to other instances of the same/similar platforms

    and you can develop a new platform and make sure it properly links with the existing platforms that you want it to link with and think are appropriate, your platform can be kickstarted by the existing content and user bases of the similar platforms that the developer ensures work together

    the fact that it’s an open protocol is the real value, there doesn’t need to be some explicit requirement that everything using it has perfect interoperation with everything else

    as far as issues with defederation, I think as Lemmy evolves we’ll get more features for blocking communities/users/images separately, and continue to improve the features for individual users banning the communities/users from instances, I think full defederation will become less common