Basically just what the title says, how well do they work together/interact with each other and how can it be improved?
I don’t like microblog-style social media, but there are some people and/or organizations that I’d like to follow (for example, Nick from the Linux experiment). To my knowledge, I pretty much just have to keep mastodon around to see microblog content. I’d really rather just follow the few people I want to from here and otherwise maintain the current functionality of Lemmy.
One option could be to have a client that uses both platforms together, but I think that would just be clunky (like the title of this post, sorry about that). Another would be to add the ability to follow people into Lemmy, but I think that may mess up how Lemmy is intended to work. The last option I’ve been able to come up with is turning a mastodon user into a community, kind of like the reverse of what mastodon does to Lemmy communities.
I know a lot of people probably don’t want microblog-style functionality on Lemmy (I’m one of them for the most part) but I think the entire concept of the fediverse is kind of a moot point if the various different platforms can’t actually interact properly. Right now, it seems like mastodon is the only one that really talks to other platforms the way they’re all supposed to. I’d really like to be able to access all of the fediverse’s content from right here on Lemmy, because it is my favorite fediverse platform and part of the point of the fediverse is to only need one platform for all of the content.
Let me know what y’all think about the current state of interoperability between Lemmy and mastodon (or just fedi platforms in general) and what can and/or should be done to improve it.
Mbin does this one-account-for-both-microblogging-and-forum-style-stuff, if using that rather than Lemmy is fine for you.
They don’t currently interact properly. When a Mastodon post shows up in Lemmy, it doesn’t have an appropriate title, the body usually has a bunch of mentions, and the responses aren’t worded like normal Lemmy comments.
I can’t speak to protocol interoperability, but culturally, Mastodon posts rarely work in Lemmy.
That’s the major thing I hate about Mastodon, where threaded comments include every user in the chain. It reads so terribly and just messes up everything. The server knows which comment is nested with other comments, and the UI shows this. The only thing they’re useful for is notifications, and even that seems like a solved problem on the server side to handle.
I ended up just creating multiple accounts: One for Lemmy, one for Mastodon, one for mbin/kbin. I have downloaded a bunch of the apps and still unsatisfied but my hopes will be that there eventually can be a universal app that can host all accounts and possibly have just one feed based on an umbrella account. I have Jerboa and Thunder for Lemmy, basic Mastodon app, Interstellar for mbin and Lemmy but I had to create a separate mbin account, and I tried Fedilab but I haven’t experienced enough to judge. I assume they will get better rather quickly. I am still new to the Fediverse so I am learning. There needs to be an app that can host all the different platforms though, either with an overall account to link them or a dynamic feed where you can switch a drop-down setting between platforms based on one central account.
I think if anything then found the route of mbin would make sense in separating them but in the same ui. This is because they have different culture, but I am also only running a mastodon instance just to be able to follow and interact with a few people. If I could do that from PieFed, I’d be happy about it.
