So, I was thinking that I joined Lemmy.World because Lemmy had more users than MBin. But today I was looking at https://mbin.cocopoops.com/ and started seeing MY posts. I knew Mbin could have different instances. I knew Lemmy could have different instances. And I knew they all federated together.
But I didn’t know Mbin could federate with Lemmy. But I’m sure Lemmy/Mbin probably won’t federate with Pixelfed, or Peertube.
Mbin, piefed, and Lemmy are essentially reddit replacements. So they should be in a circle. It doesn’t matter how many users Mbin has, or piefed has, or Lemmy has. It matters how many the full circle of federated reddit replacements have. Because thats the true circle of users that you can interact with.
So what we need is a website that you enter an instance, and it tells you how big your circle would be on that platform, and a list of federated, and defederated instances with it.
So Lemmy.World would have a pretty high circle. While hexbear would have only itself, if I understand right.
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zombo.com has circles.
You can do anything there
I was just wondering if that still existed a few days ago. Glad to know it does. I like knowing the impossible is attainable.
Now that’s a deep cut.
But I didn’t know Mbin could federate with Lemmy.
Interesting, I thought that was quite well known
Generally speaking, all the major instances are federated with all the other major instances.
The differences are the super tiny instances (which are generally effectively zero traffic) and the controversial instances (mostly tankies). Said controversial instances don’t want to advertise that nobody can stand them and the rest of the instances don’t want to deal with the bullshit from bringing it up again.
I think it would be a nice novelty to visualize this. But I don’t think there would be much actionable information coming out of it and , because this is The Internet, it will likely lead to harassment and brigading.
We need a one protocol that everyone adheres to.
People talk about fediverse and say it is decentralized, which is true, but mostly it is fractured.
I came here because i thought all those services are united under a common protocol so every service can communicate with other services.
Maybe they show it in a different style or follow another philosophy but the “content” is there for everyone.
Doesn’t seem that way. Everyone does it in their own way and that kinda sucks to be honest.
But yeah… Cicles would be cool.
People talk about fediverse and say it is decentralized, which is true, but mostly it is fractured.
I’ve been saying this since day 1 of me being here.
well, this will give you a rundown on each instance
all of the defeds for https://moist.catsweat.com are spam or ‘no longer exists’;
Mbin also federate with mastodon
So does Lemmy, to an extent. It doesn’t support microblogs directly, but Mastodon users can post to a community by @-ing it and can reply to comments on Lemmy, and we can reply to their replies and posts.
Remember Google+ circles? =]
Honestly amazing feature. I hoped some more successful social networks would steal it but alas.
Didn’t Facebook have something similar for a while? I’d bet it was only implemented because of Google Plus, and I’m pretty sure they scrapped it after the G+ sunset, but I’m almost certain it existed.
But I didn’t know Mbin could federate with Lemmy. But I’m sure Lemmy/Mbin probably won’t federate with Pixelfed, or Peertube.
I think all of these are "don’t federate well currently ", but it’s a goal to improve federation over time
For example, Lemmy is federating with Mastodon better than when I first joined. It’s also possible to subscribe to peertube channels from Lemmy, but it’s a bit buggy.
You can see (de)federated instances on lemmy at
/instances, like https://lemmy.world/instances
