Comparison of platforms compatible with Lemmy+Mastodon ? (Mbin, Piefed, FediLab, etc.)
Comparison of platforms compatible with Lemmy+Mastodon ? (Mbin, Piefed, FediLab, etc.)
Lemmy developers have said there are no near plans for allowing users to follow mastodon or other activityPub networks, so I'm considering another platform that can do this.
It looks like mbin, Piefed and FediLab have the ability to do this. Has anyone tried them and have a comparison?
I also heard it may be possible to do from just mastodon-like platforms. Anyone tried this?
Mbin of course! I may be biased, since I created the fork and I'm a contributor to Mbin.
PieFed dev here - if you want to follow Mastodon accounts, I recommend Mbin.
About 20% of the content in piefed.socal comes from Mastodon but it's through indirect means (a.gup.pe groups, mastodon users @mention-ing communities). Mastodon users can reply to PieFed posts and receive your replies to their comments.
Nice to see someone being kind to competition
Will piefed add ability to follow mastodon users in the future?
Yes, I'd call it "medium priority", tho. In the sense that I personally am not itching to work on it but if someone else did I'd help them get started in the right direction and then leave them to it.
who came up with this name, and why?
from the faq
Why 'moist'?! wtf is wrong with you?
It's comically unmarketable
the real reference is a bloom county comic storyline. the gang extracts sweat from a cat as a hair replacement tonic
This is helpful, I haven't interacted with microblogs since moving to your instance. Thanks!
I can't say that the ability to follow individual people is really something I care about, but coming from Piefed, it does seem to work just fine. So does Peertube and any of the other ones I've bothered to try.
Someone posted something recently that checked a bunch of functionality across different networks.
oh good, whew, now all we have to do is find someone and get their something!
ez pzhttps://blog.elenarossini.com/
Did an excellent job and had had many posts on this community. Lots of good experiments.
I mean... you could contribute and write the feature
But if the feature already exists in another platform, I'd gladly use that instead.
Plus, lemmy developers said this would be a very difficult change to make and requires a lot of rewriting. I presume it is because activityPub was only added to lemmy much later on.
We created Lemmy from the very start with federation in mind. But it was always meant to be a Reddit alternative, which means community focused. I don't see any reason to add user following when that's already supported by a dozen other Fediverse platforms, and would only dilute our main focus. I believe in the Unix philosophy: do one thing and do it well.
Wtf ever happened to Firefish ?
Can we just bring back IRC?
is anyone stopping you?
Well I also built a Gopher server just for shits and giggles, so why not
horrible security
Bring back what? It's still around. I use Matrix channels for some topics that are bridged from IRC.