I like the choose your own adventure element. If you want strong content moderation you can go to Beehaw; if you want something more catch all, Lemmy.world is good; if you’re a Stalinist, you have at least three solid options.

The instances talk to each other, but many fulfill slightly different functions.

At Reddit, it seems the stupidest posts often get thousands of upvotes. Here, they’re lucky if they get 50. So that makes me feel less crazy, I guess.

Yeah, sure. But then again everyone should aim to behave in a way where it doesn’t take goodwill not to ban them - especially here, where you might be banned from some instances but not others, and never even know it.

In that sense, if you were to migrate your profile, your bans should also migrate with you.

“probably” is a nice word here. I have seen no indication that Mastodon plans to make their groups difficult to work with for other platforms. There is, however, many interests to take into account to ensure a good user experience, and not one solution is guaranteed to work well for everyone. What works in the Threadiverse might very well be terrible in Mastodon. They follow very different network dynamics.

Hi, and welcome!

Lemmy does not, as of now, interoperate very well with Fediverse services such as Mastodon and Pixelfed. Sure, you can follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon, but it’s not a pleasant experience. The group just boosts everything that is ever posted to it.

Likewise, Lemmy does not work with Phanphy - it has its own API, and separate apps. It’s too different from Pixelfed/Mastodon for it to make sense to share an API.

If you search for @[email protected] at mastodon.social you will, however, be able to see your user from there; you can view this post, and if you have an account you can comment on it and contribute to the discussion like anyone else. You can also boost the post or comments to it, making it possible for content from Lemmy to reach far and wide. We sometimes do get comments from Mastodon users, so it clear that this happens every now and then, but mostly it’s kept separate.

Mastodon users can also post to Lemmy by tagging a community (like they would tag an a.gup.pe group), but it’s not very intuitive.

We commonly refer to Lemmy as part of the Threadiverse - a subset of the Fediverse which revolves around threaded discussions around shared content (Reddit like). The main platforms are Lemmy, Mbin (which is what I’m currently posting from), and PieFed.

Mbin and PieFed go further in the direction of interoperability than Lemmy does. Mbin supports Mastodon-like microblogging; if you check out the search for the hashtag Lemmy, you’ll see not only this post, but also microblogs from Mastodon and all kinds of content. Limited, of course, by what is federated with that instance (Kbin.earth doesn’t have too many users).

In Piefed, users can follow Mastodon groups made with a.gup.pe, such as the knitting group. Often Mastodon users start their posts by tagging each other, so it doesn’t look completely native, but it can be neat. You can also follow PeerTube channels directly in Piefed.

In short, it’s quite complicated - there are different platforms, and they all solve interoperability differently and prioritize it to different degrees. There’s always the possibility that Mastodon users will stop by and say hello, but how easy it is made for them to do so varies quite a lot.

I had a bit of a slow start on Mastodon, but after sticking with it for a while it’s now by far the best social media experience I’ve ever had. I follow less than 200 people, not all of them active, but their posts along with the content they boost provides a much more interesting feed for me than any algorithm ever has.

And when I post something I’ve put work into, it’s boosted by those interested and reaches far more relevant people than I’ve ever reached on other networks. And people trust it to be interesting because it’s boosted by someone they trust, rather than some faceless algorithm.

That said, the cost of entry is indeed a bit high.

Ah yeah, it’s not possible on Mastodon either. Your content stays where it is.

I think it’s even less of a problem on the Threadiverse than it is on Mastodon though. Most people are interested in new content here, we rarely go digging too much through the archives. Though it would of course be neat.

• Consider writing an introduction post. “Hello, I’m [this person], and I’m interested in [this and that]. I’ll be posting about  [these things], and I’m passionate about [something].” Tag it #introduction, along with other tags relevant to your interests. Check out what other people have written in their introduction for inspiration. Pin the introduction to your profile. Personally I never got around to writing one, but I’m pretty sure I would have had more followers if I did.
• Write who you are in your bio - what can people expect if they follow you? Who are you? It doesn’t need to disclose your true identity, but people follow other people on Mastodon, so it’s good to make it look a bit personal.
• Tag a relevant a.gup.pe. The group will boost your post to all its followers, making your post visible on more instances even if you don’t have followers there yet. If you asked this on Mastodon, you might for example tag @[email protected] and @[email protected], though neither are unfortunately very big. At least your post is likely to get pushed to the largest instances, and some people who are interested might see it in their feeds.
• Throw in some relevant hashtags. Some Mastodon clients will hide them a bit if they’re at the end of the post.
• Search for content, follow relevant people when you see them. It takes a bit of time, but gradually you’ll expand your network and get momentum. If you’re in a small instance, you might search for relevant hashtag at a more central hub (like mastodon.social) or a more specialized one (like sciences.social if you’re into social sciences)

On Mastodon it’s all about who you’re following and who you’re being followed by, so being able to move somewhere else and take your followers with you is a big deal.

On the Threadiverse we don’t really follow users so much, so the whole concept of account migration becomes very different. Migration of communities rather than of users would probably be the best parallel - it would be great if subscribers could automatically follow a migrating community without having to manually resubscribe.

I guess it’s also natural that subcultures that tend to be banned elsewhere are early adaptors of alternative platforms.

We’re lucky we didn’t exist when the Trump extremists on Reddit went looking for a new home, or they would probably have been one of the biggest fields in this figure. Hopefully when the right wing extremists arrive instance admins will have the good sense to defederate.

(and some of us don’t even use Lemmy - I’m on mbin and piefed)

It literally cannot, because nobody owns it. Which is why there’s some confusion in this thread.

You’ve basically entered a public beach asking for the manager. Everybody’s looking around a bit confused. That guy over there has been here all day, so maybe he would do? Or maybe that guy over there who has a beach blanket with a bunch of friends on it? That kid over there built a nice sandcastle, maybe he’s the one you’d like to talk to.

It’s not like the private beach over at Reddit. There’s not one clear person in charge, and not one person can shut it down or change the rules for everyone else.

We have some people occasionally trying to poison the water, but we’re getting better at expelling them before they manage to do too much damage.

I got my hands on a Dell USB C docking station for free, it’s all good except that the power supply is missing.

Looking for a replacement I found the same docking station for sale cheaper than what I would have to pay for the cable.

Man, fuck Dell.

It’s better to wake up alone knowing you’re alone, than to wake up next to someone and nevertheless feel lonely.

— Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress

Woha, edgy!

I don’t know who anyone mentioned here is except the former president, and I have no intention of watching the videos and giving them further attention.

But none of this shit is real. Whatever he begs Musk for in the video is for show. The so-called gifting is for show. Trump is not going to drive around in a Musk machine.

These videos are Tesla ads, and they are Trump campaign ads. The guy making the ads apparently reaches an audience, so of course they will make sure he has access to Cybertrucks or whatever.

And considering what a piece of shit Musk is, I really don’t understand what is surprising here.

Colder than a well digger’s ass.

It might also be that they don’t federate well - Bridgy was not built with Lemmy in mind, and Lemmy was not designed to be a very flexible application of ActivityPub.

It could also be that Lemmy can’t search for users that are not already observed on the server, making Bridgy invisible as the account itself never posts any content anywhere.

A brief rough history, in case anyone is interested:

17th century: Kings and shit. The people supporting the rule of the king are in power. They become conservatives.

18th century: Liberals appear. They believe men have certain inherent rights from nature. They don’t dig kings, but they do believe in private property. They sit to the left in parliaments, the conservatives sit to the right.

19th century: Marx gives us his take on history and labour. Liberalism is given a competing framework from the left.

20th century: All kinds of shit goes down, partly because the conservatives and the liberals are terrified of the Marxists and give the fascists the keys to the kingdom, partly because of a Marx-inspired Leninists take control in Russia. The “new” left (socialism) becomes a major force in the postwar era, promising to build a new world on the ashes of the old.

21st century: There seems to be a head on collision. People feel strongly about these concepts, but it seems many have forgotten where they come from or what they mean. Disinformation campaigns have gotten efficient. Green politics enter the field.

As Bluesky is federated through it’s own protocol (AT), ActivityPub content can be bridged to the AT protocol and appear on BlueSky. This is currently possible through Bridgy.fed.

If you want your stuff to be bridged to BlueSky, just follow @[email protected]. It probably doesn’t work very well with the threadiverse though.

It doesn’t work, as what is being shared here is not the post itself but a link to it. You cannot “re-post” other people’s content into threads in the Threadiverse - they’d have to submit it themselves by tagging the community.

That said, people can check out @[email protected] and see if the post federated.