How should I be accessing the fediverse to get the most "federated" experience
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It is in my opinion too big to join now as a new user, I think there are some issues with moderation also.
Fediverse needs to scale horizontally so it is bad idea to join the largest server.
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LW's user base accounts for about 36.5% of all Lemmy users (spread across approximately 570 instances according to FediDB), which is too large.
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Afaik they're basically banning whoever and whenever they please
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Join a big instance that's been around for awhile and blocked by the fewest amount of other servers
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Even though apps interconnect it's a good idea to use the best client for the service. But, sure - I can start following "@[email protected]" from my Mastodon account. It's also possible to subscribe to a Lemmy group from Mastodon, and reply to it.
But the best user experience is had by creating a Lemmy/Mbin account on such a server and interacting from there - like I am with my fedia.io account here now.
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Iirc the biggest complaint has been that community mods inside .world had some affinities or apologia towards Israel's war crimes
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I saw someone posting from Pixelfed last week and that one surprised me, but I don't think they could reply to comments on the post if they could see them at all.
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That is probably true for all instances
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I joined world on accident the first time and dipped when I noticed the lack of piracy
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How does sharkey compare to mbin/piefed?
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@3dmvr In my experience, it works best with #Friendica. Firstly, it is the most widely federated (in addition to activity pub also #Diaspora + if required also Bluesky and Tumblr).
Secondly, in my experience, posts from the #Fediverse are displayed best and most completely. For example, this post by #Lemmy or #Peertube posts are displayed in full here, whereas Mastodon, for example, has problems with posts with headings, does not display video descriptions, and does not display all images.Let's see if these images will be federated:
Mastodon, on the other hand, does not fully display starting posts with titles:
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Ok, with all pictures in replies it doesn't work yet or only in the other direction:
This Lemmy thread seen from Friendica + Mastodon
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Is fedia.io federating well with the "flagship" servers in the fediverse (pixelfed.social, mastodon.social, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml)? Because the thing that seems important to me if looking at interconnectivity is whether the subscring to a tag on a server actually makes me see what people post under that tag, and hopefully not omit a lot of posts because my instance doesnt know about them existing?
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Yes, Sharkey is a microblogging service and it can't create headings, but it still displays them correctly. Among other things, this is better than with Mastodon.
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The biggest Lemmy instance still isn't going to let you follow Mastodon or Pixelfed accounts.
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Yes, Lemmy accounts can only follow/subscribe to groups (besides Lemmy also mbin, piefed + also Peertube), but not individual accounts.
A Lemmy account can only communicate with individual accounts if they write something in a community.
That is one of the aims of mbin, to connect them: The structure of communities /magazines + a microblog feed. -
Or self host. Best federated experience, your own.
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Should I be looking into Hubzilla and Friendica? They seen to connect to more protocols
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I like that one, I think ill look into hosting that one for myself and learning more about it
