I started at kbin and it having more integration is one of the reasons I did. If I was in the group who made the fediverse with my 20/20 hidnsite. I would have pressed for a user focused thing. Have light servers that do the user accounts and config for many services. Hopefully this would make it even easier for somone to self host their user config. then have the various services and just do something like saml and don't even copy over the data. Make communities back upable just like user config and federation would be more of a shared backup thing if anything although user servers would get updates on whats on the fediverse. something like that. then I would mention with my foreknowldge how trust cafe does the rank everything thing.
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Friendica.
In theory, it's perfect, and just what I think the fediverse should be, but it's terrible to run as an admin.
I see content from Lemmy, Mastodon, Piefed, and Peertube from the people/communites I follow from my Mbin. Maybe you need to try to search for more people/communities?
Ah OK, but it seems like you have to follow them first? I'm kind of looking for it in a general feed. Or am I maybe doing something wrong?
If you go to the all microblogs feed you can see all the microblogs federated to your instance. Alternatively you can use the combined feed and it will have both threads and microblogs mixed together however you may have to scroll a while or sort by new to see microblogs.
This is due to the difference in how users interact with the two forms of content and thus how they are ranked by the sorting algorithms. Threads will typically get more interaction with votes and comments than microblogs will because they are strutured more for discussion whereas with microblogs people tend to post more but each individual post gets less interaction and thus they get pushed down with the sorting methods used by lemmy/piefed/mbin.
Mastodon uses a chronological sort so if you do want to see more microblogs it would probably be easiest to copy that and sort by new. I'm starting to think the only way to get a good mix between the two types of post is to have custom client side algorithms but that can get kinda complicated so no one is really doing it.
Good to know about the sorting, that explains why I barely see microblogs. The mixed feed is what I'm generally using, but I only ever see microblogs from kbin.earth and not anywhere else. I've checked to make sure it's set to all instances, as well as all magazines as mbin calls it, but still, only kbin.earth. Even if I just show microblogs. And I don't ever see anything from peertube. So I guess mbin does it, I must be doing something wrong somewhere...
I'm on kbin.earth too and just checked the combined all feed sorting by newest and 6 out of the first 25 posts were microblogs from a mix of mastodon and misskey so they're definitely federating. I'm not sure of any other settings that would prevent them being displayed. @jwr1@kbin.earth do you have any ideas?
Recently I added the functionality to follow other people to PieFed (not just join communities, as before). This brings Mastodon content into the main feed mixed in with content from Lemmy.
It's still a work in progress but I'm aiming to create what you're asking for here.
Cool! (And not sure why the hell someone downvoted that)
Would that also apply to content that you're not directly subscribed to (in a kind of "all" feed)?
There was some drama recently relating to him deciding to make pifed.social block content creators from engaging too much. Probably related to that.
Yes there is one of those, e.g. https://piefed.social/c/microblogs similar to Mbin's "random" magazine.
Friendica does what you're looking for.
Edit: err... It does that in terms of accessing content. But you can't control multiple accounts from friendica (with the exception of blue sky). So you could comment on Pixelfed posts but not make posts to a Pixelfed account.
This is something that I still don't get. Most info says it doesn't matter what instanc you joined but I never liked the content in my home instance.
The advice is always that you can move instances. So I moved to this one where I followed a lot of the content. But there is no built in way to port over the content you follow. So I had to use a script I found on GirHub.
Then I got Mastadon to see what was going on there. I realised soon that that the content I was following on mastason was the same as Lemmey.
Now moving to PieFed (were I'll still see the same content) as it has better cross posting visibility.
At least this is what i understand.
So then what would I see different on Mbin, or how I supposed to use Masterson different to Lemmy.
*note that see the same content dosnt apply to whatever instances have been defederared (in either direction) from your home.
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