Fediverse

I’m an instance owner too (see atomicpoet.org and akkomane.social). Speaking as an instance owner, it’s our fundamental job to moderate. 

It’s not “throwing the onus onto someone else.” The onus has always been on us.

No, what was said was that “Groups are for Lemmy and hashtags are for Mastodon”.

That is to say that Groups are not for Mastodon, so Mastodon users should be content with hashtags.

But Mastodon users use Lemmy groups from Mastodon, and better group integration is already being planned by Mastodon themselves.

Ergo, groups are for Mastodon.

@deegeese @atomicpoet hi, this thread literally popped into my mastodon timeline. Only noticed this is not originally from mastodon because you mentioned it and because you don't mention on replies by default. Hope it works as an answer for deeper integration

Someone on Mastadon could reply to a comment here directly from there and you may not notice unless you look at their instance.

Is deeper integration possible? Sure, check out how I use [email protected] with my Akkoma account.

@deegeese @atomicpoet

I saw this discussion on Lemmy, searched for it with my Mastodon client and, wow, it works! (I guess, we'll see after I hit SEND)

The post you're commenting on was made on a selfhosted instance of akkoma.social, so federation across softwares definitely works.

You have misread their comment and understood it backwards. AP's saying people on Mastodon are engaging in Lemmy discussions.

There is no way to follow Mastodon users from Lemmy. Lemmy simply does not work that way.

The mastadon user posting the thing needs to tag the Lemmy community in their post and then it will show up like any other post on Lemmy. You wouldn't even know it's from Mastodon unless they said so in the post.

I follow topics and have discussions on Lemmy, keep up with individuals and announcements on Mastodon, and look at cool photos on Pixelfed.
None of my accounts are following anything on other systems.

The reason I'm in this community is for discussions like this. We disagree on the nature of using he fundamental architecture of the Fediverse.
I think using Mastodon to engage in Lemmy discussions is extremely awkward without the threading to keep it all organized. Equally, Lemmy is designed specifically around following communities. Following individuals on Mastodon breaks the pattern of the feed. And good luck following either Mastodon accounts or Lemmy groups in Pixelfed.

However, having multiple decentralized servers within each system, is plenty of reason for the Fediverse to be better than a centralized platform. They don't Need to interoperate with each other.

For real. He replied to my Akkoma post, which tagged this Lemmy group. 😆