This is what makes the Fediverse so frustrating, been using: #Kbin #FireFish #Mastodon #Friendica #IceShrimp #Lemmy.
And no, they don’t speak to one another / find one another or are able to follow / like / reply to one another as one is told the Fediverse works.
The truth: some speak to some, and it rarely works both ways. Eg. Mastodon can do a lot more interacting with Lemmy, but not the other way around.
And then there are those that defederate from their own kind / federated social network, splintering the Fediverse even further apart.
Have had to either join new servers + delete current accounts, just because the server that was suggested, happened to be a server that others chose to defederate with.
Now with many accounts + many instances, been trying to find the best place to just have one space in the Fediverse + be able to communicate, follow and interact with other Fediverse users.
Maybe it’s this is wrong, but this has been the experience for almost a year now.
EDIT: APOLOGY
Seems like there are multiple posts, that was not the intention. :-(
English isn’t first language. Was trying to do the “change my mind” meme format they use on other sites to ask someone to prove you wrong, which is what was hoped for.
Apologies again.
This makes no sense, really sorry. Made a post and when looking for it, it just showed nothing. Look here is a screenshot of my personal feed. It only shows the comment on a fediverse post, which I then created into a stand-alone post, in hoping someone would be able to explain or prove me wrong.
And I can’t even go and delete the posts, as when looking inside the posts on my profile, it shows nothing either.
REALLY sorry for the multiple posts, thought the app was bugging out. :-(
Really sorry. Will check on laptop to see if I can find and delete the multiple posts from there…
It’s not essential for me that these different platforms talk to each other. A microblogging platform doesn’t need to (maybe even shouldn’t) integrate with a forum or vice versa. Each has its own role and muddying the water doesn’t bring any real benefit imo.
The fact that they are decentralized is what’s important and the fediverse makes that possible for all platforms built upon it.
Moving an account from one instance to another is a real issue though, I agree with you there. Defederation would become less of a problem if you could easily move your account (with its post history) and communities you moderate to an instance that aligns with what you’re looking for, assuming it exists. Ideally everyone would have their own personal instance, but that is probably not feasible for most people.