How should I be accessing the fediverse to get the most "federated" experience

[microw@lemm.ee]

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?

[caos@feddit.org]

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.

[kichae@lemmy.ca]

The biggest Lemmy instance still isn't going to let you follow Mastodon or Pixelfed accounts.

[caos@feddit.org]

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.

[troed@fedia.io]

Well it's difficult to know what you don't know, but the admin of fedia.io is the same as the admin of infosec.exchange et. al. and that's not a small instance. When people discuss Mbin instances my impression is that fedia.io would be one of the bigger ones.

[mesamunefire@lemmy.world]

Or self host. Best federated experience, your own.

[3dmvr@lemm.ee]

Should I be looking into Hubzilla and Friendica? They seen to connect to more protocols

[3dmvr@lemm.ee]

I like that one, I think ill look into hosting that one for myself and learning more about it

[_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works]

Mbin + Interstellar on mobile probably? Be sure to adjust your filter to all or you won't see everything.

[unknown1234_5@kbin.earth]

what do you mean adjust your filter? I'm on mbin but I'm pretty new.

[_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works]

When you look at magazines for instance, you can change where it looks: Select "all" to look not just on your local Mbin, but through Lemmy, Pixelfed, etc.

[unknown1234_5@kbin.earth]

that's the default

[reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Might depend on how your instance is set up.

[reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Sharkey is a fork of Misskey if I remember right. It's on the microblogging side with Mastodon, rather than a Reddit-like thing like Lemmy.

[reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

In a sense, yes. But many people disagree specifically with what and why .world is banning.

[microw@lemm.ee]

The point is that the more users you have on an instance and the more different and varied accounts/communities they follow, that means more content being pulled into that instance.

Or alternatively the instance might be subscribed to some relay in order to "see" more. But thats probably something that only the admin knows.

[unknown1234_5@kbin.earth]

that makes sense, I am on kbin.earth which as far as I can tell is mbin's .world equivalent.

[reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Yeah, I made an Mbin account but haven't used it because I haven't found a way to import my communities and follows from Lemmy and Mastodon. Would love to try the combined approach but I have too much for a manual transfer.

[rimu@piefed.social]

all the apps interconnecting

Evangelists say this but that's not actually what happens in practice. It might one day. ActivityPub is not a protocol, it's the concept of a protocol. Each platform uses AP slightly differently so there are subtle and big incompatibilities everywhere.

There are two main islands of interoperability. There's Mastodon and friends (Pixelfed, Misskey, Akomma, etc) then there's Lemmy and friends (Mbin, PieFed).

Mbin and Friendica do the best at federating with everything but they have shortcomings in other ways.

Just try stuff and explore, until you find a set of compromises you can live with. Take your time. I have a Mastodon account and a PieFed account.

[dragonfucker@lemmy.nz]

Some people were worried they wouldn't allow users to advocate violence, which is bad. The rationale was that Dutch law supposedly prohibited it. Experiments were done and it was determined the admins allow advocating violence, which is good. But the site is full of power mods who remove calls for violence anyway, so it doesn't really matter what the admins allow.